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Originally Posted by Wendi
"Anime is not a cartoon!"
Dude, If it's drawn and animated, It's a cartoon. It doesn't matter what ever country it's made in.
and just because it's made in Japan, doesn't mean it's superior.
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go play out side.
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Originally Posted by fosters home fan
*sigh* They're just different styles of animation. That's all, really.
Also, DS's tick me off!
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I know that there are some people out there who simply have a problem with the word "cartoon" because they see it as having childish and unsophisticated connotations, hence why they prefer the term "animation", which enables them to comfortably disassociate whatever they're watching from the infanitle fodder which little kids snap up every Saturday morning. It all seems a bit ridiculous to me. There's nothing inherently wrong with cartoons, or with adult audiences being able to find enjoyment in them, and we're never going advance an iota closer toward elimating the prejudices which surround the form unless we learn to use the word with pride.
Incidentally, the word "cartoon" originates, I believe, from the Italian word
cartone, denoting paper or cardboard, so traditionally it refers to any animation which is hand-drawn. Thus, there are some styles of animation which I definitely wouldn't think of as cartoons. Stop-motion animation and puppetry, for example. They're something else altogether. However, in an age where even most 2D animation, including Foster's, is created primarily through use of computers, it becomes a bit more difficult to classify. Can something like
Finding Nemo be classed as a cartoon, for example? I don't know, but it's an interesting thought. Words always grow and develop fresh meanings, regardless of where they first originated.
Sorry for the English lesson.
