| Why is there a RWBY Manga but no RWBY Anime in MAL? Seems illogical to me. I know the production is American but the studio has made the effort to make the show more japanese-like. If there is a mod here, please do something about this if you can. Sorry if this topic has already been covered somewhere. Love and Respect, Me. |
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Phlegmberry said: Why is there a RWBY Manga but no RWBY Anime in MAL? Seems illogical to me. I know the production is American but the studio has made the effort to make the show more japanese-like. If there is a mod here, please do something about this if you can. Sorry if this topic has already been covered somewhere. Love and Respect, Me. u just answered your question by saying japanese-like |
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| Funny thing is, we have Chinese production which is not Japan but still is considered to be on the list. What makes this so? |
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yuccasnpk said: general bias anything from korea or china counts as anime, but anything from america canada etc that has the elements of anime is not considered anime. Funny thing is, we have Chinese production which is not Japan but still is considered to be on the list. What makes this so? |
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hazarddex said: yuccasnpk said: general bias anything from korea or china counts as anime, but anything from america canada etc that has the elements of anime is not considered anime. Funny thing is, we have Chinese production which is not Japan but still is considered to be on the list. What makes this so? Well now, that's sad. |
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hazarddex said: yuccasnpk said: general bias anything from korea or china counts as anime, but anything from america canada etc that has the elements of anime is not considered anime. Funny thing is, we have Chinese production which is not Japan but still is considered to be on the list. What makes this so? seriously, who decide that? who decide what is an anime and what isn't ? |
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| Because RWBY is in the same Gray Area as Avatar. Both may Borrows some Cliches and Tropes from Anime but none of them were made in Japan or any other Asian Country(MAL is not as strict Anymore because of Manwha adaptations). The manga is Made in Japan and Is Seriealized in a manga Magazine. Thats why its here while the Rooster Teeth Show is not. |
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| it's not japanese but i'd still like to see it on here tbh |
| Um,because it's not anime? |
| Honestly, they should have it. If they can call shows from China anime despite not being Japanese, then I don't see why they can't have the likes of RWBY and Castlevania. |
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| I think they may just have just decided to draw the line geographically instead of culturally or aesthetically, because it's a less subjective criterion for administrating a site. The same way government would do in giving legal definition for things like citizenship or the age of majority etc. The reason why Chinese & Korean production is included while American production is excluded is quite simple: if you have drawn the line geographically, the inclusion of American animation means you will have to include every American production that fall under the technical definition of animation. That means you need to include a vast amount of American cartoon like Disney and Simpsons, and that would dilute the site for a considerable degree. It's not the same case with Chinese and Korean productions. |
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| It's made by Americans, and is aimed at a western audience. It's not anime. |
EricAzure said: CHC said: I think they may just have just decided to draw the line geographically instead of culturally or aesthetically, because it's a less subjective criterion for administrating a site. The same way government would do in giving legal definition for things like citizenship or the age of majority etc. The reason why Chinese & Korean production is included while American production is excluded is quite simple: if you have drawn the line geographically, the inclusion of American animation means you will have to include every American production that fall under the technical definition of animation. That means you need to include a vast amount of American cartoon like Disney and Simpsons, and that would dilute the site for a considerable degree. It's not the same case with Chinese and Korean productions. No you don't, only the ones that are clearly anime-inspired such as this one. Anime just means animation; though it refers to the style of Japanese animation, that does not mean it can only be made in Japan. I've said it at the beginning: you don't want your bibliographic criteria to be subjective when you're running a site. You don't want the basic logistic of your site to depend on the result of some endless, facile internet debate about style. What counts as "Japanese style" is highly subjective. The style of Astro Boy is arguably closer to Disney than it is to Naruto. The style of Kaima is closer to East European experimental animation of the 70s than it is to Gundam. The style of Panty & Stocking is closer to The Powerpuff Girls than it is to Madoka Magica. You need to set a clear-cut boundary for running a site, and that's why they have chosen to use geographical criterion. |
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| To be honest, I think the motivation for essentialising "the Japanese style" is usually juvenile: it is usually just teenagers who want to avoid being associated with the kid's shows of Western origin they watched when they were even younger. They have to emphasise what they're watching is "Japanese anime" or "anime-inspired" instead of cartoon because they don't want to be seen as a kid. But in fact the boundary between Japanese and Western animation is just like the boundary between American TV drama and British TV drama. The only way for you to run a fan site of British TV drama is to give clear-cut geographical definition to what "British TV drama" means. You don't want to corrode your strict boundary by including "British-inspired American TV drama" which will only lead to even more in-between cases (eg. How about "British-inspired-American-TV-drama"-inspired American TV drama?) |
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Thread Locked RWBY isn't on the database because it doesn't meet MAL's anime DB guidelines. 1. The following entries are allowed in the anime database: Professionally produced, animated works created:
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