If you guys have managed to watch all this anime and be friends for this long and you are watching non-gorey animes like those maybe just ignore it when she starts on her soapbox about "what anime really is" or "what animes make a true fan" and stuff? When you have someone who is that stubborn sometimes it's best to pick your battles, other than that I'm pretty much out of suggestions because you can't force someone to think/like the same way/things you do and vice versa.

I guess that could work. Thanks for all your help!

Oh no problem it was a nice chatt. :p I hope everything works out for you!

Cartoons and anime are the same thing...? Anime is just the Japanese word for cartoon. Doesn't matter what country it was made in, I mean, is a Spanish movie a película or is it just a movie?

In the western sense I think anime has become slang, just because it's hugely popular medium and so different from western story-telling and styling, we need something to categorize it as. I'm sure that if Spanish films were as wildly popular here as japanese animation is, then yes, we might call them películas just to differentiate them from American movies. Words and slang are funny things, depending where you are, a word can take on a very different meaning. Where in Japan it means simply cartoons (I knew a Japanese exchange student who loved the anime Scooby Doo, something that you would think an anime fan would consider heresy), in America and the west it's evolved to encompass just the cartoons that come from that part of the world. Even the term 'otaku' has different connotations when you compare Japan to the west's fanbase.

But still I have always found the debate over what to call cartoons and what to call anime to be a very silly thing. Like honestly, is it really worth your energy if someone wants to call Avatar an anime or Dragonball a cartoon or something?

I also thought Avatar was an anime for the longest time.

I am in complete agreement.

"Anime" is just short for animation in Japan. There are many other cartoons produced in other countries and you don't avoid calling them cartoons, instead of the words said countries use to describe them.

Although I personaly (so I'm easily understood) use "Anime" when refering to cartoons whose original spoken language is Japanese, and cartoons for everything else ( or "desenhos animados" in my language), it makes no difference to me if someone else calls them by any other name under the same meaning.

To me to be a true Anime Fan is to love the style of it in know different animes. LIke Inuyasha, Deathnote, Naruto, One piece, Cowboy bebob, so many I can name, but pokemon and sailor moon are animes because they were both made in Japan I think. You just love what you watch and know about anime. No anime fan is better then the other because they think they know more.

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