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While the West seems to be in [[The Dark Age of Animation]], Anime is flourishing in Japan and even outside it. Don't go thinking [[Animation Age Ghetto|all cartoons are for kids]], because Anime, like its originator Manga, is marketed across all demographics, from young children all the way up to senior citizens and middle-aged business men. Conversely, [[All Anime Is Naughty Tentacles|not all anime consists of naughty tentacles]]: the majority is age appropriate for the demographic and hentai, essentially explicit or pornographic anime, while it exists, does not make up the majority of works in the genre. Anime is similarly differentiated from Western cartoons in similar ways as manga is to comics:
* Anime, as opposed to many Western animated works, is generally not episode-based, but has a clear beginning, middle and end. (Minus the occasional filler.) Not to say that there aren't episodic anime out there (''[[Azumanga Daioh]]'', ''[[Ranma ½]]'', etc.), but the studios do tend to tell serialized stories.
* The majority of anime are based off of some other medium, usually manga or Japanese light novels (very roughly the equivalent of YA novels in North America), but more recently anime have been based off of Japanese TV dramas; Western media such as comic books (Wolverine and [[Iron Man]]), television shows (''[[Supernatural (TV series)|Supernatural]]''), or books (''[[Howl's Moving Castle (anime)|Howl's Moving Castle]]''); and even occasionally unusual inspirations such as pachinko games (''[[Umi Monogatari]]''). This leads to 'filler episodes', created when the anime's storyline overtakes what has been published in the manga and needs to wait for the source material to catch up. However, Japanese production companies are willing to [[Anime First|allow their proven directors to create original stories]] (''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'', ''[[Princess Tutu]]'', ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'', etc.)
* Western animation tends to have a higher frame rate then TV anime works, as anime is so prevalent that episodes need to be made quickly and on a budget. This means there's lot of anime out there which is [[They Just Didn't Care|relatively low quality]], in terms of animation. Frequent use of panning over stills and blatantly recycling animation are ways you'll see it. There's plenty of great animation as well, though.
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