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You all have to realize that while "Westaboo" is common, the reality is a lot of the best Japanese creators are just pop culture geeks in general.
For instance, the original Ace Attorney trilogy, Apollo Justice and DGS are all by Shu Takumi and are based around mystery films and novels, Eastern and Western. The characters have an anime influence but are written like the eccentrics in mystery novels.
The other stuff takes very heavily from Japanese pop culture and the characters are typically way more anime and there's a noted massive downgrade in single case characters because the anime-influence bases itself much more on serialized stories that need time to develop their characters.
The lesson here for both industries is you need creative people who get their influence from good media regardless of where it's from and know how to properly adapt it.
Even back then, Westerns and Samurai films were basically playing ping pong. Fist of The North Star was a combination of old epics and myth (Chinese, and even a bit of Western religion with a literal Christ figure in Toki) Bruce Lee movies, and Mad Max. Something that demonstrates how we need to stop distilling "East and West" to "Japan and America".

Both japanese and american cartoons are currently going through a decay because of restricting themselves to certain tropes and influences, a lot of the Western fauxnime feels so bad and disingenuous because its desperately trying to be "like an anime" rather than just taking inspiration from individual pieces of media the creators considered good and making something of their own.
Regardless of industry, good media is good media and good artists and writers are good artists and writers who aren't afraid to be inspired by each other. Even a Japanese nationalist like Miyazaki loved Golden Age western cartoons and his works went on to inspire the younger generation at Disney, including hanging out with John Lasetter.