Anime is Japanese version of cartoons, but not exactly so. Cartoons don’t follow a storyline, but anime does. Usually an anime has a manga counterpart (manga is about the same as comics). In this article I will write about a few popular animes.
Some anime, such as Bleach and Naruto target younger audience, thus they have a lot of fighting scenes and not much text. But just because of that You shouldn’t just disregard them, since a lot of movies are, too, for youngsters (Spiderman, X-men etc.). Of course some are purely for kids, such as Yu-Gi-Oh, Digimon and Dragonball Z.
There are more serious anime, too. Such as Death Note, which has a good storyline and sometimes is even hard to follow because of the confusing text. I also recommend Fullmetal Alchemist, Elfen Lied, Vampire Knight and Higurashi no Naku Koro ni.
If you are interested in an anime, watch an episode or two and you’ll get hooked for sure. 
