The perversion and fetishism of anime is one of its strongest appeals

Because anime is a weirdly curated selection of different media, with a fixed slate of story tropes and the pervasive targettedness of media, thanks to the otaku industry and demographics, it's able to explore complex and varied themes of sexuality that other media are not capable of exploring.<br><br>In addition, as a visual media, it is able to express itself in a vastly varied array of art styles and methods. It is agile, it's cheap, it's plentiful, and it can be produced to be highly specific. From the hyper realistic to the hyper stylized, it can run the gamut. It can be hyper realistic to the point of rotoscoping, or hyper stylized to the point of abstraction.<br><br>It can use deep comixsry to create highly detailed images that are frame worthy and highly labor intensive. It can use hyper realistic CGI, and combine it with hand drawn comix. The art style can be pointilism. It can explore hyper realistic themes, like disassociation and hyper superstition. It can be hyper realistic with detailed backgrounds and highly detailed and realistic movements. It can be extremely detailed and realistic, and highly hyper realistic.<br><br>It can be extremely varied. It can be extremely detailed, and highly realistic, or extremely stylized, and it can seamlessly shift between the different art styles depending on the situation, and it can use hyper realistic visual metaphors to express themes like disassociation, or hyper superstition, and to explore these themes.