I swear, I'm not trying to knock anyone by harping on this, but Netflix's Castlevania is not an anime in any sense. It was written by Warren Ellis, directed by Sam Deats (and a few other people, none of whom are Japanese), and animated by South Korean studios Mua Film and Tiger Animation. It's no more "anime" than The Simpsons is.
That's probably why I like it so much. I can't really get into actual
Unfortunately yeah folks just stopped calling all animation cartoons.
There's been a huge amount of linguistic drift around that word over the centuries. "Cartoon" has been around since 1670, when all it referred to was an artist's preliminary sketch on pasteboard or other heavy paper (said paper being "carton" in Italian and French). It wasn't until 1843 that the word came to refer to drawings in newspapers and magazines, and even then they were mostly used to parody or support political issues and personalities. Purely comedic cartoons came later, with "comic" eventually being used with many types of static cartooning, even those that aren't funny at all like crime, horror and superhero comic books and strips.
Nobody asked why.There's been a huge amount of linguistic drift around that word over the centuries. "Cartoon" has been around since 1670, when all it referred to was an artist's preliminary sketch on pasteboard or other heavy paper (said paper being "carton" in Italian and French). It wasn't until 1843 that the word came to refer to drawings in newspapers and magazines, and even then they were mostly used to parody or support political issues and personalities. Purely comedic cartoons came later, with "comic" eventually being used with many types of static cartooning, even those that aren't funny at all like crime, horror and superhero comic books and strips.
"Animated cartoons" weren't a thing until 1911 (when Windsor McKay's static cartoons were first animated), and it took decades before the "animated" preface faded away in common usage. There were also competing terms like cel animation, although they were too technical to win the popularity cotest that evolving language generally is. These days "cartoon" generally implies animated media but there are still cases (the political cartoon form, for example) where "comic" hasn't taken over when referring to static cartoon imagery. "Toon" is a further extension of the drift, and owes part of its popularity to Loony Tunes' continuing popularity reinforcing the natural tendency toward shortening words over time.
Also worth noting that not all animation involves actual cartooning. For ex, stop motion animation and its subcategory claymation are rarely called cartoons, and arguably shouldn't be.
Yes, I did do several papers on this stuff in my long-ago college days.
This is as close to using my degree I ever get these days.Nobody asked why.
I couldnt help it. Been watching Archer lately. I just had H. Jon Benjamin's voice in my head. Now I feel like a 10am bourbon is in order.This is as close to using my degree I ever get these days.
You run into much the same problem when talking about pulp fiction, comic books, or even RPGs with people who aren't invested in those mediums. They are so much more than that Tarantino movie, superheroes, and D&D, respectively.
