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Anime or Cartoons?

Anime or Cartoons?

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Blue Canary

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Anime and Cartoons are both different types of animation, from different places in the world. My question is, which one do you like better?
 

misskitten

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I don't like choosing one genre over another, when it all comes down to the individual product. I prefer having a little bit of this and that :P
 
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Western cartoons versus anime? I'll have to say that anime is more captivating as it tends to go places that western cartoons don't go. At the same time, there;s no anime that quite replaces Spongebob to me, among other cartoons I like. So, I think that they rank equal in my eyes.

Just for kicks, I thought the Sonic western cartoons were and still are far superior to the Sonic anime (Sonic X, particularly)
 
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Both are good, but I have to choose cartoons since I'm more of a fan of them. I can't find one new anime I want to get into nowadays (I'm a fan of the more cutesy anime like Hamtaro, for example).
 

sailormars109

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It's a hard choice for me. I grew up on both anime and cartoons.

If it's Scooby-Doo, Looney Tunes, or Tom and Jerry.... I'm in. It also goes for Pokemon, Hamtaro, and Sailor Moon though. I guess I'm just a happy mixture.
 

Turo602

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I'm not too keen on how exaggerated anime tends to be. I enjoy the likes of Looney Tunes or Tom and Jerry, but that's only because that's sort of the point. Cartoony characters doing crazy things. Not superheroic men increasing in head size to demonstrate how angry they are or flailing their arms to one stuck expression to exemplify shock. I'm aware that not all anime does this, but it still irks me how many of the popular ones do. Plus, I haven't really seen an anime that I've really enjoyed aside from the occasional mini series here and there. I can wholeheartedly say that I much prefer western animation, but even some of my favorite cartoons have some sort of anime influence like the 2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series. But the 90s mostly sums up why I prefer western cartoons to anime. Fox Kids and WB all day.
 

Woyogoyo

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Anime and cartoons both have their pros and cons. Anime seems to be geared towards more mature audiences than cartoons, which are usually geared towards children, so it's kind of hard to compare them, IMO. Both industries, IMO, are n to as goods now as they once were. Sure, we have prettier visuals than 10 years ago, but cartoons seem to be getting dumber, and anime is degenerating into mindless fan service, despite the best efforts of shows like SAO, Log Horizon, and some other stuff that's coming out this season that looks promising. I choose anime out of respect for the aforementioned good and promising shows, as well as stuff like DBZ, Code Geass, and Naruto.
 

Cfrock

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I have to go with cartoons on this one, based almost entirely off of my dislike for anime. Anime is just... terrible. That's a bit unfair, since I've not seen every anime, but I have seen many and, sweet fancy Moses, they have all been terrible. It's not for me in any way. I'm really not that in to most Japanese media, for various reasons, and anime just does nothing for me.

When I was younger, I watched things like Dragonball Z and Pokémon. Pokémon was just awful, everything in it was rubbish and annoying, but since everyone used to watch it, I kind of had to just to be able to socialise at school. Dragonball Z I actually kind of liked, but I was 9 years-old and it was about punching so of course I liked it. Once I was old enough to think, I realised what a load of bum it was. Ultimate Muscle, an anime about super powered wrestlers, came along at the end of my time with Dragonball Z and I watched it for a while since it was also about punching, but it was pretty naff. The only other animes I watched in that period were the likes of Yu-Gi-Oh (awful), Digimon (appalling), Beyblade (atrocious), Cardcaptors (abhorrent), and Tenchi Muyo which was about some kid who befriends a bunch of alien women and a cat that turned into a spaceship (or, to put it another way, abominable).

As I got older and 'found' the Internet and got a new circle of friends, I became exposed to more anime than before. Everyone seemed to love something I had already written off as trash, so I gave it another chance to win me over. A friend lent to me several DVD boxsets and each one was just pathetic: Escaflowne, Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Ghost in the Shell, Akira, the much lauded Cowboy Bebop, as well as a few others with names that I'll never remember, every one was just terrible. All of the clips, synopses, premises, and whatever else I have seen of perhaps hundreds of animes since have just reinforced my opinion that anime, as a media form, is just garbage. My cousin made me watch Halo Legends last week while I was babysitting (strange term, seeing as he's 15) and, my word, I never thought I'd hate something to do with Halo so much.

The problem for me is that anime is just so over-the-top, so fantastical, so off its cake, that it's utterly impossible to relate to anything going on in it. Even more mundane examples, like Shin-Chan, go so far into the realm of absurdity that it's not worth watching. They have no trace of reality in them and so I can't connect at all. Most of the time they value style over substance, putting a higher priority on looking 'cool' or 'cute' rather than telling a coherent story or developing believable characters. I just don't like it, at all, and I feel as though I have given it enough of a chance to know for certain that I won't find any that I like.
 

Sadia

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I don't watch anime as often, so I picked cartoons. I have no shame in the fact that I still watch Arthur and Recess and Fillmore and whatnot :xd: And I still enjoy em, because I have the mindset of a 10 year old. >.>
 

Sir Quaffler

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Generally I can get into cartoons better than I can anime.

Idunno, they just seem more accessible and enjoyable to me for some reason. I can plop down to an episode or two of Scooby-Doo, Dexter's Lab, or Tom & Jerry for a nostalgic flashback, Adventure Time and Regular Show for modern kid's shows, or if I want something more up to my age I can see Futurama, Simpson's, or South Park. [But not Family Guy. Screw Family Guy.] I generally don't have to worry about it getting too weird or explicit for my tastes [though I once did see Heavy Metal - I don't think that's safe for ANYONE to watch. Yeesh!]

But with anime I have to tread more carefully. Even if I do basic research on a new show I still have a sense of trepidation that it might just go completely off the wall into a new direction I don't like. Like with my first anime Bleach, I really enjoyed the flashy fight scenes and the underlying intrigue of who was messing with the Soul Society, but that kept getting interrupted by the boring monologues or bickering or other useless talk that just seemed to drag on forever. And then (earlier in the series) some redheaded girl in glasses grabbed Orihime's boobs from behind for seemingly no reason, I mean why'd ya hafta put that in there (besides fanservice)? It seems like just about all animes have this thing where they whip between super-serious drama, over-the-top action and reactions, mopey angsting, etc. in a flash, and it's kinda jarring.

Unless they go so completely in one direction that I can't help but fall for it; Gurren Lagaan remains one of my favorites simply due to how over-the-top and earnest the show is, and Laputa: Castle in the Sky is so endearing and magical it's one of my favorite movies ever. Oh, and Avatar: the Last Airbender's in a weird spot where it looks like an anime but plays out more like a Western cartoon, so it's totally awesome in my book.
 

Terminus

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I actually don't really watch either of them, but I am a fan of Shingeki no Kyojin/Attack On Titan, mainly because it's a lot more serious. Also it's a damn sight more realistic that most other Animes (except for the whole spontaneous mass creation [unless there's some kind of psychoactive manipulation of Zero Point Energy into matter but that's a bit far fetched]).

Also:

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Justac00lguy

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So basically western vs eastern?

I grew up with cartoons so you know the answer. Ed, Edd and Eddy, Recess, Simpsons, Looney Toons gang, Scooby Doo, Micky Mouse, Fairly Odd Parents, Spiderman, Ninja Turtles, Batman (the latter 3 being the old, aka better versions), Transformers, Arthur, Power Puff Girls, Jimmy Neutron, Rugrats, Cramp Twins, He-Man, Pinky and the Brain... well you get my point.

I grew up with these and you just can't beat them in my opinion; they're classics - well most anyway. I did watch a few animes growing up, but not yet a I mostly watched cartoons. Cartoons are just more original, humorous, and suited to the western audience in my opinion.
 

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