I'm not sure exactly why, but lately I keep hearing anime referred to as "animu." I've heard it used as a joke, I've heard it used as a cutesy form of endearment for the art style, and I've heard it used in a derogatory manner to bash the genre and its fans. Maybe this is a well-known thing, and I am simply late in noticing it, but the term just sounds weird, and grates on my ears when I hear it. I can't help but picture anthropomorphic cows with all the anime tropes: big eyes, floating sparkles, glasses, braided hair, pop-up bangs, hovering emotion symbols, making cat noises to sound cute... so, that's exactly what I drew here - my interpretation of what my brain thinks whenever I hear "animu."
Seriously, though, stop using this term.
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