RWBY

I don't wanna derail the thread, but we are not making a new thread just for this are we?

Why can't anime be considered an art style? Generally when an animation uses a style similar to anime they usually also carry all the other elements natural to an anime apart from regular cartoons (huge budget. mature plot, elaborated dialogues and soundtrack and such). Just saying anime is an animation made in Japan sounds superficial to me.

I don't see why would Japan have a problem with the term anime trascending to englobe high level animations, nor I see any chance anyone could say other countries are stealing Japan's culture, the only show from the west I would catalog anime is Avatar so far

Considering what makes an anime based on the art style is dumb. That would mean that Panty & Stocking and The Tatami Galaxy aren't anime.
Basing it on "mature plot, elaborated dialogues" is also dumb. That would mean K-ON and Lucky Star aren't anime.
Finally, the west has way higher budgets than Japan, so that point is invalid.

Japan obviously doesn't have a problem with the term "anime" being used for international animation, but we're not in Japan. "Anime" comes from "animation". In Japanese, it's literally just the word for cartoons. We use the term to refer to Japanese animation because always saying "Japanese animation" is too much of a hassle and "Japanimation" just sounds silly.

Anyways, OT:
The pacing is reaaaally slow. I don't actually mind that much, but I wonder how many episodes this will end up with.