animation Western Animation or Anime?

[Nagisa452 182]

It's hard for me to say. I grew up watching an equal mix of both anime style and western animation style shows. I personally enjoy anime. Something about the art style just gets to me I guess. Zoids, Naruto, Fullmetal Alchemist, Vampire Knight, etc.. But I do love The Last Airbender, Danny Phantom, My Little Pony: FIM, and so forth. Hard decision, but I most still go with anime.

[Sals 56]

I chose anime at first. Then I looked at the examples and had to choose western Cartoons. I love PPG and MLP and AWG and Gargoyles 

[Wind Chaser 4,768]

I grew up with Western cartoons and am more through-and-through passionate about them. Although I do enjoy anime influence on Western animation, as well as its stylistic innovations and wider diversity of story styles, anime itself is a whole other world with a lot more to learn, and I've only watched a handful of anime. I do wish Western animation could be more stylistically diverse and less beholden to corporate interests in order to take full advantage of what the animation medium is capable of, which is becoming more of a reality thanks to the falling costs and rising accessibility of animation software.

[Faerie-StarV 49]

I can't really choose as I like them both. To me, both anime and western cartoons have the good, the bad, and the ugly and they both pro's and cons.

I watch them if they have a good story, characters, settings, etc. but if they lack any of them, I won't watch them.

[TheMarkz0ne 962]

I am more into western cartoons. I mean, I was always into them as a kid, but in my early teen years, anime was dominant. I just can't get that invested in much anime anymore. I just don't like the newer stuff really. My current manga list is UQ Holder only because it is a sequel to my all time favorite manga series, Mahou Sensei Negima. I am going to start Magi and the Magical Labyrinth manga/anime soon. I never watched FMA Brotherhood yet, but the 2003 FMA was solid and still holds up. I am also going to read this new yuri manga called Citrus which is being hailed as better than Strawberry Panic.

 

Western animation I find technically better in terms of fluid animation and I still enjoy many of those 90s and early 00s cartoons. 

[powerpuff-tsubasa 448]

western animation most of the time. im rather neutral to most anime btw

Personally, I don't like Anime very much. Not that it isn't good, it's just that they style of animation kind of bothers me. I don't even know why it bothers me, but it just does.

 

I also watched more western style cartoons growing up, so they are closer to my heart.

you and i are a match. westerb cartoons ftw

[Concerned Bystander 2,902]

I couldn't really pick one over the other, there are amazing and godawful examples of both in equal measure.  Having said that, being a westerner myself I suppose it's easier for me to relate to the stories and humour in western films and cartoons, whereas some of the more subtle cultural references in Japanese films or cartoons are totally lost on me.  On the other hand, The quality of animation in Japanese films is so much better, Disney and Dreamworks aren't even close to matching the sheer visual beauty in some of (for example) Studio Ghibli's films, Spirited Away being the most obvious one that springs immediately to mind.

 

Additionally, although western films are pitched to appeal to different age groups now in a way that they rarely were years ago, I still haven't seen the west produce anything good that was purely aimed at grown ups, I'm sure there's a few out there, but I'm personally yet to see anything close to the quality of Akira or Perfect Blue.

 

On the other hand, I have never seen a Japanese cartoon as funny as The Amazing World of Gumball, and Watership Down is still one of my favourite animated films, so they both have their good and bad points, and there's so much overlap between those points that it really isn't possible to simply say I prefer one to the other.

[Paleopony 703]

I like both of them but I have watched more western cartoons than anime.

[ZiggWheelsManning 10,620]

It's mostly western animation I've watched in my life.  

[Fluttershutter 2,494]

I choose both!!! both