ANIME

Odradek

I'll be the anime

The words will make
you out 'n' out

I'll spend the day
your way......

Call it morning
driving thru the sound and

In and out the
valley......

Imipolex G

Was there anime in 1971? I suppose there was.

Jumpingzombie

1971 anime:

sunn wolf

close to the edge, down by the river

not right moe

not right moe~

Gelzo

Obā-san

animus r 4 fagets

lee4hmz

"anime is teh s uck" –[adult swim], years ago

And that 1971 anime JZ linked to looks like an old Rankin-Bass special, style-wise (not surprising as most of the specials were animated in Japan).

Salix Babylonika

I generally consider anime to be a style (when the word is used by westerners anyway, in Japan itself it's just the default word for "cartoon") rather than just "any cartoon from Japan" myself. I'd point out the very old Sazae-san as an example of a Japanese cartoon that isn't an anime. 

It looks a lot more like Peanuts really.

Sredni Vashtar

^ Hayao Miyazaki gave a similar definition of anime back in the '80s, but I think it becomes pretty problematic after a certain point. This is why I prefer to just avoid the word altogether in some contexts.

Tre

looking like Death Note, choppin' til yo damn throat