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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Glade Riven" data-source="post: 5546912" data-attributes="member: 86468">No more or less than that old Hobbit cartoon or Return of the King cartoon. Same studio did both. The character designs appear based off of the costumes for the broadway play "Cats." The designs are far more Western based than what people would consider "anime," and it doesn't follow the japanese cultural conventions usually found in anime (exept haichiman, but he was Japanese). At least some of the writers were roleplayers, though. Stylistically, both in designs and method of storytelling, I would say no. The new Thundercats show, though, looks to be heavily influenced by Japanese "Epic Fantasy Cybersteampunk" with a dash of seasoning of Stargate. That's just going by the trailers, though. Nowadays - American animation, Japanese animation, all made in Taiwan. Or South Korea. On a side note, Transformers and GI Joe were produced East-Meets-West style - Hasbro (the american toy company) contracted Sunrise (a japanese animation company) to make it. So technically both are anime...sort of. There was quite a bit of American input. American 'toons today are usually produced the same way - the main company does all the planning, script writing, storyboards, etc - and the gruntwork is outsourced to Asia because creating animation is a long, tedious, and boring process.</blockquote>