What is "Anime"?

[Hakudamashi]

Sure, whatever.

[TheGameNinja]

I think the term anime should apply to animation produced in Japan, not necessarilly actually animated there. Most anime animation is farmed out to korea and other places anyway. But if the production studio managing the creation of the work is in Japan, it's probably anime.

I don't consider Korra or Teen Titans or anything like that anime. Anime-styled yes, but not strictly anime.

[Tanassy]

Anime is animation. That's literally all it is.

3D, 2D, western, eastern, doesn't freakin' matter. It's all the same thing just called different things in different places. Our definition of anime tends to be anything Japan makes just because it makes it easier to identify than calling everything a cartoon or animation. But to them everything animated is anime.

Just like all art is art. Like all Video games are called video games. All music is called Music.

But you can call it whatever you need to call it for others to understand it. Some peopel consider it like a genre, in a way. The artstyle helps, but in the end it really means just about as much as the art itself, it's all just art. It's all just animation.

[Elija2]

In Japan, the term anime refers to all forms of animation from around the world. English-language dictionaries define anime as "a Japanese style of motion-picture animation" or as "a style of animation developed in Japan".

Seems simple enough to me.

[Ye Olde Swagfag]

And where does it put Manga? Is Manga also only "Comics from Japan"? If so, are all Korean "comics" - who hit all the marks of being a manga - not manga?

Korean comics are called manhwa.

[shadowDOESrock]

Korean comics are called manhwa.

You're a manhwa.

[Ye Olde Swagfag]

You're a manhwa.

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