Tempest's Downpour -- The Americanization of Anime

[Gatx]

Personally I maintain that Manga/Anime has to be Japanese in origin (as in published originally in Japan), from an American viewpoint (I know in Japan anime refers to all animation). Same for referring to Korean comics as manwah and Chinese comics as manhua. Things get a little muddy if we think about stuff like Kurokami, with a Korean writer and artists, but seeing as how they're published by Square-Enix's magazine, I consider them manga.

As for being animated in Korea, Spongebob's animated in Korea too, by the same studio as Avatar no less, but that doesn't make it any less of a cartoon.

And since you guys were talking about X-men, Marvel's deal with Madhouse is supposed to involve 4 adaptations. We've already got Iron Man, and Wolverine. The remaining two are X-men and Blade. Seeing as how Wolverine appeared in Iron Man to kind of bridge the two, I can imagine the X-men making a cameo in Wolverine sometime soon.