• Dudewitbow
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    1 year ago

    The definiton never states that the producers had to be japanese, and is rarely what people say about what constitutes what is and isnt anime. That’s why the western definition is a super bastardized term, as there is no concensus about the definition, even between companies, and the ONLY consistent definition is the japanese one

    Arguing wether production matters is the argument of which is more inportant for item production, who designed it who produced said object (e.g Apple is an american company, but not all people agree that an iphone is “made in america”)

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      1 year ago

      “Created in Japan” means that the production company (or at least one of the leading production companies if multiple) is Japanese.

      And yes, the definition is muddy around the web, but when it really matters for stuff that needs to be definite (like databases), there is one, pretty much universal definition. Outside of that, if people like to call Castlevania an Anime in casual discussions it doesn’t really hurt anyone.