If a western company makes something in the style of anime (not

If it's a non-Japanese show, does that make it anime? I think you can answer this on your own.

>>89352759
most animes are made in korea or asian mexico

If it isn't made in Japan, it's /co/. Russian animation, Korean animation (fully Korean, not Japanese anime outsourcing the inbetweens to Korea), both /co/.

So are we going to ignore the fact that Spirited Away is an allegory for child prostitution according to Hayao Miyazaki?

>>89352730
>ywn be as comfy as those birds

The definition of anime isn't an academic set-in-stone kind of thing, for the most part. A lot of anime is outsourced as fuck, but I'd say that the geography of the non-animating creators is where it's at.

It's just the Japanese word for animation/cartoons. Westerners began awkwardly adopting the word into English in the 90s to refer to the (compared to now) few shows that were popular at the time which, because they were the most popular at that particular time, and were of a certain quality that networks figured appealed to western audiences, shared many stylistic idiosyncrasies that western audiences distinguished as decidedly anime-esque and different from cartoons.

Once Japanese animation become more popular overall and westerners became more aware of other, less mainstream Japanese media, the word became less reliable in meaning, but we just kept using it for some reason. I personally think words like "anime" and "manga" are pointless in English, on top of sounding awkward, but the damage is done, and so we have threads like this every so often where people are confused what actually constitutes "anime" because the word was never strictly defined in the first place and was never necessary.

>>89352864
Wrong board, go away.

>>89352784
what korean animation has been talked about on /co/?

>>89353117
Leafie

>>89352864
No it isn't, and he didn't say that. Go back to tumblr.

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>>89353117
Leafie, a Hen Into the Wild

>>89352730
Anime is animation made in Japan for a primarily domestic audience. There could be a Japanese version of Johny Test animated with the worst flash imaginable and it would still be anime.

The word isn't some title to be earned. There are plenty of beautifully animated cartoons out there that deserve praise. Sure, they might never catch up to what Japan has already achieved, but being called a cartoon shouldn't diminish its credibility.

>>89352864
He never fucking said that