User blog comment:Darkcloud1111/Have We Built The Show Up Too Much/@comment-3257939-20140511025555/@comment-4010415-20140511035810

In the opinion of anyone who only considers anime to be something made in Japan, Space Dandy is the first, despite it airing after RWBY got started. Seriously, it's made in Japan, but it airs in English first here in America and then airs in Japanese over in Japan. It's a bit of an experiment they're trying over there to help animation studios not lose so much money from western viewers watching subbed anime. Or something like that.

(Note: I'm not one of those people who considers anime to only be something made in Japan.)