How does /a/ define anime?

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>>140166374
Japanese cartoons.

>>140166374
Animation produced by japan.

Shitty incomplete adaptations with an occasional original worth watching every couple of seasons.

>>140166374
Primarily 2D animation made primarily by Japanese staff and Japanese studios, backed by Japanese companies, for a primarily Japanese audience.

>>140166762
Back to /v/.

>>140166602
What the fuck is this shit?

Cartoons made primarily in Japan by Japanese animation studios (and whatever other studios they outsource work to).
Anime trying to mimic western animation (Panty & Stocking, Space Dandy, most of what Trigger does) still count as anime but western cartoons trying to imitate anime (Teen Titans, Avatar, Ben 10) are not anime.
Sometimes you end up with tricky shows like Bakugan, originally Japanese but due to its failure in Japan contrasted by its success in America and Canada, the show changed gears, with the next seasons airing in the west before Japan and the final season not airing in Japan at all. The season is definitely anime but the next few are debatable.

>>140167034
>the first season is definitely anime
Sorry about that typo

>>140166374
god's gift to humanity

>>140166374
Autism fuel

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>>140166374
my only reason to live.

Chinese cartoons for Chinese babies.

>>140166374
Reason to not kill myself

>>140166374
Korean made commercials funded by Japanese companies

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Technical term: animation shows and movies of any kind, as it is an abbrevation of animation I think the technical term anime can apply to all kinds of animation, japanese or not.

Cultural term (the one I use): animation produced in Japan.

Since anime is simply short for animation in Japanese, if we import the word from Japanese with no alterations, that's all it means. However, the reason it's used in the west is obviously to distinguish between western and east-Asian animation, so I think it really should mean Japanese animation only. A western animation that mimics east-Asian style is nothing more than that.

Anime is garbage.

>>140166374
NARUTOONEPIECEDRAGONBALLBLEECHAKAMEGAKILL

>>140166602
What is this shit ?
Why does Tumblr has to do fan art of a japanese thing in a deviantart feat. tumblr nose style ?

Anime made in China.

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>>140166374
OPPAI!

>>140166374
Happiness

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>>140166602
>over 9000

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If it pickles my kitty, it's anime.

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>>140166374
Loaded question by shitters that want to indoctrinate stupid shit like Avatar and RWBY into their weeb club.
It's Japanese animation, made for a Japanese market
Fuckwits would like to poke holes into this brain dead definition with such shit as
>muh korea
>muh international collaborations
>muh western market
>muh tekonkinkreet
Piss off you globalist swine, accept that there is something called anime and its definition is not progressive
If you want to make up words to describe works that are tangent either in production or style so be it but don't go dragging decades of work down with it by changing the meaning of a word no one was confused on 10, 20, or 30 years ago.

>>140166602
That's literally what Anime is

a mistake

>>140171365
https://youtu.be/74RujrvY9AU

>>140166374
Never Ending Girls' Talk