>>35196I'm going to take the risk of being perceived as the neckbearded "well ackchyually" glasses-wearing nerd, and say this:
Anime is the term used to refer to the vast majority of animated television from Japan.
There are some shows that are good, and some that are trash.
JoJo's Bizarre Adventure is an example of high-quality anime. JJBA (before the world reset, I hear JJBA pt. 9 got globohomo'd), Evangelion, Texhnolyze, Serial Experiments: Lain, those are legit.
The coomer and slice-of-life brimstone, however, belongs in the wastebasket.