Quote Originally Posted by DMKA
But, the rest of the post is just funny for too many reasons, which you'd most likely have to be an anime fan to understand. I'll just say that anime is "cartoons", but from Japan. "Anime" is the Japanese term for animated programming.
It's not short for animated programming, it's short for animation. It can refer to Disney movies as well. Anime is just a term used outside of Japan to describe Japanese animation.

The reason people get pissy or whatever when someone calls anime "cartoons" is because anime has so many things cartoons don't have (which I won't being to preach on here), including the fact that it reaches out to a wider audience and a wider array of situations (I've yet to see a "cartoon" with gay/lesbian romances, for example, which is quite common in anime). Also, when you say "cartoon", it's usually pertaining to animated programming for children, which is a big assumption for all animated programming by many people in this part of the world. Just as there are non-violent, kiddie animes...

Disliking obsessive anime fans is fine. Not caring for it is fine. But hating anime itself? I'm sorry, I just find that too funny to bear.
It's like what other people said, a corvette is a car. A camry is a car. Might be different kinds of cars, but they are cars when you get right done to the bone. Same thing with anime. It's pretty much cartoons with different themes. Aliens 3 reaches out to a limited audience, whereas The Grinch That Stole Christmas reaches out to every audience. Does that make Aliens 3 less of a movie because of that? No. I don't think so. Both of them are still movies. Just because it's intended audience is different, doesn't make it anymore special.

I don't like anime for many reasons. It's like someone who hates rap, I don't hold it against them if they do. I don't see how it's so "funny." You're probably seeing through biased eyes since you, by my sense, are clearly an "anime" fan. I'm not saying I'm not biased, but just because I hate something like anime doesn't mean it's irrational. Reasons I hate anime include how many of these animes are sometimes too over the top. Many of them just throw in gut slicing because it seems to be the norm. It's almost like you'd expect senseless violence in these cartoons. Not that I'm against fictional violence, but most Japanese producers just throw them on there because it's the norm. I find a lot of Japanese anime cheesy as well. They're always sword fighting, or fighting with their eyes close as some dramatic music plays in the background. If anything, American cartoons at least have more variety in their shows than Japanese anime's more serious topics.

Just as you say anime appeals to more general people, I know for a fact that there's thousands of animes that appeal to children only, without nudity or violence in Japan. What makes those animes different from cartoons here? What about violent cartoons here compared to your form of anime? Until someone makes a difinitive difference between the two, I'll always refuse to acknowledge the two as completely different.