QueenOfGames

I'm doing a speech in my SPC 102 class about anime and manga, their popularity and spread in America. I wanted to touch on anime-inspired cartoons, so I wanted to know if the following shows were anime or anime-inspired:

Code Lyoko
Xiaolin Showdown
Teen Titans

--- That's it. I don't want to state the wrong information in my speech .^_^.

Thanks for your help!

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dark anime prince

I don't have an answer to your question, but even if you do provide the wrong information in your speech, who's gonna know? Desperate times call for desperate measures, so it's either change the topic of your speech if you can't find the right answers, or make them up. Alternatively, you could do a search for the makers of those cartoons and see if they were interested in anime, and hence if their work was influenced by anime.

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TaurusDemon23

Well, considering that the word Anime itself is supposed to mean animation, I'd assume that anything that's composed of animation could be considered anime.

zyta

Anime is a term that is slowly losing its true meaning recently - A Cartoon-like show originating from Japan. That is what Anime is supposed to mean, but with so much anime-inspired shows these days such as Avatar: The Last Airbender, the term seems to have lost some of it luster.

For those anime, I'd have to say they are anime inspired going by the true meaning of Anime.

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Franco

I know no one ever talks about this show because it is considered a 80's cartoon, but what about Robotech, Harmony Gold was the company that made that show and had the animation produced in Japan to be used for American television, it is not like Voltron which was edited and reconstructed from an actual existing Japanese anime title, which were both totally different for each other. So I think Robotech would be considered Anime-Inspired because it was American just that it looked like a Anime because it was made in Japan.

LenMiyata

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Now this depends on which definition of Anime you're referring too... In Japan, 'Anime' is just the shortened form of he English Word 'Animation', pronounced and written to fit the local phonetic alphabet...

Among serious Otaku fans in the US, the term 'Anime' refers to Animation produced and targeted for a Japanese audience, (which rules out all three cartoons, which are written for a US audience)

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QueenOfGames

Wow, I didn't think I would get this much of...vagueness .>_<. I thought everyone would know what I meant. Guess not.

When I say 'anime', I think Japanese animation - like it was originally recorded in Japanese, among other things (I guess that's in the vein of what Len said.)

So the shows I mentioned are anime-inspired, then. Right?

*keep Grumbling Len*

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NeoDeath90

Yes, as a matter of fact Code Lyoko is actually French. That or Canadian...but ah well, I digress.

A lot of current animators take great influence from their Japanese counterparts. The main difference, however, is that many (if not all) animated cartoons from Japan have a storyline, breaking briefly for some filler, or in some cases for an entire arc.

American animation is more episodic, as every episode has its own story, and there really is no main plot.

There are some shows which combine this. Avatar: The Last Airbender is a great example. Most episodes are episodic, but mostly they all relate to the main theme of the show.

BUUUTTTT to answer the main question, all three of the shows you mentioned are anime inspired, with "anime" meaning a show written and produced in Japan for a Japanese audience.

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