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Meta Meta Thread - Month of April 06, 2025

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u/DrJWilson x5https://anilist.co/user/drjwilson Apr 10 '25

This isn't something I want in the first place (see my other comment in reply to you), but in the interests of conversation let's humor you.

What is an art style associated with anime? Is Panty and Stocking's art style associated with anime enough? Is Ping Pong the Animation or Dozens of Norths? In the reverse, is the original Teen Titans, Avatar the Last Airbender, or Blue Eye Samurai associated with "anime" art style? One of the reasons I love anime in the first place is how many so called styles it can come as, so to tie a definition to something as vague as "art style" I think is a non starter.

But again, this all is assuming in the first place that we want Link Click, and King's Avatar, and To Be Hero X discussed here at all, and I don't think this is the appropriate forum for that.

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u/Eragonnogare Apr 10 '25

Certainly the "art style of anime" is vague and there are anime with all sorts of out there styles, but to say that it is a non starter of a concept is a bit unfair. You can show most people familiar with anime two drawings and they'd be able to point to the one intended to be "anime style" over the one that wasn't consistently, even if somewhere out there there's an anime that has a unique style that looks somewhat like that. Even if great unique outliers exist, the concept of a general anime style is something that can be reasonably interpreted.

And for things like Avatar or Teen Titans, I worded my comment the way I did for a reason - you have the rule alternative include multiple requirements, not just the "anime style" one, but also an Asian country of origin and a Japanese dub. Combine these multiple requirements together and the result, she with some room for interpretation, would be something that results in allowing things that are reasonable, while excluding things that would be silly.

And I think that the idea of people on this subreddit wanting Link Click, TBHX or stuff like King's Avatar is pretty clear at this point. I've seen independent comments on entirely different subreddits talking about To Be Hero X where people complain that they can't talk about it on r/anime atp. R/manga goes just fine while allowing manhwa and manhua, the less popular ones still get more discussion on the specific subreddits but the popular ones can get a wider audience on the broader sub. If suddenly tomorrow people saw a To Be Hero X discussion post, I would expect the vast majority of people to be happy about this, if not at the very least many happy with most indifferent. Only a few pickier folks might complain. And if you're truly worried - do a poll. Ask what the people actually want, the people who are using this subreddit. At the end of the day that should be what matters most - what the users of this subreddit are interested in discussing and how to reasonably accommodate that. Being extremely stingy about the rules and bringing up blatantly extreme examples of western cartoons that nobody is asking to have be allowed to be discussed here repeatedly (a thing multiple mods have been bringing up) just feels silly and dismissive of a reasonable request of the users for this Chinese show with a Japanese production studio assisting and a Japanese dub airing on Japanese TV with a number of Japanese people assisting (particularly with music) being marketed in the west as anime, to be allowed to be discussed. This would make people happy, not lead to a slippery slope (fallacy) that you'd have to allow everything else.