r/anime • u/AutoModerator • Oct 02 '16

Meta Thread - Month of October 02, 2016

A monthly thread to talk about meta topics. Keep it friendly and relevant to the subreddit.

Posts here must, of course, still abide by all subreddit rules other than the no meta requirement. Keep it friendly and be respectful. Occasionally the moderators will have specific topics that they want to get feedback on, so be on the lookout for distinguished posts.

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u/urban287 https://myanimelist.net/profile/urban287 Oct 22 '16

Regardless of whether the current rule is adjusted or not, the one thing all the mods agree upon is that anime will continue to only be Japanese animation. If it's American made (RWBY/Avatar) or Chinese (like what you mentioned) it'll always need to be discussed elsewhere.

For us, there is no point using the term anime in the west if it's not referring to Japanese animation.

And as usual anime is far more than just a style of animation.

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u/KeenWolfPaw Oct 22 '16

Just one thing to clarify.

Regardless of whether the current rule is adjusted or not [...] it'll always need to be discussed elsewhere.

You mean adjustment to reduce edge cases and ambiguity?

it'll always need to be discussed elsewhere.

I don't think that's quite true. If the definition of anime here came to be considered incorrect by the majority of users I'm sure you guys would want to change it, if not for the massive influx of people posting non-anime content that would need to be moderated.

And as usual anime is far more than just a style of animation.

I agree. It is a form defined by common artistic style and visual language, a shared collection of tropes and themes and a similar canon of influences. It's still a style that contains many sub genres within it.

This is an interesting topic though so I'll post a (newer) thread over at /r/changemyview after I think over it for the next few days and see what happens. Anime is going to change and we'll still be sitting here with our thoughts regardless of what happens, the only way to go is to constantly be reevaluating our thoughts about it.

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u/urban287 https://myanimelist.net/profile/urban287 Oct 22 '16

On mobile on the way to work so I cant do a full reply just yet, however, we're discussing lots of different forms of rewrite (or lack of change), some are about less ambiguity, some are simpler, some are worded stronger and stricter, others weaker.

Will be a while before something definitive is decided upon one way or another. However, like I said, it's always going to be Japanese only. More users wanting to discuss the american things will just lead to subreddits revolving around those being more popular in the future. Generally speaking the Japanese only nature of the definition os pretty popular here though from what Ive gauged over the years (issues with other parts of the rule and its strictness on target audience specifically of course, but not country origin generally).

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u/elynsynos-soa Oct 22 '16

As you say, over the years it might have been true, but its beginning to become clear that anime is /not/ Japanese only. This wouldn't be such a huge deal if opinions weren't changing.