11-02-2004, 03:48 PM
rarnom Wrote:Well, if it is animated and originally from Japan, then I'd call that anime.
I often wonder if people in Japan consider American animated stuff 'anime'. Disney, and other various American cartoons, even the Simpsons, do they think that is anime?
Short answer, yes.
Most Japanese people (my friends from high school anyways) don't see a difference between their animation and ours. They don't have any words distinguishing between the two or anything. Their "anime" are just cartoons to them. Their country just loves cartoons more than we do. I watched a show on how the Japanese came to be the leading animation country in the world after ww2 and how their love for animation came about, it was pretty cool.