anime
[an-uh-mey]
- a Japanese style of motion-picture animation, characterized by highly stylized, colorful art, futuristic settings, violence, and sexuality.
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Origin of anime
1985–90; < Japanese, borrowing of English animation
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Contemporary Examples
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
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
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Word Origin
C20: from Japanese
animé1
- any of various resins, esp that obtained from the tropical American leguminous tree Hymenaea courbaril
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Word Origin
French: of uncertain origin
animé2
- music the French word for animato
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Word Origin and History for anime
n.
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.
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