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[Homeless Joe]

No but they are animation... Anime = animation.

i don't know if i agree with that. i mean yeah anime is short for animation, but i consider it a unique form of animation. cartoons are definitely not anime. i don't distinguish between anime and cartoons soley bassed on their origins, but more the style of art and story. most cartoons don't have much of a storyline, or if they do it's very loose. i guess a good way to describe it is that you can watch one episode and not be lost and still enjoy it. cartoons come in nice little bitsize episodes. but anime's tend to have long story lines, with a definite beginning and end. o and Ka-Talliya i wanted to comment about what you said earlier, about sitting through crappy animation if the story was engaging.....i wish i could =( but i like to watch anime because of the story and the art. if the visually the anime doesn't appeal to me, chances are i wont watch. i was watching ff unlimited late last night, my lil bro said it was really good. but the way it looked really was bugging me, like the characters were pasted into the scenes or something. i couldn't finish the first episode =( it's the same with manga, when i'm looking to buy a book, if i don't like the way the art looks, i wont ever buy it cuz i know it will just bug me.