>>29495>which greatly harmed my ability to take the plot seriously even as a 13 years oldI have the inverse problem where humans being present in a sci-fi setting just seems silly but understandable for keeping familiar elements in a story / not having to go full animated every time. As I get less pessimistic about space travel this has eased up somewhat.
>meant to be set on Earth, uses real countries and historical events as a backdrop, and characters call each other "humans"Alternate earth, different evolution without much bearing on how history played out. They just didn't speciate or define human differently.
>Why are western animators like this?Character design. Eastern artists do this too, sometimes.
>>29500It's dutch, they don't use burger content rating systems.