looking at the shitstorm brewing below this, i'd like to clear something up. anime is simply the japanese way of saying animation or cartoon. in japan, if you showed someone spongebob, it would be called anime. instead of trying to get caught on what is anime and what isn't, just except that all animation is anime, just as much as they are dessins anime, Zeichentrickfilm, and dibujos animados. That being said, this board is based on the term meaning that only anime made in japan should be on here. If you read this far, thank you