Teen Titans and Anime

I’ve watched a few episodes of Teen Titans now, and I’m amazed at the vision of animation it’s demonstrating. Fewer than 10 years ago, Scott McCloud used the visual idiom of anime and manga to illustrate the relativity and locality of such idioms — the visual language of comics in Japan was used as an example of something fundamentally different from the visual language of the US. Now, their idiom is our idiom. Teen Titans uses the lines and expressions of anime continuously and fairly seamlessly — it’s not putting on an anime costume for the sake of novelty but has incorporated the visual language of anime whole hog.

Now that anime’s become a mainstream idiom in the West, I wonder how long it will take to become the mainstream idiom?