Some Eastern/Western Tidbits

[* Lord Voldemort *]

The more I watch animation, the more I realize some. Each side has their own point of view on something. Take the Food for example. The meat in Eastern animatation is mostly cooked flesh wrapped around a bone, whereas in Western animation, it is a cooked bird or a bouvine's leg. Stereotypical witches of the west are often green skinned, ugly faced, old hags, whereas witches of the east are pretty much the oppsite. When characters burn their mouths, their faces turn red, steam/smoke come out of their ears, and the start to breath fire. The difference I found in that is that the East has a rushing background while the West has a bell-ringing, siren sound. Does anyone know anymore of these?

 

[Lasith Malinga the god]

Well, there's always the odd "Peace" sign anime characters usually flash. While it's never utilized in the US (unless the character's a hippy or something), you can occasionally spot a random American cartoon character doing it, if it was animated in Japan. For example:

 

[tewellsurferdude87]

I thought that standed for "victory."

 

[Mohd.]

Both are acceptable as long as they're used in the right context. For Victory if someone wins, and Peace if someone wishing one good will, which in the US is usually a Hippie of some sort.

 

[ubss1990]

One time an asian guy took a picture of me and I gave the peace sign and he told me that I can't do the peace sign if I'm not asian.

 

[Good Ole Yankie Inside Me]

I think the terms "east" and "west" are a little too broad when everyone's only going to be talking about America and Japan anyway.

 

[nish_nish]

There's other countries besides America and Japan out there that makes cartoons?

 

[ard16]

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Italy, France, UK, Spain...a lot of countries make cartoons besides America and Japan. :sweat:

 

[Jonathan Rodriguez]

Korea and China also have a notable output.

 

[Kings Knight]

But we pretty much invented the peace sign. So how can we be forbiddien to use it.

 

[Mr. Scythe]

He's being sarcastic.

 

[sahranghae_s2]

The choice of hot dog toppings: when is the last time you've seen tomatoes and lettuce on a hot dog in western animation.

 

[plan-b 1]

You rarely see American go out for noodles, and using chopsticks to eat said noodles.

 

[begi]

Well, this calls for some further explaination. When was the last time you've seen an American cartoon character flash the peace sign at random? Only Hippies do it in the US. It seems like some bizzarre photo pose thing in Japan. So sometimes if you see a character in a Japanese show striking odd poses for some reason, they'll flash a peace sign.

I've also seen Mungo do this in a Japanese animated Cattillac Cats.