pokoko on 19 October 2013
| dahuman said: Didn't know that =D I guess I'll just call everything animation from now on lol. |
You can't go wrong with 'animation'. It's really the correct term and it's free of the context associated with either 'anime' or 'cartoons'. Whatever the terms mean technically, they've both become linked with particular styles.
When I first got involved with anime, back when we used to trade VHS tapes online, the term most people used was 'Japanimation', which sucked to type out all the time. Then the people who were actually acquiring and translating the raws from Japan began borrowing the same word the Japanese used, 'anime', and I was glad it caught on. 'Japanimation' sounds lame.
