2013-08-06, 08:34 PM
yoosergio Wrote:I don't understand how there could be any argument in the first place. Anime is Japanese animation. That's it. No excuses. It's not from Japan? It's not anime. Anime is not an art style.
As such, RWBY isn't anime, but I'm okay with it being here.
I don't wanna derail the thread, but we are not making a new thread just for this are we?
Why can't anime be considered an art style? Generally when an animation uses a style similar to anime they usually also carry all the other elements natural to an anime apart from regular cartoons (huge budget. mature plot, elaborated dialogues and soundtrack and such). Just saying anime is an animation made in Japan sounds superficial to me.
I don't see why would Japan have a problem with the term anime trascending to englobe high level animations, nor I see any chance anyone could say other countries are stealing Japan's culture, the only show from the west I would catalog anime is Avatar so far