Also many Anime authors are more versed in Western philosophy than the best Western authors.

It's not even their culture and they know it better. Why? Because we won the world wars so they studied us to find out why so they could copy and perfect it. That's why they all wear suits, have stock markets and adversarial justice systems, and so on.

Meanwhile our schools don't even teach U.S. Government anymore, much less Plato or the other greats.