Find the biggest bowl you own and inside of it, place one protagonist with powerful and unique abilities. Next, pour in an exceptionally talented team of supportive friends. Then, add a seemingly impervious villain who aims to remake the world according to his own warped ideals. Throw in a few dashes of strong themes like family, friendship, fear, and death, blend it all together with plenty of beautiful visuals and flawless voice acting.
I don't care if it's anime or cartoon. The TLOK rocked. ^_^
R.I.P. Skyland 2005-2007
Yes.
Americans can make a kickass cartoon with the feel of an anime just as the Japanese can make some very bad anime.
Only thing I don't like about stuff like Avatar and Legend of Korra is that they are very comedy-focused. In fact, pretty much every cartoon that comes out of America is like that, and you very rarely see stuff that is super-serious. I can't imagine seeing something like Death Note come out of an American studio because of the rules and regulations in the US.
Plus, whenever there is a popular anime that comes out in the West, some dumb kid always tries to re-enact a scene (like the kid who died because his friends were performing Gaara's desert coffin move on him). You never hear about stuff like that happening in Japan because they are used to cartoons like that.
for me the feel of anime and cartoons are just so different. americans can make it close but still not the same feel as the japanese anime. their just so different in humor, fighting sequence, etc.
I watch a lot of anime and its more bad anime than good. Same as american cartoons. The only new quality shows i can think of is Young Justice and Legeond of Korra.