When the live-action Avatar: The Last Airbender series was first announced, Netflix heavily promoted the involvement of the original series' creators. In 2018, Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko were signed on as showrunners and executive producers.
If you only accept Japanese animation as anime then no it is not, it will be a cartoon. In Japan, all animated television is Anime. So, yes, by definition, Avatar is an anime.
Even though Avatar: The Last Airbender has many characteristics with anime, it is not an anime. It possesses all of the characteristics of a single: action and art, character development, and travel. Anime, on the other hand, is more than an art form; it is an industry. Avatar The Last Airbender was not produced by anime industry insiders.
— Bryan Konietzko about the creation of Avatar: The Last Airbender. Avatar: The Last Airbender, also known as Avatar: The Legend of Aang in some PAL regions, is an Emmy award-winning American animated television series that aired for three seasons on Nickelodeon and the Nicktoons Network.
Graveyards should not exist and are a waste of space, everybody who dies should be cremated.
Boiled or microwaved veggies absolutely suck and are the laziest way to cook them. If you Sautéed those bad boys in butter, roasted or grilled them with some actual seasoning, then your kids would have a grand old time eating them and you wouldn't have to threaten them with no play time while they sit there and throw up in their mouth.
I just feel more at peace when I brush my teeth after eating breakfast. When I try brushing them as soon as I wake up, the thought of brushing them again after breakfast will linger in my mind. I also think it is more efficient and basically a two-in-one cleaning of the bacteria from both sleeping and eating.
I hate eating with people. I have to pretend I have table manners and food just doesn't go down right. I feel bloated and can't eat that much because the distractions make food taste much worse.
The creaminess goes better with the fries than ketchup. Ketchup is too sweet for fries and overpowers the potato flavour. Also, you can make so many different flavours of mayo-based dip. Garlic mayo, spicy mayo, truffle mayo, curry mayo, chipotle mayo. The possibilities are endless. Ketchup typically only comes in one variety; tomato
Just because you don't like someone this doesn't mean you should be mean to them. They are human beings with emotions same as you. And when you act mean to them you are making them feel uncortable and unwelcome. If you act polite that's basic manners and everyone should act that way. You don't have to hang out or socialize with them.
Every man in the history of the world would look better in a buzz cut in my (probably unpopular) opinion.
From a Western perspective, 'anime' is a looser term, generally meaning animations from Japan, but sometimes it's applied to Western shows with the anime 'look', like RWBY or Avatar. There's no strict guideline on what qualifies as anime and what doesn't, and arguments arise frequently online by people with different opinions on this.
Anime-as-loanword is a somewhat fuzzy term, but generally refers specifically to the animation's origin, and not necessarily where it is produced. Much of what we would call anime is actually produced outside of Japan: it originates there, but the production is outsourced to studios in other countries.
Likewise, a surprising amount of animation that we wouldn't call anime originates outside Japan, but the animation work is outsourced to a Japanese company.
Depending who you ask, it's a style of animation, probably including shows such as Avatar and RWBY but not the Simpsons, or it just means cartoons from Japan, in which case Avatar is definitely excluded. Because of this ambiguity, there isn't a simple, accepted answer to your question. Share. Improve this answer.
In regards to the 'manga' of Avatar, it seems to be commonly referred to as a comic rather than a manga. But the format of this should have no bearing on the animated production. The other answers are being unnecessarily noncommittal. The meaning of the word anime has different connotations in the West and in Japan.
ThunderCats is an example in both its incarnations: few people outside of Japan would call it anime, but the animation work was done there (the 1980s TV series was done by Pacific Animation , while the recent series was done by Studio 4C).
Whether this makes it count as anime, or at least as "close enough", is a subject of debate among some fans.