Talk:RWBY/@comment-181.31.138.199-20141228085759/@comment-24891101-20141228201335

I don't see why you're so stuck on this notion of anime being exclusively a Japanese phenomenon. Sure, that's where it started, and that's where most of it comes from. But the very existence of animesque and anime-inspired works out of the West suggests that one ought not rely too heavily on that distinction; I'd readily call those western works anime. Who profits from maintaining this seemingly-artificial distinction?

It's as silly as the EU's concept of a PDO, whereby, for instance, only parmesan cheese made in a few provinces of Italy can be called such. But if someone makes a product very much like parmesan cheese, out of similar ingredients, and with a similar process, is it somehow magically no longer parmesan cheese, simply because its place of origin is geographically different?