Anime: Cartoons or Not?

Well, it has to do with the culture. Japanese TV can be a lot more graphic, but at the same time, they don't really have too many shows like Law&Order and so on because their crime isn't such a problem compared to the United State's. So the quality of programming is different.

Their cartoons are more serious and carry morals and so on... Characters in their cartoons die, male characters cry, and more serious issues can pop up. Even though Sailor Moon is a kid show, their were lesbians in it. Now, for Japan, the audience can (for the most part), be alright with that, but America's audience isn't used to that sort of thing in their cartoons. InuYasha is also a child's show, but since their is blood, some death, and some sexual content, it's seen as a show for an older audience... The dialog is often dumbed down in dubs, due to the idea that people aren't supposed to think when watching cartoons as well.

hi everybody

Anything thats animated is a cartoon. No getting around it.

*Sighs* Ok, so in being technical, anime is cartoons. But it seems that some of us say that they are very different because of what they have. As has been said by others, I have no problem with cartoons...well the old ones like Looney Tunes and Tom and Jerry...and there are anime that I would call just a cartoon. Bur I still call a cartoon something you put little kids down to watch after school or on Saturday morning. So for example, I would not call Hellsing a cartoon.

Heres my opinion

Animé is a type of cartoon. If you were talking to someone about animé they would not be thinking about Tom & Jerry, they could be thinking about Trigun or something like that.

Also animé could be taken as the style of the cartoon.

For instance
: "What type of cartoon is that?"
: "Its an animé"

From that you would know that the cartoon is not going to be like Tom & Jerry. You know that this has been done by Japanese drawers and that it will have more depth than a cartoon.

to me crtoons are animated for little kids now from the ages of 13 and over anime/manga is way different no matter wat anyone says though wat the japense make could be only cartoons for them

I think it depends on the anime. The difference in a cartoon and a anime is the art in it. Now some people would not consider Anime a art, but I think it is one in itself. Also cartoons are meant to be funny "normally" but anime just go's way past that. Some anime like (Wich, mega man, anything you see on Saturday morning ) which I can not stand- is a kids anime which I could say is cartoon in a way.