I don't know. As an Asian who has grown up reading manga I find anime generally very cliche. More than Netflix shows. Especially those adaptations from light novels.
Cliche is why people love it. We’ve become an overly analyzed, postmodernist hellscape with our media. A lot of people really want to see cute anime Waifus acting stereotypically. They really want to see it, badly.
They also like when women start to take notice and dress like the anime characters do. Women love anime because the men in anime usually look very attractive, and in the fujoshi anime that they often watch, the men are willing to be gay.
It's the variance in plots in Manga/Anime that's the thing.
Some of my very favourite anime have been about:
- Kid learning Go (the board game) from the ghost of an ancient grandmaster (Hikaru No Go)
- Baking bread (Yakitate!! Japan)
- Playing Tennis (Prince of Tennis)
There is exactly zero chance that "Hollywood" would make any of these.
What does "Hollywood" mean in this context? Cause there are so many western movies and TV shows about sports and cooking. Of course you won't see Hollywood make the exact Prince of Tennis because, uh, it has been made.
There are shows about cooking, but not many fun ones.
The Bear is definitely a good show and kinda about cooking, but it's definitely not a relaxing watch even though it's been winning comedy Emmys :D
As for sports Friday Night Lights is the only one that comes to mind, I watched it because it was good, not because it was about American Football (a sport I couldn't care less).
But the basic premise was that manga and anime allow the authors to go _completely_ bonkers with their ideas with no limitations on what's marketable.
Like One Punch Man shouldn't work, but it does. Or Reborn as a Vending Machine, I Now Wander the Dungeon is one. Or Delicious in Dungeon another one.
They're all way too wacky to ever pass the gauntlet of middle management deciding what goes on air in the US.
I think it is just about what's novel to you.