[Archon_Wing]

Lol, well, to me, anime is just Japanese animation, or Japanese cartoons; I don't really draw the difference, and just notes it comes from Japan. It doesn't need to be in another category, besides being noted as media by Japan.

The fact that the Japanese label all animation as anime is pretty obvious why-- because anime literally means animation; it's just an abbreviation.

For this reason, I feel distinguishing anime as separate is somewhat unnecessary, and comes off more as marketing. It's foreign to many of us, so that tends to make it more exotic in a sense to label it "anime". I'd assume it also provided something that media over in our own places didn't.

I mean , certainly, there was/is animation in my own country that could easily match Japanese animation for entertainment value and there sometimes still is, but it seems much less common these days.