Clearly the answer is neither, as Gandahar was the epitome of animation.
Good fucking taste.

My issues with American animation is that American people don't respect animation as a craft and this reflects in the content made: it is only ever comedy. Ever. Only. Period. If not that, it's an action. Never drama, never. No. Not ever. NEVER. One of the big reasons I feel The Simpsons is the best American cartoon ever made is because it was always never scared to come out of its shell and present a human connection to its drama and characters beyond fucking comedy.
If I ever get my dream job in animation, I just know I will be fated to making children's cartoons, comedies, and fucking creatively bankrupt feature films. Nothing nearly as ballsy or mind blowing as Gandahar or Now And Then, Here and There. That pisses me the fuck off.
That said, I still love American animation. It is what I grew up with. But fuck. Thank God for films like American Pop and Heavy Metal, but that was in the fucking 80's. Goddamn the 80's were an amazing time for animated feature films, especially American ones. Fucking goddamit.
