Can the original (G1)Transformers be considered an Anime?

[Neuromancer]

It was animated in Japan but written in America?



gonna need your opinions on this brehs.

@Soundwave @The Wave @Turk @Otis Kane Jr.

 

[Gold]

Almost everything is animated in japan or korea so that's kinda moot.

Nowadays we would call this anime style, but if remember watching old school cartoons like X-MEN TAS, this is actually more the same style.
And no one would consider X-Men TAS an anime



So no, this is not an anime

 

[Soundwave]

It was an American cartoon outsourced to foreign animators so no

I think it comes down to the writers room and the cultures reflected in it

You could say that the OG Teen Titans show was anime influenced, but you wouldn't call it an anime, per se

 

[Neuromancer]

Almost everything is animated in japan or korea so that's kinda moot.

Nowadays we would call this anime style, but if remember watching old school cartoons like X-MEN TAS, this is actually more the same style.
And no one would consider X-Men TAS an anime



So no, this is not an anime

It was an American cartoon outsourced to foreign animators so no

I think it comes down to the writers room and the cultures reflected in it

You could say that the OG Teen Titans show was anime influenced, but you wouldn't call it an anime, per se

consider this . Japan and America Both site this as the origin of 4their respective anime off shots.

 

[Gold]

consider this . Japan and America Both site this as the origin of 4their respective anime off shots.

Lol I see the inspiration, but then again Disney also inspired much of anime, doens't make it an anime.
The term "anime" is getting harder and harder to define as well.

There are those like the great Miyazaki who wouldn't even consider modern anime as the same artform as hie works.
He believes that modern anime is incredibly derivative (which it is) and lacks the outside forms of inspiration that his works had (like real life, Walt Disney, Renaissance art, Old Japanese art, etc)

As an artist myself i always find Miyazaki's takes very interesting. He would probably consider what you posted as more of a true anime than what is created today

 

[Neuromancer]

Lol I see the inspiration, but then again Disney also inspired much of anime, doens't make it an anime.
The term "anime" is getting harder and harder to define as well.

There are those like the great Miyazaki who wouldn't even consider modern anime as the same artform as hie works.
He believes that modern anime is incredibly derivative (which it is) and lacks the outside forms of inspiration that his works had (like real life, Walt Disney, Renaissance art, Old Japanese art, etc)

As an artist myself i always find Miyazaki's takes very interesting. He would probably consider what you posted as more of a true anime than what is created today

Tezuka is better.

 

[Gold]

Tezuka is better.

 

[Soundwave]

consider this . Japan and America Both site this as the origin of 4their respective anime off shots.

I could rock with this being called an anime

 

[Neuromancer]

I could rock with this being called an anime

It is it was completely created in Japan, but it's the sequel to.the original cartoon. @The Wave

 

[Ol’Otis]

Not anime
But you can the Asians ha something to do with it

Oh how I miss the great cartoons