I didn't ignore your post as I agreed with the point you made in it saying how anime is derived from the word animation. And I don't need caps to understand that you basically proved my point. Which is that Japanese=anime and American=cartoons. The Japanese refer to American cartoons as anime, because that is what they call animation there. Americans do not call Japanese animation cartoons here, because most believe that it is a different form of animation all together. Some Japanese and American animation is similar and some isn't.