Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-108.80.32.16-20160803042127/@comment-25936766-20160803172546

MiniDaggers wrote: But does anybody really want to get into that old fucking debate and get into the technicalities and definitions of anime? Why don't we do just that?

When a person says anime, there are multiple things they can mean by that:

1-Animation made in Japan. RWBY is Murican, hence not an anime.

2-Animation done in a style similar to the one often present in japanese animation. This one is also called "animesque", and is what fits RWBY.

3-Animation in general. But following this meaning will mark you as a weeaboo, since while using anime by it's literal meaning (animation) is technically correct, there's no reason to use a word from a different language than your own if that's what you were going to say. Why call it "Anime" instead of "Animation"?". It's like when english-speaking people say "KAWAIIII" or "MOE" instead of, say, "CUTE", to refer to a cute thing.

It's only excused in discussions and conversations that involve use of japanese, or if the speaker is japanese themself.