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also I'd say anime is a different beast from Western animation - anime doesn't censor itself like the West does and as such has much higher chances of having CMs because they don't shelter kids from the nastier side of life (or fantasy for that matter) : granted Western channels edit many animes to remove the "offensive" content what we see in anime is still a vastly different kettle of fish than what we see in "homebrew" Western cartoons.

Western animation CMs stand out more because they often arise in situations hostile to the creation of CMs, series monitored heavily by certain groups who disapprove of violence and "scary scenes" etc - at least in certain time periods and regions.. thus for a CM to rise under those limitations shows some creativity in the writers involved and often changes animation after.. without some Western animation introducing a few CMs and pushing the boundries we'd be stuck in the dreaded 70s era of cartoons (no conflict, extreme Political Correctness and so on).