I watched this movie on the 27th and I liked it, it was very good.
But there was a part of me wanting to talk about how it still doesn't quite feel like Anime to me, how the way characters move feels more like the Ralph Bakshi film and how the Anime I would drawn on aesthetically for a Rohan centric film is Vinland Saga given how vaguely Proto-Anglo-Saxon the Rohirrim are supposed to be.
But I feel the need to bite my Tong on that since I totally disagree with MAL not including it, I don't see how it fails to fit the technical standards that MAL uses. And it definitely feels more like Anime to me then any of the Chinese garbage MAL does count, or that obscure CGI Superhero cartoon they count. Or even Batman Ninja for that matter.
The fact is I am pretty self aware of how the reasons this and Castlevania and The Last Airbender and the 2003 Teen Titans Cartoons don't feel Anime to me are because of the specific tastes in Anime I personally hold. So for me Pantheon does feel Anime even though most people don't include that in their Anime Inspired Western Cartoons conversations.
Regardless of how much War of the Rohirrim does or does not Look like what I wanted an Anime Lord of The Rings to look like, it is directed by Kenji Kamiyama, that makes it an Anime by Default.
I don't even dig into the weeds of how the specific Animators and Artists were because websites like MAL are how I usually begin that investigation.
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