Why this anime didn't get approved yet ?

OK, now add the Rick and Morty anime and the shorts as well. :)

@wjbraden Rick and Morty is not an anime.

@ZXEAN There's an anime coming this year, directed by Takashi Sano (who also directed Tower of God, among others) from Telecom Animation Film https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=25711

There are also several other anime shorts from Sano and other Japanese animators that have come out in the last few years. I tried adding them to the database here and they were all unapproved and deleted (despite having all these Japanese credentials, and said shorts being in Japanese, sub-only). It's all quite clearly anime, the only thing is they were never released in Japan (yet anyway).

MAL is going to have to get with the times and realize that as anime gets more and more international, more stuff like anime premiering first in the US and other countries is only going to increase.

@ZXEAN There's an anime coming this year, directed by Takashi Sano (who also directed Tower of God, among others) from Telecom Animation Film https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=25711

There are also several other anime shorts from Sano and other Japanese animators that have come out in the last few years. I tried adding them to the database here and they were all unapproved and deleted (despite having all these Japanese credentials, and said shorts being in Japanese, sub-only). It's all quite clearly anime, the only thing is they were never released in Japan (yet anyway).

MAL is going to have to get with the times and realize that as anime gets more and more international, more stuff like anime premiering first in the US and other countries is only going to increase.

I was also wondering why it isn’t getting added to the database. However, finally it is!
In case of the debate whether it’s an anime or not, obviously it’s an anime.

1. Sunghoo Park is a Japanese anime director (even tho he is Korean) as he has done JJK 0, JJK S1, Monsters etc.

2. Ninja Kamui has Japanese voice casting as every anime should have

3. Almost all of the production members are Japanese except some of them being non Japanese/Asian. Mind you this also happened to Cyberpunk Edgerunners and there were also non Asian people involved but eventually it was a product of Studio Trigger and managed to win the anime of the year award. Here, Ninja Kamui is a product of E&H which is owned by Subghoo Park himself.

4. Even the theme song performing band (Coldrain) is Japanese, it’s just they make songs in English and nowadays many anime choose English songs as OPs EDs.

What should not be considered as anime are Arcane, Blue Eye Samurai, Vox Machina, Castlevania etc as those are not originally from Japan. Those are in general animated series, not “ANIME”.

@ZXEAN There's an anime coming this year, directed by Takashi Sano (who also directed Tower of God, among others) from Telecom Animation Film https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=25711

There are also several other anime shorts from Sano and other Japanese animators that have come out in the last few years. I tried adding them to the database here and they were all unapproved and deleted (despite having all these Japanese credentials, and said shorts being in Japanese, sub-only). It's all quite clearly anime, the only thing is they were never released in Japan (yet anyway).

MAL is going to have to get with the times and realize that as anime gets more and more international, more stuff like anime premiering first in the US and other countries is only going to increase.

@wjbraden I was not aware a release in Japan was a criterion. So until/unless an anime is released in Japan it cannot be added here even if it's wholesale Japanese?

It's not lol, literally the guy who worked in mappa started his own studio and this is the series it made, it's not american whatsoever. You are the wrong one here.