Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-36003127-20180627094401/@comment-5101683-20180628212534

In my opinion, animes are cartoons drawn in an “anime style.” The problem is that there is no "anime style". The normal style in which anime is drawn has changed from decade to decade, and there's even commentary on this in Perfect Blue, which is drawn in one style while fictional drawings are drawn in a more stylized manner. Both are "anime styles", but the latter is cutesy and the former isn't.

So, for me, Avatar, the Last Airbender counts as anime, despite being made in America. Something like Adventure Time doesn't count because it's missing the signature animation quirks that define anime.

I guess, from the examples you gave, to be not considered anime, the eyes of the human beings would have to be dots or small.

If the characters in Adventure Time were all drawn like Lemongrab, would it be anime at that point?