Why is anime not considerd a cartoon?

Why is anime not considerd a cartoon?

because it's anime, not cartoon

Because it's animated by competent animators and not by Koreans.

because americans seem to place some invisible divide between animation made in different countries, in japan both western and japanese shows are called anime

It is.

Ask moot, it was his idea.

>western cartoons
>anime

It is if you're not a neckbeard

It is, "anime elitists" are just too autistic to understand the spectrum of animated cartoons

Because anime is an art form and cartoons are just commercial dreck.

Also, anime is actually animated in its country of origin, illustrating a genuine passion for the craft. All cartoons are outsourced to other nations for the lowest bid, affirming that it isn't art but a commercial product.

At this point it's just decided by cultural differences. A:TLA/Korra meets all criteria necessary to be classified as anime, was animated in Asia yet the humor, emotes, etc. are more western so it's more like a homage.

P&SWG is the opposite, it pays homage to western animation like Zim and PPG but the Japanese cultural influence is still telling.

>Also, anime is actually animated in its country of origin
anime doesn't originate from korea tho

They are cartoons, we just choose to differentiate eastern animation and western animation by such names due to their very different techniques in animation and wildly different cultural presentations.

Anime is animated in Japan retard

>being this delusional
Almost every form of art is a commercial product. It sucks but if all art were state funded it would turn into souless propaganda.

>Anime is animated in Japan

some anime is cartoons (crayon shin-chan comes to mind)
other anime is animated series

So westerns animated in the west aren't commercial product, and are crafted with care?

This is bad reasoning 101. Anime as you describe it is just an animated cartoon made in a specific place in a specific way. That sounds kind of elitist to me.

>other anime is animated series
Sorry to break it to you, but the term "animated series" is to cartoons as "graphic novel" is to comics.

>Because anime is an art form and cartoons are just commercial dreck.
Animes still need ad space to pay for the animator and writes paycheck and a decent profit. And OVA with giant titties that are too lewd for their basic cable need to be paid for in the form of a direct product to the customer.

Because, aside from both being hand-drawn animation, they have nothing in common and have radically different approaches to animation, filmmaking and storytelling. If by cartoon we mean just American animation in general, the differences are still enormous, and more than enough to make cartoons and anime separate forms of animation.

>A:TLA/Korra meets all criteria necessary to be classified as anime
No. They are not anime.

>was animated in Asia
Asia isn't a country.

How long are you people going to keep pushing this lie? Anime is overwhelmingly produced in Japan, with only some of the work being outsourced to Korea and elsewhere.

Japanese only ever use Koreans for doing in betweening work. Keyframes are all done in-house.

An anime is a cartoon. Only nerds that think otherwise have never looked in a dictionary.

Much of if not most of the in-betweening is done in Japan too. Key animation is sometimes outsourced.

If they are the same thing, why do they have virtually nothing in common?