ANIME Definition & Meaning

anime

[an-uh-mey]

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Graphic Arts.

a genre of film and television animation created in or influenced by the traditional style of Japanese 2D animation and characterized by highly stylized, colorful art, fantastic settings, and mature themes.

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Origin of anime¹

First recorded in 1985–90; from Japanese, borrowing of English animation ( def. )

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Origin of anime¹

French: of uncertain origin

Origin of anime²

C20: from Japanese

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He said the anime store near the Japanese Village Plaza was vandalized and boarded up.

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The developers have teased an Afro-surrealism style mixed with anime in the first trailer, as well as plenty of tracks from the band itself.

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I heard you’re a big anime fan, and you show that in your song “Death Note.”

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In terms of anime, it’s often the same template of a face, and then everything else changes around it.

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He references the stories of Anton Chekhov, the artistic philosophy of Pablo Picasso and anime like “Jujutsu Kaisen.”

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