anime
- a Japanese style of motion-picture animation, characterized by highly stylized, colorful art, futuristic settings, violence, and sexuality.
Origin of anime
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Contemporary Examples of anime
The popularity of anime tales featuring man-on-man passion is burgeoning among Japanese women.
The original Japanese anime ran for five years, from 1992 to 1997.
‘Sailor Moon’ Is an Oasis for Superheroes Who Can Save the Universe in HeelsRich Goldstein
November 26, 2014
An anime fanatic in middle school, Jackson thought to herself one day: “Hey, maybe I should try watching real people.”
The reason: opposition from the publishing and anime industries and even from the Japan Federation of Bar Associations.
We can only sit and stew in our conviction that anime is becoming an important port of inspiration.
Historical Examples of anime
Anime, an′im, n. the resin of the West Indian locust-tree—used also for other gums and resins.
anime
- a type of Japanese animated film with themes and styles similar to manga comics
Word Origin for anime
animé
1- any of various resins, esp that obtained from the tropical American leguminous tree Hymenaea courbaril
Word Origin for animé
animé
2- music the French word for animato
Word Origin and History for anime
c.1985, Japanese for "animation," a term that seems to have arisen in the 1970s, apparently based on French animé "animated, lively, roused," from the same root as English animate (adj.). Probably taken into Japanese from a phrase such as dessin animé "cartoon," literally "animated design," with the adjective abstracted or mistaken, due to its position, as a noun.
Manga (q.v.) is Japanese for "comic book, graphic novel," but anime largely are based on manga and until 1970s, anime were known in Japan as manga eiga or "TV manga." The two terms are somewhat confused in English.