Should foreign productions such as Donghua, Korean productions and Avatar be removed from the site?

No.

Considering the cultural closeness of Japan, China, and Korea in East Asian civilization, the geographic proximity, crossover of animation staff, huge overlapping market share with many Japanese anime having a huge market and popularity in China and South Korea which also helped contribute to the rise of their native animation industry, the influences seem interwoven enough for them to be functionally inseparable. Or, I should say, they technically still could be separated, but it wouldn't be desirable for this reason. There is a closeness of relation in the market, animation studios, geography, history, and culture there that doesn't exist the way it does in northeast Asia, compared to, say Japan's dealings with Southeast Asia or even less so, Europe and North America in this sphere.

Since "anime" in Japan and the Japanese language just refers to any cartoons/animated works anyway, I think it's functionally fine to refer to Chinese donghua and Korean aeni as anime or interchangeably with anime for the purposes of this website and its database.

No. Maybe put Donghua, Manhwa, and Korean Manhua into different categories from something like manga. Why remove it when they provide different sort of content but are all from the same region?

As another person said, maybe start by regulating xenophobics on here.

@LordSozin I agree. Especially with your last statement!

Heck, I'd accept having an 'origin' tag that could be added to the database entries (JP, CN, etc) Also, a different field for the names so we don't have to shove chinese name and it say 'Japanese'.

Most of all though, would love a way to be able to properly search and filter through Chinese stuff besides throwing a dart at the massive list on the Donghua club... Is there a limit to how many related entries a club can have? What if it breaks? ...

though, odds are no changes will happen. It's not as if the database moderator's can make system changes here, only the actual company owners.

No.

Considering the cultural closeness of Japan, China, and Korea in East Asian civilization, the geographic proximity, crossover of animation staff, huge overlapping market share with many Japanese anime having a huge market and popularity in China and South Korea which also helped contribute to the rise of their native animation industry, the influences seem interwoven enough for them to be functionally inseparable. Or, I should say, they technically still could be separated, but it wouldn't be desirable for this reason. There is a closeness of relation in the market, animation studios, geography, history, and culture there that doesn't exist the way it does in northeast Asia, compared to, say Japan's dealings with Southeast Asia or even less so, Europe and North America in this sphere.

Since "anime" in Japan and the Japanese language just refers to any cartoons/animated works anyway, I think it's functionally fine to refer to Chinese donghua and Korean aeni as anime or interchangeably with anime for the purposes of this website and its database.

On one side, i think they should be a bit more lax, by allowing productions that have been done in korea or japan but not inteded for said markets like the pacific rim animated show made by polygon pictures, stuff like the new scott pilgrim, most of studio mir productions not just Lookism (Avatar, Avatar Korra, Witcher animated movie, Dota Dragon Blood but not stuff like Voltron xd).

But if they do that then that would mean more than half of the american animation market including the simpsons and steven universe should be added the the database cus they are animated in korea as far as i know so that isn't a great idea, but on the other hand if they consider asian animation "anime", why the hell isn't "Trece" in this site? its a Filipino animated show based on a filipino webtoon made for audiences of that same country, i think it fits the criteria. I understand why korean and chinese stuff is more allowed, at the end of the day, look at the credits of any japanese anime of the last like 20 years and you will find that a decent chunk of the staff is from either of those places xd, does Dr Movie ring any bells?

Related to the korean and chinese stuff, television isn't as big in those places so everything is just "ONA", they should for once merge the tv and ona categories into one, idk how many animes i missed because they are so down into the list on the season list. Its really bad that stuff like Pluto, X & Y, Great Pretender, Link Click, Blades of the Guardian and other streaming only anime get put so much down into the list just because of some arbitrary reason, its only serves to hide chinese and korean productions into their own little sector alongside some japanese stuff too that gets underwatched, but it would be at least better if they just allowed you to pick "japanese" "chinese" "korean" if you want to segregate the groups of contents without that much scrolling with buttons at the top of the category.

Tbh having stuff from other parts of asia is doing nobody no harm and its a better website thank imdb to keep in check whatever you watched and look at opinions and stuff like that.

@quercifolia, pretty much. It's weird that all the Chinese Donghuas are shoved into ONAs, not a separate category for 'Donghua' itself.

Even though I think displaying the Chinese name at the top is enough even though there are alternative Japanese titles and the like just below the promo picture on MAL.

"Should foreign productions such as Donghua, Korean productions and Avatar be removed from the site?"

Well, not removed, since it's important information gathered for years by many people, but I want it somehow filtered.
Ironically AniDB has tags for that, but those aren't properly used (or maybe it's a work in progress?).

Which Avatar tho, Quanzhi Gaoshou aka The King's Avatar?

@quercifolia



The 3 chara designers, the art director, the 2 color designers, the 2 compositing directors, the editor, the sound director, the assistant director, the band who does the opening are all Japanese.