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PostPosted: Thu Dec 03, 2015 8:48 am


So I have been watching the God Eater anime, since I am a HUGE freaking fan of the PSP game (HURRY UP MURICA, I WANT THAT RAGE BURST). I have finally finished it and resumed with Gangsta, during that time a friend decided to watch RWBY. A thought came to my head since everyone I knew started watching something, what do you think makes an anime an anime? My personal thought is just an animated cartoon from japan.

Note: I wanna see what you guys, and no fighting over what you personally think...Unless theres some kind of "Official" thing
PostPosted: Thu Dec 03, 2015 9:19 am


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So I have been watching the God Eater anime, since I am a HUGE freaking fan of the PSP game (HURRY UP MURICA, I WANT THAT RAGE BURST). I have finally finished it and resumed with Gangsta, during that time a friend decided to watch RWBY. A thought came to my head since everyone I knew started watching something, what do you think makes an anime an anime? My personal thought is just an animated cartoon from japan.

Note: I wanna see what you guys, and no fighting over what you personally think...Unless theres some kind of "Official" thing


To give you an answer to your question "What makes an anime an anime" you need first give a definition to anime. Now you have a few schools of thought on this:

The first school is any and all things animated is "anime" in Japan. "Anime (Japanese: アニメ?, [anime] ( listen))[a] are Japanese animated productions featuring hand-drawn or computer animation. In Japan, the word refers to all animation, being a shortened form of the rōmaji animēshon ("animation")." I have seen examples of the Simpsons being classified as "anime" in Japan. This is a common approach for most of the older generations in Japan to call any thing that isn't life action as "anime", while in western countries, we see the older generations will call it cartoons. This is the most accurate school with the lest flaws.

The second school dictates that anime is strictly cartoons from Japan. This common place amongst the younger generations, who view anime as being... cooler thin cartoons. The common line for this is "It's not a cartoon dad, its anime, there is a big difference!" This school is some what flawed as there are a number of examples of shows made by counties that cannot be distinguished from shows made in Japan. A good example is The Boondocks.

And of course the 3rd school is that anime is a distinct style not tied only to Japan. A good example is The Boondocks which is an American made series using the Japanese style of animation. This school is also flawed, you can find a number of examples of anime with western styles.

In short it all comes down to which school you wish to follow and what definition you wish to give to Anime.

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 17, 2016 5:58 am


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Dr Nightroad
So I have been watching the God Eater anime, since I am a HUGE freaking fan of the PSP game (HURRY UP MURICA, I WANT THAT RAGE BURST). I have finally finished it and resumed with Gangsta, during that time a friend decided to watch RWBY. A thought came to my head since everyone I knew started watching something, what do you think makes an anime an anime? My personal thought is just an animated cartoon from japan.

Note: I wanna see what you guys, and no fighting over what you personally think...Unless theres some kind of "Official" thing


To give you an answer to your question "What makes an anime an anime" you need first give a definition to anime. Now you have a few schools of thought on this:

The first school is any and all things animated is "anime" in Japan. "Anime (Japanese: アニメ?, [anime] ( listen))[a] are Japanese animated productions featuring hand-drawn or computer animation. In Japan, the word refers to all animation, being a shortened form of the rōmaji animēshon ("animation")." I have seen examples of the Simpsons being classified as "anime" in Japan. This is a common approach for most of the older generations in Japan to call any thing that isn't life action as "anime", while in western countries, we see the older generations will call it cartoons. This is the most accurate school with the lest flaws.

The second school dictates that anime is strictly cartoons from Japan. This common place amongst the younger generations, who view anime as being... cooler thin cartoons. The common line for this is "It's not a cartoon dad, its anime, there is a big difference!" This school is some what flawed as there are a number of examples of shows made by counties that cannot be distinguished from shows made in Japan. A good example is The Boondocks.

And of course the 3rd school is that anime is a distinct style not tied only to Japan. A good example is The Boondocks which is an American made series using the Japanese style of animation. This school is also flawed, you can find a number of examples of anime with western styles.

In short it all comes down to which school you wish to follow and what definition you wish to give to Anime.

Oh wow! I never knew that! animēshon - anime surprised that was very informative I knew it was related to animation but I couldn't see where they got anime specifically from.
PostPosted: Thu Mar 17, 2016 4:20 pm


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Dr Nightroad
So I have been watching the God Eater anime, since I am a HUGE freaking fan of the PSP game (HURRY UP MURICA, I WANT THAT RAGE BURST). I have finally finished it and resumed with Gangsta, during that time a friend decided to watch RWBY. A thought came to my head since everyone I knew started watching something, what do you think makes an anime an anime? My personal thought is just an animated cartoon from japan.

Note: I wanna see what you guys, and no fighting over what you personally think...Unless theres some kind of "Official" thing


To give you an answer to your question "What makes an anime an anime" you need first give a definition to anime. Now you have a few schools of thought on this:

The first school is any and all things animated is "anime" in Japan. "Anime (Japanese: アニメ?, [anime] ( listen))[a] are Japanese animated productions featuring hand-drawn or computer animation. In Japan, the word refers to all animation, being a shortened form of the rōmaji animēshon ("animation")." I have seen examples of the Simpsons being classified as "anime" in Japan. This is a common approach for most of the older generations in Japan to call any thing that isn't life action as "anime", while in western countries, we see the older generations will call it cartoons. This is the most accurate school with the lest flaws.

The second school dictates that anime is strictly cartoons from Japan. This common place amongst the younger generations, who view anime as being... cooler thin cartoons. The common line for this is "It's not a cartoon dad, its anime, there is a big difference!" This school is some what flawed as there are a number of examples of shows made by counties that cannot be distinguished from shows made in Japan. A good example is The Boondocks.

And of course the 3rd school is that anime is a distinct style not tied only to Japan. A good example is The Boondocks which is an American made series using the Japanese style of animation. This school is also flawed, you can find a number of examples of anime with western styles.

In short it all comes down to which school you wish to follow and what definition you wish to give to Anime.

Oh wow! I never knew that! animēshon - anime surprised that was very informative I knew it was related to animation but I couldn't see where they got anime specifically from.


With the second school of thought is that anime is short for Japanamation. But this is from a misunderstanding from what I have seen, (my keyboard is going out it seems.)

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 17, 2016 8:10 pm


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Dr Nightroad
So I have been watching the God Eater anime, since I am a HUGE freaking fan of the PSP game (HURRY UP MURICA, I WANT THAT RAGE BURST). I have finally finished it and resumed with Gangsta, during that time a friend decided to watch RWBY. A thought came to my head since everyone I knew started watching something, what do you think makes an anime an anime? My personal thought is just an animated cartoon from japan.

Note: I wanna see what you guys, and no fighting over what you personally think...Unless theres some kind of "Official" thing


To give you an answer to your question "What makes an anime an anime" you need first give a definition to anime. Now you have a few schools of thought on this:

The first school is any and all things animated is "anime" in Japan. "Anime (Japanese: アニメ?, [anime] ( listen))[a] are Japanese animated productions featuring hand-drawn or computer animation. In Japan, the word refers to all animation, being a shortened form of the rōmaji animēshon ("animation")." I have seen examples of the Simpsons being classified as "anime" in Japan. This is a common approach for most of the older generations in Japan to call any thing that isn't life action as "anime", while in western countries, we see the older generations will call it cartoons. This is the most accurate school with the lest flaws.

The second school dictates that anime is strictly cartoons from Japan. This common place amongst the younger generations, who view anime as being... cooler thin cartoons. The common line for this is "It's not a cartoon dad, its anime, there is a big difference!" This school is some what flawed as there are a number of examples of shows made by counties that cannot be distinguished from shows made in Japan. A good example is The Boondocks.

And of course the 3rd school is that anime is a distinct style not tied only to Japan. A good example is The Boondocks which is an American made series using the Japanese style of animation. This school is also flawed, you can find a number of examples of anime with western styles.

In short it all comes down to which school you wish to follow and what definition you wish to give to Anime.

Oh wow! I never knew that! animēshon - anime surprised that was very informative I knew it was related to animation but I couldn't see where they got anime specifically from.


Any was, all 3 schools of thought have there hard core fanatic fans. This leads to a lot of fighting in the fandom
PostPosted: Fri Mar 18, 2016 6:59 am


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Dr Nightroad
So I have been watching the God Eater anime, since I am a HUGE freaking fan of the PSP game (HURRY UP MURICA, I WANT THAT RAGE BURST). I have finally finished it and resumed with Gangsta, during that time a friend decided to watch RWBY. A thought came to my head since everyone I knew started watching something, what do you think makes an anime an anime? My personal thought is just an animated cartoon from japan.

Note: I wanna see what you guys, and no fighting over what you personally think...Unless theres some kind of "Official" thing


To give you an answer to your question "What makes an anime an anime" you need first give a definition to anime. Now you have a few schools of thought on this:

The first school is any and all things animated is "anime" in Japan. "Anime (Japanese: アニメ?, [anime] ( listen))[a] are Japanese animated productions featuring hand-drawn or computer animation. In Japan, the word refers to all animation, being a shortened form of the rōmaji animēshon ("animation")." I have seen examples of the Simpsons being classified as "anime" in Japan. This is a common approach for most of the older generations in Japan to call any thing that isn't life action as "anime", while in western countries, we see the older generations will call it cartoons. This is the most accurate school with the lest flaws.

The second school dictates that anime is strictly cartoons from Japan. This common place amongst the younger generations, who view anime as being... cooler thin cartoons. The common line for this is "It's not a cartoon dad, its anime, there is a big difference!" This school is some what flawed as there are a number of examples of shows made by counties that cannot be distinguished from shows made in Japan. A good example is The Boondocks.

And of course the 3rd school is that anime is a distinct style not tied only to Japan. A good example is The Boondocks which is an American made series using the Japanese style of animation. This school is also flawed, you can find a number of examples of anime with western styles.

In short it all comes down to which school you wish to follow and what definition you wish to give to Anime.

Oh wow! I never knew that! animēshon - anime surprised that was very informative I knew it was related to animation but I couldn't see where they got anime specifically from.


Any was, all 3 schools of thought have there hard core fanatic fans. This leads to a lot of fighting in the fandom

People from the same fandom shouldn't fight ;~;

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PostPosted: Fri Mar 18, 2016 7:08 am


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Dr Nightroad
So I have been watching the God Eater anime, since I am a HUGE freaking fan of the PSP game (HURRY UP MURICA, I WANT THAT RAGE BURST). I have finally finished it and resumed with Gangsta, during that time a friend decided to watch RWBY. A thought came to my head since everyone I knew started watching something, what do you think makes an anime an anime? My personal thought is just an animated cartoon from japan.

Note: I wanna see what you guys, and no fighting over what you personally think...Unless theres some kind of "Official" thing


To give you an answer to your question "What makes an anime an anime" you need first give a definition to anime. Now you have a few schools of thought on this:

The first school is any and all things animated is "anime" in Japan. "Anime (Japanese: アニメ?, [anime] ( listen))[a] are Japanese animated productions featuring hand-drawn or computer animation. In Japan, the word refers to all animation, being a shortened form of the rōmaji animēshon ("animation")." I have seen examples of the Simpsons being classified as "anime" in Japan. This is a common approach for most of the older generations in Japan to call any thing that isn't life action as "anime", while in western countries, we see the older generations will call it cartoons. This is the most accurate school with the lest flaws.

The second school dictates that anime is strictly cartoons from Japan. This common place amongst the younger generations, who view anime as being... cooler thin cartoons. The common line for this is "It's not a cartoon dad, its anime, there is a big difference!" This school is some what flawed as there are a number of examples of shows made by counties that cannot be distinguished from shows made in Japan. A good example is The Boondocks.

And of course the 3rd school is that anime is a distinct style not tied only to Japan. A good example is The Boondocks which is an American made series using the Japanese style of animation. This school is also flawed, you can find a number of examples of anime with western styles.

In short it all comes down to which school you wish to follow and what definition you wish to give to Anime.

Oh wow! I never knew that! animēshon - anime surprised that was very informative I knew it was related to animation but I couldn't see where they got anime specifically from.


Any was, all 3 schools of thought have there hard core fanatic fans. This leads to a lot of fighting in the fandom

People from the same fandom shouldn't fight ;~;


Lol. It happened all the time in every fandom lol. When a fandom is large, your bound to get opposeing views. Just look at subbed vs. Dubbed. The disagreement fights make it fun and informative.
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