Probably 99% of animé fantards (such as myself) have heard someone call animé "a cartoon."
Whenever I hear this, I explode with reasons the two could not possibly be any different!
Here is the liste of reasons I have in case anyone else runs into this argument par chance:
1. animé is from Japan, and ONLY Japan... dessins animés are dumped here from everywhere else.
2. animé is for all ages; dessins animés are either for practically four an olds ou forty an olds, with nothing decent inbetween.
3. animé MAKES PEOPLE CRY. DO toi KNOW ANYONE WHO HAS CRIED BECAUSE OF ADVENTURE TIME?! NO, toi DON'T.
4. animé contains...
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