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10-May-2011 22:00:16

Summant Else
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Well anime is the Japanese term for animated works, such as cartoons, and cartoons technically include those pure-CGI shows such as Beast Wars.
The reason that people, particularly anime supporters, I have found, claim that anime is better is simple; the West, creator of "cartoons" does not, with a few notable exceptions in the comedy genre, tend to make them for anyone under the age of 12. In Japan, this age association of the entire spectrum never developed, so they are free to create works for teenagers (of the entire range) safe in the knowledge that people will actually watch them.
There is also how in the US, where most Western TV comes from these days, many people see childrens TV as having to be childish, and so do not give it any more than a simple plot, assuming it has one at all. This is not always the case, but it is more often than that. Due to different values, Japan does not seem to have the belief that children's TV must be childish, allowing for plots and material that can be enjoyable, if simple, for teenagers, even if they are by no means that target audience.
In the West, this results in the hilarious attempts by anime fans to claim that the shounen genre is primarily intended for late teens, when it isn't, which should have been indicated given that under Japanese law, a person is not referred to as a "shounen" once they are 15.
In short, anime is the Japanese term for cartoon, anime is a cartoon made by the Japanese, Western anime fans try to pretend that they are two vastly different completely unrelated concepts because they fear being mocked for watching cartoons.

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10-May-2011 22:45:24

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American cartoons sucks the most because they have poor graphics and poor drawn. and if anyone who are against anime than they are troglodytes and idiots. Just face it nobody from around the world would dare watch that crappy american cartoons like south park even russia hates it!
if you want to know why I'm doing this than come visit to cairnangel1's at Utube.

10-May-2011 22:51:39

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Ugh, I don't like American cartoons. I like spongebob and phinas and ferb, but those...They only entertain me, they make me laugh sometimes.
But anime....it takes my breath away. Not only does it entertain and humor me but it can lso makre my eyes wide with fear, it can make e wonder what'll happen next...Sometimes I am awed by the quality of the graphics, the amazing backgrounds, and the animation will leave me speechless sometimes.
Japanese anime is by far higher quality than western cartoons.
I believe a good example of a horrible, childish, bladly plot stucteed american cartoon is Johnny Test.
I usedto watch it, but nowadays whenever I do, sure I am entertained, but I can't help but to pick out all the bad things about it. While watching it i think "unreasonable plot" or "cliche.." or "Choppy animation there" or "very badly drawn background there" or "Badly drawn characters"
and such.
If they would make books into animated TV shows, we'd see alot better animate shows than thse silly childish cartoons.
I'd love to see great book series like Warriors or The Rangers Apprentice be animated. Amazing plots, great stry structures, and the action is immense. It will leave you i suspence and has all of the great plot structures stories should have.
To put it simply, western cartoons are abominaations to the wonderment of a plotlne. The makers seem to lack alot off imagination, and don't put good stor elements.
If you're going todirect a show toward the audience under the age of twelve, you need to do it right. With good plot structure, story structure, meaningful themes, and everyting. Children will learn much more and probably have a larger imagination if we did this.
Now I really wish The Rangers Apprentice Series was made into an anime. That series would make an awesme shonen! I can just imagine the arrows whuzzing by, bodies thudding to the floor, dosmounted, and how the ranges camoflauge themselves and dissapear ito the background.
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10-May-2011 23:25:07

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ANIME ROX!!!!!!!!!!!!! (oh, and what if runescape was made into an anime? :P )
A MESSAGE TO THE HATERS: IF U HATE ANIME SO MUCH, THEN STOP TROLLING AND GET THE **** OUT!!!! THIS THREAD IS FOR ANIME FANS ONLY SO LEAVE IF UR A HATER!!! YOU WILL BE REPORTED IF YOU CONTINUE TO TROLL.
edit: i already reported :)
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11-May-2011 01:08:13 - Last edited on 11-May-2011 01:26:00 by SwedishPagns

Jesse B77

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*yawn* Ignore the haters. Its their loss.
@Summant else:
I would just like to point out that the shounen genre, while most prolific in the west as far as anime is concerned, makes up only a small portion of the actual total anime produced. Just thought i would mention that since you seem to base your points on it heavily.
But i think the main reason which contributes to the distinction of anime a a separate medium is the fact that in most cases, there are no comparable works in the west simply because the way animation is understood and therefore utilized is significantly different.
That said though, even when the types of show's shared by east and west (kiddie shows and toilet humor) are compared, a series of distinct differences in the storytelling and structure can still be found.
Yes, that can be attributed to differing understanding of the medium, but given as much i dont think its unreasonable to make the distinction between the two when its so much easier to find differences than it is parallels.

@Cairn: 'America's true art known as anime', I loled. I get your point but remember, the whole world isn't american.
@Dynamic Hawk: Really??? Ive never found that subs were distracting from any other aspects of the show at all. I think the difference is that you have to not 'try' to read the subs, it should be something you do subconsciously.
As for my number score, 9.9, as ive said before. The missing 0.1 accounts for the creepiest aspects of anime and its fandom.

11-May-2011 01:21:17 - Last edited on 11-May-2011 01:59:28 by Jesse B77

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11-May-2011 01:26:23 - Last edited on 11-May-2011 01:26:39 by SwedishPagns

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