

It doesn't matter if it was made in America, Korea, Japan, Borneo or Madagascar. While Japanese people can tell the stylistic differences between Western and Eastern animation, it is all referred to as anime. While Americans have come to use anime as a term for animated projects from Japan, the word anime just refers to all pieces of animation in its home country - period. King of the Hill is considered an anime.in Japan.


Yobi, The Five Tailed Fox and Seoul Station (the prequel to Train to Busan) are aeni that King of the Hill might appear closer to in nature than, say, a Japanese anime like Oreimo. However, King of the Hill can arguably be referred to as an aeni, a name given for animation produced in Korea. While there are Western cartoons animated in Japan, and thus can be logically called anime by a certain definition, King of the Hill is not one of those shows. By this logic, Harley Quinn is an anime character but not Bobby Hill. On the other hand, studios like TMS Animation, the studio behind Akira and Sonic X, has worked on western cartoons like Batman: The Animated Series and Animaniacs. But while Cannon Busters is primarily animated in Japan, King of the Hill is only partly animated in Korea, as is a lot of other western animation. RELATED: Hellstar Remina: A Guide to Junji Ito's Lovecraftian Space MangaĪnime like Cannon Busters are called anime not because of their original creators, but because the animation studios that produced them are primarily Japanese - specifically, Satelight and Yumeta Company. These studios also worked on cartoons like The Simpsons, Rugrats and Family Guy. However, these animation studios are all Korean in origin and have never worked on a piece of animation that first premiered in Japan. Oversees animation studios like Anivision, Yeson Entertainment and Rough Draft Korea all worked on King of the Hill's animation process. Most animation in America, in order to reduce costs, will send animation key frames to other animation houses for the in-between frames of movement.
