Thread:NerdWithAKeyboard/@comment-25396609-20170107013637/@comment-25936766-20170107021749

NerdWithAKeyboard wrote:

Even if it got a Japanese release (like many other cartoons), it would still make it a cartoon becase an anime CANNOT come from anywhere but Japan or Korea. Usually I just tell people that and they realize their mistake. Nah, it's western (web)animation. People think all western animation is cartoons, but cartoons, like anime, have a particular style that distinguishes them.

And Anime is a purely-japanese term. The Japanese use it to refer to all animation, but the rest of the world uses it purely to refer to japan-made animated works, since they have an unique style and tropes not present in western animation, or even other eastern animation.

The correct term is "Animesque". It refers to works not made in Japan, but showing clear influence from Anime, though it doesn't mean it's 100% like an anime in the end.