Anime: Cartoons or Not?

I find cartoons to be a show/comic/etc that's drawn. No matter what the genre; comedy, action, drama, I consider them to be cartoons. They're all drawn and have people acting the voices only.

Bugs was more than "JUST" a cartoon, the guy is a AMERICA ICON.

Like I said before, He came in the depression, That was a time period, were Americas were down on there luck, and Bugs, made people laugh.

Bugs is the only drawn cartoon, to get a medal for his serivce in World War 2. A real Medal from the Marines. He help sell War Bonds and such.
He made people laugh in hard times, With War, and Death and such.

Bugs is MORE than a cartoon.

In my opinion, most anime has a far deeper and moving plot then cartoons ever have (at least the ones I watched) anime is much more believing and plus the way the art is drawn is different to a cartoon. Thats why I'd class it differently 😉

Going back to the old BATMAN TAS, that had a very deep plot.

Fear of Victory, or Maybe Dreams of Darkness,

But the best Batman TAS with a Deep plot is Heart of Ice.

Were Mr Freeze first comes in, for reveage, for the death of his wife(Later brought back to life.)

I like it would Batman is frozen to a roof, And Freeze says, I would take 1000 lives to feel the heat of the sun, Blah Blah Blah,(I forgot the speech, but it was moving.)

Or what about Joker's Favor, Were Charlie had to do what the Joker said, to protect his famly. You can feel the fear Charlie had, on the phone with the Joker.

"Charle" Joker
"Wrong number, pal, This is Don' Charlie

Oh this is the right number, even though you moved your family to Springfild, And change your name to Don Wallace, Some people might be thinking you were cutting out on our little Deal.
Now listen Charlie Brown, your book on the next flight to Gotham, Tell the family you have to visted a sick freind.

And keep this to our selfs ok?? BAD things happen to people that Gosship.

Anime is not the only type of Cartoon that has deep plots.

Mud of Clay is other one, and Twoface 1 and 2. Very deep plots.

Why are we still on Batman? If you really want to go into Batman plot and blah, blah, blah, please find a place to start a thread on it.

Anyway, I didn't think this was going to be such a big issue. Please do not criticize others' opinions.

Heavy Metal 1 had a deep plot though.

Isn't Anime Japanese for cartoon though??

Well in my opinion, i'd say no, there just to advanced to be a mere cartoon. They deal with too many real life ideas and 'meanings' Unlike our version of cartoons, anime can atually teack you things about life.
Well thats just my idea ~ 😄 BLUE

of course not there is a line that is very big inbetween them both and you have relize what it is because if not then you are niav

sorry i think i got off track there but am i not right?

way I see it, cartoons are animation- so animation are cartoons.

they're more sophisticated cartoons, but still cartoons.

no not at all anime is done up beter then any cartoon ive ever seen

Originally posted by BlackHatDefect
What else is anime?Its not live action or CG...therefore it is a cartoon.Anime means cartoon from Japan.No matter how you *try*to make it out,thats all they will ever be.

Eactly. Anime are Japanese cartoons made by Japanese. And manga are Japanese comics. It doesn't matter how comple they story is or how nice the artwork is, it doesn't change what they are. It's a simple as that.

well yes but i like comtlicating things so there

It's not really complicating things. Trying to convince others that anime is anything more than Japanese cartoons is incorrect, which makes those who claim it's something more look like they don't know what they're talking about.

Originally posted by saliorsaturn101
no not at all anime is done up beter then any cartoon ive ever seen

yes it is i just cant get people to under stand that consept at all i have to let the world know but lets try some thing here what r the diffs between them so that others will under stand?

Well Japanese cartoons are just as different as Italian or German cartoons. >_> Of course, many countries dub anime and broadcast it on tv, the same way "power puff girls" or some other American cartoon would be dubbed. Take Lion King for example. There must be so many dubbed versions out and about.

One interesting thing though... Japanese tend to categorize anime similar to manga, since most anime comes from manga. They categorize by sex and age group. They're genre make up the different target groups of the manga. http://www.anthy.com/lumina/manga/genres.htm describes it well enough.

So one cannot describe an anime and simply say that it's an "action" anime, you should to say whether or not it's shoujo, shounen or whatever.

yes yes thats what i think i just never put it in to words

Yeah... I see what you mean now. There's also a lot, lot more anime to categorize than American cartoons on cable tv in Japan vs here.

Animax is a Japanese station that dedicates itself to just anime. Japanese pay extra for that channel though. http://www.animax.co.jp/

http://www.animax-asia.com/ is the English site. Animax is offered in many countries, but not the United States... At least not yet. If you look at the tv schedule, you'll get a good idea of the actual ratings of anime too. Things like Wolf's Rain and Stand Alone Complex only get a PG rating.

ya they are but what i dont get is why partens dont like it that you whach them when they have ratings and i would bet every thing that if they found 1 that they had liked then it would be alright