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Do we really *need* the term "anime"?
- Thread starter orangepie95
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Dollarbill2
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I don't know about the 'more often than not' that your referring to.... you always hear people saying, "Don't use caps, it's yelling."... but everyone always assumes the person is just using poor nettiquette because few actually are INTENTIONALLY yelling.
So it's better not to jump to conclusions like that; others who find your accusation a bit flimsy might in turn jump to the conclusion that you were only pretending to take that in the worst possible manner to try to make him look bad or put him on the defensive. Of course, I try to give people the benefit of the doubt.
So it's better not to jump to conclusions like that; others who find your accusation a bit flimsy might in turn jump to the conclusion that you were only pretending to take that in the worst possible manner to try to make him look bad or put him on the defensive. Of course, I try to give people the benefit of the doubt.
You also need to remeraber that anime hasn't been around as long as beef.
The term "Japanimation" has been around since at least the 70s, perhaps even longer. That's a mere 10 years after Astroboy, which is considered by many to be the first real anime, which means that Japanese animation has been put into it's own group for 80% of the time it's been around. However, you're trying to make it sound like people have just recently started segregating something that has been seemlessly intergrated with American animation up until then. Although the word has recently been replaced with a more modern-sounding word, it still serveed the same purpose that you've been crusading against.
If anime had been around for a few hundred years and people just recently started to single it out, then I think you'd have a much stronger case.
The term "Japanimation" has been around since at least the 70s, perhaps even longer. That's a mere 10 years after Astroboy, which is considered by many to be the first real anime, which means that Japanese animation has been put into it's own group for 80% of the time it's been around. However, you're trying to make it sound like people have just recently started segregating something that has been seemlessly intergrated with American animation up until then. Although the word has recently been replaced with a more modern-sounding word, it still serveed the same purpose that you've been crusading against.
If anime had been around for a few hundred years and people just recently started to single it out, then I think you'd have a much stronger case.
Lively Stones
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Ugh. When did it become a taboo to call an anime a "cartoon?"
Isn't the term anime originally a French word? So, only Japan's cartoons can be called "anime,' but not France?
Isn't the term anime originally a French word? So, only Japan's cartoons can be called "anime,' but not France?