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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LightPhoenix" data-source="post: 1148642" data-attributes="member: 115">I would guess what the author meant to convey, though perhaps did so poorly, was that a lot of animated stuff is in the anime style because, as someone said before, it's become hip.  He felt the show sucked, and part of it he feels was due to the anime style being used for no apparent reason. Of course, you have to keep in mind that most people's experience with Japanese animation is crap like DBZ, Sailor Moon, and Pokemon.  And while it may not mean such in Japan, here everything that has a Japanese influence is called anime.  I've seen anime be applied to The Matrix even, and that's not even animated! And while some people here may be able to quote differences amongst Japanese animation, and how some is really anime and some isn't, it's really the public definition that matters.  Ask a random person what anime is, and the response will be Japanese cartoons nine times out of ten (if it isn't a "huh?").   It's the same with Emo (music).  I'm sure a lot of people have heard of Emo, which like Anime has become more prevalent in recent years.  Now I could talk (a bit) about the differences in Emo - Emocore, Emo, and the like.  But most people lump all of it together.  On a similar note, I read an article which lumped Genesis, Pink Floyd, Dream Theater, and Tori Amos all into the category of Progressive Rock.  And needless to say they're all vastly different styles.  Or, you could talk about the defition of RPGs, and how most people wouldn't know the difference between D&D, GURPS, Storyteller, and all the rest.  All they see is the term - be it Anime, Emo, Prog Rock, or RPG. So, I guess the moral is try and realize that while you may be an expert on the subject, the majority of the people aren't, don't care to be, and really don't care to make the distinctions that someone who does care will.  It's a functional definition that works for the majority of the people, and will be used as such.</blockquote>

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