Topic: Cartoon Vs. Anime

Cartoons, because anime can be hard for me to understand sometimes... Also to @HarmoKnight, not boasting, just stating a fact, but the U.S. invented motion-picture first (thank you Tomas Edison!), so yeah I'm pretty sure "animation" was before "anime" just saying.

Anime wins, no contest.

I don't usually care if a show I watch is American made or anime. I watched alot of both back in the earlier half of the 2000 decade when I watched alot of Cartoon Network.

This.
There is something addicting to me about anime to me that westeren shows will never have. For a fews day in the summer when I had a lot of time I even watched 15 episodes in of an anime series in a day once.

It's an absurdist series like most shows on Adult Swim. you need to be able to comprehend (or you gotta be stoned) to enjoy it truly. There's actually a lot more then it appears at first glance.

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^ Even though I prefer anime, thank you for reminding me 2 Stupid Dogs existed. I loved that show as a kid.

Thank you, for ruining my liking for anime.

You can still like Japanese anime over American though

This was supposed to be a forum game.

Yeah but when they post 2 Western animes it's hard to compare between W anime and J anime with 2 W anime

Depends on what I feel like watching. If I'm looking for humor, western cartoons are generally the way to go for me. If I'm looking for interesting plots and character development, I'll look to anime.

But I think this post further avoids the OP's intent.

Not anymore than the rest of this thread. Only a few people even bothered to play along.

@Barbiegurl777 Just listed almost all the cartoons I and probably everyone else grew up watching, only missed Dexter's Lab, Courage the Cowardly Dog, Rocket Power, and Ed, Edd, n' Eddy I think. Anyone remember Kablam?

Also TMNT 2012

It's pointless to compare them since they're both animated shorts. The only reason why it's even called anime is because it's from Japan. That's really it.

You don't see us called Canadian shows anime for a reason.

I havn't laughed this hard in quite a while.

I like both (they're the same thing anyway), but I think all the best 'cartoons' are the ones from the past, not this stuff that we're getting nowadays. Ugh, I hate those, and I pity all the kids that grow up watching these.

While many western action cartoons that try to be deep in this day in age copy the stylings of Japanese anime (particularly Avatar: the Last Airbender) there are a couple of great pioneers, that don't copy anime:

ReBoot - It does start out with the generic "monster of the week" formula, but if you stick with it, it does get good. Used to watch it alongside DBZ back on Toonami, and it was a great show. It was actually a pioneer back in the day, because it was the first major series that was all CGI (although it's so archaic, that it has an unusual sense of charm most CGI shows don't have).

Gargoyles - I remember it being on as a kid, but never watched it. Rediscovered it a couple of years ago on late nite on Disney XD, and was surprised this was actually came from Disney. Intricate story arcs, and the bold moody & dark story line won me over (seriously, there were even a couple instances of very mild blood. A big enough surprise in a western action cartoon, let alone something from Disney). The third (and final) season sucks though (the show's creator left Disney, & as a result the story & animation suffered greatly). I would love for the series to be represented in a future KH game.

Anime

I can actually feel my IQ start to drop whenever I watch western cartoons, with the sole exception of the early seasons of The Simpsons and Family Guy. It actually amazes me that the typical western cartoon actually has the bar set so low in terms of the expected intelligence of its audience.

(oh, and I don't mean to include classic animations such as Disney's Mickey Mouse and Donald Duck stuff. Those are divine).

True that