I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring

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I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you’re referring to as anime, is in fact, Japanese animation, or as I’ve recently taken to calling it, Japan plus animation. Japanese animation is not mass media itself, but rather another creative component of a fully functioning art form made useful by the Japanese animation studios, culture and government comprising a full and closed standard as defined by the rules of Japanese ("【日本】") art.

Many otaku and NEETs watch a foreign style of animation every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the art form in Japan which is widely consumed today is often called “anime”, and many of its fans are not aware that it is basically a design choice, envisioned by Japanese artists ("【漫画家】"). There really is anime, and these people are watching it, but it is just a part of the foreign mass media they consume.

Anime is the media: the art in a two-dimensional style that allocates the brain's resources to the eyes that we use to consume it. The media is an essential part of mass communication, but useless by itself; it can only function in the context of a consumer watching it. Anime is normally used in combination with the .mkv file format: the whole media is basically Japan with animation added, or Japan/Animation. All the so-called “anime” files are really files of Japan/Animation.