You know, Netflix likes to play real fast and loose with the term “anime,” but I guess it’s never been officially codified.
Like I know there’s bad, budget anime that is bad in all of those categories, but you know…not a compliment to say this could be on par with a bargain-bin Japanese series.
Obviously, “anime” is a loan word to the Japanese language, which has been re-loaned to the western world to differentiate it.
Some folks would argue that to be anime, it at LEAST has to be animated by a Japanese studio, if not actually written and produced by Japanese people.