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Anime vs Cartoon
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cartoon sounds derogatory like "its just a cartoon" but anime sounds like a legitimate genre, although I guess it depends on how old you are
All cartoons are called anime in Japan. Same goes for comics and manga. It's literally just the Japanese words for the media. People outside of Japan just use the words to refer to Japanese and Japanese-inspired animation and comics.
There's a lot of loanwords that work the same way too. Katana is just the Japanese word for sword, so in Japanese, it's correct to say that Excalibur is a katana.
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Yes, but a tsurugi is a type of katana so it's both
https://youtu.be/paTW3wOyIYw?si=P8P3Tg9lwUGBvUFU
And in France we usually use comics to refer to US comics, in general DC and Marvel
I'm guessing there's a French word for the French (and/or Belgian?) comics, right? I know there's a pretty big industry for them over there.
Indeed we produce and consume comics that are pretty different from the US and Japanese ones, both in France and Belgium and other countries. France and Belgium used to have some pretty well-known ones but that's a bit old news
We say "Bandes dessinées"
Anime is a style of cartoon. The early 00's teen titans and the current "My Adventures with Superman" are in the anime style, but clearly western.
Weebs claim that, say, The Last Airbender and Wakfu aren't anime because of some mystical regional essentialism about where they were made.
ウォレスとグルミットはいいアニメだぜ。
they're AmericAnime