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dahuman on 19 October 2013

No shit?



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dahuman on 19 October 2013

Anime is a made up term that originated from French, really just means animation, I'll go with good ol' English since I live in the US of A, hence they are all Cartoons. Thundercats was animated in Japan, but we call it a cartoon, and it was drawn in Japanese style all the way while not being called anime, I rest my case.



RenCutypoison on 19 October 2013
NobleTeam360 said:
I think Anime in general is aimed at a more mature audience than Cartoons. That could just be me though.


Depends on anime, but yeah, some are.



dahuman on 19 October 2013
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.



NobleTeam360 on 19 October 2013
osed125 said:
NobleTeam360 said:
I think Anime in general is aimed at a more mature audience than Cartoons. That could just be me though.

Depends on your definition of mature. Most animes nowadays involved either extreme violence or fan service, that imo, isn't mature. 

No, I mean like story depth etc..... for example Angel Beats I'm not sure a 7 year old would enjoy that type of show. 



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Leadified on 19 October 2013
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.


It's like comparing a JRPG to a WRPG, sure they are both RPGs at heart but beyond that it doesn't make too much sense to compare them.



MDMAlliance on 19 October 2013
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.


If someone calls a cartoon an anime, I personally don't feel it's as bad as if someone calls an anime a cartoon based on the fact that when people say that you're watching cartoons, it sounds like you're watching something like Tom and Jerry.  When you talk about cartoons like Family Guy  or The Simpsons (or whatever), people tend to refer to them by name.  

I don't even know what my point was anymore.



dahuman on 19 October 2013
Leadified said:
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.


It's like comparing a JRPG to a WRPG, sure they are both RPGs at heart but beyond that it doesn't make too much sense to compare them.


Considering that the form of delivery vastly defers when it comes to RPG, that line of reasoning does not stand. I can make girls role play a nurse while playing a sex game with them and call that a RPG as well. While the ways to deliver animations are generally based off a display of some form.



dahuman on 19 October 2013
MDMAlliance said:
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.


If someone calls a cartoon an anime, I personally don't feel it's as bad as if someone calls an anime a cartoon based on the fact that when people say that you're watching cartoons, it sounds like you're watching something like Tom and Jerry.  When you talk about cartoons like Family Guy  or The Simpsons (or whatever), people tend to refer to them by name.  

I don't even know what my point was anymore.

I'm originally from Asia and I grew up watching Japanese animation more than American animation, guess what we called them both? Cartoons. Anime is a made up word that is making American people more stupid just like the word ain't, which both of those words I use depending on the situation. I'm not saying it's not valid, I'm just saying it's stupid since people just want to feel like they are fucking cool with a new word even though at the end, we are all nerds anyways.



aikohualda on 19 October 2013

yes it is.. but it is a genre with-in a genre....

anime are cartoons that originated from japan...

manga is a comics that originated from japan...

jrpg are rpg from japan....

lion is in the cat family...