Chinese animation (simplified Chinese: 中国动画; traditional Chinese: 中國動畫; pinyin: Zhōngguó dònghuà) or Donghua, in a narrow sense, refers to animation made in China.

yea, i am aware

French anime

also Code Lyoko is incredibly

anime-like

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tfiDOi5Kf84

but it is influenced by Japanese animation, which is actual *anime*

but it is all cartoons

Nigga don't know bout black cat detective

Uh

Anime is from France my dude

how so

anime is loan word for animation

I would say that avatar and old Teen titans count as anime

they are anime-like, but are not anime

but both anime and them are cartoons

They learned animation techniques from France

they are obviously inspired by it

They learned from disney too

they learned from more countries than France

Hence astro goy

アニメ. A Ni Me. A Japanese loanword.

the first anime came about in WWII

it was military propaganda

im not saying it isn't inspired by anything outside of Japan

The Japanese word does not mean cartoons from Japan. It just means cartoons

but I am saying that it is its own distinct thing

implying it isn't is false

It has taken on the meaning of "Japanese cartoon"

just because its etymology is that of a loan word that means animation does not mean that is all it means

words take on more meaning as time goes on

and that is what has happened

And the Japanese use this word to refer to Super Mario Bros Super Show, Black Cat Detective, Calabash Brothers, South Park, Wakfu, etc

Its a genre but only outside japan

yes

All cartoons are "anime"

it is a subgenre of the greater whole of animation

It would be more accurate to just say Japanese cartoons

But that is way longer so anime lol

i've no problem calling them japanese cartoons lol