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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Hussar" data-source="post: 4875322" data-attributes="member: 22779">PC, you are absolutely right.  100% completely and utterly right.And it still doesn't matter.  Unfortunately.When I did that Find the Anime challenge thread a while back (man, that's a couple of years ago now), some people decided that anime=anything that anime equalled anything with even the slightest bit of Japanese artistic influence.  In other words, pretty much any fantasy image from the last ten or fifteen years.The term does have a very specific meaning, but, as you rightly point out, that's not what it's being used for.  It's what makes these discussions so incredibly difficult because the definitions shift like quicksand and as soon as you start actually using the proper definition of the word, you get labeled a grammar nazi.See, I'd look at those pics you posted a ways back and call them anime as well.  At least close enough for me.  But, by and large, I refuse to use the term anime as a descriptor because I know that its meaning is so muddled and confused and carries so many connotations, that it's pretty much meaningless.</blockquote>