Anime, the Glossary
is hand-drawn and computer-generated animation originating from Japan.[1]
Table of Contents
409 relations: A & C Black, A.D. Vision, Academy Award for Best Animated Feature, Acute accent, Adult animation, Adult Swim, Adweek, Akira (1988 film), Alita: Battle Angel, Amazon Prime Video, American Anime Awards, Amusement park, Animated series, Animation, Animation director, Animation Kobe, Anime and manga, Anime and manga convention, Anime club, Anime music video, Anime News Network, Anime song, Anime-influenced animation, AnimEigo, AnimeNation, Apple Music, Arab world, Ariana Grande, Asia–Pacific, Astro Boy, Astro Boy (1963 TV series), Attack on Titan (TV series), Avatar: The Last Airbender, Ōban Star-Racers, Ōfuji Noburō Award, Ōten Shimokawa, Bandai Namco Filmworks, Barack Obama, Barbapapa, BBC, Betty Boop, Billboard (magazine), Billboard Global 200, Blend word, Bones (studio), Box Office Mojo, Box-office bomb, Broadcasting, BTS, Bunraku, ... Expand index (359 more) »
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A & C Black
A & C Black is a British book publishing company, owned since 2002 by Bloomsbury Publishing.
A.D. Vision
A.D. Vision Holdings, Inc. (known simply as ADV and also referred to as ADV Films) was an American multimedia entertainment distributor headquartered in Houston, Texas, and founded in 1992 by video game fan John Ledford and anime fans Matt Greenfield and David Williams.
Academy Award for Best Animated Feature
The Academy Award for Best Animated Feature is given each year for the best animated film.
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Acute accent
The acute accent,, because of rendering limitation in Android (as of v13), that its default sans font fails to render "dotted circle + diacritic", so visitors just get a meaningless (to most) mark.
Adult animation
Adult animation, also known as mature animation, and infrequently as adult-oriented animation, is any type of animated motion work that is catered specifically to adult interests and is mainly targeted and marketed towards adults and adolescents, as opposed to children or all-ages audiences.
Adult Swim
Adult Swim (stylized as since 2003, and also abbreviated as) is an American adult-oriented television programming block aired by the American basic cable channel Cartoon Network during the evening, prime time, and late-night dayparts.
Adweek
Adweek is a weekly American advertising trade publication that was first published in 1979.
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Akira (1988 film)
is a 1988 Japanese animated cyberpunk action film directed by Katsuhiro Otomo, produced by Ryōhei Suzuki and Shunzō Katō, and written by Otomo and Izo Hashimoto, based on Otomo's 1982 manga of the same name.
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Alita: Battle Angel
Alita: Battle Angel is a 2019 American cyberpunk action film based on Yukito Kishiro's manga series Gunnm (or Battle Angel Alita in English).
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Amazon Prime Video
Amazon Prime Video, or simply Prime Video, is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming and rental service of Amazon offered both as a stand-alone service and as part of Amazon's Prime subscription.
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American Anime Awards
The American Anime Awards were a series of awards designed to recognize excellence in the release of anime and manga in North America.
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Amusement park
An amusement park is a park that features various attractions, such as rides and games, as well as other events for entertainment purposes.
Animated series
An animated series is a set of animated television works with a common title, usually related to one another.
Animation
Animation is a filmmaking technique by which still images are manipulated to create moving images.
Animation director
An animation director is the director in charge of all aspects of the animation process during the production of an animated or television film, or an animated segment for a live action film or television show.
See Anime and Animation director
Animation Kobe
The was an event established by Kobe in 1996 to promote anime and other visual media.
Anime and manga
Anime and manga or animanga for short are forms of mass media produced by the content industry of Japan. Anime and anime and manga are Japanese inventions.
Anime and manga convention
An anime and manga convention (often called just anime convention) is a fan convention with a primary focus on anime, manga and Japanese culture.
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Anime club
An anime club is an organization that meets to discuss, show, and promote anime in a local community setting and can also focus on broadening Japanese cultural understanding.
Anime music video
An anime music video (AMV) is a fan-made music video consisting of clips from one or more Japanese animated shows or movies set to an audio track, often songs or promotional trailer audio. Anime and anime music video are anime and manga terminology.
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Anime News Network
Anime News Network (ANN) is a news website that reports on the status of anime, manga, video games, Japanese popular music and other related cultures within North America, Australia, Southeast Asia and Japan.
See Anime and Anime News Network
Anime song
is a genre of music originating from Japanese pop music.
Anime-influenced animation
Anime-influenced animation is a type of non-Japanese work of animation that is noticeably similar to or inspired by anime. Anime and anime-influenced animation are anime and manga terminology.
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AnimEigo
AnimEigo is an American entertainment company that licenses and distributes anime, samurai films and Japanese cinema.
AnimeNation
AnimeNation was an American business that included RentAnime.com, a discussion forum, anime industry news, and a column called "Ask John".
Apple Music
Apple Music is an audio and video streaming service developed by Apple Inc. Users select music to stream to their device on-demand, or they can listen to existing playlists.
Arab world
The Arab world (اَلْعَالَمُ الْعَرَبِيُّ), formally the Arab homeland (اَلْوَطَنُ الْعَرَبِيُّ), also known as the Arab nation (اَلْأُمَّةُ الْعَرَبِيَّةُ), the Arabsphere, or the Arab states, comprises a large group of countries, mainly located in Western Asia and Northern Africa.
Ariana Grande
Ariana Grande-Butera (born June 26, 1993) is an American singer, songwriter, and actress.
Asia–Pacific
The Asia–Pacific (APAC) is the region of the world adjoining the western Pacific Ocean.
Astro Boy
Astro Boy, known in Japan as, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Osamu Tezuka.
Astro Boy (1963 TV series)
is a Japanese television series that premiered on Fuji TV on New Year's Day, 1963 (a Tuesday), and is the first popular animated Japanese television series that embodied the aesthetic that later became familiar worldwide as anime.
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Attack on Titan (TV series)
is a Japanese dark fantasy anime television series, adapted from the manga series of the same name by Hajime Isayama.
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Avatar: The Last Airbender
Avatar: The Last Airbender, also known as Avatar: The Legend of Aang in some regions, is an American animated fantasy action television series created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko and produced by Nickelodeon Animation Studio.
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Ōban Star-Racers
Ōban Star-Racers is an English-language French-Japanese anime television series created by Savin Yeatman-Eiffel of Sav! The World Productions in association with multiple international companies.
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Ōfuji Noburō Award
The is an animation award given at the Mainichi Film Awards.
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Ōten Shimokawa
was a Japanese artist, considered to be one of the founding artists and pioneers of anime.
Bandai Namco Filmworks
, previously and still famously known as Sunrise Inc., is a Japanese company owned by Bandai Namco Holdings with its business focused on production, planning and management for anime, founded in September 1972 by former Mushi Production employees.
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Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II (born August 4, 1961) is an American politician who served as the 44th president of the United States from 2009 to 2017.
Barbapapa
Barbapapa is a 1970 children's picture book by the French-American couple Annette Tison and Talus Taylor, who lived in Paris, France.
BBC
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.
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Betty Boop
Betty Boop is an animated cartoon character designed by Grim Natwick at the request of Dave Fleischer.
Billboard (magazine)
Billboard (stylized in lowercase since 2013) is an American music and entertainment magazine published weekly by Penske Media Corporation.
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Billboard Global 200
The Billboard Global 200 is a weekly record chart published by Billboard magazine.
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Blend word
In linguistics, a blend—also known as a blend word, lexical blend, or portmanteau—is a word formed, usually intentionally, by combining the sounds and meanings of two or more words.
Bones (studio)
is a Japanese animation studio.
Box Office Mojo
Box Office Mojo is an American website that tracks box-office revenue in a systematic, algorithmic way.
Box-office bomb
A box-office bomb, box-office flop, box-office failure, or box-office disaster is a film that is unprofitable or considered highly unsuccessful during its theatrical run.
Broadcasting
Broadcasting is the distribution of audio or video content to a dispersed audience via any electronic mass communications medium, but typically one using the electromagnetic spectrum (radio waves), in a one-to-many model.
BTS
BTS, also known as the Bangtan Boys, is a South Korean boy band formed in 2010.
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Bunraku
(also known as) is a form of traditional Japanese puppet theatre, founded in Osaka in the beginning of the 17th century, which is still performed in the modern day. Anime and Bunraku are Japanese inventions.
Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
The Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary (abbreviated CALD) is a British dictionary of the English language.
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Captain Harlock
is a fictional character and protagonist of the Space Pirate Captain Harlock manga series created by Leiji Matsumoto.
Caricature
A caricature is a rendered image showing the features of its subject in a simplified or exaggerated way through sketching, pencil strokes, or other artistic drawings (compare to: cartoon).
Cartoon
A cartoon is a type of visual art that is typically drawn, frequently animated, in an unrealistic or semi-realistic style.
Cartoon Network
Cartoon Network (often abbreviated as CN) is an American cable television channel owned by Warner Bros. Discovery.
Central Park Media Corporation, often abbreviated as CPM, was an American multimedia entertainment company based in New York City, New York and was headquartered in the 250 West 57th Street building in Midtown Manhattan (on the corner of Central Park, hence their name).
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Character creation
Character creation (also character generation / character design) is the process of defining a player character in a role-playing game.
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Chibi (style)
Chibi, also known as super deformation, or S.D. is a style of caricature originating in Japan, and common in anime and manga where characters are drawn in an exaggerated way, typically small and chubby with stubby limbs, oversized heads, and minimal detail. Anime and Chibi (style) are anime and manga terminology.
Chikara to Onna no Yo no Naka
is a 1933 anime short film by Kenzō Masaoka and the first Japanese anime of any type to feature voiceovers.
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Children's anime and manga
and refer to manga and anime directed towards children. Anime and Children's anime and manga are anime and manga terminology.
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Chile
Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America.
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Chinese animation
Chinese animation refers to animation made in China.
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Chinpokomon
"Chinpokomon" is the eleventh-aired and the tenth-produced episode of the third season of the American animated television series South Park.
Christian People's Party (Peru)
The Christian People's Party (Partido Popular Cristiano, PPC) is a centre-right and conservative political party based on the principles of Christian democracy.
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Cinema of Japan
The, also known domestically as, has a history that spans more than 100 years.
Cinema of the United States
The cinema of the United States, consisting mainly of major film studios (also known metonymously as Hollywood) along with some independent films, has had a large effect on the global film industry since the early 20th century.
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City pop
is a loosely defined form of Japanese pop music that emerged in the late 1970s and peaked in popularity during the 1980s.
Comic Book Resources
CBR, formerly Comic Book Resources, is a news website covering movies, television, anime, video games and comic book–related news and discussion.
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CoMix Wave Films
is a Japanese animation film studio and distribution company based in Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan.
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Compound annual growth rate
Compound annual growth rate (CAGR) is a business, economics and investing term representing the mean annualized growth rate for compounding values over a given time period.
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Computer animation
Computer animation is the process used for digitally generating moving images. The more general term computer-generated imagery (CGI) encompasses both still images and moving images, while computer animation refers to moving images.
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Cool Japan
refers to the aspects of Japanese culture that non-Japanese people perceive as "cool".
Cosplay
Cosplay, a portmanteau of "costume play", is an activity and performance art in which participants called cosplayers wear costumes and fashion accessories to represent a specific character. Anime and cosplay are anime and manga terminology.
Counterfeit
To counterfeit means to imitate something authentic, with the intent to steal, destroy, or replace the original, for use in illegal transactions, or otherwise to deceive individuals into believing that the fake is of equal or greater value than the real product.
COVID-19 pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic (also known as the coronavirus pandemic), caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2), began with an outbreak of COVID-19 in Wuhan, China, in December 2019.
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Cowboy Bebop
is a Japanese neo-noir space Western anime television series which aired on TV Tokyo and Wowow from 1998 to 1999.
Cowboy Bebop (2021 TV series)
Cowboy Bebop is an American space Western television series.
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Crayon Shin-chan
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yoshito Usui.
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Crunchyroll
Crunchyroll is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service owned by Sony Group Corporation.
Crunchyroll Anime Awards
The Crunchyroll Anime Awards, also known simply as The Anime Awards, are awards given annually by the anime streaming service Crunchyroll to recognize the best anime of the previous year.
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Culture of Japan
The culture of Japan has changed greatly over the millennia, from the country's prehistoric Jōmon period, to its contemporary modern culture, which absorbs influences from Asia and other regions of the world.
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Cutout animation
Cutout animation is a form of stop-motion animation using flat characters, props and backgrounds cut from materials such as paper, card, stiff fabric or photographs.
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Death Note (2017 film)
Death Note is a 2017 American supernatural crime thriller film directed by Adam Wingard from a screenplay by Charles Parlapanides, Vlas Parlapanides, and Jeremy Slater, loosely based on the manga of the same name by Tsugumi Ohba and Takeshi Obata.
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Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Koyoharu Gotouge.
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Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba (TV series)
is a Japanese anime television series produced by Ufotable, based on the manga series of the same name by Koyoharu Gotouge.
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Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba – The Movie: Mugen Train
, also known simply as Demon Slayer: Mugen Train, is a 2020 Japanese animated dark fantasy action film based on the "Mugen Train" arc of the 2016–20 manga series Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba by Koyoharu Gotouge.
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Dentsu
Dentsu Inc. (株式会社電通 Kabushiki-gaisha Dentsū or 電通 Dentsū for short, stylized as dentsu) is a Japanese international advertising and public relations joint stock company headquartered in Tokyo.
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Deutsche Welle
("German Wave"), commonly shortened to DW, is a German public, state-owned international broadcaster funded by the German federal tax budget.
Dictionary.com
Dictionary.com is an online dictionary whose domain was first registered on May 14, 1995.
Discord
Discord is an instant messaging and VoIP social platform which allows communication through voice calls, video calls, text messaging, and media.
Disney+
Disney+ is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming media service owned and operated by Disney Streaming, the streaming division of Disney Entertainment, a major business segment of the Walt Disney Company.
Dragon Ball
is a Japanese media franchise created by Akira Toriyama in 1984.
Dragon Ball Z
Dragon Ball Z is a Japanese anime television series produced by Toei Animation.
Dragon Half
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Ryūsuke Mita.
Dragonball Evolution
Dragonball Evolution is a 2009 American superhero film directed by James Wong, produced by Stephen Chow, and written by Ben Ramsey.
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Dubbing
Dubbing (re-recording and mixing) is a post-production process used in filmmaking and video production, often in concert with sound design, in which additional or supplementary recordings (doubles) are lip-synced and "mixed" with original production sound to create the finished soundtrack.
DVD region code
DVD region codes are a digital rights management technique introduced in 1997.
East Asia
East Asia is a geographical and cultural region of Asia including the countries of China, Japan, Mongolia, North Korea, South Korea, and Taiwan.
Ecchi
is a slang term in the Japanese language for playfully sexual actions. Anime and Ecchi are anime and manga terminology.
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Economy of Japan
The economy of Japan is a highly developed/advanced social market economy, often referred to as an East Asian model.
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Editing of anime in distribution
The content of Japanese animation (anime) is frequently edited by distributors, both for its release in Japan or during subsequent localizations.
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Elon Musk
Elon Reeve Musk (born June 28, 1971) is a businessman and investor known for his key roles in space company SpaceX and automotive company Tesla, Inc. Other involvements include ownership of X Corp., the company that operates the social media platform X (formerly known as Twitter), and his role in the founding of The Boring Company, xAI, Neuralink and OpenAI.
Emakimono
Illustrated handscrolls,, or is an illustrated horizontal narration system of painted handscrolls that dates back to Nara-period (710–794 CE) Japan.
Emoji
An emoji (plural emoji or emojis; 絵文字) is a pictogram, logogram, ideogram, or smiley embedded in text and used in electronic messages and web pages. Anime and emoji are Japanese inventions.
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Eurodisco
Eurodisco (also spelled as Euro disco) is the variety of European forms of electronic dance music that evolved from disco in the middle 1970s, incorporating elements of pop and rock into a disco-like continuous dance atmosphere.
Euronews
Euronews (stylised in lowercase) is a European television news network, headquartered in Lyon, France.
Europe
Europe is a continent located entirely in the Northern Hemisphere and mostly in the Eastern Hemisphere.
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Facebook is a social media and social networking service owned by American technology conglomerate Meta.
Fan art
Fan art or fanart is artwork created by fans of a work of fiction and derived from a series character or other aspect of that work.
Fan fiction
Fan fiction or fanfiction, also known as fan fic, fanfic, fic or FF, is fiction written in an amateur capacity by fans as a form of fan labor, unauthorized by, but based on, an existing work of fiction.
Fan service
, fanservice or Example: A frame (numbered "25") from the English opening sequence of New Cutie Honey, in which character Danbei Hayami fires a Rocket Punch as main character Honey Kisaragi lies topless and prone in the background, is shown and captioned "" is material in a work of fiction or in a fictional series that is intentionally added to please the audience, often sexual in nature, such as nudity. Anime and fan service are anime and manga terminology.
Fandom (website)
Fandom (formerly known as Wikicities and Wikia) is a wiki hosting service that hosts wikis mainly on entertainment topics (i.e., video games, TV series, movies, entertainers, etc.). The privately held, for-profit Delaware company was founded in October 2004 by Wikipedia co-founder Jimmy Wales and Angela Beesley.
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Fansub
A fansub (short for fan-subtitled) is a version of a foreign film or foreign television program, typically anime or dorama which has been translated by fans (as opposed to an officially licensed translation done by paid professionals) and subtitled into a language usually other than that of the original. Anime and fansub are anime and manga terminology.
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Fantasy
Fantasy is a genre of fiction involving magical elements, as well as a work in this genre.
Fate/stay night
Fate/stay night is a Japanese visual novel game developed by Type-Moon for Windows on January 30, 2004.
Film director
A film director is a person who controls a film's artistic and dramatic aspects and visualizes the screenplay (or script) while guiding the film crew and actors in the fulfillment of that vision.
Film School Rejects
Film School Rejects is an American blog devoted to movie reviews, interviews, film industry news, and feature commentary.
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Forbes
Forbes is an American business magazine founded by B. C. Forbes in 1917 and owned by Hong Kong-based investment group Integrated Whale Media Investments since 2014.
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France
France, officially the French Republic, is a country located primarily in Western Europe.
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French house
French house (also referred to as French touch, filter house, or tekfunk) is a style of house music devised by French musicians in the 1990s.
Fujifilm
, trading as, or simply Fuji, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, operating in the areas of photography, optics, office and medical electronics, biotechnology, and chemicals.
Fumio Kishida
is the Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) since 2021.
Gainax
Gainax Co., Ltd. (stylized as GAINAX; 株式会社ガイナックス, Hepburn) was a Japanese anime studio famous for original productions such as Neon Genesis Evangelion, Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise, Gunbuster, Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water, FLCL, Magical Shopping Arcade Abenobashi, Gurren Lagann, and Panty & Stocking with Garterbelt, which have garnered critical acclaimThe studio's works garnered them Animages coveted Anime Grand Prix award over ten times since 1990.
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Game of Thrones
Game of Thrones is an American fantasy drama television series created by David Benioff and for HBO.
GamesRadar+
GamesRadar+ (formerly GamesRadar) is an entertainment website for video game-related news, previews, and reviews.
Gawker Media LLC (formerly Blogwire, Inc. and Gawker Media, Inc.) was an American internet media company and blog network.
Generation Z
Generation Z (often shortened to Gen Z), also known as Zoomers, is the demographic cohort succeeding Millennials and preceding Generation Alpha.
Genre
Genre (kind, sort) is any style or form of communication in any mode (written, spoken, digital, artistic, etc.) with socially agreed-upon conventions developed over time.
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Germany
Germany, officially the Federal Republic of Germany (FRG), is a country in Central Europe.
Ghost in the Shell (1995 film)
Ghost in the Shell is a 1995 adult animated neo-noir cyberpunk action thriller film directed by Mamoru Oshii and adapted by frequent Oshii collaborator Kazunori Itō.
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Ghost in the Shell (2017 film)
Ghost in the Shell is a 2017 science fiction action film directed by Rupert Sanders and written by Jamie Moss, William Wheeler and Ehren Kruger, based on the Japanese manga of the same name by Masamune Shirow.
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Gilles Poitras
Gilles Poitras is a Canadian author of books relating to anime and manga.
GlobeNewswire
GlobeNewswire provides press release distribution services globally, with substantial operations in North America and Europe.
Go Nagai
, better known by the pen name, is a Japanese manga artist and a prolific author of science fiction, fantasy, horror, and erotica.
Golden Age of Television (2000s–present)
In the United States, the Golden Age of Television (also known as Peak TV or Prestige TV) is a period widely regarded for its high number of "high quality", internationally acclaimed television programs.
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Golden Bear
The Golden Bear (Goldener Bär) is the highest prize awarded for the best film at the Berlin International Film Festival.
Gonzo (company)
(formerly GDH K.K.) is a Japanese anime studio owned by ADK that was established on February 22, 2000.
Good Times with Weapons
"Good Times with Weapons" is the first episode of the eighth season of the American animated series South Park and the 112th episode of the series.
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Google Arts & Culture
Google Arts & Culture (formerly Google Art Project) is an online platform of high-resolution images and videos of artworks and cultural artifacts from partner cultural organizations throughout the world.
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Guinness World Records
Guinness World Records, known from its inception in 1955 until 1999 as The Guinness Book of Records and in previous United States editions as The Guinness Book of World Records, is a British reference book published annually, listing world records both of human achievements and the extremes of the natural world.
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Gundam
is a Japanese military science fiction media franchise.
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Harem (genre)
is a genre of light novels, manga, anime, and video games focusing on a main character surrounded by multiple potential romantic or sexual partners. Anime and Harem (genre) are anime and manga terminology.
Haruhi Suzumiya
is a Japanese light novel series written by Nagaru Tanigawa and illustrated by Noizi Ito.
Hayao Miyazaki
is a Japanese animator, filmmaker, and manga artist.
Heidi, Girl of the Alps
is an anime television series produced by Zuiyo Eizo and is based on the novel Heidi's Years of Wandering and Learning by Johanna Spyri (1880).
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Henry Jenkins
Henry Guy Jenkins III (born June 4, 1958) is an American media scholar and Provost Professor of Communication, Journalism, and Cinematic Arts, a joint professorship at the University of Southern California (USC) Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism and the USC School of Cinematic Arts.
Hentai
Hentai (Japanese: ヘンタイ) is a style of Japanese pornographic anime and manga. Anime and Hentai are anime and manga terminology.
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Hideaki Anno
is a Japanese animator, filmmaker and actor.
Hidive
Hidive (stylized in all caps) is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service.
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High Guardian Spice
High Guardian Spice is an American animated television series created by Raye Rodriguez, who formerly worked for Danger & Eggs as a character designer.
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Hindustan Times
Hindustan Times is an Indian English-language daily newspaper based in Delhi.
History of anime
The history of anime can be traced back to the start of the 20th century, with the earliest verifiable films dating from 1917.
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Home video
Home video is recorded media sold or rented for home viewing.
Howl's Moving Castle (film)
is a 2004 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki.
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HuffPost
HuffPost (The Huffington Post until 2017; often abbreviated as HuffPo) is an American progressive news website, with localized and international editions.
Hulu
Hulu (styled hulu in its logo) is an American subscription streaming media and content hub within the Disney+ streaming service owned by The Walt Disney Company.
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Idol (Yoasobi song)
is a song by Japanese duo Yoasobi from their third EP, The Book 3 (2023).
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IMDb
IMDb (an acronym for Internet Movie Database) is an online database of information related to films, television series, podcasts, home videos, video games, and streaming content online – including cast, production crew and personal biographies, plot summaries, trivia, ratings, and fan and critical reviews.
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Imperial Japanese Navy
The Imperial Japanese Navy (IJN; Kyūjitai: 大日本帝國海軍 Shinjitai: 大日本帝国海軍 'Navy of the Greater Japanese Empire', or 日本海軍 Nippon Kaigun, 'Japanese Navy') was the navy of the Empire of Japan from 1868 to 1945, when it was dissolved following Japan's surrender in World War II.
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Inbetweening
Inbetweening, also known as tweening, is a process in animation that involves creating intermediate frames, called inbetweens, between two keyframes.
Instant History
, also known as was a black and white Japanese anime series that aired from 1961 to 1964.
Inuyasha
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Rumiko Takahashi.
Isekai
Isekai is a subgenre of portal fantasy. Anime and Isekai are anime and manga terminology.
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Italy
Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern and Western Europe.
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J-pop
(often stylized in all caps; an abbreviated form of "Japanese popular music"), natively also known simply as, is the name for a form of popular music that entered the musical mainstream of Japan in the 1990s.
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Jagran Prakashan
Jagran Prakashan Limited is an Indian publishing house listed on the Bombay Stock Exchange and the National Stock Exchange.
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Japan
Japan is an island country in East Asia, located in the Pacific Ocean off the northeast coast of the Asian mainland.
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Japan Academy Film Prize for Animation of the Year
The of the Japan Academy Film Prize is one of the annual Awards given by the Japan Academy Film Prize Association.
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Japan Business Federation
The is an economic organization founded in May 2002 by amalgamation of Keidanren (Japan Federation of Economic Organizations, established 1946; name sometimes used alone as abbreviation for whole organization) and Nikkeiren (Japan Federation of Employers' Associations, established 1948), with Nikkeiren being absorbed into Keidanren.
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Japan External Trade Organization
is an Independent Administrative Institution established by Japan Export Trade Research Organization as a nonprofit corporation in Osaka in February 1952, reorganized under the Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) in 1958 (later the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry or METI), and became an Independent Administrative Institution in 2003 to consolidate Japan's efforts in export promotion.
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The Japan Media Arts Festival is an annual festival held since 1997 by Japan's Agency for Cultural Affairs.
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Japanese Animation Creators Association
The or JAniCA, is a non-profit organization dedicated to improving working conditions for workers in the anime industry.
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Japanese asset price bubble
The was an economic bubble in Japan from 1986 to 1991 in which real estate and stock market prices were greatly inflated.
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Japanese cuisine
Japanese cuisine encompasses the regional and traditional foods of Japan, which have developed through centuries of political, economic, and social changes.
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Japanese language
is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people.
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Japanese popular culture
Japanese popular culture includes Japanese cinema, cuisine, television programs, anime, manga, video games, music, and doujinshi, all of which retain older artistic and literary traditions; many of their themes and styles of presentation can be traced to traditional art forms.
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Japanese robotics
In Japan, popular robots include humanoid entertainment robots, androids, animal robots, social robots, guard robots, and many more.
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Japanese rock
, sometimes abbreviated to, is rock music from Japan.
Japanophilia
Japanophilia is a strong interest in Japanese culture, people, and history.
Jinki: Extend
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Shirō Tsunashima.
Josei manga
, also known as and its abbreviation, is an editorial category of Japanese comics that emerged in the 1980s. Anime and Josei manga are anime and manga terminology.
Jujutsu Kaisen
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Gege Akutami.
Jun'ichi Kōuchi
was a Japanese animator.
Kamishibai
is a form of Japanese street theater and storytelling that was popular during the Great Depression of the 1930s and the post-war period in Japan until the advent of television during the mid-20th century.
Kappa Mikey
Kappa Mikey is an American animated comedy television series created by Larry Schwarz.
Karaoke
Karaoke (カラオケ, clipped compound of Japanese kara 空 "empty" and ōkesutora オーケストラ "orchestra") is a type of interactive entertainment system usually offered in clubs and bars, where people sing along to pre-recorded accompaniment using a microphone. Anime and Karaoke are Japanese inventions.
Karate
(Okinawan pronunciation), also, is a martial art developed in the Ryukyu Kingdom.
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Katakana
is a Japanese syllabary, one component of the Japanese writing system along with hiragana, kanji and in some cases the Latin script (known as rōmaji).
Katsudō Shashin
, sometimes called the Matsumoto fragment, is a Japanese animated filmstrip from the Meiji era that is the oldest known work of animation from Japan.
Kenzō Masaoka
was a Japanese early anime creator.
Key frame
In animation and filmmaking, a key frame (or keyframe) is a drawing or shot that defines the starting and ending points of a smooth transition.
Kihachirō Kawamoto
was a Japanese puppet designer and maker, independent film director, screenwriter and animator and president of the Japan Animation Association from 1989, succeeding founder Osamu Tezuka, until his own death.
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Kitazawa Rakuten
, better known by the pen name, was a Japanese manga artist and nihonga artist.
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Kodansha
is a Japanese privately held publishing company headquartered in Bunkyō, Tokyo.
KonoSuba
often referred to simply as KonoSuba, is a Japanese light novel series written by Natsume Akatsuki and illustrated by Kurone Mishima.
Kotaku
Kotaku is a video game website and blog that was originally launched in 2004 as part of the Gawker Media network.
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Kurau Phantom Memory
Kurau Phantom Memory (stylized as KURAU Phantom Memory) is a Japanese science fiction anime series, produced by Bones and Media Factory, which was broadcast in Japan by the anime television networks Animax and TV Asahi from June to December 2004.
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Kyoto Animation
, often abbreviated, is a Japanese animation studio and light novel publisher located in Uji, Kyoto Prefecture.
La Tercera
(The Third One), formerly known as, is a daily newspaper published in Santiago, Chile and owned by Copesa.
LaserDisc
The LaserDisc (LD) is a home video format and the first commercial optical disc storage medium, initially licensed, sold and marketed as MCA DiscoVision (also known simply as "DiscoVision") in the United States in 1978.
Late-night anime
In Japan, refers to anime series broadcast on television during the night, usually between 10 p.m. and 4 a.m. JST. Anime and Late-night anime are anime and manga terminology.
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Lexico
Lexico was a dictionary website that provided a collection of English and Spanish dictionaries produced by Oxford University Press (OUP), the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
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Licensing.biz
Licensing.biz is an online trade magazine published by Biz Media, a subsidiary of Datateam Media Group and based in Hertford, Hertfordshire.
Light novel
A light novel (Hepburn: raito noberu) is a type of popular literature novel native to Japan, usually classified as young adult fiction targeting teens to twenties. Anime and light novel are anime and manga terminology.
Limited animation
Limited animation is a process in the overall technique of traditional animation that reuses frames of character animation.
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List of anime companies
This is a list of anime industry companies involved in the production or distribution of anime.
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List of highest-grossing films in Japan
The following is a list of the highest-grossing films in Japan.
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List of highest-grossing Japanese films
Films made in Japan produce revenue through various sources; the lists below only consider box office earnings at cinemas, not other sources of income such as merchandising or home video.
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This is a list of media franchises that have grossed $2 billion and more.
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A streaming media service (also simply called a streaming service) is an online platform that allows users to watch or listen to content, such as movies, TV shows, music, or podcasts, over the internet.
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Lists of anime
Anime is hand-drawn and computer-generated animation originating from Japan.
Live action
Live action is a form of cinematography or videography that uses photography instead of animation.
Madhouse, Inc.
is a Japanese animation studio founded in 1972 by ex–Mushi Pro staff, including Masao Maruyama, Osamu Dezaki, and Yoshiaki Kawajiri.
Magic lantern
The magic lantern, also known by its Latin name lanterna magica, was an early type of image projector that used pictures—paintings, prints, or photographs—on transparent plates (usually made of glass), one or more lenses, and a light source.
Magical girl
is a subgenre of primarily Japanese fantasy media (including anime, manga, light novels, and live-action media) centered on young girls who possess magical abilities, which they typically use through an ideal alter ego into which they can transform. Anime and magical girl are anime and manga terminology.
Mainichi Film Award for Best Animation Film
The is an award given to the best animated feature film at the Mainichi Film Awards.
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Makoto Shinkai
, known as, is a Japanese filmmaker and novelist.
Manga
are comics or graphic novels originating from Japan. Anime and Manga are anime and manga terminology.
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Manga artist
A manga artist, also known as a mangaka, is a comic artist who writes and/or illustrates manga. Anime and manga artist are anime and manga terminology.
Manga iconography
Japanese manga has developed a visual language or iconography for expressing emotion and other internal character states. Anime and manga iconography are anime and manga terminology.
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MAPPA
is a Japanese animation studio headquartered in Suginami, Tokyo.
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Marketplace (radio program)
Marketplace is an American radio program that focuses on business, the economy, and events that influence them.
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The mass media in Japan include numerous television and radio networks as well as newspapers and magazines in Japan.
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Mass noun
In linguistics, a mass noun, uncountable noun, non-count noun, uncount noun, or just uncountable, is a noun with the syntactic property that any quantity of it is treated as an undifferentiated unit, rather than as something with discrete elements.
Matt Hullum
Matthew Jay Hullum (born September 29, 1974) is an American film director, producer, writer, actor and visual effects supervisor living in Austin, Texas.
Max (streaming service)
Max, formerly and still known in some regions as HBO Max, is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service.
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McFarland & Company
McFarland & Company, Inc., is an American independent book publisher based in Jefferson, North Carolina, that specializes in academic and reference works, as well as general-interest adult nonfiction.
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Mecha
In science fiction, or mechs are giant robots or machines typically depicted as piloted and as humanoid walking vehicles. Anime and mecha are anime and manga terminology.
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Mecha anime and manga
Mecha, also known as giant robot or simply robot, is a genre of anime and manga that feature mecha in battle. Anime and mecha anime and manga are anime and manga terminology.
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Mechademia
Mechademia: Second Arc is a biannual (formerly annual) peer-reviewed academic journal in English about Japanese popular culture products and fan practices.
A media franchise, also known as a multimedia franchise, is a collection of related media in which several derivative works have been produced from an original creative work of fiction, such as a film, a work of literature, a television program or a video game.
Medievalism
Medievalism is a system of belief and practice inspired by the Middle Ages of Europe, or by devotion to elements of that period, which have been expressed in areas such as architecture, literature, music, art, philosophy, scholarship, and various vehicles of popular culture.
Merchandising
Merchandising is any practice which contributes to the sale of products to a retail consumer.
Merriam-Webster
Merriam-Webster, Incorporated is an American company that publishes reference books and is mostly known for its dictionaries.
Microgenre
A microgenre is a specialized or niche genre.
Middle East
The Middle East (term originally coined in English Translations of this term in some of the region's major languages include: translit; translit; translit; script; translit; اوْرتاشرق; Orta Doğu.) is a geopolitical region encompassing the Arabian Peninsula, the Levant, Turkey, Egypt, Iran, and Iraq.
Midnight Eye
Midnight Eye is a non-profit review website launched in 2001 by Tom Mes, Jasper Sharp, and Martin Mes.
Mike Lazzo
Michael Allen Lazzo (born April 10, 1958) is a retired American television producer and the former executive vice president in charge of the Adult Swim programming block of Cartoon Network, and its production arm, Williams Street.
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry
The, METI for short, is a ministry of the Government of Japan.
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Mitsuteru Yokoyama
was a Japanese manga artist born in Suma Ward of Kobe City in Hyōgo Prefecture.
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Mitsuyo Seo
was a Japanese animator, screenwriter, and director of animated films who played a central role in the development of Japanese anime.
Mobile Suit Gundam 0080: War in the Pocket
is a six episode 1989 Japanese science fiction original video animation series.
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Model figure
A model figure is a scale model representing a human, monster or other creature.
Mole's Adventure
is the earliest surviving Japanese anime broadcast on television.
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Momotaro: Sacred Sailors
is the first Japanese feature-length animated film.
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Montreal
Montreal is the largest city in the province of Quebec, the second-largest in Canada, and the tenth-largest in North America.
Monty Oum
Monyreak "Monty" Oum (June 22, 1981 – February 1, 2015) was an American web-based animator and writer.
Moral panic
A moral panic is a widespread feeling of fear that some evil person or thing threatens the values, interests, or well-being of a community or society.
Morning Consult
Morning Consult is an American business intelligence company established in 2014.
MovieWeb
MovieWeb is an entertainment news website and video brand.
Mukokuseki
Mukokuseki (Japanese: 無国籍) is the Japanese term for "statelessness" or "nationlessness". Anime and Mukokuseki are anime and manga terminology.
Mushi Production
or Mushi Pro for short, is a Japanese animation studio headquartered in Fujimidai, Nerima, Tokyo, Japan.
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MyAnimeList
MyAnimeList, often abbreviated as MAL, is an anime and manga social networking and social cataloging application website run by volunteers.
Naruto
Naruto is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Masashi Kishimoto.
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Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (film)
is a 1984 Japanese animated post-apocalyptic fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki, based on his 1982–94 manga series of the same name.
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Neon Genesis Evangelion
, also known as Evangelion or Eva, is a Japanese mecha anime television series produced by Gainax, animated by Tatsunoko, and directed by Hideaki Anno.
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Netflix
Netflix is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service.
New York (magazine)
New York is an American biweekly magazine concerned with life, culture, politics, and style generally, with a particular emphasis on New York City.
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Niche market
A niche market is the subset of the market on which a specific product is focused.
Nickelodeon
Nickelodeon (occasionally shortened to Nick) is an American pay television channel owned by Paramount Global through Paramount Media Networks' subdivision, Nickelodeon Group.
Nikkei Asia
Nikkei Asia, known as Nikkei Asian Review between 2013 and 2020, is a major Japan-based English-language weekly news magazine focused on the Asian continent, although it also covers broader international developments.
Nippon Animation
is a Japanese animation studio.
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Nippon Television
The, also known as (NTV), with the call sign JOAX-DTV (channel 4), is a Japanese television station serving the Kantō region as the flagship station of the Nippon News Network and the Nippon Television Network System.
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Noburō Ōfuji
was a Japanese film director and animator.
North America
North America is a continent in the Northern and Western Hemispheres.
Northern Virginia Community College (NVCC; which is informally known as NOVA) is a public community college with six campuses and four centers in the Northern Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C. Northern Virginia Community College is the third-largest multi-campus community college in the United States, and it is the largest educational institution in the Commonwealth of Virginia.
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Nosebleed
A nosebleed, also known as epistaxis, is an instance of bleeding from the nose.
Noun
In grammar, a noun is a word that represents a concrete or abstract thing, such as living creatures, places, actions, qualities, states of existence, and ideas.
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NTSC
NTSC (from National Television Standards Committee) is the first American standard for analog television, published in 1941.
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Oh My Goddess!
, or Ah! My Goddess! in some releases, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Kōsuke Fujishima.
Okamoto Ippei
(June 11, 1886 – October 11, 1948) was a Japanese illustrator, cartoonist, and writer.
Original net animation
An original net animation (ONA), known in Japan as, is an anime that is directly released onto the Internet. Anime and original net animation are anime and manga terminology.
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Original video animation
, abbreviated as OVA and sometimes as OAV (original animation video), are Japanese animated films and special episodes of a series made specially for release in home video formats without prior showings on television or in theaters, though the first part of an OVA series may be broadcast for promotional purposes. Anime and Original video animation are anime and manga terminology.
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Osamu Tezuka
Osamu Tezuka (手塚 治虫, born 手塚 治, Tezuka Osamu, – 9 February 1989) was a Japanese manga artist, cartoonist and animator.
Oshi no Ko
is a Japanese manga series written by Aka Akasaka and illustrated by Mengo Yokoyari.
Otaku
is a Japanese word that describes people with consuming interests, particularly in anime, manga, video games, or computers. Anime and Otaku are anime and manga terminology.
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Oxford English Dictionary
The Oxford English Dictionary (OED) is the principal historical dictionary of the English language, published by Oxford University Press (OUP), a University of Oxford publishing house.
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Oxford University Press
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.
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P.A. Works
is a Japanese animation studio founded on November 10, 2000, in Nanto, Toyama.
Palgrave Macmillan
Palgrave Macmillan is a British academic and trade publishing company headquartered in the London Borough of Camden.
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Pamela Jiles (politician)
Pamela Jiles Moreno (born 30 November 1960) is a Chilean journalist and politician, currently serving as a member of the Chamber of Deputies, representing District 12 of the Santiago Metropolitan Region.
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Perfect Hair Forever
Perfect Hair Forever is an American adult animated television series created by Mike Lazzo, Matt Harrigan, and Matt Maiellaro for Cartoon Network's late night programming block Adult Swim.
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Peru
Peru, officially the Republic of Peru, is a country in western South America. It is bordered in the north by Ecuador and Colombia, in the east by Brazil, in the southeast by Bolivia, in the south by Chile, and in the south and west by the Pacific Ocean. Peru is a megadiverse country with habitats ranging from the arid plains of the Pacific coastal region in the west to the peaks of the Andes mountains extending from the north to the southeast of the country to the tropical Amazon basin rainforest in the east with the Amazon River.
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Philippines
The Philippines, officially the Republic of the Philippines, is an archipelagic country in Southeast Asia.
Pierrot (company)
is a Japanese animation studio established in May 1979 by Yuji Nunokawa, previously an animator and director for Tatsunoko Production.
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Pokémon
Pokémon is a Japanese media franchise consisting of video games, animated series and films, a trading card game, and other related media.
Pokémon (TV series)
abbreviated from the Japanese title of and currently branded in English as is a Japanese anime television series, part of The Pokémon Company's ''Pokémon'' media franchise, which premiered on TV Tokyo in April 1997.
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Princess Mononoke
is a 1997 Japanese animated epic historical fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki and animated by Studio Ghibli for Tokuma Shoten, Nippon Television Network and Dentsu.
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Production I.G
is a Japanese animation studio.
Propaganda in Japan during the Second Sino-Japanese War and World War II
Japanese propaganda in the period just before and during World War II, was designed to assist the regime in governing during that time.
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Quartz (publication)
Quartz is an American English language news website owned by G/O Media.
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Quebec
QuebecAccording to the Canadian government, Québec (with the acute accent) is the official name in Canadian French and Quebec (without the accent) is the province's official name in Canadian English is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.
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Reappropriation
In linguistics, reappropriation, reclamation, or resignification is the cultural process by which a group reclaims words or artifacts that were previously used in a way disparaging of that group.
Reddit is an American social news aggregation, content rating, and forum social network.
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Reuters
Reuters is a news agency owned by Thomson Reuters.
Robert Rodriguez
Robert Anthony Rodriguez (born June 20, 1968) is an American filmmaker, composer, and visual effects supervisor.
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Robotech
Robotech is an American science fiction franchise that began with an 85-episode anime television series produced by Harmony Gold USA in association with Tatsunoko Production; it was first released in the United States in 1985.
Rooster Teeth
Rooster Teeth Productions, LLC was an American internet media and production company headquartered in Austin, Texas.
Royal Space Force: The Wings of Honnêamise
is a 1987 Japanese animated science fiction film written and directed by Hiroyuki Yamaga, co-produced by Hiroaki Inoue and Hiroyuki Sueyoshi, and planned by Toshio Okada and Shigeru Watanabe, with music by Ryuichi Sakamoto.
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RWBY
RWBY (pronounced "Ruby") is an American anime-influenced 3D computer-animated web series created by Monty Oum for Rooster Teeth.
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Sailor Moon (TV series)
Sailor Moon, originally released in Japan as and later as Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon, is a Japanese superhero anime television series produced by Toei Animation using Super Sentai motifs.
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Sake
Sake,, or saki, also referred to as Japanese rice wine, is an alcoholic beverage of Japanese origin made by fermenting rice that has been polished to remove the bran.
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Science fiction
Science fiction (sometimes shortened to SF or sci-fi) is a genre of speculative fiction, which typically deals with imaginative and futuristic concepts such as advanced science and technology, space exploration, time travel, parallel universes, and extraterrestrial life.
Science Ninja Team Gatchaman
is a Japanese animated franchise about a five-member superhero ninja team created by Tatsuo Yoshida and produced by Tatsunoko Productions.
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Screen Rant
Screen Rant is an entertainment website that offers news in the fields of television, films, video games, and film theories.
Seichi junrei
is a Japanese buzzword and internet slang term describing a form of pop-culture tourism or film tourism where fans of anime subculture-related media make visits to real-world locations featured as settings, backgrounds, or general inspiration for their favorite series.
Seinen manga
is an editorial category of Japanese comics marketed toward young adult men. Anime and Seinen manga are anime and manga terminology.
Seitarō Kitayama
was an early Japanese animation director whose work includes the first examples of commercial production of anime.
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Seiyu Awards
The are award ceremonies for the recognition of voice acting talent for outstanding performance in anime and other media in Japan.
Sexual intercourse
Sexual intercourse (also coitus or copulation) is a sexual activity involving the insertion and thrusting of the male penis inside the female vagina for sexual pleasure, reproduction, or both.
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Shadow play
Shadow play, also known as shadow puppetry, is an ancient form of storytelling and entertainment which uses flat articulated cut-out figures (shadow puppets) which are held between a source of light and a translucent screen or scrim.
Shōjo manga
is an editorial category of Japanese comics targeting an audience of adolescent females and young adult women. Anime and Shōjo manga are anime and manga terminology.
Shōnen manga
is an editorial category of Japanese comics targeting an audience of adolescent boys. Anime and Shōnen manga are anime and manga terminology.
Shinzo Abe
Shinzo Abe (安倍 晋三, Hepburn:,; 21 September 1954 – 8 July 2022) was a Japanese politician who served as Prime Minister of Japan and President of the Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) from 2006 to 2007 and again from 2012 to 2020.
Short film
A short film is a film with a low running time.
Silhouette animation
Silhouette animation is animation in which the characters are only visible as black silhouettes.
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Simulcast
Simulcast (a portmanteau of simultaneous broadcast) is the broadcasting of programs or events across more than one resolution, bitrate or medium, or more than one service on the same medium, at exactly the same time (that is, simultaneously).
Sound film
A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film.
South America
South America is a continent entirely in the Western Hemisphere and mostly in the Southern Hemisphere, with a considerably smaller portion in the Northern Hemisphere.
South China Morning Post
The South China Morning Post (SCMP), with its Sunday edition, the Sunday Morning Post, is a Hong Kong-based English-language newspaper owned by Alibaba Group.
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South Korea
South Korea, officially the Republic of Korea (ROK), is a country in East Asia.
South Korean animation
South Korean animation, or aeni (애니) is hand-drawn and computer-generated animation originating from South Korea.
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South Park
South Park is an American animated sitcom created by Trey Parker and Matt Stone, and developed by Brian Graden for Comedy Central.
Spain
Spain, formally the Kingdom of Spain, is a country located in Southwestern Europe, with parts of its territory in the Atlantic Ocean, the Mediterranean Sea and Africa.
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Speed Racer
Speed Racer, also known as, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tatsuo Yoshida.
Spirited Away
is a 2001 Japanese animated fantasy film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki.
Spotify
Spotify is a Swedish audio streaming and media service provider founded on 23 April 2006 by Daniel Ek and Martin Lorentzon.
Springer Nature
Springer Nature or the Springer Nature Group is a German-British academic publishing company created by the May 2015 merger of Springer Science+Business Media and Holtzbrinck Publishing Group's Nature Publishing Group, Palgrave Macmillan, and Macmillan Education.
St. Martin's Press
St.
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Statista
Statista (styled in all lower case) is a German online platform that specializes in data gathering and visualization.
Stop motion
Stop motion (also known as stop frame animation) is an animated filmmaking technique in which objects are physically manipulated in small increments between individually photographed frames so that they will appear to exhibit independent motion or change when the series of frames is played back.
Story arc
A story arc (also narrative arc) is the chronological construction of a plot in a novel or story.
Storyboard
A storyboard is a graphic organizer that consists of illustrations or images displayed in sequence for the purpose of pre-visualizing a motion picture, animation, motion graphic or interactive media sequence.
Streaming television
Streaming television is the digital distribution of television content, such as television series and films, streamed over the Internet.
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Studio Ghibli
is a Japanese animation studio based in Koganei, Tokyo.
Subtitles
Subtitles are texts representing the contents of the audio in a film, television show, opera or other audiovisual media.
Super Dimension Fortress Macross
is an anime television series from 1982.
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Tadahito Mochinaga
was a pioneer Japanese stop-motion animator.
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Technical University of Valencia
The Technical University of Valencia (Universitat Politècnica de València;, Universidad Politécnica de Valencia), shortened to UPV, is a Spanish university located in Valencia, with a focus on science, technology, and arts.
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Television in Japan
Television in Japan was introduced in 1939.
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Television in the United States
Television is one of the major mass media outlets in the United States.
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Tetsujin 28-go
, known as simply Tetsujin 28 in international releases, is a 1956 manga written and illustrated by Mitsuteru Yokoyama, who also created Giant Robo.
Texas
Texas (Texas or Tejas) is the most populous state in the South Central region of the United States.
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The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (AHD) is a dictionary of American English published by HarperCollins.
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The Asahi Shimbun
is one of the five largest newspapers in Japan.
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The Association of Japanese Animations
The Association of Japanese Animations (AJA; 日本動画協会) is an industry group consisting of 52 affiliate animation production companies.
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The Castle of Cagliostro
is a 1979 Japanese animated action adventure comedy film co-written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki.
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The Dull Sword
is a Japanese animated short film produced by Jun'ichi Kōuchi in 1917.
The Economist
The Economist is a British weekly newspaper published in printed magazine format and digitally.
The Guardian
The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.
The Hollywood Reporter
The Hollywood Reporter (THR) is an American digital and print magazine which focuses on the Hollywood film, television, and entertainment industries.
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The Japan Times
The Japan Times is Japan's largest and oldest English-language daily newspaper.
The Legend of Korra
The Legend of Korra (abbreviated as TLOK), also known as Avatar: The Legend of Korra, or more rarely simply as Korra, is an American animated fantasy action television series created by Michael Dante DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko for Nickelodeon.
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The Straits Times
The Straits Times (also known informally by its abbreviation ST) is a Singaporean daily English-language newspaper owned by the SPH Media Trust.
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The Sydney Morning Herald
The Sydney Morning Herald (SMH) is a daily tabloid newspaper published in Sydney, Australia, and owned by Nine.
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The Verge
The Verge is an American technology news website headquartered in Lower Manhattan, New York City and operated by Vox Media.
The Walking Dead (TV series)
The Walking Dead is an American post-apocalyptic horror drama television series developed by Frank Darabont, based on the comic book series of the same name by Robert Kirkman, Tony Moore, and Charlie Adlard.
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The Wall Street Journal
The Wall Street Journal (WSJ), also referred to simply as the Journal, is an American newspaper based in New York City, with a focus on business and finance.
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The Walt Disney Company
The Walt Disney Company is an American multinational mass media and entertainment conglomerate that is headquartered at the Walt Disney Studios complex in Burbank, California.
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The WB
The WB Television Network (shortened to The WB, and nicknamed the "Frog Network" or "The Frog" for its former mascot Michigan J. Frog) was an American television network launched on broadcast television on January 11, 1995, as a joint venture between the Warner Bros. Entertainment division of Time Warner and the Tribune Broadcasting subsidiary of the Tribune Company, with the former acting as controlling partner (and from which The WB received its name).
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Three Tales (film)
was a black and white Japanese anime direct-to-TV short film aired in 1960.
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TikTok
TikTok, whose mainland Chinese counterpart is Douyin, is a short-form video hosting service owned by Chinese internet company ByteDance.
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TMS Entertainment
, formerly known as the division or TMS-Kyokuichi is a Japanese animation studio owned by Sega Corporation.
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Toei Animation
is a Japanese animation studio primarily controlled by its namesake Toei Company.
Tokyo Anime Award
The Tokyo Anime Awards started in 2002, but was named in 2005.
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Tokyo Revengers
is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Ken Wakui.
Tourism in Japan
Tourism in Japan is a major industry and contributor to the Japanese economy.
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Tower of God
is a South Korean manhwa released as a webtoon written and illustrated by S.I.U. It has been serialized in Naver Corporation's webtoon platform Naver Webtoon since June 2010, with the individual chapters collected and published by Young Com in 15 volumes as of May 2024.
Trade association
A trade association, also known as an industry trade group, business association, sector association or industry body, is an organization founded and funded by businesses that operate in a specific industry.
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Traditional animation
Traditional animation (or classical animation, cel animation, or hand-drawn animation) is an animation technique in which each frame is drawn by hand.
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Tumblr
Tumblr (pronounced "tumbler") is a microblogging and social networking website founded by David Karp in 2007 and currently owned by American company Automattic.
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Twitch (service)
Twitch is an American video live-streaming service that focuses on video game live streaming, including broadcasts of esports competitions, in addition to offering music broadcasts, creative content, and "in real life" streams.
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X, commonly referred to by its former name Twitter, is a social networking service.
Ufotable
is a Japanese animation studio founded in October 2000 by former Telecom Animation Film producer Hikaru Kondō and located in Shinjuku, Tokyo.
Ukiyo-e
Ukiyo-e is a genre of Japanese art that flourished from the 17th through 19th centuries.
Union for Peru
Union for Peru (Unión por el Perú) is a Peruvian political party founded by Javier Pérez de Cuéllar, an ex-UN Secretary General, in 1994 to run for the presidency of Peru in the 1995 general elections.
United Arab Emirates
The United Arab Emirates (UAE), or simply the Emirates, is a country in West Asia, in the Middle East.
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United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom (UK) or Britain, is a country in Northwestern Europe, off the coast of the continental mainland.
University of Granada
The University of Granada (Universidad de Granada, UGR) is a public university located in the city of Granada, Spain, and founded in 1531 by Emperor Charles V. With more than 60,000 students, it is the fourth largest university in Spain.
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Vaporwave
Vaporwave is a microgenre of electronic music and a subgenre of hauntology, a visual art style, and an Internet meme that emerged in the early 2010s, and became well-known in 2015.
Variety (magazine)
Variety is an American magazine owned by Penske Media Corporation.
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Vice (magazine)
Vice (stylized in all caps) is a Canadian-American magazine focused on lifestyle, arts, culture, and news/politics.
Vicky the Viking
Vicky the Viking, known as Wickie und die starken Männer in Germany and Austria and in Japan, is an animated television series which tells the adventures of Vicky, a young Viking boy who uses his wits to help his Viking fellows.
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Video CD
Video CD (abbreviated as VCD, and also known as Compact Disc Digital Video) is a home video format and the first format for distributing films on standard optical discs. Anime and video CD are Japanese inventions.
Video game
A video game or computer game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface or input device (such as a joystick, controller, keyboard, or motion sensing device) to generate visual feedback from a display device, most commonly shown in a video format on a television set, computer monitor, flat-panel display or touchscreen on handheld devices, or a virtual reality headset.
Video games in Japan
Video games are a major industry in Japan, and the country is considered one of the most influential in video gaming.
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Visual novel
A visual novel (VN) is a form of digital interactive fiction.
Voice acting
Voice acting is the art of performing a character or providing information to an audience with one's voice.
Voice acting in Japan
Voice acting in Japan is an industry where actors provide voice-overs as characters or narrators in media including anime, video games, audio dramas, commercials, and dubbing for non-Japanese films and television programs.
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Voltron (TV series)
Voltron is a 1984 American-Japanese animated television series produced by World Events Productions for a total of 124 episodes.
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VTuber
A or is an online entertainer who uses a virtual avatar generated using computer graphics.
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Vytautas Magnus University
Vytautas Magnus University (VMU) (Vytauto Didžiojo universitetas, VDU) is a public university in Kaunas, Lithuania.
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War and Peace
War and Peace (translit; pre-reform Russian: Война и миръ) is a literary work by Russian author Leo Tolstoy.
Weeb (disambiguation)
Weeb, or weeaboo, is derogatory slang for a Japanophile.
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Western world
The Western world, also known as the West, primarily refers to various nations and states in the regions of Australasia, Western Europe, and Northern America; with some debate as to whether those in Eastern Europe and Latin America also constitute the West.
WFMZ-TV
WFMZ-TV (channel 69) is an independent television station in Allentown, Pennsylvania, United States.
Wit Studio
, stylized as WIT Studio, is a Japanese animation studio founded on June 1, 2012, by producers at Production I.G as a subsidiary of IG Port.
Yahoo! Finance
Yahoo! Finance is a media property that is part of the Yahoo! network.
Yaoi
Yaoi (やおい), also known as and its abbreviation, is a genre of fictional media originating in Japan that features homoerotic relationships between male characters. Anime and Yaoi are anime and manga terminology.
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Yasuji Murata
was a pioneering animator who helped develop the art of anime in Japan.
Yggdrasil
Yggdrasil is an immense and central sacred tree in Norse cosmology.
Yoasobi
Yoasobi is a Japanese pop duo formed in 2019 by Sony Music Entertainment Japan.
Yoshiyuki Tomino
is a Japanese anime director, screenwriter, songwriter and novelist best known for creating the Gundam anime franchise.
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Your Name
, stylized as your name., is a 2016 Japanese animated romantic fantasy film written and directed by Makoto Shinkai, produced by CoMix Wave Films, and distributed by Toho.
YouTube
YouTube is an American online video sharing platform owned by Google.
Yuri (genre)
, also known by the wasei-eigo construction, is a genre of Japanese media focusing on intimate relationships between female characters. Anime and Yuri (genre) are anime and manga terminology.
1923 Great Kantō earthquake
The also known in Japanese as struck the Kantō Plain on the main Japanese island of Honshū at 11:58:32 JST (02:58:32 UTC) on Saturday, September 1, 1923.
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4chan
4chan is an anonymous English-language imageboard website.
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75th Academy Awards
The 75th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) took place on March 23, 2003, at the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood, Los Angeles.
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See also
1917 introductions
- Anime
- History of Russian postage rates
- Jespersen's Cycle
- KS Steel
- Narcissism of small differences
- Vehicle registration plates of South Carolina
References
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anime
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