Anime, the representative of Japan… inspired by Americans? but still very Japanese (contextual question)

After reading a essay on the history of the Japanese animated form of anime and the comic form of manga i have found that the anime style is heavily inspired by Disney, during WW2 when the Japanese first started creating animated films they had secret copies of Disney films produced at the time to watch as inspiration for the movement and art style of their animations. This surprised me for i had no idea of how directly the anime creators of the past had taken and been inspired by western animation. Though wile western animation did heavily inspire the original anime’s, anime is still very much Japanese in cultural messages and heritage. “As many scholars of modern Japan point out, manga has become a part of our culture. As literature, films, music and other arts and reflections of the society, so too are manga and anime.Manga depicts almost every aspect of life in Japan, from pure entertainment to educational, instructive and even metaphysical fields.” The Illusions of Life 2, Kosei Ono.