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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ThirdWizard" data-source="post: 5549719" data-attributes="member: 12037">By the generally used definition? Not really.Now, when you go to an anime convention, you see that lots of anime fans love American-made cartoons, too, of course. Samurai Jack is a beloved example. It isn't anime. It is highly influenced by anime. But, it isn't anime.That's an interesting example. Lets say there are gray areas.That's an interesting idea. What if Disney made a cartoon series in America, but it was specifically targeted at a Japanese audience and aired in Japan and not America. Further, what if it is voiced by Japanese voice actors with no American voice acting? Also, what if the animation style was considered mostly western?I guess this is where we get back into a gray area again. I might venture to call such a thing anime.Exactly my thoughts. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />If Studio Ghibli made a Bugs Bunny cartoon that looked like a Bugs Bunny cartoon, it'd be anime, IMO.But, anime is a cartoon. Heresy, I know. They'll come for me soon... but I think I have time to post this before they get me. In Japan, they'll call Justice League anime, because that's their word for cartoon. So, if you want to get really really technical, Justice League is anime. So are Dexter's Laboratory, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, and Steamboat Willy.But, we've come to refer to it as more specifically Japanese cartoons. It's like how Superman is manga in Japan, but if you called it that in America, people would look at you funny. So it isn't like calling a car made in Mexico for Mexicans a carros, because nobody cares. The only reason we have the term anime in America is to differentiate American cartoons and Japanese cartoons, mostly because of the existance of fandom. If there was a carros fandom, we'd see the same thing with the cars.I will say that it isn't important what the "real" definition of anime is (which probably will change based on who you talk to, as we prove in this very thread). The important thing is that when you or I talk about anime, to be on the same page as whomever we're talking to. That's a language thing. Communication is key.</blockquote>

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