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Old Sep 26, 2007, 11:31 PM   #27 (permalink)
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Re: Avatar technically not anime!

The point is that we shouldn't be arguing about what to call it ~_~; We should just enjoy it...

I recognize that the usage of the word "anime" is different depending on your location: but language isn't static. It changes. And the current American definition of "anime" is both too fuzzily defined to be conclusive about what is and isn't anime and too narrow to fit the actual landscape of modern animation. People apply it mainly as an exclusionary term: and most of them are incurable Japanophiles who think that in something that originates in Japan, it's somehow superior to something that doesn't.
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