How do you feel about non-japanese animation being referred to as "anime"? I think they all should fuck off and get their own term
How do you feel about non-japanese animation being referred to as "anime"...
Alexander Baker
Ian Baker
a lot of """japanese animation""" is outsourced to korea or based on foreign shit
Zachary Martinez
We hijacked their term.
We need to be aware of this. This is the reason why Japanese or French people use the word differently from Zig Forums. Originally it just meant "animated stuff".
Justin Martinez
they outsource to china, philippines, vietnam, and taiwan too
Jordan Clark
What should be the official term for manhwa adaptations like TOG?
Liam Wilson
Anime is somewhat of a stupid word anyway. It's kind of an artstyle, but at the same time it isn't, it can be anything. I think we shouldn't care about "anime" as a subcategory, ideally, but it's hard when the majority of anime always does the same cliches and trends.
Carter Gutierrez
Samsung animation
Ethan Barnes
Gookshit
Ayden Wright
what is 'anime' ?
for some people stuff like olympia kyklos (claymation), wacky tv nanaana (looks like western shit), or even the new GitS SAC (3dcgi) wouldnt be considered 'anime' because it deviates so far from what they expect anime to look like
Carson Phillips
They do have their own term, it's "(Geopolitical affiliation)-Anime", e.g. 'western anime'.
The term separates itself from anime since it communicates that it's not Japanese, but is within the cultural context of anime and includes many stylistic trappings.
Gavin Morales
i'm not autistic enough to get upset about it
Connor Gonzalez
this is why we shouldve kept the term japanimation
Josiah Flores
If it's done by a Japanese studio and directed by Japanese people, it's still anime. Is Mirai Shonen Conan not anime because it's an adaption of a Western novel?
>inb4 shill
I dropped ToG 3 episodes in because it's glorified shonenshit but Korean.
Jack Peterson
>It's kind of an artstyle,
It isn't. It just means Japanese cartoons. It's not hard.
Calling western shit anime is just a misnomer that exists purely for marketing reasons, since the term "cartoon" is repulsive to many (and rightly so).
As such it damage actual anime as a whole by being associated with western shit.
Noah Allen
It de-facto is an art style.
Dominic Reyes
Nolan Flores
no it isn't user. art style refers to how something looks and its art direction. something qualifies as anime if it's produced in japan by japanese people. there may be trends that might make some anime look like other anime but anime is a medium, not an artstyle. japanese war propaganda cartoons from the 40s was inspired by disney and other american cartoons, that doesn't make it an american cartoon.
Nolan Ross
What I'll never understand are people who try to expand the definition of "anime" in an attempt to convince people to watch a show that isn't generally considered anime, like when they say "this show made by people who aren't Japanese and originally voiced in a non-Japanese language is anime, you should watch it". People will do what they like, and they'll use a definition of anime that is useful to them.
Adam Morris
what was his name again?
Henry Johnson
Carter Bailey
The same think you do with all the outsourced modern anime (more than 50%)
Jack Bennett
>"oh you also watch anime"
>"yeah dude, i love avatar"
Jayden Hernandez
>pic related
>this is what i look like
ftfy
Sebastian Russell
or how about this anime
youtu.be
youtu.be
Bentley Butler
Most people use anime as an adjective to refer to a collection of tropes and visual styles. So I'm fine with it, it really doesn't matter. It was always a stupid word anyway and the world would be a better place if we went back in time and gutted the first person to decide to call cartoons specifically from ONE country something else.
Isaiah Gutierrez
literally no one does this
Ryder Morris
I personally believe the term should be used to refer to animation where Japan is the primary target audience, above all else.
But I doubt many people would agree with me and nobody asked anyway so whatever enjoy the blogpost I guess.
Jack Price
Animhwa. And for Chinese animation, animhua. Would that work? There's no word for animation in Korean other than the English lone word that I know of. Mandarin, however, does have its own word, dònghuà.
Blake Cooper
can we just stop using the term anime now? Everything is so generic and bland looking its getting harder to tell the difference every year
Lucas Gomez
That's pretty much what I mean when I say anime as well. I absolutely refuse to watch the Korean or Chinese stuff.
Ayden Reyes
Anime is just a japanese word for animation. All western animation is anime and all japanese anime is animation. They're the same thing. The fact that you call eastern animation anime is akin to you calling all panties made in the east pantsu
Carter Nguyen
>I want to write "J A P A N E S E C A R T O O N S" everytime I want to refer to anime instead of just "anime"
Cooper Williams
This is a katana
William Jones
why would you ever want to refer specifically to japanese cartoons? Just call them cartoons. You like cartoons. You're a huge cartoon fan. That's that
Jackson Jackson
anime is a style
thats how a show written by a jew and paid for by netflix outsourced to asian animation houses can be "anime" and allowed on Zig Forums
Matthew Flores
why does japan call it anime anyway
why not 'electric manga'
Gavin Lee
I would never be caught watching spongebob though, I absolutely hate spongebob
Parker Butler
>mfw americans and japs call movie woovie sound pictures "cartoons" or "anime"
Angel Brown
Because it's a useful distinction when talking about cartoons online. Terms like japanimation didn't happen for no reason.
Angel Jenkins
Linguistically correct.
Robert Parker
Because it's literally derived from the English word "animation". The Japanese have a habit of truncating words so they just kept the first three syllables.
Josiah Price
garbage