Literally the longest still running anime is this thing called "sazae-san" and this don't even look like what we classify as anime today, and well I can't have that many complaints about it because it's old. and they can classify it as anime because well you can't objectify old anime because they were the creators of it if they want to classify it as that then they classified as that because literally anime is just the Japanese word for animation and that's why practically any Japanese cartoon is literally just Anime even though it's literally a cartoon. And this is the exact reason we have things like Doraemon, Samurai Pizza cats, shin-chan, and many others being classified as anime even though they legit look like half of the older American cartoons we have. And I'm going on on a whole rant about this just because it's like so weird, because I will happily classify anime as something else other than a cartoon even though it is grammatically incorrect. Like I'm pretty sure some people just started calling anime not a cartoon because they didn't want it to be associated with some baby thing, just like how some people started saying that Pokemon or Yu-Gi-Oh are cartoons because they didn't want to be associated with anime