Pretty safe bet here on the Stardock forums.

Okay, this one needs explaining. Sure I watched Pokemon and DBZ as a kid, but by and large I do not like Anime. I fail to see why liking Sci-fi/Fantasy strategy games would have any relation to it.

Anime is a word often only partially applied since it's only a partial word.  I've been to a lot of places in the world and there aren't too many people that I know that don't watch The Simpsons or Family Guy.  Both count as anime.  There's also the Disney crowd.  Disney anime has been around for 60 some odd years and is still going strong.  Warner Brothers and MGM also have had Bugs Bunny and company since the late 1930's and are known worldwide and enjoyed daily...  MGM and Time Warner share in the fun with Tom and Jerry and friends and have done so since the early 1940's...

Granted I don't watch cartoons on Saturday mornings, (used to catch Robotech and X-Men every week as a kid) but in the evenings when Family Guy is on I put down the remote and watch the show. So in that respect, yes, I like and do watch anime fairly regularly.

Um, actually it does.  The term anime is typically only applied to stuff from Japan by the average person familiar with it, however the industry considers ALL animated works to be anime.  Thus American cartoons such as the Simpsons or Family Guy is considered to be American anime and is coined as such in most Asian countries.

Sorry, but I'll take Webster's word when it comes to words.

The video is blocked in my country, so whatever point you wanted to make you'll have to do it the old-fashioned way: through text.

Ohh, and also, non-Japanese animation isn't anime in the same way that non-British rock/pop isn't britpop, the country of origin is a vital part of the category's definition.

Never quote or link me educational resources when trying to state a rebuttal, it just makes me try harder to educate the masses properly.  =D

You should know that Merriam-Webster is one person picking what they think the definition should be and 3 people agreeing with them after they spend a couple hours trying to figure out how it's used, and Webster's first dictionary basically just ripped off the Oxford English Dictionary, changed the spellings of thousands of words and omitted words he didn't care to have taught in American classrooms.  I challenge you to dispute it.

However as I stated in my very first sentence, anime is only a partial word, not a style as you think it means.  Japanese write the English term "animation" in katakana as アニメーション (animēshon), and the term アニメ (anime) (notice the first three characters are the exact same) emerged in the 1970s as an abbreviation.  So using the term anime, you're just using the shortened version of the word animation, where once again, as I said before, the industry, meaning all companies who produce animated works worldwide, refer to any animated material as animation, or anime if they are using the shortened form.  They are all one in the same thing.  Grab an encyclopedia made after the 70's and look it up.

The 'style' of animation referred to by Webster is indeed the style of animation made popular by Japanese artists over the past 70 years, but no single animation artist in Japan will agree with Webster's definition because they themselves classify all animated works as anime, not just their own.  Personally, I'll take their word over Webster's for it's use since they created it, not Webster.  The use of the word to describe Japanese cartoon's style is purely an American created use, and a poor one at that.  It's like saying can't or RSVP instead of spelling it all out as cannot or reply please and then saying it means the color green.  And people wonder why the US educational system is a failure when compared to most other developed nations...

Learning is fun isn't it? 

@GoaFan77 - I meant the term 'American anime' is coined and used in Asian countries not the term anime itself.  The term anime is the Japanese shortened version of the word animation as I described above, and to them all animation is anime is animation.  Cartoons are just cartoons if you want to compare all of the ones you've watched.  Bison is possibly, like many people from the US, applying the word incorrectly.

"This video contains content from IDAEntertainment, who has blocked it in your country on copyright grounds.".

As a anime/cartoon or w/e the fuck you want to call it fan boy yes, as a artist no majority of the styles are generic and boring,it holds weak and boring compositions. There is always that 10% that doesn't follow the trend, but those are hard to find now a days.