Question about "anime"

[Captain Kong]

Meh, maybe it is something I shouldn't complain much about. Still, why don't American cartoons get a cool name? :/

Because foreign stuff is always cool and exotic but domestic stuff seems normal and blase?

But it isn't just American cartoons that are called "(insert country name here) animation".

Somehow, Japan just gets special privileges.

 

[Ancientgamer]

Calling them Japanese cartoons is perfectly fine, anime is just a shorter and easy way to differentiate the two between fans, and well, the term just caught on. I remember for the longest time it was called Japanimation.

Edit: Ninja'd

 

[Captain Kong]

It´s probably for marketing porposes, I remember that back in the late 80´s japanese cartoons used to be called Japanimation.

At least Japanimation makes more sense.

 

[nikomas1]

Meh, maybe it is something I shouldn't complain much about. Still, why don't American cartoons get a cool name? :/

Because foreign stuff is always cool and exotic but domestic stuff seems normal and blase?

I have it, American cartoons = Amines, there we go ^^.

 

[Rankao]

Its a borrowed word. American Cartoons don't get cool names because Animation is looked down art form in the states.

 

[Ancientgamer]

Also, the only reason people might actually look down on you for saying japanese cartoons. (unless they're just dicks) is because anime is so widely spread, saying "japanese cartoons" implies a lack of knowledge.

 

[Captain Kong]

Also, the only reason people might actually look down on you for saying japanese cartoons. (unless they're just dicks) is because anime is so widely spread, saying "japanese cartoons" implies a lack of knowledge.

I'm going to keep on saying it just to annoy anime fans.

 

[stompy]

I always thought that the term for 'cartoon' is anime in Japan. Regardless of where it's from, it's called anime, so if someone started playing Mickey Mouse, the Japanese would call it anime... right?

Edit: So, when Japanese cartoons come to the Western world, the way to differentiate between them and other cartoons is to use the world used in Japan. That's what I think.

 

[Ancientgamer]

I always thought that the term for 'cartoon' is anime in Japan. Regardless of where it's from, it's called anime, so if someone started playing Mickey Mouse, the Japanese would call it anime... right?

That is correct.

Also, the only reason people might actually look down on you for saying japanese cartoons. (unless they're just dicks) is because anime is so widely spread, saying "japanese cartoons" implies a lack of knowledge.

I'm going to keep on saying it just to annoy anime fans.

...Good for you?

 

[kaiser_what]

Also, the only reason people might actually look down on you for saying japanese cartoons. (unless they're just dicks) is because anime is so widely spread, saying "japanese cartoons" implies a lack of knowledge.

When I was 14, used to be angry when people call anime 'cartoons'. But now, even I call them cartoons.(Mainly to piss other people off, especially my brother.)

 

[Captain Kong]

I always thought that the term for 'cartoon' is anime in Japan. Regardless of where it's from, it's called anime, so if someone started playing Mickey Mouse, the Japanese would call it anime... right?

That is correct.

Also, the only reason people might actually look down on you for saying japanese cartoons. (unless they're just dicks) is because anime is so widely spread, saying "japanese cartoons" implies a lack of knowledge.

I'm going to keep on saying it just to annoy anime fans.

...Good for you?

P.S. I don't hate Japanese cartoons or the fans (for the most part), I just think it is funny.

 

[Pumpkin_Eater]

Anime is a shorting to the Japanese word animēshon, guess where it's borrowed from?
Anyways, the otaku is here with an answer.

ya know being an otaku isn't really something to brag about its considered an insult in japan

Correct. I'm not an expert, but from my understanding it's derived from the kanji for "house," implying that the person never leaves their home. There was some substantial semantic drift when people in America started using it to describe anyone who watches anime.

 

[GyroCaptain]

I'm going with the part where it's only 3 syllables as to why it's won out over 'japanimation' and 'japanese cartoons'. Anyway, as has been said, we're co-opting a Japanese word that comes from an English word to describe something which tends to be more specifically Japanese than, say, French cartoons are discretely French. If the animation style, voice acting, plot elements, action points, themes, and virtually everything else tend to have things setting them apart from western things, just calling them cartoons would lose something of description. It's an entire subculture, is one extra word too much to ask?
Linked for hilarity: http://uncyclopedia.wikia.com/wiki/Anime

 

[nikomas1]

Anime is a shorting to the Japanese word animēshon, guess where it's borrowed from?
Anyways, the otaku is here with an answer.

ya know being an otaku isn't really something to brag about its considered an insult in japan

Correct. I'm not an expert, but from my understanding it's derived from the kanji for "house," implying that the person never leaves their home. There was some substantial semantic drift when people in America started using it to describe anyone who watches anime.

There is another word for that, hikokimori (probably spelled wrong), I think, that is a person that don't attend school, live of parents/relatives money, and never leaves the house except when absolutely necessary.