Wow, way to generalize it. Taking a few mainstream cartoons, and condemning it as a whole? And how does people dressing up/acting like cartoon, make it suck? Instead, it probably means that its good enough to make grown men do things like that. Although that's a matter of opinion, but I do not see how you link dressing up to a cartoon's storyline or animation.
As firestorm said, japanese animation is a vaired subject. And (in case you didn't know) a majority of these cartoons are not directed towards the young audience. They are for young adults and above, it is a western misconception that cartoons are only for kids. And what a misconception that is!
So the resulting storyline that the westerners see is often the result of many editing and censorship- thus resulting in a tad bit less story line, and that in most cases makes all the difference. However, this is an extremely rare case, and in most cases the storyline is patched up, and even with terrible voicing dubs , it works.
Still, your first sentence into this thread already shows how little you know of the subject. So before you condemn the whole mutlitude of genre that is included in "Anime" , Its probably better if you do some more research.
But then again, you're two *points at little profile info* so I don't expect you to.
