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Comment on Policy Updates and Feedback (+ a few other things)

SpikesOtherDog@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

It’s hard to pin down what anime and moe is 100%, but we pretty much know what you mean. We use anime and Japanese otaku culture to mean what we are saying, but Chinese games and manwah fit too.

What about Western media with anime influence?

Avatar could fit, and RWBY was on Crunchyroll. Madhouse notably has done some Western work.

I think there should be a fair amount of wiggle room because of this gray area. Cartoon network may not fit, but Toonami might.

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Hoimo@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
This is famously an impossible problem to solve. For example, Scott Pilgrim Takes Off is a Science Saru anime, but MAL sees it primarily as a Netflix production based on a Canadian story. And I have to agree: if the English dub isn’t trash, is it really anime?

I think when you’re studying the contracts between different multinationals to decide whether something is anime or not, it’s better to err on the side of community and friendly discussion, making anything anime-adjacent fair game for this instance.

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I just want to see a King of the Hill community on ani.social

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- SpikesOtherDog@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  I think inclusion is the point here.
  
  No, I don’t believe Miraculous is anime, but it is a love letter to the magical girl genera.
  
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hitagi@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
I’ve been thinking about this too. I might limit it to “East Asian” works because that covers China and Korea. But that still doesn’t cover everything. Western media with “anime influence” is also really tricky too. I was watching Genius Party (collection of Japanese animation shorts) and some of the short films there don’t look anything like “anime” because they’re not very “moe”. But a lot of Western works are “moe”. There’s some disagreement between the two terms.

I could just put “anime” in scare quotes too. That might solve it for now lol

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- SpikesOtherDog@ani.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  It’s definitely a blurry line. There are definite yes and definite no answers. Things like Star Wars: Visions don’t seem like anime to many Westerners at first glance, but it is wholeheartedly. I said elsewhere in these comments that I agree that Gaming as a community is too broad since it is nonspecific. I would leave it up to the communities to police their own content, and not step in unless the community appears unmoderated.
  
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wjs018@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
This is probably going to depend on the community a lot too. In !anime@ani.social, I have used the rule of thumb that anything with either a MAL page or an AniList page is relevant enough. So, by that metric Avatar would not be allowed in that community. However, I could totally see Avatar artwork being allowed in some of the art-focused communities.

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- SpikesOtherDog@ani.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  That is a realistic measuring stick. While an Avatar (or whatever) community wouldn’t belong, content fitting a theme might be allowed. Honestly, unless someone was spamming content, I don’t see an issue with it.
  
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