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– Hi everyone! Ill be on vacation next week (lies. I’ll be teaching and visiting my Mom) so I thought it would be a good time for another round of “Ask Modest Medusa!” If you have any questions ask them here and i’ll add them to the list for future updates.
Next week I think I’ll be starting the final epilogue before Season 7.
Blasphemy!
She doesn’t understand. She’s young! It all looks the same to her.
She is technically right. Anime is just the Japanese word for cartoon, but we tend to use it to refer to Japanese cartoons.
I means, if you askeds a Japanese person, they’d… well, let’s puts it this way. If you asked someone from Japan what their favorites anime was, they’d probablies mention somethings by Disney. It’s jus’ the Japanese word fors animation.
they are both animation. prove me wrong.
That’s correct. In the west, “anime” is just a marketing word used to differentiate Japanese cartoons from western ones to make them seem cooler and more okay to watch for older kids and adults.
Trying to artificially separate them with different terminology is especially weird when so many “western” and “Japanese” cartoons are just animated in South Korea anyway.
Really, it depends on how you define “cartoon” and how you define “anime.”
tbh that’s a very blurry line.
Personally, as long as the art style doesn’t hurt my eyes I don’t care which it is.
I barely make a distinction anymore myself.
“Cartoons” are songs about horseless carriages, like “Little Deuce Coupe” or “Chitty Chitty Bang Bang”.
“Anime” are the building blocks of proteins.
She’s not technically wrong.
Hey Modest? Has Jake bought you a Switch yet? All the new Pokemon games are going to be on it!
Question added
What do you think of the next Pokemon games cutting Pokemon out? Kinda curious if Modest will be upset or just be too smitten by the sheep to care
I don’t care. I mean, I think the ones that will be there are more than enough to fill the game. I really don’t think the Pokemon games need to have every pokemon, and collecting the exact same pokemon over and over again every 2 years gets boring anyway (not that this will change much with the new game). So for me its not a big deal. Maybe I’ll feel different when I play it though. I doubt Modest would even notice, until months and months later when she suddenly realized theres no Wooper.
To the Japanese, it’s all “anime”. One-Punch Man? Anime. The Simpsons? Anime. Miraculous Ladybug? Anime.
Oh Modest.
You sweet little Summer Child.
You still have so much to learn.
They are the same thing. … as long as you’re not a weeabo.
To be fair, the line between the two has been getting steadily fuzzier over the years. Both in appearance and who’s been working on them. About the only thing left to differentiate them clearly is source material, which Modest would be completely ignorant of.
Western writers tend to look to old legends and tales for ideas which they can turn into grab-bags of traits, or give them new twists and angles. Eastern writers tend to just rip up old legends wholesale and give them fresh coats of paint. That’s really the only difference, and you can really only notice that when the material isn’t all brand-new.
That’s actually true, they just have names and different art and story telling styles based on country, the reason why people said that they were truly distinct was just fandom craze, but now it’s just considered a normal part of society since it’s been years and the anime manga craze is over since we were in high school. But I suspect that there’s still some people out there that won’t admit to this.
Sorry Jake, I forgot to mention this part; I love the gag where a niave, oblivious child makes smart observations that the audience agrees with (mostly). I’ve only seen that used once before and even if you don’t agree with me and/or this gag wasn’t your intention it’s still good.
You got it. Its something I also enjoy.
They really are. To me at least. My friend got pissed when someone said that and I agreed
Anime is Japanese cartoons. She ain’t wrong.
It DID take me some years as a child to recognize any difference between western cartoons and imported, redubbed, heavily edited (a.k.a. butchered) anime. I think Sailor Moon was the first one I figured that out on, because despite changing all the names, hiding gay people, a skirt flip by a student obviously out of his mind, and leaping from windows… they left signs with Japanese writing in the backgrounds of city scenes.
Of course, part of that was our culture in the 80s and 90s. Japanese anime was almost a secret, cult thing, that hardly anyone knew about. I’d have to get my mom to drive me halfway across the city to the ONE movie rental place that had a shelf for “Japanimation”, all mixed up VHS tapes, missing episodes in series, etc. Then some years later I found out about a very anti-mainstream video store were they had a whole small room dedicated to anime (and h-anime) though even they banished the whole collection to a room in the basement.
Anime is so public, popular and mainstream now there’s really not much excuse to not know it comes to us from Japan… I mean, unless you’re a 6 year old medusa who’s only been on this side of the mirror for a couple years. 😉
It was the same for me growing up in the 80’s. I though all Japanese animation was dun by 1 guy and that was just his style.