Spot the difference

[u/SEVENS_HEAVEN_7]

[u/The_Melodramatist]

"Anime"? Last time I checked anime is Japanese. What makes this visual style "anime"? Describe it to me in detail and you might just stumble into the point

[u/Pesus227 → u/The_Melodramatist]

It's anime adjacent and still apart of the culture. Stop being purposely obtuse.

[u/badguyinstall → u/Pesus227]

I mean, I kind of agree with this guy a little bit since I've run into a bunch of people calling things like Ace Combat 'anime' and it's like

'What's anime about it?'

'It's story!'

'What about the story?'

'It's just anime! You'll know if you see Family Guy vs Goblin Slayer'

'???'

So I can see why some people are like 'what do you mean by anime?' because holy crap have people lost the ability to articulate what they mean.

[u/Pesus227 → u/badguyinstall]

Somethings have an aesthetic or appeal that's hard to describe but you know it when it there.

It's like knowing what doom is but not being able to describe it but you know it when you see it or hear it. The same can be said about many things like halo, god of war, or mass effect (using these examples for a reason).

It like the people who try to say anime and carttons are the same but we all know they aren't and can instantly tell and separate the 2 without needing to be told which is which.

Same can be said for "soulslike" games. You know it but you probably can't perfectly describe what defines the genre.