anime
nounUS, UK /ˈæn.ɪ.meɪ/ · South-Asia /ə.nɪ.meː/
Etymology Borrowed from Japanese アニメ (anime), an abbreviation of アニメーション (animēshon), itself borrowed from English animation, from Latin animātiō, from animāre.
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An animated work that originated in Japan, regardless of the artistic style.
- Gotta get in tune with Sailor Moon / 'Cause that cartoon has got the boom anime babes / That make me think the wrong thing1998, “One Week”, performed by Barenaked Ladies:
- After three months of successful sales in manga form, it was made into an anime for television.2005, Peter J. Katzenstein, A World of Regions, page 165:
3 more examples
- Usually the manga comes first, though it may be an offshoot of a novel, and an anime may be inspired by a video game.2005, Joan D. Vinge, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighteenth Annual Collection, page cix:
- These anime prepared the way for Otaku no video, a two-part Original Video Animation (OVA).2006, Thomas LaMarre, edited by Tomiko Yoda and Harry D. Harootunian, Japan After Japan, page 363:
- Originally found in the opening dialogue sequence from the 1989 Japanese space shoot’em up game “Zero Wing,” this awkward translation of the phrase “all of your bases are under our control” swept across gaming message boards and forums in the late 1990s, giving rise to one of the first epic-scale “Photoshop memes” based on poorly translated quotes from Japanese video games and animes.2014 March 11, Ben Huh, “10 classic memes that owned the Internet”, in CNN:
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An artistic style originating in, and associated with, Japanese animation, and that has also been adopted by a comparatively low number of animated works from other countries.
- I can draw an anime version of you, if you want.
- Touching on themes as disparate as sex, death, science fiction and romance, manga and anime catered to all ages and tastes. Commercial hits like “Pokémon” and “Dragon Ball Z,” meanwhile, projected a new image of Japan to the world.2019 July 28, Emiko Jozuka, “Japanese anime: From ‘Disney of the East’ to a global industry worth billions”, in CNN:
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Proscribed, Rare An animated work, regardless of the country of origin.
- Synonyms
- Japanimation, Japanime
- Derived terms
- Americanime, animanga, animelike, animesque, animeverse, anitwt, Ashnime, Japanime, manime, pseudo anime, tranime
- Coordinate terms
- manga, dònghuà