In Japan,
Spongebob is considered an anime. Just saying.
And I also like Japanese and American cartoons equally. Like TSC said, both types have their ups and downs. They both have shows with lots of quality, but neither type of cartoon is perfect. There are some ways Japanese cartoons in general surpass American ones, IMO. But, there are ways where American cartoons do the same thing to Japanese cartoons.
About the Japanese anime, I like the "style" that a lot of them have- sweatdrops, face-faulting, "chibis", etc. I also think it's cool how animes have a variety of different theme songs, because when a show is longer the theme song should show some kind of update (of course, the same theme song with updates in itself is fine too). I also like the variety of ending themes many animes posess.
About American "anime", America has a variety of different types of cartoons. I also like the animation style for the older Disney cartoon movies. Most of the American cartoon shows have been for humor (that I've seen, not all cartoons are like this), but I don't mind. I like a variety of cartoons, like
Spongebob,
Avatar,
Fairly OddParents,
Doug,
Garfield, Peanuts (old
Peanuts, not the newer specials),
Animaniacs,
Freakazoid,
Dexter's Lab,
Powerpuff Girls,
Rugrats,
Danny Phantom,
Tiny Toon Adventures, and stuff like that. And I always liked watching
Arthur,
The Busy World of Richard Scarry, and
Muppet Babies when I was younger. (I'm sorry, but I couldn't resist mentioning that.)
Besides
Avatar, there aren't really that many Japanese-anime-inspired cartoons that I like.
Sailor Merury said:
I hate Avatar. They try and make it sound like it's Japanese when it's not.
Actually, the writers of
Avatar tend to focus more on the plot than the fact that it's anime-inspired. You can tell this because there isn't any sweatdrops of face-faulting. Even though I wouldn't know hnow high I would rank the show to Japanese anime, I personally would recommend
Avatar to anybody because it has a good storyline (and the American Nick is going to start airing the first episodes of it at 6:30 today in XD) and good characters. I don't recommend it because it's a cartoon inspired by Japanese anime- I recommend it because I think it's a
good cartoon inspired by Japanese anime. And I think it's safe to say that not that many people think
Avatar's from Japan.
To be fair, there hasn't been a new American cartoon that I've been interested in since
Avatar. (I know I'm growing up, but still...) I haven't really been interested in any new anime either, but I'm not really trying to...