Yes, but I'm going to assume you are neither in Japan nor are you Japanese, so why on earth are you attempting to apply a Japanese meaning to a word which, while Japanese in origin, has long since been incorporated into the English language with the specific intent to differentiate Japanese animation from that of other nations.
It's just that in the west we adopted the universal word for animation for our own purposes, and so people like to debate the exact definition behind the word. It's like how people in the west sometimes use 'Ota*u' in it's literal translation (enthusiast) sans the Japanese cultural stereotypes associated with the word, while other people attach them all the same and don't like to employ the word.
Yes, RWBY does have heavy plot similarities with anime (though if you think it's 90% then you clearly don't have a very wide anime spectrum)) which is why I said above that the bones of the plot were animesque, but that is meaningless without taking into account the plots method of PROGRESSION, the THEMES that are relevant in the work, the approach to CINEMATOGRAPHY employed, the FOCAL CONTENT that the series makes use of, the TARGET DEMOGRAPHIC of the work and a whole host of other things that draw their source from the very JAPANESE creators and their JAPANESE sensibilities, and the whims and favors of a JAPANESE consumer market.
Why not discuss RWBY on the RWBY thread, and Avatar on the Avatar thread? Unless your going to bring it back to a discussion on the similarities and differences between eastern and western animation, or a dialogue on animes influence on media in the west or something of that nature where 'anime' (western definition) is relevant, neither title really needs to be discussed on the anime thread.
14-Sep-2014 21:32:00