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Anime vs Cartoon
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cartoon sounds derogatory like "its just a cartoon" but anime sounds like a legitimate genre, although I guess it depends on how old you are
All cartoons are called anime in Japan. Same goes for comics and manga. It's literally just the Japanese words for the media. People outside of Japan just use the words to refer to Japanese and Japanese-inspired animation and comics.
There's a lot of loanwords that work the same way too. Katana is just the Japanese word for sword, so in Japanese, it's correct to say that Excalibur is a katana.
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Yes, but a tsurugi is a type of katana so it's both