| Aye~ Serious question... With Netflix, Amazon etc beginning to dip its toes into the anime industry, will it ever be possible for an animation produced in the U.S to be considered anime? Or more like, will it be accepted by the community as an anime? Such as appearing on this site etc... I know it is technically not "anime" since it won't be produced in Japan, but the idea of "anime" doesn't have set boundaries thus a U.S animation could be considered an anime by the industry or community... Hence the debate whether shows such as RWBY and Castlevania should be considered anime... What are your opinions? Do you think U.S animation that is draw exactly like anime be considered an "anime"? |
| they are already... WTH? curious gorge and shaun the sheep currently sitting on top japan TV anime rating 7 and 9 respectifully... frozen was winning tokyo anime awards back in the 2014.... |
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| To Japan, "anime" refers to all animation. Everyone else uses "anime" to define Japanese animation. So it depends on the perspective. People living in Japan would consider Avatar or Spongebob to be anime, but we wouldn't |
Nomar_95 said: To Japan, "anime" refers to all animation. Everyone else uses "anime" to define Japanese animation. So it depends on the perspective. People living in Japan would consider Avatar or Spongebob to be anime, but we wouldn't Yeah but Chinese animation is now being considered anime... So how does that make sense? |
Kuma said: they are already... WTH? curious gorge and shaun the sheep currently sitting on top japan TV anime rating 7 and 9 respectifully... frozen was winning tokyo anime awards back in the 2014.... -Slow clapping- -Slow clapping with echo- -Slow clapping echoing through hallway- Congratulations... You're unoriginal |
Nyah_Chan said: Kuma said: they are already... WTH? curious gorge and shaun the sheep currently sitting on top japan TV anime rating 7 and 9 respectifully... frozen was winning tokyo anime awards back in the 2014.... -Slow clapping- -Slow clapping with echo- -Slow clapping echoing through hallway- Congratulations... You're unoriginal what? i simply pointing out reality that those shows is more considered anime than shows you mentioned... Nyah_Chan said: Nomar_95 said: To Japan, "anime" refers to all animation. Everyone else uses "anime" to define Japanese animation. So it depends on the perspective. People living in Japan would consider Avatar or Spongebob to be anime, but we wouldn't Yeah but Chinese animation is now being considered anime... So how does that make sense? because manhua and manhwa... |
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Kuma said: Nyah_Chan said: -Slow clapping- -Slow clapping with echo- -Slow clapping echoing through hallway- Congratulations... You're unoriginal what? i simply pointing out reality that those shows is more considered anime than shows you mentioned... Nyah_Chan said: Yeah but Chinese animation is now being considered anime... So how does that make sense? because manhua and manhwa... (.-. yeah... Obviously... But you know... the whole... not made in Japan thing... Yet still considered anime |
Nyah_Chan said: exactly... it's all eurocentrism to begin with that they can't differentiate japan, china and korean artworks... when the DB established,they just realized that and too lazy to change it...Kuma said: what? i simply pointing out reality that those shows is more considered anime than shows you mentioned... because manhua and manhwa... (.-. yeah... Obviously... But you know... the whole... not made in Japan thing... Yet still considered anime japan coldn't care less how it looks or from where it made... if it's animated, then it's anime... and i fully support that definition... fuck your castelvanie, rwby, avatar, ETC... everthing diserved to be called anime... so i can put shaun the sheep and masha the bear in my favorite list... |
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| Anime... Cartoons... F*ck delineations. It's animation. All of it. No distinctions.  |
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| Myanimelist should be myanimationlist. That way South Park can be on top of my favorites. |
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| NO, no no nonono NO, NOOOOOOOOO no just no |
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| Personally, I don't care what it's called as long as its good to watch :^] Plus it's been nice to see animation development geared towards this area from places other than Japan. Some of the recent/continuing Chinese titles have been surprisingly good in my opinion. Watching Qin Shi Ming Yue change from PS1 type cutscenes to modern CG/drawings has been oddly gratifying. Also Huyao Xiaohongniang has gotten a Japanese dub, which tickled me when I found out. |
| The definition of anime itself is still varied. There will be no definitive answer for your question as long there's no definitive answer defined for what anime is. For Chinese Cartoon, it simply just because we don't coin a term for it yet. If we really care enough, there's should be distinguishable term for each animation, just like Manga, Manhwa and Manhua. |
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pgmhecateii said: I prefer not, just because to us Western people it makes it easier to see what we are talking about. but stuff like Avatar is between the border of cartoon and anime.. Its one of the greatest masterpiece evermade especially The Last Airbender. |
| It won't and It will NEVER be >Just saw Jaden WELLOW SMITH anime >Netflix >Production I.G >Deviant Art Style GARBOOOOO.. /thread |
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| I call western animation "cartoons" and always will refer to them as it. |
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| everything animation is considered anime in japan anyway considering the word anime simply means animation to them there |
What are your opinions? Do you think U.S animation that is draw exactly like anime be considered an "anime"? I'm sorry but this is a very dumb question imo u_u Do you even know what anime is? It's Japanese cartoon, cartoon produced in Japan, Japanese animation. Anime is derived from the Japanese version of the word animation = animeeshon. Thus, anime for short. So no. Things like Avatar and Castlevania IS NOT ANIME however it does have STYLE SIMILAR TO ANIME even though it's american cartoon/american animation. The answer to this thread is NO period. No matter how similar the art style is, it will never be called an anime and it will never be on this site. unless you're a japanese that call all animation anime /thread |
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| I don't know, I'm too lazy to have a philosophical analysis every time a new animation comes out. It's not like you have to specify in a conversation anyways. If you are speaking generally, it's "Hey do you watch anime?" If you are speaking specifically, it's "Hey did you watch <insert show here>" At what point in time do I ever need to use the name of the show and "anime" in 1 sentence? Well... never. It's a problem that only exist because you think about such a non-existent problem in the first place (or you watch the cancer that is top 10 lists). It's not like the name you use to refer to something fundamentally changes it. Calling someone an idiot/genius is just a description, it doesn't actually change his IQ. |
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suzuya_mitsuko said: The definition of anime itself is still varied. There will be no definitive answer for your question as long there's no definitive answer defined for what anime is. For Chinese Cartoon, it simply just because we don't coin a term for it yet. If we really care enough, there's should be distinguishable term for each animation, just like Manga, Manhwa and Manhua. it's called donghua and for koreans it's aeni... it was japan like to westernizazed everything in the meiji era whre japan animation starting to rise, thus it's taken from western word animation...... |
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| I literally just came here to ask if Voltron was considered anime lol. |
pedro_guerrero said: whenever you look for novel translations, i suggest this site:Hello have anyone watch isekai wa smartphone also wondering is there is a website to read light novel in their orinigal langauge like japanese. If it possible to translate that original language light novel with Google translate and if not that will.Has to actually translate into understandable sentence not nonsense http://www.novelupdates.com/series/in-a-different-world-with-a-smartphone/ if you want japanese language you could probably google [the name in japanese] + RAW or PDF or smth like that |
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| Only Japanese Animation should be considered anime on MAL, and in the anime Community. |
| As long as my list stays Jap voiced y'all silly fuckers can play whatever stupid semantics games ya want. |
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| Anime is a Japanese term for hand-drawn or computer animation. So actually american animation is anime |
Nyah_Chan said: Aye~ Serious question... With Netflix, Amazon etc beginning to dip its toes into the anime industry, will it ever be possible for an animation produced in the U.S to be considered anime? Or more like, will it be accepted by the community as an anime? Such as appearing on this site etc... I know it is technically not "anime" since it won't be produced in Japan, but the idea of "anime" doesn't have set boundaries thus a U.S animation could be considered an anime by the industry or community... Hence the debate whether shows such as RWBY and Castlevania should be considered anime... What are your opinions? Do you think U.S animation that is draw exactly like anime be considered an "anime"? To the Japanese sure American animation is anime. To those outside of Japan the answer is no. Because outside of Japan the term anime refers to Japanese made cartoons made primarily for a Japanese audience. |
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| Never because without the distinction between the "mature" anime and the "childish" cartoons anime fans wouldn't be special anymore. |
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Kuma said: it's called donghua and for koreans it's aeni... it was japan like to westernizazed everything in the meiji era whre japan animation starting to rise, thus it's taken from western word animation...... There's term already for it? Well.. I guess it's not widely know for now. Now, I think it just up to people wether they want to differentiate the animation just like manga or being ignorant and stick with just anime. For me, it should be different, but it takes times to persuade people because not so many korean and Chinese animation are widely known. Plus, there's only a little differences on animation, beside the dub. Nyu said: Only Japanese Animation should be considered anime on MAL, and in the anime Community. Well, I'm sure I already seen some Chinese, Korean (even North Korea) animation on MAL. And here's some clip from DB Guidelines : Section I: Anime Additions 1. The following entries are allowed in the anime database: Professionally produced, animated works created: in Japan for the Japanese market; in Korea/China for the Korean/Chinese market; as a joint production between Japan/Korea/China and another country. Note: This does not include productions where only the animation is outsourced. https://myanimelist.net/forum/?topicid=515957 From that I think I can safely say that Anime definition on MAL is "East Asian" Animation. |
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