Which do you prefer: Cartoons or Anime?

[DarkDesertFox]

@DarkDesertFox

I think that's just a misconception~ If you do some googling there were many cartoons with continuous plots ^-^ Probably most well-known are superhero shows! But I'm guessing things changed in the past decade because people started watching TV less, and weren't always able to catch the show at a specific time. But now with SU, Gravity Falls, Avatar, it's starting up again thanks to the popularity of streaming mediums and the internet Netflix!!

*ALSO WOULD LIKE TO THROW OUT THAT I LOVED TEEN TITANS THAT CARTOON WAS AMAZING AND PLOT WAS AMAZING OMG

Yeah, I honestly can't name that many cartoons with a specific plot and continuous story that I've seen. All I remember is most of the cartoons I grew up with did not. Here's a list of many of the cartoons I grew up with that do not have a continuous storyline:

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- Jimmy Neutron
- Spongebob
- Fairly Oddparents
- Rocko's Modern Life
- PowerPuff Girls
- Looney Tunes
- Tom and Jerry
- Rugrats
- Ed, Eddn Eddy
- Hey Arnold!
- Recess
- Danny Phantom
- Codename: Kids Next Door
- Catdog
- Jackie Chan Adventures
- Arthur
- Ben 10
- Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog
- Dexter's Labratory
- Johnny Bravo
- The Super Mario Bros. Super Show

You can probably see why I have the view of not many cartoons having a continuous story since I grew up with a vast majority that did not. However, I have noticed an increase in cartoons with a continuous story lately. I do think anime does a much better job at showing the story in general. They tend to recap and continue from the scene they left off at while cartoons don't do that often. However, Avatar does incorporate that. The narrator recaps from the last episode's scene and continues the story from where it left off.

 

[crystalmilktea]

Ohhh.. see probably my two favorite cartoons growing up were Teen Titans and Winx Club which are both continuous ;w; But I mean, now you know! There were quite a bit out there too but I guess they just didn't make it to your TV set XD

 

[MyLifeIsCake]

Cartoons for me. Especially the late 90's-early 2000 Disney era and animated shows from my childhood. I love traditional animation that ultatlizes 3D motion and capturing (Lion King, Treasure Planet,Beauty and the Beast) rather than complety relying on it. I can easily say that that inspired me to want to get into animation.

As for anime, never really watched it much. I don't want to say I dislike anime completely, because know that are some anime with beautiful animations and stories, but the lonnnggg story arcs and character designs put me off enough that I never grinded my way through an entire series. I know a lot of people prefer western/eastern stuff, but in my honest opinion, I think a show that mixes both well are some of the best works. Shows like Teen Titans, Avatar and parts of Steven Universe have a distinct western style with influences of anime in character emotions, backgrounds and action sequences that provide a nice blending of both cultures into one work.

 

[Tao]

Here's a list of many of the cartoons I grew up with that do not have a continuous storyline:

- Jackie Chan Adventures
- Ben 10

Ben 10 I believe has an ongoing storyline, though I never really got into it so don't quote me on that one.

Jackie Chan Adventures however did have an ongoing story line. It wasn't always obvious but it was there.
Get the talismans to do the thing, do the thing to fight main bad guy, fight the main bad guy, rinse and repeat. It was essentially the Dragonball Z 'evil is coming>train>fight>repeat' formula.


I'll agree that anime tends to do the continuous storyline thing better though. Even though Western ones are doing it more often now, they're still made in such a way that you could watch them out of order and still 'get it' enough to enjoy it.

Though with anime there's so many I watch that either end 'too soon' as I was really getting into it or keep dragging it on too long to where I feel I have to keep watching it since I've already invested x amount of hours.
I don't really get that with western cartoons. They seem to usually stop airing around the time I've had enough of it (most of the time anyway). Even if they drag on too long, they often don't have that continuous storyline making me feel invested in something I lost interest with.

 

[ChaosEmperor1988]

yes.

 

[Izzy Reincarnated]

Anime is the same thing as cartoons. If you're talking about Japanese cartoons, you'd say Japanese Anime.

Remember, Anime is anything animated.