MDMAlliance said:
SvennoJ said:
MDMAlliance said:
I've always felt like what really separates anime and cartoon is how the story is treated.
Example: Spongebob I feel safe to say is a cartoon
Avatar: The Last Airbender I do not.
Hunter x Hunter I feel safe to say is an anime
Gintama I do not
Most cartoons also use different means of expressing their emotions. Anime use more symbolic expressions while cartoons use more literal ones, it seems. |
What would you call to name a few: Watership Down, Fire and Ice, Fantastic Planet, A Scanner Darkly in that case?
Anime is more oftenly used for mature stories but certainly doesn't have a monopoly on that.
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Honestly I don't think I've watched any of those so I'm not sure what to call them except by name.
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Animated feautures I guess, or cartoons is fine too.
I think there is a prevalent attitude in the west that animation in general is for kids. Hence animation aimed at adults never works well over here and you don't get a lot of it. Sure we get some animated sit-coms over here but nothing like for example Lain serial experiments.
A battle video games have to fight often too, although with 'adult' cgi movies not looking much different from video games nowadays you have to wonder why... Most blockbuster CGI movies have a cartoon plot anyway. Why videogame stories always have to be scrutinized against Citizin Kane baffles me.
