Couldn't think of what to say in this thread, so I'll mention what I saw on my Facebook news feed.
It appears I've got a friend who's an anime lover and he shared some meme picture that says "Anime is not cartoons, when will people understand that!" I'm sorry but this is absolutely ridiculous! By definition it is freaking a cartoon!
Quote:
define: cartoon
1. A simple drawing showing the features of its subjects in a humorously exaggerated way, esp. a satirical one in a newspaper or magazine
2. A comic strip
3. A simplified or exaggerated version or interpretation of something
- this movie is a cartoon of rural life in America
- Dolores becomes a cartoon housewife, reading glossy magazines in a bathrobe
4. A motion picture using animation techniques to photograph a sequence of drawings rather than real people or objects
5. A full-size drawing made by an artist as a preliminary design for a painting or other work of art
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And that above is exactly what anime/maga fits under. It's like saying "It's not a Ford, it's a Falcon". So anime is really a genre more than anything. Anyone who disputes this is delusional, enough said.
Hows that for first world problems