Sabrblade wrote:RodimusRex wrote:Which basically means this will be the first U.S. produced Classics/Generations anime.
If this is an American production, why would it be an anime?
Because Americans have been marketing their stuff done in anime or manga styles as anime and manga for 20 years and, unlike champagne only coming from Champagne, France due to agricultural regulations, it's been probably ten years at least since there was still meaningful resistance left to labeling non-Japanese work as anime or manga?
It certainly doesn't stop, for example, Marvel from using the anime term gratuitously.
Also, because the animation may be Japanese produced in an anime studio for all we know but the scripts are probably the part produced stateside.
And by the time you started having meaningful co-productions like Big O -- and because entertainment is pretty much multinational -- I'm not sure national origin quibbling makes sense.
And although it might or might not have qualified at the time, I think the definition has shifted enough for anime that G1 counts NOW even if it didn't THEN. The definitions for words aren't exactly something that can stay fixed. That's part of why new dictionaries come out every year.
And, well, dictionaries now define anime as being based on a Japanese style rather than originating in Japan. The word's changed. Maybe through abuse but abusing language is a valid way to change it.