06-18-2003, 03:42 PM
anime and cartoons are complete different, just because they are both types of animation doesnt mean they are the same thing. like bacon and sauages are both pork but they aint the same thing (pork sauages before someone points out that there are different types of sauage, and theres another example beef and pork sauages are different yet both sauages). cartoons are animated shows for children and always children, they have simple stories and simple characters and simple themes with simple messages carried by these themes. simple? indeed. because cartoons are aimed at children, anime on the other hand is japanese animation and some of this anime maybe be cartoon. other anime is aimed at teens and adults and this by defination means that it isnt of cartoon nature, it is merely animation. movies like ghost in the shell, akira and patlabor are seen as films in japan, even in america in some certain cases, not cartoons, just films that fall into the catageory of "animated film". anime thats aimed at an older audience have themes that apply to an older audience, stories that apply to an older audience, characters that an older audience can related to, etc. the last ever episode of GTO was the most watched televised event ever in japan (before spirited away was shown), would over a quater of america tune in to watch the last episode of rugrats? is there even a last episode of rugrats? no because its not episodic like most anime, probably because a kid wont remember, or even want to, what happened in the last 20 somethin episodes that are all the same. there is a greater comparsion between anime and either drama/sci-fi shows like the x-files and buffy than there is to kim possible or hey arnold. its fair in some cases for example shin-chan, is aimed at kids and is basically an "anime cartoon".
on the subject of american style animation being more original, that is also a load of shit. every artist has his own style (well maybe not every one) and even if this style is incredibly like another artists style, its still not the same. like for example pepsi and coke are quite similar but most people know they aint the same, even though they have the same flavour. then you might say "all anime follows the same basic style, big eyes, small mouth, almost no nose and crazy hair", but american cartoons do this as well. there are certain rules that they all follow and thats just simply the way it is. you may think manga/anime artists all draw the same but i can tell different artists by their different styles. and "news flash" most characters drawn by the same artist look the same hence different style and colour of hair as well as each character wearing the same clothes all the time so that they are easy to recongise. dont try to tell me that a most characters in simpsons doesnt look basically the same except for theyre hair, clothes, and shape.
which smoothly brings me on to the conclusion of my rant, would you call the simpsons a cartoon?
on the subject of american style animation being more original, that is also a load of shit. every artist has his own style (well maybe not every one) and even if this style is incredibly like another artists style, its still not the same. like for example pepsi and coke are quite similar but most people know they aint the same, even though they have the same flavour. then you might say "all anime follows the same basic style, big eyes, small mouth, almost no nose and crazy hair", but american cartoons do this as well. there are certain rules that they all follow and thats just simply the way it is. you may think manga/anime artists all draw the same but i can tell different artists by their different styles. and "news flash" most characters drawn by the same artist look the same hence different style and colour of hair as well as each character wearing the same clothes all the time so that they are easy to recongise. dont try to tell me that a most characters in simpsons doesnt look basically the same except for theyre hair, clothes, and shape.
which smoothly brings me on to the conclusion of my rant, would you call the simpsons a cartoon?