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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Sixchan" data-source="post: 977180" data-attributes="member: 9189">Probably more than a few times, since none of them have ever been shown (as far as I can tell) over here.I'd be surprised if you had seen a show called Sky One, since it's a television channel. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" />No, Futurama and the like aren't anime, but I was more referring to the fact that Futurama is shown on Adult Swim/Cartoon Network in the States, whereas it's on a different channel here (Sky One for cable and sattelite, Channel 4 for network).I wouldn't call it informative so much as a developed opinion.  IMO, however, Anime and Manga are just terms to define a style of art/animation, the same as impressionism or expressionism.  Take <a href="http://www.megatokyo.com" target="_blank">Megatokyo</a>, for instance.  It's not produced by a Japanese person (Fred Gallagher is American), and it's not aimed at Japanese people (it's a web comic, so it's aimed at everyone), but given it's style (some strips now are even in vertical 4-koma Japanese format), I'd still call it an online Manga.  If it was made into an animated format, I'd call it an Anime.Going by AnimeNation's criteria, if Scooby Doo had been made by a Japanese company, and wass aimed at Japanese people, it'd be an Anime.  I think that no matter where it was made, or who it was aimed at, I could never call something with the art style of Scooby Doo "Anime".To me, Anime is a cartoon medium drawn in a style used mainly in Japan.</blockquote>

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