>>150004121
What ultimately differentiates anime from cartoons is a matter of language-culture. Contrary to popular misconception, languages are not interchangable and merely just "English but with symbols or shapes instead" or "a different but inherently identical way of saying the same thing".

When you read Claremont's X-Men, you're reading a comic book that is written in English, produced in an American production pipeline, and shaped by American culture. It is distinctly American down to the paneling, the word balloons, the dialogue, the plotting, the composition, the use of backgrounds, etc. Meanwhile if you compare it to the X-Men manga (that adapted the X-Men cartoon which pulled from Claremont's run), it is like night and day.

To make things short, Japanese manga art emphasizes certain aspects of comics based in traditional Japanese art as well as storytelling, both of which are informed by the nuances of the language (which is itself a product of history and the environment). Scott McCloud kinda covers this, but reading up on Kishotenketsu is something I'd highly recommend that anyone with even a passing degree in East Asian stories do.