Because that’s what the word comes from. A shortening of “animation” as a borrowed word in japanese making it “anime”. It was used to refer to any drawn animation that came out of japan.
If it doesn’t come from the anime region of Japan it’s just sparkling cartoons yes.
EDIT: The more I read this the more appropriate “sparkling cartoons” is becoming as a description.
As I said, I understand the colloquial usage changes the definition, but that’s why I asked in that first post: “what do you mean?”
Because it’s been decades of change as to what “anime” as a term means to people and by the responses in this thread it’s apparent nobody here has an actual definition to it that matches everyone elses. Some people think it’s the type of story, lots think it’s a certain aesthetic.
Yeah, because marketing knows their audience. Castlevania isn’t actually an anime in that it was entirely western made, but for sure it was marketed as one.
Like a third of the voicelines are anime references. We had Doomfist’s origin cartoon, which was practically an anime. Definitely a load of weebs over at Blizzard (which is great imo, anime can be fun).
I think it’s more to do with the fact that a generation (or two) has grown up watching anime. This includes the people making our entertainment, and they are just influenced by it, sometimes without even realizing it.
It’s not a marketing department pandering to kids, that marketing department was the kids.
I think it is also a UX thing, “Anime inspired stuff, which isn’t really anime - but you will have to to go to wiki to know which is in this category, and not in the regular anime category…” isn’t a good category for Netflix to have as a selector.
There is a lot of goodness to just having a tag which just does what people expect
