Talk:RWBY/@comment-79.178.140.57-20140817011524/@comment-4010415-20141007022347

I never said that the fact that it has Japanese fans makes it an anime. I said that, to them, it's an anime because the Japanese call anything that's animated an anime. Anything. Even if it's not anime to us, it's anime to them. The Japanese are going to call it an anime, regardless of what we feel that it is.

That aside, there are westerners who feel that the word anime can refer to a type of art style, rather than where the series originates from. To them, saying that an animated series with an anime-type art style is not an anime just because it wasn't made in Japan is like saying "If this American flag was made in China, then it's a Chinese flag."

There are also people calling RWBY an anime because, when Monty decided to make RWBY, he said "I want to make an anime." In Monty's mind, what he's making is an anime web series.

Unfortunately, no matter what, there are going to be people arguing over whether or not it's an anime, so I honestly don't really give a flying fuck. It's a 3D animated American web series made in an anime-esque style that some people may or may not call an anime.

Or... it's a RWBY.