What Is Anime?

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Just came across this fantastic definition by Peter Payne at the J-List side blog: Anime, of course, is a collection of fun memes which continually build on story and character concepts established in previous works.

It's a completely false world, or rather a world that's as stylized as, say, Hollywood movies are, and just as we don't actually see cars exploding dramatically in the U.S. every other day, most Japanese males don't find themselves surrounded by harems of adoring females on a regular basis.