[Xi_Bprime]

Is it really silly though? The author of trace.moe has to label and store each anime episode somewhere, and use CPU power provided for free to search through these indexes. Adding regular TV series and movies to this dataset could really dirty what gets returned when the service is just about letting someone find out what anime some screenshot is from.

The FAQ says they've indexed most of post-2000 anime and very little of 80s and 90s anime. It mentions you can even use a similar drawing of the scene to get a match, due to the method they're using!

[Blikkentrekker]

> Is it really silly though? The author of trace.moe has to label and store each anime episode somewhere, and use CPU power provided for free to search through these indexes. Adding regular TV series and movies to this dataset could really dirty what gets returned when the service is just about letting someone find out what anime some screenshot is from.

I simply quæstion the sanity of delimiting the search to animated works from a single country, and as I pointed out since it can't find something from Nils, it isn't really about that.

> The FAQ says they've indexed most of post-2000 anime and very little of 80s and 90s anime. It mentions you can even use a similar drawing of the scene to get a match, due to the method they're using!

It also couldn't find anything from The Spirits Within and Advent Children, so it's really not about “animation from Japan” but about specific art styles, it seems.

[yreg]

>so it's really not about “animation from Japan” but about specific art styles, it seems.

Yes, the one colloquially known as anime.

[Blikkentrekker]

If only the reality weren't that most sources using that ridiculous term are highly inconsistent about the meaning and use it with two different meanings in the same paragraph.

If “moe art” be what one means, then simply use that word; — there is already a perfectly good word for it.

[naniwaduni]

A phrase that essentially nobody else uses to mean what you want it to mean is hardly a perfectly good word for a concept.

Feel free to popularize it on its merits first, then we can talk.

[numpad0]

The truth is there’s no single concrete word exist for the category. Some suggest “moe art”, some say “anime”, some say “hentai”, etc. but each is interpreted differently and not inclusive nor popular.

[astrange]

It's more like a production methodology than an art style. Art styles don't scale.