We call it that because you are stupid. "Anime" is actually アニメ, short for アニメション, "animation." It's a Japanese contraction that people in America picked up. Happy?
im not from the USA, im "Latino" and when people ask me what im watching, if i tell them "anime", they don't understand, so i tell them "cartoons" so they can get it
So who is the stupid one? The people who have to be told that anime is "cartoons" so that "they can get it," or you, who can't explain "it's short for Japanese animation."
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Anonymous2006-09-17 17:04
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Japanese animation is still cartoons, you fag.