First of all, anime is both singular and plural. "Animes" is not a word. [/qoute] Ok, thanks for the information. While I do greatly enjoy some anime, I'm not really a fan as such. I'll like any style of animation if the story is good enough. Though I have had a few experiences where the artwork ruined my enjoyment due to its distracting nature.
Secondly, just because something is animated in Korea does not make it Korean. An anime animated in Korea is still produced by a Japanese company therefore it is Japanese. What you are suggesting is akin to saying that Nike makes Chinese shoes because the shoes are made in China.
Producing the animation, the art, is pretty different from some sweatshop cobbling together a pre-designed product. This would be like if an American company wanted to make a show using Picasso-esque art and asked Picasso to do so back when he was still alive and then people claiming that it isn't really Picasso artistry because an American company paid for it. That'd be silly.
And lastly I protest any definition that labels anime as a "style."
Protest all you want, but dictionaries are still law as far as I'm concerned.
"2. a distinctive appearance, typically determined by the principles according to which something is designed."
You cannot point to any individual anime and say, definitively, that it exemplifies the anime "style" because anime has just as many if not more unique artistic styles in anime and manga as there are in western cartoons and comics. To say otherwise would express a profound ignorance in the sheer variety of anime on the market. You will never have somebody confuse Legend of the Galactic Heroes for Code Geass.
Not entirely true, while you can cite some anime that wouldn't traditionally be considered as conforming to anime's traditional art form, there is a traditional art form that is a dead ringer for most Anime. Think of it like anime as a form being a very large circle with certain anime styles being contained within it that are dead ringers for it.