I think about this often. A public broadcasting channel in California cancelled its regularly scheduled airing of a local travel show & replaced it with an episode of Serial Experiments Lain (said channel had an absolute gold mine of anime to broadcast). It's very striking.
i’m so glad hetalia has characters that are allowed to be ugly. i feel like anime characters are expected to be jaw-droppingly gorgeous and it doesn’t necessarily reflect the real world. thank you francis bonnefoy for the representation