User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Sorcerer Magazine, Issue 17: May 2013/@comment-10425110-20130605131637/@comment-5840892-20130606071449

^ He got it. He hit the nail right on the head.

Cartoons (espcially American ones) are made to pander to kids (and the lowest intellectual demoniator possible, more so since 2003. a few were very good with very smart humor that appealed to all ages...),and to turn a profit through mechandisng. The people in them do it just for money and have no passion for their work. Art-styles, designs, and overplots suck-ass or are completely non-existant.

Anime is usually made in Japan, is most often based off of a popular series (Light Novel, Manga, Game, Movie(s), ect.), has unblievable art-styling and quality, a great plot (99% of the time), great character design and devolepment, and the actors do their job for fun (money is most likely a bonus for them, it would be for me if I were to become a VA in anime), and they are passonite about their work. Some American VA's in Anime are the same.

In short the difference between them is most easily described as one word: Pasion. Anime is made with more care to detail than most cartoons. Disney used to be that way until about 2000. Now they only make shit movies for profit.

Also, in an Anime, it's not really wrong a girl cute/hot in the series because they're made to be. That's why we have fan-service. Which makes anime far superior to all other cartoon styles. FAN-SERVICE FTW!!!!!!!!!!! (this also applies to the ones who rather look boys for whatever reason) Also, the art style is completely different.