
Engar wrote:But seriously, this whole argument could be avoided if
A. Clara stated in a clear voice the exact difference without using the words "They, Just or Are."
B. Tsuji Mania was just a little nicer and a little more polite.
Just useless advice from a nosey person who seeks a higher postcount.



I'm saying that if you truly believe that Anime and Cartoons are the same, then you must not know enough about them to argue that they are different.
Rap and Country are both types of music. They are not the same. But they are both music. They both can have singing. They both can have rythym. They both can have beats. They can both sing about the same exact thing. They have the same things, yet they are not the same thing! Exact same concept for Anime and Cartoons!
That's absurd. That's laughable. If you count that as a difference. Then if I drew something...anything, (a pot, pan, fish, desk, lamp), as it appears in any given animation from Japan, ever, then it would automatically become a Japanese animation.
If the producers of "Rugrats" suddenly began drawing the episodes based on Japanese characters, it would become a Japanese animation. Why? Obviously it's not from Japan, but it looks the same, so it must be the same.
That's two.
The same situations are shown in very different ways in Anime and Cartoons!
Aha~! Now here you start to make a good point, and actually this is the closest I would come to accepting a reason for calling them something different. But it's still wrong.Death is very serious in your standard Anime.
Yes you're absolutely right. I find nothing funny about the following. They are incredibly serious.
1. Excel getting hit by a vehicle.
2. Excel getting shot in the head.
3. Excel getting shot in the face with a bazooka.
4. Excel getting hit by a vehicle...again.
5. The great Damuramoo getting his sword through his head and surviving the ordeal to become a mecha version of himself.
6. The dud bomb exploding 5 minutes later in the police station in Akira.
7. Son Gokou killing the wolves that attacked him and watching them be grilled on a stick.
8. Anything that dies in Slayers.
To name only a few.In Cartoons, a cartoon char can go through the same thing that may kill an Anime char (getting run over by a car, getting shot, falling from a huge height) and it's suppose always be funny and they just walk away from it. Of course, alot of Anime chars walk away from what a normal would've died from, but that's cause its supposed to show that they are really strong, or that they just can't die yet, or they've been chosen to live, or something like that.
Of course....that never ever happens in a Japanese animation. (see above)Love is easily shown very differently too. Love is more of a special thing and a passion in Anime. (not always serious for sure!) There's more meaning in Love in Anime. Cartoons rarely take love seriously! It's just about always supposed to be funny! Even when people get their hearts and hopes broken! It's kinda disgracefully actually..... But anyways!
HAHAHAHAHA!!!! I can't wait till you grow up and see the real themes in most Japanese animation. Most of the time in avante garde series, the main idea is that love is crippling and love kills. Simply refer to Ninja Scroll for an example of this.
Ever watch Heavy Metal? How about The Hobbit? Spawn?
And how about the "special passion" shown in tentacle rape? Yeah, La Blue Girl, Urotsukidoji, Bible Black, etc. Those are special alright in their own way.
Three strikes. Now the final blow.References are very different. Alot of Anime has shown many religous references and even historical references. Cartoons have very few and are only of things that we know everyone knows. (E=mc2....etc)

OrenTheSaiyan wrote::shock: THIS IS STILL GOING ON! Geez....will this be the longest thread ever?
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