anime is french

anime has a nice ring to it. everything else sounds stupid.

because your a fag, thats why

>>31292313
>i could go on forever

Do it.

OP probably calls them "japanese cartoons"

Because we don't.

Because there's no mentionable animation from Spain, China, Italy, Poland, etc

The big three in comics are USA, France/Belgium and Japan!
France/Belgium don't do much animation, so there are only two big in animation: USA and Japan.
USA = cartoons
Japan = anime

All other stuff is unimportant.

>>31292313

>implying anyone gives a shit about those inferior gaijin cartoons

>Why don't we call Polish animation animacja?
Because there is no polish animacja.

because they don't make shows

>>31292386
I do, actually.

How about Pszczółka Maja?

>>31292313
because we don't give a fuck.

pszczółka maaja soobie lata

>>31292313

When was the last time a significant portion of the population outside of those countries actually created any animation that a sizable number of foreigners watched?

If there was a market for any of those, you'd have people using those names. Right now there isn't, they produce shit.

I'm aware that Japan produces shit as well, but they do produce quality as well.

...Oh shit, I just remembered about that French animation I watched recently.

brb wikipedia

Maybe you should go check out Animazione News Network, which is the biggest North American news site for Italian cartoons.

See where I'm getting at, OP?

The word anime is actually french.

>>31292449
This is not made in Poland

>>31292313
>But why don't we call Spanish animation animación?
>Why don't we call Chinese animation dònghuà?
>Why don't we call Italian animation animazione?
>Why don't we call Polish animation animacja?

Because no one in the US watches it.

no one cares about anything those worthless countries produce

How about we just call all of them cartoons?

We call Korean comics manhwa

>>31292313
Because none of those other countries have done anything worth of using an extra term for their cartoons.

<- Best polish anime

and seriously, Tomek Bagiński

>>31292613
>polish anime

I've kind of thought about that myself.


And I don't give a shit.

'Anime' is lingo, jargon, slang if you will.
Not everyone knows what anime is, but between us fans it's a very convenient term.

Actually, Italians do call cartoons "animazione"

>>31292313
None of those countries make cartoons, or at least not marketable cartoons.

>But why don't we call Spanish animation animación

Like making all the techniques of the bad guys in a shonen sound like mexican?.

Kubo.jpg

OP, we do call russian animation shit (говно, govno), so it`s all good

>>31292493
No, the word animé is French. Ir is that animè... I can never remember which way the accent mark goes. Anyway the point is the japanese word anime (アニメ) is short for animeshon (アニメーション), which is of course derived from the english word animation.

>>31292313
btw, Yattaaman was EXTREMELY popular in Poland. Baby's first anime etc.

Why don't we call Karaoke "singing"?
Why don't we call sushi "raw fish"?

Simple, we fucking don't, and that's why.

>>31292386
>Japanese cartoons

>>31292815
Yeah, I know Yatterman was the SHIT in Poland. I loved it as a kid.

>>31292828
>>31292386

What exactly is so funny about calling them Japanese cartoons? That's exactly what they are.

You mention animu to someone who doesn't know what they are they're just going to ask what the fuck "anime" is...which is JAPANESE CARTOONS.

Anime =/= cartoons
Because its about tears, love, romance and tragedy
its makes anime even worse than cartoons in cartoon network

We do that in America because anime is so drastically different than American cartoons. Isn't it obvious?

Polish anime is of course better than japanese anime.
But japanese is good too, don't lie. I like some japanese anime.