Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-10389886-20151104190702/@comment-1173941-20151104193834

Gryff99 wrote: I like that it's popular, but I just don't want it to be a super over exposed thing. Like Fairy Tail, or Naruto. Or even something like goddamn sonic. The fandom getting full of little kids and preteens. I just don't want it to turn in to another one of -those- shows. How does that relate to it being considered anime? The majority of anime fans in the west (as in people who like "anime" as a whole, not just one or two shows that are anime) are late teens, to young adults.

There's a handful of anime that are "mainstream" in the west (and you can even hardly call them mainstream) and they're all long-running shows that have been around for a long while. RWBY being considered an anime won't bring in little kids. RWBY being considered a cartoon will.