I always thought "Jap" was a racial slur, similar to, if less extreme than, the N-word, the B-word, and all those countless other stupid words made up to point out that someone has skin colored differently from someone else's. But suddenly I'm seeing it used a lot in a casual sense... have I been misinformed, or is that word losing its stigma? But anyway.
I'm of the opinion that most, if not all real anime, is somewhere between "Almost Not Too Sucky" and "Total Undiluted Crap". But anime-
style American cartoons hold a special place in my heart. Not so much in my heart, in fact, more like... buried thirty miles below the surface of the earth in a box of rotting feces and rabid wolverines. Yes. That's the place for those cartoons.
On a somewhat related note:
http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=145 Will VG Cats ever cease to amaze?