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What is the difference between a cartoon and animation?

What's the difference between a cartoon, animation, and anime?

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    Technically they're all the same - anime is just a "nickname" if you will for animation. However, anime differs from the rest because they typically refer to cartoons that originated in Japan/East Asia. In essence, though, they're all considered cartoons/animations. Same with comics vs mangas. Manga is actually just the Japanese word for comic, but it's broadened to encompass the type of comics that originate from Japan. There are other terms to describe the comics from China and from South Korea.

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Really it means the same thing, but people have tend to use the words meaning certain things. I will try my best to describe what people mean when they use the terms. Cartoons is used dealing with Animation made in the West, but is usually referred to those aimed at children 12 and under and most of the time are not realistic images that tend to have Anthropomorphism (Animals or objects with human traits). Animation in the West refers to a lot of other types since we have CGI, Claymation, and other types of Animation is used to refer to a wider range of types of Animating than the Cartoon itself. In the west I mostly seen Animation refer to Animated Movies and those Cartoons that are a little to realistic or graphic to be considered Cartoons ( since people in the west still think of Cartoons are for children) I think they use this word to pretend it is not a Cartoon. Anime is short slang word for Animation and in the West means Animation from Japan.

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They all mean the same thing. Anime is Japanese for Animation but non-Japanese people use it to refer to animation of Japanese Origin.

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