Wait, part of Goof Troop was animated in Japan? soranews24.com

Personally, by the time Goof Troop came around, I was just a little too old to get into it.
But leafing through it again, for the first time I noticed a section about Goof Troop.
So what did one of Japan’s leading anime periodicals have to say in its preview of Goof Troop, or My Papa is Goofy, as the show’s Japanese title translates to?
And because of that, if your personal definition of “anime” is “any animation produced in Japan,” does that mean that certain parts of Goof Troop are anime?
▼ Episode 1 of the Japanese dub of Goof Troop, which was actually Episode 6 in the U.S., like some sort of karmic payback for Japanese anime that had their episode order shuffled overseas.