Lukewarm take: If we're going to spell anime with a diacritical to show that it doesn't rhyme with, well, "rhyme" or "time", the mark should be a dieresis, not an accent.

Animë makes it work like the Brontë sisters: AN-ih-meh, but using an accent implies the stress is on the last syllable: animé implies you say an-i-MAY.

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