Present-Day Anime Animation

[Kosheh]

You know what I miss in cartoons in recent years? Wild takes. Something that was a staple in animation, but you rarely see them anymore.

I guess this is the same with the lack of wacky expressions in anime. Heck, I even wish anime did wild takes like Roger Rabbit above.
The only ones I can think of that do are the characters in One-Piece, and Capcom characters like Blanka and some of the ones in Darkstalkers.

Wild takes are still a thing - the character just isn't as exaggerated or the character's proportions are completely different (like in One Piece)
It's probably for two reasons:
1) Wild takes are usually a gag performed from a 3/4 view angle (that not-perfect horizontal plane that shows off a character's face but not completely side-facing) which is actually a perspective rarely seen in modern animation. Most modern animation has broadly different camera focus.
2) Going off of above, most characters in modern cartoons are modeled in either Flash or CGI. I'd assume it's incredibly difficult to animate a wild-take and when you do, it's STILL a gag that ONLY works from that angle. Any other angle would actually look kinda creepy. It's actually a lot easier to do the gag by means of traditional animation, actually!

oh also

3) I think in animation nowadays, a lot of the storytelling's moved away from slapstick comedy so it's actually a lot more difficult to include the gag in the first place unless you're directly referencing classic slapstick humor :/ (of course, One Piece seems like it could actually pull it off given the silly proportions and superpowers that characters have)

that was 3 oops

but yeah, I miss them too >: