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jayday12345678910 Since: Nov, 2010
#1: Jul 9th 2011 at 8:03:53 AM

What do you think? Personally I couldn't care less about what its called.

....Why
Excelion from The Fatherland Since: Sep, 2010
#3: Jul 9th 2011 at 8:06:46 AM

I sometimes call them that for funsies.

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Edmania o hai from under a pile of erasers Since: Apr, 2010
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#4: Jul 9th 2011 at 8:07:54 AM

I don't care.

I also don't care about the reverse.

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#5: Jul 9th 2011 at 8:13:26 AM

I only care if someone says something as "it is not anime, it is 'cartoon'". Otherwise, whatever.

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#6: Jul 9th 2011 at 8:22:26 AM

To me, a cartoon is just anything in the animated medium. So calling anime "cartoons" is like calling fantasy fiction "books". So, uh, yeah. But that's just me.

Sparkysharps Since: Jan, 2001
#7: Jul 9th 2011 at 8:24:05 AM

I'm chill with it. Anime are cartoons — they're just a specific type of cartoons.

Now, if we have dumb kids doing the inverse and calling something like Avatar The Last Airbender an anime, then we have to talk.

Edmania o hai from under a pile of erasers Since: Apr, 2010
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#8: Jul 9th 2011 at 8:29:21 AM

http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%8B%E3%83%A1

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Sabbo Since: Jan, 2001
#9: Jul 9th 2011 at 9:21:55 AM

I guess it bugs me, but not enough to want to do anything about it usually.

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#10: Jul 9th 2011 at 9:41:04 AM

It's all animation. It does bug me a bit when people argue "No, it's not good - it's a cartoon! Cartoons can't have story." But that's pretty specific anyway. I do like to use this on otakus though. To see the gears spin~.

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#11: Jul 9th 2011 at 10:10:35 AM

Why should I care? It's no different than calling a French comic... well, "comic" instead of "B.D." (or "bande dessinée").

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#12: Jul 9th 2011 at 10:19:33 AM

Anime being called a cartoon?! Well, that just boils my blood!

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#13: Jul 9th 2011 at 11:13:02 AM

I refer to anime as "Japanese cartoons" sometimes, usually in the context of explaining what a specific series is to a non-anime fan (ex. "Sailor Moon is a Japanese cartoon series.") Then again, I don't think calling something a "cartoon" is an insult, either, merely a statement that it involves animated drawings of some sort (whether that be hand-drawn or CGI or whatever). I personally see cartoons as being equal to live-action as a medium for storytelling.

I have also described Hetalia as being a political cartoon taken one step further (in that anthropomorphic countries are commonly used in single-panel political cartoons, but Hetalia turns them into characters in a comic strip/anime series).

edited 9th Jul '11 11:16:19 AM by Rainbow

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#14: Jul 9th 2011 at 12:15:36 PM

Don't really give a shit.

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Raikage Just chillin' Since: Aug, 2009
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#15: Jul 9th 2011 at 12:59:22 PM

Considering that "anime" is just the Japanese word for "animation" which is what a cartoon is...yeah I really don't care. Though sometimes I'll call them that in front of people who do care just for the lulz.

Signed Always Right Since: Dec, 2009
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#16: Jul 9th 2011 at 1:25:18 PM

How do you fell about anime being called a cartoon?

....anime is cartoon as repeated by everyone else above...BUT it's japanese cartoon...whereas I assume most people are talking about western cartoon when they say just say "cartoon" around here.

In that case, a better title would have been "How do you feel*

about anime and western cartoon?"

In those cases, distinctive styles that are immediately recognizable. Values Dissonance is often a pretty good indicator of anime as well, since anime have no trouble showing stuff that would never EVER be allowed in cartoons in the west. Never Say "Die" is also helps telling the difference between the two, although not as well as Values Dissonance. Characters can die in even a children's anime*

. In western cartoons, deaths can happen, sometimes in mature ways, like the old Disney movies, or sometimes handled really messily, like in Avatar to avoid pissing off Moral Guardians. But deaths in western stuff is really really rare anyways.

Hmmm...the influence of Moral Guardians is also another way to tell the two apart. Anime can be censored too, but they can still show way more stuff than western cartoon.

tl;dr - I don't mind calling anime cartoon...but I do mind people mixing up western cartoon and anime into one pot...since I feel everything should be separated into categories so we can find what we want easier. Hate anime and only want western cartoons? Just look at the western category! And vice versa.

edited 9th Jul '11 1:36:08 PM by Signed

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Sporkaganza I'm glasses. Since: May, 2009
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#17: Jul 9th 2011 at 1:31:26 PM

No, he spelled "feel" wrong. Not "tell".

So your entire post is pointless. Congraturation.

edited 9th Jul '11 1:31:52 PM by Sporkaganza

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Hashil Since: Aug, 2010
#18: Jul 9th 2011 at 1:32:49 PM

He probably meant feel, Signed.

Edit: And now mine is, too!

edited 9th Jul '11 1:33:30 PM by Hashil

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#19: Jul 9th 2011 at 1:33:18 PM

.................well it's still a typo, just the wrong typo.just bugs me

edited 9th Jul '11 1:33:29 PM by Signed

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#20: Jul 9th 2011 at 1:47:41 PM

As said above, don't really care. Unless it's a semantic debate, and even then I try to avoid the subject to keep from sounding like a nerd.

edited 9th Jul '11 1:48:09 PM by Spirit

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#21: Jul 9th 2011 at 1:55:01 PM

But you already have an account in a wiki about tropes in media...and you're participating in the forums of said wiki about tropes in media...

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#22: Jul 9th 2011 at 2:22:22 PM

I call them cartoons myself. Japanese cartoons, Japanimation etc. No matter from where, cartoons are cartoons, period. Just as I call both mangas and graphic novels comics.

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#23: Jul 9th 2011 at 2:26:42 PM

After googling "graphic novel"...what are their differences compared to comics anyways?

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#24: Jul 9th 2011 at 2:27:35 PM

None. It's just a fancy-sounding way to say comic book.

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#25: Jul 9th 2011 at 2:35:09 PM

I'm supposed to care if Anime is called a cartoon, now?

I'm not gonna act all Wapanese and shit and say "Oh no, our pwecious Animus are being called cartoons by ignorant assholes, oh my god, I'm gonna die!"

edited 9th Jul '11 2:35:28 PM by Demongodofchaos2

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