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Six anime cult flicks that bleed color and style - Mutant Reviewers article
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In the west they are. Anime did not have quite the following that it does now and was widely considered to only be for "nerds", with a few exceptions, like dragonballz.
I was born in the USA in 1991. You don't need to tell me about how people used to look down on anime, I was there. That doesn't mean these are cult movies by today's standards. They're old, but they're considered all-time classics, not "cult".
I mean really, Robotech The Movie is a western-specific adaptation of Megazone 23, which was the OVA that kicked off the whole OVA revolution of the 1980s. These movies are like ABCs of anime movie history. Next you're gonna tell me that Revolutionary Girl Utena is cult, as opposed to just a classic all-time masterpiece.
I mean this article is like having an article that goes,
"Check out these cult classics films you may not have heard of:
Spirited Away was the first non-English language animated film to win Best Animated Feature at the Oscars. It was the highest grossing film in Japanese history and held the record from 2001 till 2020