The Like/Hate Thread

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That difference being? Both are animated. The only slight difference is that one is Japanese originated and the other isn't. Even the Japanese ones are not always entirely following manga. Plus, from working with Japanese people in a Japanese restaurant, they refer to these shows in Japan a lot of times AS cartoons.

What they do in Japan doesn't much matter, we are talking in English and will all the meanings and culture that comes with that.

First and foremost there is the difference of connotation. Anime comes with a lot of baggage as a word, a) and b) Japanese animation is starkly different in story telling styles, tropes, and pacing, as well as straight up looking different. They both fit under the umbrella term of animation and by the strictest definition 'cartoon' but language has evolved past that.

In any case its just simply wrong. Disregarding applied meanings there is the simple fact, as you said, that Anime is a Japanese made cartoon. It's specific. Avatar was not made in Japan, even if it borrowed a lot of influence from there.

I know I shouldn't care. Its a pet peeve.