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            If your new to anime you may be wondering "Whats so cool about anime? I mean it's just a cartoon" If you keep this attitude then you'll lose your head. To most people anime is much more than a cartoon, I mean when was the last time you saw Batman rip off the badguy's arm? How many cartoons do you see that have enough violence to fill small houses. What was the last cartoon that even showed a girl in a bathing suit?? American artists are extremly dull when it comes to women in bathing suits. OK OK I know I'm ranting, but it's good to rant every once and a while. Also the nice thing about anime is that there are shows catered towards kids and then there are shows for adults. Cartoons are more or less for childern only, I'm not saying that Buggs and Daffy isnt funny, but it's not as mature humor as anime, I'm not saying all anime is mature but alot of it is compard to catroons. Ok that was confusing.... shows like Popye, and Looney Toons have a funny simpler humor that's moreover easy to understand, where as in Anime you have inside jokes, and often jokes or scenes with some sexual content, in most American shows sex is implied or never menioned at all.

Now you'll probably think Anime is a kind of show that shows only sex violence and nudity, well thats what alot of extremisits would love to have you believe, sure there are animes with nudity, animes that show sex and full out violence, but then there are alot of shows that re not animated that show plenty of that as well. Blade was one of the goriest movies I've seen, along with watching a man's face melt off in "The Rock." Don't be a hipocrite as watch violence and sex in non-animated shows, than go and say well, there shouldn't be any violence in cartoons. Thats pretty stupid. Besides most shows, wehter anime or not, will state what they are rated or that they may contain violence/sexual content/or nudity.

I'm sure you've all seen articles on Compuserve or AOL homepages that rant and rave about how unchristian or how lude anime is. Well there is alot that is, but that's not anime, that is ADULT ANIME, there is a difference, just like how there are live-action(thats with real people) movies that make you happy or teach a moral, and anime does that as well, ten there are movies that you can find almost everywhere, that are porno. The ADULT ANIME is not shown on American TV, sure some animes contain nudity or implied nudity, but they aren't real, and never will be, they may look like Britney Spears but they're not. And it amazes me that so many people get so freaked out over nudity of unreal people. True fact: US Congress passed a bill that it is legal to draw or create nudity because it is not real people. No I dont mean child porno I mean like nude adults. So for my closing argument, Anime is not for queers, perverts and freaks any more than American programming is. Last but not least this is a direct quote from a conversation form a writer of a Anti-Anime article "Everyone knows that the Japanese are a queer and perverted race" Do you really want someone that closed minded to tell you what to watch??