Anime and cartoon?

Question

What are the differences?

Answer 1

ANIME
Anime (アニメ, Anime? IPA pronunciation: /ɑnime/ listen (help·info) in Japanese, but typically /ˈænɪˌme(ɪ)/ or /ˈænəˌme(ɪ)/ in English) is an abbreviation of the word "animation". Outside Japan, the term most popularly refers to animation originating in Japan. To the West, not all animation is considered anime; and anime is considered a subset of animation.

While some anime is hand drawn, computer assisted animation techniques have become quite common in recent years. Like any entertainment medium, the story lines represent most major genres of fiction. Anime is broadcast on television, distributed on media such as DVD and VHS, and included in computer and video games. Additionally, some are produced as full length motion pictures. Anime often draws influence from Japanese manga and light novels. Some anime storylines have been adapted into live action films and television series.

Anime has many genres typically found in any mass media form. Such genres include action, adventure, children's stories, comedy, drama, erotica (hentai), medieval fantasy, occult/horror, romance, and science fiction.

MORE ABOUT ANIME DEFINITION:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anime#Genres

CARTOON
In its original meaning, a cartoon (from the Italian cartone and Dutch/Flemish word "karton", meaning strong, heavy paper or pasteboard) is a full-size drawing made on paper as a study for a further drawings, such as a painting or tapestry. Cartoons were typically used in the production of frescoes, to accurately link the component parts of the composition when painted onto plaster over a series of days. Such cartoons often have pinpricks where the outline of the design has been picked out in the plaster. Cartoons by painters such as Raphael and Leonardo da Vinci are highly prized in their own right. A world-renowned collection of Peter Paul Rubens cartoons for huge tapestries is displayed in the collection of the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art in Sarasota, Florida

Because of the stylistic similarities between comic strips and early animated movies, "cartoon" came to refer to animation, and this is the sense in which "cartoon" is most commonly used today. These are usually shown on television or in cinemas and are created by showing illustrated images in rapid succession to give the impression of movement. (In this meaning, the word cartoon is sometimes shortened to toon, which was popularized by the movie Who Framed Roger Rabbit). Although the term can be applied to any animated presentation, it is most often used in reference to programs for children, featuring anthropomorphized animals, superheroes, the adventures of child protagonists, and other related genres. Animated material which does not fit the traditional conventions of mainstream Western animation, such as Japanese anime are often confused with the definition of cartoons

MORE ABOUT CARTOON DEFINITION:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cartoon

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Answer 2

a cartoon can be of any country and an anime can be a special cartoon of japan.
Cartoons are in the category of Tom and Jerry,Scooby doo
and anime are Pokemon,Inu yasha and naruto.
An anime is special.the anime has a special; relation with other animes.Most animes have a shack of colourful hair,large[most of the innocent] eyes,small noses,triangular faces and cool physical structure.they all have a great story and mostly typical Japanese names and animation.the cartoons created using the technique of Japanese animation are Anime.
these are very different from the cartoons of America and in my opinion more imaginative and cretive,for you cannot create a Guy like Kai in a typical cartoon of America.Anime contain A variety of characters-active,good & energetic characters to dark,shady Characters.

Answer 3

Anime is a cartoon but from Japan

A cartoon can be any form of animation appealing to kids and adults.

Anime are cartoons....

Answer 4

Anime is a style of animation or cartoon that comes from Japan. (The style, not the cartoon.)

Think big eyes and animals acting as people.

Answer 5

Lol Yea I Was Known For Drawing Dragon Ball Z Characters Back In The Fifth Grade And Yea I Still Do Just Not DBZ But More Animeish Characters.

Answer 6

Cartoons are mostly for kids, Anime are for both kids and adults

Answer 7

Anime is a Japanese animation. It's JAPANESE.

A cartoon is a drawing or caricature, depicting a dramatic situation, depicting a humorous situation, or depicting a satirical situation. It's like AMERICAN WAY.

Answer 8

Professional 3D Design Animation - http://3dAnimationCartoons.com/?iVwl

Answer 9

anime is made by mostly japanese people, you can tell this by the charater design.
cartoons are made by other countries like america with crappy charater designes
its like the difference between tom and jerry and descendants of darkness
http://youtube.com/watch?v=Wdc7Xxegi10 the anime features in this are cool

Answer 10

Japanese animation, also known as anime, is a sensation taking America by storm. From the “underground” fans who buy all the subtitled DVD releases, to the casual child watching on Kids WB or Toonami, anime is making an impact on this country. Just what is anime? Anime is the Japanese equivalent of a cartoon, only there are differences. Anime is often time used as an outlet for an artist’s idealism or fatalism regarding society, but it can also be made just for the sake of having fun, and creating something silly.

Cartoons are for kids, and those in touch with their inner child. The topics covered are childish, and rather repetitive. Anime, however, is made for people of all ages and all maturity levels. Most anime released in the US is for the younger Japanese children. There’s even some anime and manga for dirty old men and mothers who were delinquent children. So, excluding the anime made for the aforementioned group, what makes anime so inappropriate by American standards? One could say that it’s because the Japanese culture doesn’t really see nudity and such as inappropriate, but the reason almost all anime fans cite is that America is the most conservative country in the world as far as television programming.

Anime can have many different reasons for its existence. Ghost-In-the-Shell is an anime movie about a woman named Major Kusanagi in the year 2029A.D. Her body is all machine, but her mind is a human brain. The movie is a great action movie, with great animation, but the purpose of the movie is to ask the question "If humans can make artificial beings superior to humans, what's the point of being human?" The TV series Dragonball Z is a crazy series about energy-shooting, flying, super-strong people who face one enemy after the next, and each one tougher than the previous. DBZ is a perfect example of what greatness can come when anime is created for the sake of making something enjoyable. Evangelion is a true masterpiece of a series. Based around a young boy named Shinji, Evangelion follows several teens who pilots large robots called EVAs in a war for a company called NERV. This series combines great action with a very philisophical, probing look into the fragile psyches of adolescents.

How did anime come about? Well, pictures bearing an almost identical drawing style to that of modern day anime have been found in Japan dating back to hundreds of years ago! That style evolved and was incorporated into manga. Manga is roughly the same as comic books. It’s got some differences, like the series is usually written and drawn by one person throughout its whole circulation. Now, this relates to anime, because anime evolved from manga, and they are nearly identical as far as plot, theme, purpose, drawing style, etc. In the earliest days of anime, the person that influenced the art form the most wasn’t Japanese. An American man by the name of Walt Disney indirectly had more influence on anime in its early days than anyone else. Osamu Tezuka, one of the most famous creators of anime/manga saw that in movies like Bambi and Snow White the characters had large eyes that made showing characters emotions much easier. Tezuka’s works have set the standard for many generations of anime and manga artists.

There are many differences between anime and cartoons. For one, anime is from Japan and cartoons are American in origin. That seems silly, but the implications of the cultural differences of the two countries are that anime is what Americans might call, risqué, or inappropriate for children. Nudity is commonplace in Japanese anime, along with adult jokes, and things that are quite disturbing, but don’t have a category. For example, in Pokémon, one of the most child oriented anime series to date, a male character named James has some interesting qualities about him. He’s obsessed with clothes and is always carrying and smelling a rose, not that there’s anything wrong with those two things. Where it crossed the line and got cut from the American series though, was the episode where he got breast implants and wore a bikini for quite a bit of the episode. However in Japan they see things that Americans find offensive as normal and acceptable. Another difference is that in anime, the main characters can die. In an American cartoon, which is made for kids, that could never happen. In fact, in a show like Dragonball Z, a main character can die multiple times!

Believe it or not, there’s more that’s different between anime and cartoons that just that! Character development, the most important thing for any good series or story, is gone about in a different way. In American cartoons, most development is done via direct characterization. It’s actually said in words at some time or another what his personality is like. It still may take several episodes to fully develop a character. In anime, it’s mostly done through indirect characterization, and consequently one character can take half a season of programming or more to describe. Not only does character development take longer, it goes much more in depth, and the characters aren't "super hero-esque". Almost all anime characters have merits and flaws, and if a character has a flaw, he will always have it, even if it ends up killing him and his friends.

The main purpose of anime is different than that of cartoons. Cartoons are made to entertain children and those in touch with their inner child. Anime is made for anything from a sociopathic view on the possibilities of technology replacing humans in the distant future, to a warm, fuzzy children's story. One of the biggest differences between cartons and anime is this one fact. In Japan, anime is so accepted and supported, that I.G. Production, that company that made the new movie Blood: The Last Vampire, was given financial aid by the Japanese government. People will be playing hockey on the river Styx before that will happen in America.

Finally, as far as differences go, a huge difference between cartoons and anime is the actual style of drawing. In anime, the eyes are unrealistically large as to make showing emotion easier. Showing stress or a tense situation is done with what looks like a mathematical plus sign on the forehead. The sign is supposed to be a bulging vein, like the one George always had in Seinfeld. A rather gross thing unique to anime is that big, wet, drippy snot bubbles coming out of a characters nose denote that the character is asleep. Finally, a large sweat bead on the characters forehead shows that they are nervous. It's a very common occurrence for people to be nervous in Japan during conversation, because in Japan people are often too polite to say what they're really thinking.

So Japanese anime truly is the quintessential type of animation. It’s got themes for all people, young or old. In other countries, the themes seem inappropriate because the Japanese tend to trust the younger people with more mature topics. It can have many hidden message, like good literature, or it can just be for fun, like even better literature. Anime still continues to gain respect with American audiences, and may someday be an accepted form of television programming and not something that’s only for devoted fans.