Is this considered anime, or does it have to be specifically from Nipland?

Is this considered anime, or does it have to be specifically from Nipland?

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It's an american chinese cartoon

Soo no?

A lot of "anime" is actually made primarily by south koreans but we still call that anime so I guess just call it whatever you want.

my first drop

nah bro, is totally annie may

No it anime inspired not anime. Anime needs to be from Japan, not from some Americans who watched Miyazaki and made an above average cartoon that they ran into the ground with Tumblr pandering and retconing their lore

According to most japanese people who watched the show, it's anime.
source: I have 3 japanese friends.

It's partially inspired by anime.
Call it western anime or american anime or anime adjacent.
It's not anime but it's within anime culture.

>>Yea Forums
Please go to the correct board, thanks

i think "anime" as 3 things:
1- a character design that tries to be "realistic" in major parts of the body like arms or legs and also it "exaggerate" some minor parts like the eyes, hair, etc.
2- it comes from an studio that is in bestasianethnicgroupland
3- animation that is directed by a nip(japanese)

>Above average cartoon

Avatar is superior to an easy 90% of garbage anime that gets shit out.

According to that definition 99% of anime that came out this year isn't actually anime since most anime gets outsourced to korea.
>inb4 b-b-but it was outsourced to a korean studio BY a nip studio!
okay, but then what's even the point of having this in your definition if it doesn't matter how much the japanese studio was involved?

Don't touch mt kids.

What if shaft or trigger or kyoani brings on a western born black or white guy to direct one of their shows?
Is it not anime then?

What if I a westfag get something serialized in shonen jump, is it manga or not?

>okay, but then what's even the point of having this in your definition if it doesn't matter how much the japanese studio was involved?
What
read the second definition.

Retard

A better question for the geographic argument: which part of production has to be Japanese? Writing? Directing? Animation? I think no matter which combination of these you choose, you'll have a Western show that it applies to.

So you would say avatar the last airbender is anime because it fits the first?

this. if theres almost no involvement from a japanese studio in the part that actually matters (the animation, since you know, ANIMe) is it still considered anime?

50% yes.

Yea Forumsutism

Just a bunch of Yea Forumsfags

With 1 alone you are discarding a big chunk of anime.

Personally, anime is animation with heavy Japanese culture imbued.

The Last Airbender was Japanese inspired in the art style, but writing was american (as far as I remember) and setting was more Chinese like, I believe.

>no matter which combination of these you choose, you'll have a Western show that it applies to.
Exception makes the rule.