Anime is like cartoons right?
Like aren't they the Korean version of American cartoons?
What about it?
>>149141089
Like... Why aren't they just called cartoons then?
>>149141136
They are.
What you are complaining about is that a subcategory isn't referred to by the name of the top category.
Because it's imprecise.
Not all sparkling wine is champagne. But all champagne is sparkling wine.
>>149141136
Polymorphism man.
I think the best definition of anime is "animation that is produced in japan, mostly for a japanese audience"
I watch anime not because they are japanese because some anime have nice themes and explore them in a mature yet tasteful way. Some other anime I have no interest in.
American animated movies have grown increasingly stale and repetitive during the last 10-20 years and coupled with the death of traditional animation and that all feature unrealistic bugeyes or antropozoomorphic bipedal creatures make them lack any artistic value.
Of course there are a few (very few) shows that have similarities (art style, character development, themes, moral ambiguity, world building) to anime but I don't think they are anime because they are not produced in japan and they are not produced mainly for a japanese audience.
>>149141026
Actually, Anime means animation, and, theorically, Sponge Bob is an Anime
>>149143701
Japanese will call Spongebob an "Anime".
Westerners will call Spongebob a "Cartoon".
When westerners say "Anime" in an english sentence, then most of the time they refer to animation from Japan.
>>149141136
Cartoons are inferior than anime. Fucking retard westerner.
No, it's not like cartoons, it is cartoons.
>>149143701
Anime means different things in English and Japanese, the same way that salsa means different things in English and Spanish.
yup
>>149141026
Anime is animation as a whole regardless of the origin, while cartoons are the ones imported from America.
>>149141026
Sauce?