Anime ARE cartoons!

[Lafiel]

dahuman said:

Lafiel said:
Yes, animes are cartoons and mangas are comics, yet I feel the american productions are way more focussed on comedy, while in japanese ones there often is a focus on action.

uh, that depends on what companies want to import over, they have a lot of gag stuff from Japan too, a lot of people just wouldn't get the culture references unless you know Japan or some other Asian histories really well.

yea, I know many comedy anime myself, but the spectrum of japanese and american works just seem different to me (ok, I'm not nearly as informed about american shows tbh)

while anime are like 40% action 35% comedy and 25% rest from my perspective cartoons are about 70% comedy, 25% action and 5% rest, so anime just offers a broader spectrum of shows (afaik Japan produced much more animated shows aswell)

another differentiator probably is story contiunity, so while maybe about 70% of the anime advance a story I feel that about 80% of the cartoons don't really care about that