Kinda wish we got an explanation of what 2.5D anime means, but I guess if Japan uses "3D" for irl stuff, then 2.5D probably means anime made with CG animation.
There was an explanation in a recent manga by Morishima Akiko. I think it went like this:
3D is your real life. If you're in love with someone irl, that's 3D.
2D is animation of any kind. Hand drawn, vector-based, computer animation, Motion Graphics, Claymation, whatever, you name it -- as long as it's animated art, it all goes in the same basket. So if you're in love with, say, Frozen's Elsa, that's 2D.
2.5D is a term coined to describe live action visual media. Normal movies and tv shows and the like. The stories are fiction, and the characters are not "real" people... but they are played by real people. So if you're in love with Shin Yun-bok from Painter of the Wind (not with actress Moon Geun-young who plays Shin Yun-bok, but with the character Shin Yun-bok: you feel that you and her belong together, and as for that hussy Jeong Hyang she can go kiss a duck) that's a 2.5D love.
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