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Indeed, anime is just a Japanized English loanword for animation. It doesn't actually denote a particular style in that country.

Also, if we look at anime as a style, it in of itself is actually a variant of Disney style animation. Japanese animation as we know started out after WW2 Japanese animators wanting to mimic Disney. For a while, the 2 were almost identical...