When I was a kid in the '60s, Japanese anime was shown on TV dubbed into English. It was just cartoons to us, it wasn’t until much later that the term “anime” was attached to them.

In the English-speaking world, we use the term ‘anime’ to specifically refer to animation made in Japan. Other countries do make animation, we just don’t call it ‘anime’ unless it comes from Japan.

But in Japan, ‘anime’ simply means animation. I remember seeing a video where someone interviewed random people on the street in Tokyo asking what’s their favorite anime. The most popular answer was Frozen.