>>32352919>There's Japanese animation that fits this description, such as this very franchise's anime.No, no it doesn't. The Pokemon themselves might be cartoony, but the humans aren't.
>And there's western animation that fits this description.Yes, there is. And calling them cartoon would be wrong. Because they're not. They're animations. Yes, animation is a word. A thing you can use to describe moving images. Cartoon or anime aren't the only two words used for this.
>And early anime was heavy influenced by Disney cartoonsYes. It was. And early anime was called cartoon or "Japanimation" in some cases. That's changed now. Almost all anime before Gundam was aimed at kids and was full of FUN WACKY ADVENTURES!!!, like cartoon. That changed. So did the word used to describe that.
>They're not different things, they're two different culture's takes on the same thing.No, they're completely different things. Cartoon is an artstyle. Anime is a medium, one that encompasses all sorts of artstyles, including cartoon artstyle. They're not even close to being the same thing. Pic related is a cartoon. It's part of the anime medium, but the artstyle is cartoony. Both are not even close to being the same thing.
