Because they're shit. It would be like polishing a turd. At most it would be meme level like the Italian tanks in Girls Und Panzer.
It's probably because most of the people doing the animation learned the same style, from the same sources, maybe even in the same schools sometimes, and there's not much room for innovation. I do agree that it makes things look very samey, but if you look back at previous decades, you can see pretty much the same effect if you look back at the 2000's, the 90's, or even the 80's.
Could be due to a lack of references, or just a lack of starpower. Gun nuts making mangas usually use whatever is popular in movies or they can find as airsoft & non-firing replicas for references, so i assume there's probably something similar going on with cars. Even when doing stuff in their own turf aside from 3-4 guns native Japanese firearms are themselves very rarely depicted.
Korean and Chinese cars are generally unpopular with "car guys" because they just aren't enthusiast's cars, and racing fans since they tend to lose a lot. Hyundai has started doing well in the WRC in the past decade or so but that's a fairly niche European racing series.
I definitely wouldn't go that far, but as always the Himmel content is the best. Overall this season had some good bits, but was it as good as the first half of season 1? Nah, not even close. I'm not saying the quality took a major nose dive or anything, but I did want more given what the first season made me feel. If the gimped episode count was due to Madhouse going the ''Ufotable Demon Slayer'' route with Frieren, I sure hope it turns out to be worth it in the end. Onward to the golden land.
The most famous sport car brands are European, Japanese and American, there's nothing much more to it I guess. In Initial D all the cars were Japanese because it was based on the illegal racing scene at the time, in the sequel MF Ghost they introduced international cars to reflect the transition to a professional racing setting with racers from various countries, but the cars are still all European, American and Japanese. The protagonist uses a disproportionately underpowered Toyota brand car but nevertheless wins through the power of perfect drifting, even though the bigger part of the tracks are straight, unlike the winding mountain roads of Initial D.
That's pretty much it. Car guys want classics and overall cool cars. The chinks, for a long time, only made derivative knock-offs that barely held themselves together, and Hyundai has become a decent automaker pretty recently - but it's still not an enthusiast brand. They do good on WRC, but the category is far from a popular motorsport among car guys.
Good choice, but be prepared: Tomino gets more and more weird as time goes on. Also, don't let the first half of ZZ stop you, the second half is very worth it.
Two of the biggest things for a car brand, especially as it pertains to garnering a fanbase for your cars, are "legacy" and "prestige". People like American, European, Australian, and Japanese cars because they've been around for a long time and have had that opportunity to gain prestige and build a legacy. The gooks and the chinks just haven't done that quite yet, and like you said: The Chinese are more or less all in on EVs which isn't helping them much, and the Koreans have just never been big on building cars for performance or even to a particularly high standard up until fairly recently. American, Australian, and European car brands have a heritage of (overall) excellence that can stretch back a century or more in some cases and the Japs exploded onto the world stage in the seventies and have managed to hang tough ever since.
Hey, not sure if you'd be interested in this but I found a fan edit of 0079 a while ago which sought to combine the TV series and the movies into a sort of "definitive" edition. Haven't seen it in its entirety nor have I seen the original series or movies to compare, but thought I'd mention it just in case.
The lack of "tits or GTFO" really kill my suspension of disbelief ngl.
happens in the manga? Then I can just drop it after I hit that chapter.
There are a handful of good shows outside the UC. And all of them are canon.
The little girl summoned The Pale Rider from the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. I'll give Narita that, it's an unexpected ass pull that would make Nasu proud. Those bacteria btw? It made the Meso American gods. Came from the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. Yes it's that stupid, because Nasu found out the Guatemalan peninsula is roughly where that impact happened.
