Anime ARE cartoons!

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dahuman said:

NobleTeam360 said:
I think Anime in general is aimed at a more mature audience than Cartoons. That could just be me though.

Negative, there are a lot of Japanese animations aimed towards children, A LOT! The word anime is just a stupid catch phrase that people adapted to call Japanese animation cause they think French is so fucking kewl, but they are cartoons.

Well, in French, anime means cartoon so...

It comes from the word dessin anime, which literally means animated drawings.

While it may have originated in French because of the wording or the language, a big reason behind it was that anime was really popular in France, waaaaay before America was.

I remember watching cell eat android 17in France a full 7 years before it hit the states.