So... if I prance over to google and type in "Anime Definition" I'm not going to get something like:Pickapok said:Anime is not a style, there are thousands of anime out there and many of them have a distinct look and feel to them. You can't possibly tell me that a screenshot from Monster looks like it could come from Ouran High School Host Club or that a Gurren Lagann screenshot wouldn't be out of place in Full Metal Panic.
"a style of Japanese film and television animation, typically aimed at adults as well as children."
Anime is absolutely a style. The Last Airbender certainly borrows enough from them to warrant being described as being made in the style of Japanese television animation. Keep in mind that Anime is not purely an artistic style. There are other methods of story telling that are traditional to anime that transcends solely the look. There is a feel to it too. If the works you are describing do not look like Animes or feel like Animes then are they Animes as the term is currently being used? Or are they merely animes for the sole purpose of being Japanese-made animation?
What would you call it if not Anime? That wasn't really discussed. It certainly isn't traditional American animation.
FYI, it should be noted that the animation was done by three South Korean animation studios. JM Animation, DR Movie, and MOI Animation. So no, it isn't all made in America either. These are studios who have done a lot of Anime work. They've had work in IPs like Naruto, Inuyasha, Pokemon, Cowboy bebop, Ghost in the Shell, and a ton of others.
Are none of them now Anime shows/films because the studios are actually Korean? Sounds like shenanigans to me if you think that impacts their status.
Sorry, that's just the way language works. Because the art of Japanese animation had a particular style it is now synonymous with that style and is defined as such. Not sure it would a genre then either though. Genres are kinds of stories. General plot lines. Anime's as understood as a style can be used to cover any such genre.Scars Unseen said:Mahou shoujo(magical girl) is a genre. Mecha is a genre. Well technically those are both sub-genres of fantasy and sci-fi respectively. Anime is not a genre. Anime is a loan word used by the Japanese to describe animated works. Calling anime a genre is like calling "painting" an art style or "senator" a political faction.
However, if people are talking about the tone of such style and how those genres are being told in a way that would be traditionally unique to anime then it could be an adjective appended to the genre. Like an Anime Western or Anime Noire.