is that just a japanese cartoon or what? is rugrats an anime? is south park? rocky and bullwinkle?

-- Anonymous, April 19, 2000

Answers

Yes, animes are jap catoons but on this board you can talk about regular cartoons like Scooby Doo or stuff like that. And if you want me to put up a new category I'll try.

-- Anonymous, April 19, 2000

thanx aaron - there's a good cartoon page with a q&a board that i'll put up the link to when i get a chance.

-- Anonymous, April 19, 2000

also, Rugrats is not an anime and I don't think South Park is either.

-- Anonymous, April 19, 2000

Ok.

-- Anonymous, April 19, 2000

ron kurer's toon tracker. this is mostly older american cartoons, but i believe there is some amine info, especially older amines...

here's the link:

toon tracker

-- Anonymous, April 20, 2000

lately thats been happening to me...i type but the link doesn't close. what am i doing wrong??

i'm going to try again...

ronkurer's toon tracker

i'll do it again just in case

-- Anonymous, April 20, 2000

i dont know what i did different but it worked that time

-- Anonymous, April 20, 2000

Wow! those are old cartoons, I mean the original Gumby.

-- Anonymous, April 20, 2000

As a former art and animation major, I'd like to point out that Gumby was not animated, it was claymation, like Celebrity Deathmatch on MTV, which for some odd reason has stopped playing music videos... anybody else find that strange?

-- Anonymous, January 10, 2001

Cartoon or claymation, Gumby just scares me...

*Hides in the closet*

?_? No music videos? That's kinda dumb....

-- Anonymous, January 12, 2001

yeah........

-- Anonymous, May 31, 2001

*wanders around*

-- Anonymous, December 06, 2001

*bumps into closet, bangs head on door* Owww.....

-- Anonymous, December 09, 2001

wow. where the hell do you live??

-- Anonymous, October 11, 2002

that's right "wow. where the hell do you live??" everyone knows what's anime!!! (yep, it's japanese cartoons)

-- Anonymous, December 14, 2002

don't talk like that, miaka zhou (catherine) didn't you just discovered anime few months ago?

-- Anonymous, December 30, 2002

oh what ever Vivian Wang... HA HA HA

-- Anonymous, December 30, 2002

what ever... Vivian Wang... HA HA HA!!! by the way, do you still want all fy eps??? email me...

-- Anonymous, December 30, 2002

Anime is only the coolest thing in the world! Its bound to be every where or anywhere! If you don't know anything about anime start with a simple show like Dragonball Z, Yu-Gi-Oh!, or something like that.

-- Anonymous, January 02, 2003

dont u jst hate livin in the UK? anime aint even popular enuf except dragonballz wots the deal wit dbz anyway? gundam wing i way beta and beyblade(is beyblade an anime?) does anyone now wen the beyblade movie is airing in the UK?

-- Anonymous, February 02, 2003

check out this site! http://www.geocities.com/fushigiyuugi_56304370/index.html? 1041805054140 you will find out what's anime!

-- Anonymous, February 18, 2003

An anime IS a japanese cartoon such like Outlaw star, Tenchi Muyo, Cowboy bebop, Evangelion and so on. They are animated in a special way and no, Rugrats, South Park and the other one you said ain't an anime. Oh, and if anyone knows, I don't know how to pronounce anime?

-- Anonymous, March 02, 2003

Anime is like you said, Japanese Animation (Sometimes called Japanimation) In Anime, ("Animal" without the al on the end, and an "Ay" sound on the end) Emotion is exaggerated a lot, this is usually accomplished by extremely revealing eyes. If you'll notice, in most anime, the eyes are really big, and the mouths are small. This is to put emphasis on the eye-expressions, and it usually works quite well. Anime also usually airs as a T.V. episode, or an OVA or OAV movie. It is different form Manga though. Manga is more like Anime magazines, or novels. Hope that cleared a few things up...

-- Anonymous, March 27, 2003

yea the eyes cam from the early cartoons we had like mikey mouse, and stuff like that, that really influinsed them, so that is why the anime eyes are so big

-- Anonymous, April 20, 2003

Anime is a type of cartoon, done by Japanese animators.

Really? that's where the big eyes came from? Mickey Mouse??? I thought they were drawing Americans, and Americans have really big eyes compared to Japanese, until I read in a magazine that the eyes were for emphasizing emotions! I like the big eyes, but sometimes they REALLY exaggerate. Take Jeanne for example! I can't stand that! The eyes cover the entire face!

-- Anonymous, May 29, 2003

well who in the world wouldnt know what anime is if they are on anime thread?

-- Anonymous, June 10, 2003

...*cries* ;_;

-- Anonymous, June 23, 2003

yup.

-- Anonymous, July 08, 2003

Big eyes are especially known to have come from Bambi, because Osamu Tezuka, the father of manga, first worked for Disney on Bambi. It's where he got the idea that if animals were intelligent, they would try to communicate with people, but since they could not talk, they would need to communicate through their eyes so the eyes needed to be emphasized. You can see this directly in his Kimba the White Lion, and it carried over into his other works like Astro Boy and Black Jack.

-- Anonymous, July 09, 2003

I hate to be the one to tell you this Aaron but anime is the japanese word for animation so technically scooby doo, south park, and rugrats are indeed ANIME

-- Anonymous, August 05, 2003

and ANOTHER THING Anime IS pronounced AH-KNEE-MAY NOT ANNA-MAY

-- Anonymous, August 05, 2003

ANIME IS GOD U FOO GOOOOOOOD!!!!!

-- Anonymous, September 02, 2003

riightt

-- Anonymous, October 24, 2003

No american cartoons are NOT animes. Animes are Japanese animations, so animations from Japan are animes, ones from America aren't. The two are both animations but different catagoies thats why theres animes sections and cartoons sections at places there not together (or atleast they shouldn't be) Its kinda hard to make an american anime if anime means Japanese animation. Cartoon is the term used for american animations and anime is the term used for Japanese animation. The two aren't the same.

-- Anonymous, October 31, 2003