You think,
I've randomly been thinking about this lately, so please tell me your thoughts. |
EchoedFlame said: For me the difference is the animation, and the artstyle. Just because it's such a hufe difference. Imo cartoon artsyles are more have more rough edges and sometimes rough animations. While anime have a more smoother look and better animation. This may just be me, but that is what I feel is the biggest difference. So, based from that, if i say that (most) anime is more "realistic" in terms of animations, what do you think? |
EchoedFlame said: yoshu_ said: In terms of animation yes, but it really depends on the animtaion and how well it is executes. But yeah, I feel it's way more realistic than cartoons.So, based from that, if i say that (most) anime is more "realistic" in terms of animations, what do you think? Realistic in what terms? Fantastic 4 (cartoon) may be a more accurate depiction of the Western culture, and thus should appear more real in the context of cultural resemblance. And yet, in the same vein, Tiger and Bunny appears more real.. somehow more "organic" than its counterpart Western toons despite the former having a Western influence on technicalities such as story pacing. Despite the lexical arbitration in which "cartoon" is simply a Western equivalent of anime or Japanese animation, I'm more inclined to raise my opinion that it has something to do with cultural affinity. At the end of the day, both sides can be assigned to have the same animators and thus will look virtually the same. The room for differentiation then, should come from cultural ties, affinity, leaning, etc. as long as the elements can be delineated to lean on either side, even if it uses the same trope, cinematography or certain audio materials, one can (arguably) easily identify which is which depending on the degree of cultural affinity a given work has. |
| WTF, anime is cartoon. 30 character limit |
| Just the name (which depends on country of production), it's all still an animation. Everything else are the things that fall into category of genre, demographics, etc. It can't be compared in general, cause every single show is different, even within anime there are lots of different styles and it depends on creators not on some general rule they follow. |
| But anime is a cartoon. I thought it was obvious. |
| "What makes anime and cartoon different?" 1. The cultural differences between western and japanese writer and animation stuff : different word views and themes, different traditions in visual representations, different public norms. 2. The way the entertainment industries work differently will result in differently looking, sounding and "tasting" products. |
alshuAug 27, 2018 2:29 AM
| Just let you know that im asking, are anime and cartoon different? Some people said "anime is cartoon." so i'll take that as "no". |
yoshu_ said: Just let you know that im asking, are anime and cartoon different? Some people said "anime is cartoon." so i'll take that as "no". Above I am trying to explain why they are different cartoons. |
| Nothing. The only difference that see is their terms. |
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| Nah, anime and cartoons aren't different. Both have art styles that bleed over into the other (Ben 10 Alien Force looks like a typical anime while Panty and Stocking with Garterbelt looks like a typical western cartoon). Plus they're both still pieces of animation. I just refer to Japanese cartoons as anime for the sake of conversation. |
yoshu_ said: You think,
I've randomly been thinking about this lately, so please tell me your thoughts. Why didn't you google this first???? |
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| anime is cartoon... but not all cartoons as anime (unless, according to japanese people).... there is reason FROZEN win TOKYO ANIME AWARDS... what made them at least as sub type of cartoon is what cultur mainly influenced it.. that's it... there is some technical difference like sakuga (which is actually budget saving technique, than actually an animation technique), but otherwise, it easily influencing each other that hard to draw a clear distinguishable line... there is reason why MAL DB using geographical restriction rather than some random heavily subjective heavily generalized hardly accurate definition like art style... you guys need to watch more the world of golden eggs and usavich... |
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| The most striking difference I've noticed is in the method of story telling. U.S. cartoons, for example, tend to have a single episode narrative with the main connection to previous and later episodes being the characters and setting. In the case of anime, in most series the entire episode run will focus on one extended plot, similar to reading a novel. This observation is in a very general sense, and I can think of many exceptions in anime, but very few in regards to Western animation. The continuous narrative in the West mainly concerns animated full-length features. In the case of visuals, anime tends to have more realism in its environment, by that I mean that if the characters enter a convenience store or stroll down the block, there is a tendency to make the physical setting detailed. Sometimes even hyper-detailed. I can bring up several other things, but I have to leave for work soon. |
Sonal1988 said: yoshu_ said: You think,
I've randomly been thinking about this lately, so please tell me your thoughts. Why didn't you google this first???? I did. But im not looking for an answer, im looking for opinions. So i asked here. |
| both of these words can mean very different things... do you mean a comparison between japanese and western animation? |
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redtailrav said: In the case of visuals, anime tends to have more realism in its environment, by that I mean that if the characters enter a convenience store or stroll down the block, there is a tendency to make the physical setting detailed. Sometimes even hyper-detailed. I can bring up several other things, but I have to leave for work soon. while comparing it to (western) cartoon, why do you think that the visual is different? Please, bring it up if you can. I really appreciate it. romagia said: both of these words can mean very different things... do you mean a comparison between japanese and western animation? I don't really know to be honest. But please correct me if im mistaken. I'm not very good in english nor something like this XD |
southerntwAug 27, 2018 4:12 AM
JohnviRomanum said: Some people would find cartoons and Anime the same. But most Americans and Europeans at least think there's a difference: cartoons are generally western, made for child and/or comedy series; the advantage is that the characters don't age, like they do in sitcoms, so you can continue producing the series. (Japanese) Anime on the other hand is much more sophisticated. There's more emphasize to make the best pictures and the plot can be about very diverse subjects, including drama, action, horror, and many of them are movies. I like that. So do you think (target) audiences played a lot in both cartoon and anime? They are different because they target different kind of audiences? I understand that even one anime and other anime is different because of that, but i'd like to know about your thoughts on it. |
| For us outside of Japan, anime are just cartoons made in Japan, although Japanese people use the word as a more general term for animation. So where we use the word 'cartoons' (or even just 'animations') as a general word for any type of animation, they use anime in this way. But for simplicity's sake, I just call animations in Japan anime and outside of Japan cartoons. I really don't understand why people get so defensive and say 'anime are not cartoons' though, obviously they both have different styles and they're created with different cultures behind them so it doesn't mean that one is superior to another. |
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| for me it's just the region where it comes from mainly |
| Cartoons are mind-rotting garbage and anime is the savior in visual form that will cleanse all souls in preparation of the rapture, never ask such a dumb question ever again. |
| From a Western perspective, the only difference between anime and cartoons are where they are made. All anime are cartoons, but we call Japanese cartoons anime to differentiate between where they were made. |
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shintai88 said: Style of animation, western animation tend to pay more attention to the movement of the mouth when speaking, compared to anime. There are also more still shoots in anime than in western animation, characters tend to be more animated even when talking in western animation. The other would be more details on the nose for west, and more on the eyes for Anime. There are other differences if you compare the difference. thats such a unique way to compare anime and western animation. |
| That even it pains me to say this, and i will lost my humanity for saying it ... anime is actually good. |
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| anime are cartoons and that is the end of the story |
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| They're the same. People just like to distinguish the two terms either because they want to specifically talk about animations from one area or don't like it to be associated with the other animations for shit reasons |
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| For me, anime and cartoons are different in many ways. The art style, the animation technique, the voice acting, background art, character designs, and a whole lot. The stories in anime are also more mature at times compared to western animation which are more comedy oriented. Anime=cartoons, that's a fact but I'm not gonna call it a cartoon when speaking about Japanese animation. Western cartoons used to appeal to me a lot before but I just outgrew them. There are rarely very few cartoons I watch now. Last I watched was Rick and Morty but I'm bored of that as well now. |
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| Anime are a type of Japanese cartoon but the difference between calling something a cartoon or an anime is that anime is just Japanese. Some people think anime is the style of animation but I don’t know about that since there are a lot of anime that don’t use the traditional animation style usually associated with anime. |
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| I always thought of anime as a subset of cartoon, not something different Like: vehicle > car rifle > AR15 human > irish |
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| cartoons don't have waifus. animes is just a term for japanese cartoons. animes have waifus. |
BirthOfVenus said: Cartoons are mindless entertainment and most tend to be episodic comedies (as in comedy is almost always the main genre), and it also usually have simple artstyles. Anime for the most part isn't like that and most tend to have an overarching plot and might or might not be a comedy or comedy might be its secondary genre, and it ranges from a wide variety of genres that don't tend to be in cartoons. Also the obvious fact that anime is from Japan. well explained, this is pretty much it. cartoons are mostly episodic while animes aren't. |
| Nice, this is one of those threads where anime fans showcase that they are just as ignorant about western entertainment as some normies are about anime. Talking about quality, artstyle, random bullshit they made up just to shit on non-anime. Truly, weebs in their purest form, gloryfying japanese animation beyond reason, making up arbitrary factually wrong reasons to tell the apart, and showing no sign of ever having delved into cartoons, the thing they shit on, at all, while probably criticizing people who judge anime without really experiencing it for being closed-minded and judgmental, which they might as well say to a mirror at this point. The hypocrisy is delicious as usual. Sorry to say, OP & co, but 'your opinion' is garbage and objectively wrong here. Country of origin is the only consistent, reliable difference between anime and cartoons. If you think ANYTHING else, you are simply wrong and no amount of 'my opinion, muh subjectivity' will save you from the embarassment of being outed as someone who has no clue what they are talking about when it comes to anime, cartoons and animation. You are the anime fan equivalent of that normie from high school that bullied you because 'anime is all for kids' or 'anime is all for perverts'. I hope you're proud of your willful ignorance. |
| I probably regret this post by now. |
| The only difference is the country where it's produced. Anime is short for how the Japanese say "animation" so that's the only difference to me. |
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| I use "anime" and "cartoon" interchangeably when it comes to anything that generally has this art style. |
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| Anime is animation in general, produced by mostly Asian countries. Cartoons are produced by non Asian parties and are mostly targeted towards a much younger and more focused audience. An example being those la vache qui rit commercials which tend to be fully animated. I don't consider that a "cartoon". Meanwhile a fully animated cup noodle animation or a song PV can be considered "anime". Cartoons also tend to cater to whichever political side was dominant during the time of production and release, while anime seems to be much more varied and doesn't seem to care about that sort of stuff. |
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| Well, you'll obviously have to generalize to answer that question, since there are exceptions found in both cartoons and anime. The main difference that I've noticed is that cartoons tend to be more episodic. This was actually the reason I started watching anime in the first place. I used to watch a lot of cartoons as a kid, but then I first saw Naruto on TV and was surprised by how the episodes connected to each other and how everything was part of an overarching plot. That just felt a lot more interesting to me than a show where each episode was a stand-alone throwaway. Also waifus. |
 What's the difference? |
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