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Is there a possibility that the usage of anime is also othering? In Japan, "anime" means animation, and if you ask a Japanese person what their favorite anime is, they might say Disney movies. If you translate "anime" into Japanese, it will become "Japanese anime"
However, it seems that there are some animators who think that there is a difference between anime and animation.
One of my favorite takes on the difference between anime vs animation is that anime is an artistic movement. In some sense it might be othering in the sense that it's a genre of art that someone might be more or less predisposed to enjoying, but imo it's not different from "musical" or "visual novel" in that regard -- neither of which is necessarily othering implicitly, but people do tend to have strong opinions about their merit as art or the quality of that movement