From the plot point of view, American animation mainly emphasizes the educational function and national culture of movies, and must follow recognized social norms and moral norms in any case. Advocating personal heroism is easy to find in American cartoons, such as Spider-Man, Superman, and heroes saving the United States. Japanese animation pays more attention to the ups and downs of the plot itself, and the plot is complex, which belongs to the novel type. It's dramatic to connect in series. This is why every American animation is mostly an independent story, while Japanese animation is mostly in the form of a series.

In character design, American animated films pursue the authenticity of appearance, but at the same time, they do not lose the interest of character creation. While the role pursues "realism" infinitely in details, the overall image design has vivid exaggeration, which often shows the most prominent characteristics of the role to the fullest. Japanese animation pursues aestheticism and perfection, and most of the leading men are tall and handsome. The heroine has long hair, oval face, extremely exaggerated big eyes and an equally exaggerated small nose, and has a very good figure.

In action style, compared with American animation, Japanese animation is obviously at a disadvantage in continuity and fluency. The Japanese are hard and the Americans are soft. American action is to show the action, while Japanese action is to show the plot, which is why American animation is relatively expensive, and it is not lazy to use the same number of frames as movies, while Japanese animation can make the same picture for a few seconds, and the mouth cannot move, mainly emphasizing the plot.