In the “Anime” community, for most fans and followers, “Anime” is “Anime and “Cartoons” are “Cartoons”. For them both of the things are really different from each other. Concept board frames artist Sydney work closely with you during the initial design/concept stage to ensure the product you end up with is exactly the one you imagined, and require.
First of all, many people get confused
between an Anime and a Cartoon, just because both are animated that
doesn’t mean that they both are same. There are so many differences in
Anime and Cartoons. While both are caricatures that may be animated,
anime usually has visually distinct features for characters. So, here I
will now explain the difference between these two. Anime are Japanese
animated production, that come in different formats like, television
series such as dragon ball z, Naruto, one piece etc., animated short
films, and full-length movies. But cartoons are two-dimensional
illustrated visual art, non-realistic or semi-realistic drawings.
Anime
characters have distinct facial and physical features that are very
similar to reality, their big eyes and small mouth are created because
of cuteness. On the other hand, cartoons physical features are very far
from reality than anime. Anime characters also show different kinds of
distinguishable facial expressions whereas cartoons don’t.
Cartoons
are generally made to make people laugh, so the genre mainly is comedy.
But there are also many cartoons that are educational, teaching
something good to mainly toddlers and kids in a fun, interactive way.
For example, mickey mouse, Donald duck, bugs bunny etc.
Unlike
cartoons, anime doesn’t stick to only one or two genres. Anime shows and
movies are all based on some kind of plot which continues through the
entire series, for example, bleach, one piece, Naruto, etc. Anime is
based on real-life issues or something that are closer to human emotions
and have many more genres than cartoons such as, drama, school life,
slice of life, romance, action, etc.
But if you look at both of
them as separate entities, or as same, you won’t be able to find a clear
difference between the two, and that is why most of the people get
confused between the two and end up calling anime and cartoons are same.
The
first cartoon was said to be produced in 1499. It depicted the pope,
holy Roman emperor, and the king of France and England playing the game
of cards. However, Japanese animation began in the early 20’s, when
Japanese filmmakers were experimenting with different techniques. By
1930s, as an alternative to the live action industry, animation was
established.
As cartoon are two-dimensional figures drawn and used
in animations, as caricatures in newspapers, and books. If we were to
define what Anime is then the general idea of some of the common and
agreed upon notions would be “Japanese, animation, vivid designs, and
hand-drawn” would be predominant buzzwords.
Today, Anime only
seems to refer “animations only from Japan” to make it more
understandable for people. After all this is human nature to like the
things which are easily understandable and easily categorized.
To
make the distinction clearer, let’s take the example of the tom and
jerry and dragon ball z. So, you may think what’s the difference between
the two when they both are animated and have good visuals, backgrounds,
sound effects and even the animated drawings are nice. But, there are
many differences in them which differentiate them from anime to cartoon.
Like, their concepts are totally different, as you know every episode
of tom and Jerry is different and is not related to any of the previous
episode or continuing some kind of story from a point but in dragon ball
z every episode is related to the previous one, and continue the story
from where it stopped in the previous episode. And their genres are
different too, as tom and Jerry is purely based on a cat and mouse fight
and made to make people laugh and their watch time fun. On the other
hand, dragon ball z is kind of a journey of a saiyan to save the Earth
and the universe from several threats, he fights for saving everyone,
with the help of his family, friends and fellow saiyans. Dragon ball z
is can be categorized in many different genres, like action, adventure,
comedy, super power, etc.
Another thing in which some people may
distinct anime and cartoon would be that cartoons are for kids whereas
reach of anime can be extended to many other age groups and other areas.
But
what I think is, cartoons are not just children material, because as we
can see in the newspapers, and on television too, there are many
cartoons containing and targeting many political, religious views. Most
of these messages are hidden and unrecognizable for children, so that
adults can enjoy watching them with kids. Whereas some of the anime
contains high adult content and thus are not safe or good for little
kids to watch. Those kind of anime are made entirely focusing on adult
audience. But there are also some anime series which are absolutely safe
to watch with kids. But nowadays, even normal anime’s may have some
scenes which are not supposed to be watched by children.
So, I
think, where cartoons are safe for kids to watch, anime shouldn’t be
considered safe enough for them. But no matter how old you get, you can
still enjoy it as it is.
I feel that, anime has deeper thought in
them, well developed characters, broad story-line, a solid theme,
realistic background animation, real life situations, dialogues,
expressions, etc. all of these things bound us together to watch all the
episodes (whether there are 12 or 24 or more than a hundred of
episodes) of the anime series. Whereas on the other hand, cartoons,
regardless of whether they are telling a story or just aiming for
comedy, have shallow characters and themes.
Cartoons doesn’t look that creative compared to anime, as anime characters are so different from each other and very well developed too.
There’s one more
thing which we can say that differentiate anime and cartoons, that is,
for example, in the Simpsons, Bart is the class clown for the entire
show but in most of the anime the character’s traits change dynamically,
like in the starting they may be kind of shy, or maybe considered as
weak or harmless, but later on they become stronger than most of the
other characters.
These were some of the points I think which makes anime and cartoons different from each other.
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