Why isn't Japanese animation considered art?

2006-04-18 [Azuri]: Like i said i duno >.< 

2006-04-18 [Sailor Uranus XD]: sucky!!!!! ... man... i pick up anime things waay too fast... i even do the little wave thing with two fingers and a thumb that they do and even pick up phrases that they say like Na No Da

2006-04-18 [Azuri]: Lol i ran around saying No Da for a full year AFTER i first saw Fushigi Yugi.

2006-04-18 [Sailor Uranus XD]: lol nice i ran around japan for a day shouting KONICHIWA MINNA and i got loads of dodgy looks... lots of fun XD

2006-04-18 [Azuri]: XD Aww you suck i wanna go to Japan, mainly Kyoto and Tokyo. i bet that was amusing hehe

2006-04-18 [Sailor Uranus XD]: it was... its the funny looks you get from the japanese people and the pact i look no-where near japanese helps too they must have thought i was a crazy english girl wanting to be japanese!! lol but me, racheal, sarah, and jenni are all going to japan for 6 months holiday ^_^ how funn??? but i will have to wait untill they leave school... sucky ... my friends are all younger than me... and mature.. im waay too nekko-like according to them or im like Kaolla from Lonve-Hina

2006-04-18 [Azuri]: XD Kaolla is freakin awesome. Im so jealous i wanna take a 6 month vaca to Japan. O.o people who try to "act japanese"(AKA Super Okatus(SP?) ) scare me because they run around saying like one of 4 words and usually have seen like one anime and its normally something like inyuyasha or naruto O.o yea those people scare me >>

2006-04-18 [Sailor Uranus XD]: yes... i dont try to act japanes i just thought it would be funny to scare eeryone around me... its funny.... dude... i have seen like ... 50 anime's ... woahO_O

2006-04-19 [Linderel]: I'm under the impression that the Japanese think only their comics should be called manga. And actually, manga isn't really even a certain style, any comic drawn by a Japanese person (in Japan) is called manga, and similarly, all animation done in Japan is called anime. They just happen to have that predominant style... Oh, and the word for Korean comics is manhwa. But I'm not 100% sure of what I'm saying, so you may as well ignore me. (Though a mini-rant: It annoys me how people call a drawing an anime drawing. Eh? What's that? People should learn to use the terms right...)

2006-04-19 [Azuri]: They should but to reach the general public who arent sure what to call it its best to use terms they know i guess. and you right korean comics are manhwa i like a quiet a few of them they are really crazy! its great^_^ anyway my art teachers used to call anime japananimation(im against this word its hard to say! also sounds stupid) im not sure what to call everything myself so haha i just call it this or that and see if maybe others know XD I dont think i have ever refered to my art in that way its just my style and it happens to be based around manga and animeish influences.currently as it stands i think anything made by a person from the US is called ameramanga but i hate that word XD

2006-04-19 [Azuri]: O.o sorry if that makes no sence its late O.o

2006-04-20 [Sailor Uranus XD]: yes... good point. but what if i had japanese heritage and a house in japan through my grandpa? huh... ever thought of that???? O_o

2006-04-20 [Azuri]: maybe you do maybe you dont i dont know for i do not know you.

2006-04-22 [Sailor Uranus XD]: yup... good point ^_^ heritage is fun though... especially if its as mixed up as mine....

2006-04-22 [Azuri]: lol i dont even know mine!! XD

2006-04-25 [Sailor Uranus XD]: i have japanese australian german irish english argentinian and many galore!^_^

2006-04-25 [Sailor Uranus XD]: i have japanese australian german irish english argentinian and many galore!^_^lol

2006-04-25 [Azuri]: lol wow thats alot though i never really saw the point of keeping track of things like that cuase now adays most people have a bit o everything in them and so i never knew what i was O.o

2006-04-25 [Sailor Uranus XD]: lol i always want to know coz then i can learn more about my relatives in other countrys ... plus... it helps for when you go on holiday lol! my grandpa has two sons that live in japan and i stay at theres when i go there!^_^ (granpa's japanese)

2006-04-26 [Azuri]: ah i see i see

2006-04-26 [Sailor Uranus XD]: yes... thats why i could stay in japan for more than a normal holiday ^_^