Topic: Anime or Cartoons

[UruseiNeo]

Again, I believe the anime laws explain that too... Something about how blood rushes to their noses instead of cheeks or something. I do know that the tissues in the nose are easy to damage that other tissue (I'm guessing cause the tissue is thiner?) so that's a logical (though in real life unlikely) explanation.

[sidzero]

So, we're going to just write it off as "oh, it's just a cartoon"?

[FallinG_StaR]

I guess that they needed something diferent...

For example... a romantic situation... they blush... and normally if you see someones panties (girls obviously) your normal reaction is to blush of embarasment... for seeing it (well most of the times) but to make things easier in manga they went with the nose bleed... and I guess it become a pattern... to manga and anime...

At least thats what I think... this is not based in any real facts... XD

[UruseiNeo]

normally if you see someones panties (girls obviously)

you say that like you had to confirm boys don't wear panties XD

So, we're going to just write it off as "oh, it's just a cartoon"?

I feel insulted!

It's not a cartoon, it's an anime! XD lol

yeah, pretty much

[sidzero]

It was a manga before it was an anime.

[UruseiNeo]

well a cartoon isn't a manga either. It's even further away from a manga than it is from an anime.

I don't think there are any cartoons that started as manga, maybe but I can't think of any.

I'm sorry, why did you point this out exactly?

[sidzero]

I don't know, but they can ALL ultimately be called "cartoons" based on which definition of cartoon you use.

[FallinG_StaR]

My defenition of cartoon is the things that come in newspapers... XD

[sidzero]

Cartoon
–noun
1.    a sketch or drawing, usually humorous, as in a newspaper or periodical, symbolizing, satirizing, or caricaturing some action, subject, or person of popular interest.
2.    comic strip.
3.    animated cartoon.
4.    Fine Arts. a full-scale design for a picture, ornamental motif or pattern, or the like, to be transferred to a fresco, tapestry, etc.

Gotta love dictionary.com.

[UruseiNeo]

unfortunately I've failed to see anime in that definition. An anime is:

–noun
a Japanese style of motion-picture animation, characterized by highly stylized, colorful art, futuristic settings, violence, and sexuality.

You know, there's something about these two definitions that look very different to me O.O

[Kroptik]

Cartoon
3.    animated cartoon.

You do realise there's something wrong with that, right?
It's like explaining a leafed tree is a tree with leaves....

[UruseiNeo]

at first I thought that was directed at me...
... was it?

cause I thought, at first, you were pointing out "animated"

[Kroptik]

No, I'm pointing at the actual discription that appears in Dictionary.com (posted by sidzero).

Saying that a cartoon is an animated cartoon is something that just doesn't make sence....
Normally one shouldn't define something using itself.

[UruseiNeo]

except in Eureka 7's case where the constantly say "I am me" (I recall anyway)

You know, looking over these two definitions, anime seems to have much more depth to it than cartoons do.

You could almost (i said ALMOST, don't bug me about this later) almost say that a cartoon is a TYPE of anime, instead of the other way around.

[sidzero]

Yeah, it is a little odd. But I suppose referring to one definition in another definition does work.

And an "animated cartoon," using one of the previous definitions for cartoon, certainly covers an Anime, which if you look into the etymology of "Anime" refers to an "animation".