Anime aren't cartoons?

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MrThreeD said:
Well you wouldn't call Yaoi(Anime) a cartoon would you?
Yaoi isn't anime.

Edit: Yaoi is a genre
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MrThreeD said:
Well you wouldn't call Yaoi(Anime) a cartoon would you?

Any form of Anime is a cartoon. It's a fact; "cartoon" is animation.

Even hentai is just a cartoon.

Just like normal pron is just moving picture frames of people having sex.

And ALL of these things are just visual you see from reflecting light...

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What was I talking about again?
 

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MrThreeD said:
Yes it is..there's Comic Book and Cartoon..

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Content does not define medium...

If it's animated, it's still a cartoon regardless of what it is about.
 

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Old8oy said:
MrThreeD said:
Yes it is..there's Comic Book and Cartoon..

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Content does not define medium...

If it's animated, it's still a cartoon regardless of what it is about.
A simple drawing showing the features of its subjects in an exaggerated way, esp. in a newspaper or magazine.

That is the definition of a cartoon, no animation is involved. Manga are often called comic books, but they are solely manga and they actually preceded comics. Even further, anime are japanese animations and simply that.

More precisely

: a preparatory design, drawing, or painting (as for a fresco)
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a : a drawing intended as satire, caricature, or humor
b : comic strip
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: animated cartoon
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: a ludicrously simplistic, unrealistic, or one-dimensional portrayal or version
 

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Technically, if we're going by definition then all cartoons are anime.
Since anime is short for animation.
At least the original Japanese word "anime" is.

Not this adopted western version of the word.
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MrThreeD said:
Yes it is..there's Manga and Anime..
What I'm saying is that you wouldn't call Yaoi an anime/cartoon or manga/doujinshi/comic book in the first place because it's a genre.
Yea,I see what your saying,but what Im saying as long as its a "Japanese Animation/Cartoon" it would count as an Anime,
 

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MrThreeD said:
Yea,I see what your saying,but what Im saying as long as its a "Japanese Animation/Show/Cartoon" it would count as an Anime,
That is true, excluding show, as that is not always true.
 

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machomuu said:
A simple drawing showing the features of its subjects in an exaggerated way, esp. in a newspaper or magazine.

That is the definition of a cartoon, no animation is involved. Manga are often called comic books, but they are solely manga and they actually preceded comics. Even further, anime are japanese animations and simply that.

More precisely

: a preparatory design, drawing, or painting (as for a fresco)
2
a : a drawing intended as satire, caricature, or humor
b : comic strip
3
: animated cartoon

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: a ludicrously simplistic, unrealistic, or one-dimensional portrayal or version
 

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Old8oy said:
machomuu said:
A simple drawing showing the features of its subjects in an exaggerated way, esp. in a newspaper or magazine.

That is the definition of a cartoon, no animation is involved. Manga are often called comic books, but they are solely manga and they actually preceded comics. Even further, anime are japanese animations and simply that.

More precisely

: a preparatory design, drawing, or painting (as for a fresco)
2
a : a drawing intended as satire, caricature, or humor
b : comic strip
3
: animated cartoon

4
: a ludicrously simplistic, unrealistic, or one-dimensional portrayal or version
 

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I'll try this again...


you say...
machomuu said:
A simple drawing showing the features of its subjects in an exaggerated way, esp. in a newspaper or magazine.

That is the definition of a cartoon, no animation is involved. Manga are often called comic books, but they are solely manga and they actually preceded comics. Even further, anime are japanese animations and simply that.

but then you go on to define a "cartoon" as:

QUOTEMore precisely

: a preparatory design, drawing, or painting (as for a fresco)
2
a : a drawing intended as satire, caricature, or humor
b : comic strip
3
: animated cartoon

4
: a ludicrously simplistic, unrealistic, or one-dimensional portrayal or version
 

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Old8oy said:
I'll try this again...


you say...
machomuu said:
A simple drawing showing the features of its subjects in an exaggerated way, esp. in a newspaper or magazine.

That is the definition of a cartoon, no animation is involved. Manga are often called comic books, but they are solely manga and they actually preceded comics. Even further, anime are japanese animations and simply that.

but then you go on to define a "cartoon" as:

QUOTEMore precisely

: a preparatory design, drawing, or painting (as for a fresco)
2
a : a drawing intended as satire, caricature, or humor
b : comic strip
3
: animated cartoon

4
: a ludicrously simplistic, unrealistic, or one-dimensional portrayal or version
 

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they are all "types" of cartoons
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anime is a "type" of cartoon. that is the whole point on this blog. it is not some mystical medium in and of itself. it is a cartoon from Japan.
 

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Old8oy said:
they are all "types" of cartoons
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anime is a "type" of cartoon. that is the whole point on this blog. it is not some mystical medium in and of itself. it is a cartoon from Japan.
Oh, I see, you're trying to say that the definition "animated cartoon" means anime is a type of cartoon. Unfortunately, that doesn't work. If it said "Animation", that would be one thing, but it said animated cartoon, and references the word it is defining in it's own definition, thus narrowing the generalization.
 

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machomuu said:
Old8oy said:
they are all "types" of cartoons
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anime is a "type" of cartoon. that is the whole point on this blog. it is not some mystical medium in and of itself. it is a cartoon from Japan.
Oh, I see, you're trying to say that the definition "animated cartoon" means anime is a type of cartoon. Unfortunately, that doesn't work. If it said "Animation", that would be one thing, but it said animated cartoon, and references the word it is defining in it's own definition, thus narrowing the generalization.

I'm not "trying" to say anything. I "am" saying it.

tell you what. I'm going to decide that definition 2b (of the definition YOU provided) is the proper definition of a cartoon. Then I am going to apply that to definition 3 in stating that a cartoon is an animated comic strip... Truth be told, you can find more definitions on the net such as the one Buleste posted earlier or the one I posted in my OP...

If you have to get that convoluted in order for it to make sense...you're going to lose some people along the way...
 
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