What is anime?

What is anime?  if you ask this to someone, they would answer that it is a cartoon. To be more specific, it is a japanese cartoon.The different between a anime and cartoon that it has more "slice of life", means the anime more resembles real life world and have quite heavy storyline while cartoon usually have very simple storyline made purely for entertainment. Famous example of anime in Malaysia is Shin Chan, Doraemon, Chibi Maruko and many more that usually showing at weekends, while famous cartoons are Spongebob Squarepants, Ben 10, Popeye etc. that is on TV all the time, means cartoons are for entertainment that people watch to release tension and such. Although anime have quqite heavy storyline, the graphic quality and content are much better, and alot morale values are there, while cartoons is for entertainment and morale values usually not found. Simple example of difference between anime and cartoon :

The first picture shows a cartoon samurai while the second picture shows a anime samurai. You can see the difference clearly. The graphic and mood are different, body parts are more specific and stable in anime while cartoon more simpler. However, people tend to compare an anime with 3D animation like Upin&Ipin. 3D animation are more realistic and very hard to made that only few been created til today.Upin&Ipin is our pride as it is a very first successful 3D animation made by Malaysian, though its still way behind if we want to compete with other country's 3D animation for example Resident Evil CGI and Final Fantasy VII CGI made by the japanese who have made alot of quality animes in their industry. Here another example of difference :

 The first picture shows a 3D movie made in Japan while the second picture shows a 3D movie by us. The different quite big, but we still new in the industry so nobody could really blame us for that, we will surely develop our technology to actually compete with them, which we will never know when.