Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4440927-20150410030856/@comment-24685938-20150524182646

Blaziken rjcf wrote: "Anime" is what the Japanese call "animation". Only in the west do some people separate western animation and Japanese animation by calling them "cartoon" and "anime", respectively. If you go to Japan and show them Spongebob Squarepants, they'll say it's an anime. If you show them Dragon Ball, they'll also say it's an anime. Not sure about that, Anime is alot more serious then american cartoons and in fact I think japan draws a fine line bettwen the two you can't go calling tokyo ghoul an anime then look at sponge bob and say "Oh, Thats a cool Anime" it doesn't fit they usually just refer to it as american cartoon.