anime
pronunciation
How to pronounce anime in British English:
UK [ˈænɪmeɪ]
How to pronounce anime in American English:
US [ˈænɪmeɪ]
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- Noun:
- a hard copal derived from an African tree
- any of various resins or oleoresins
Word Origin
- 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.
Example
- 1. The japanese see anime characters as being japanese .
- 2. You see that especially in manga and anime .
- 3. Hayao miyazaki 's 2001 film became the first japanese anime film to win an academy award .
- 4. Society rules are pretty strange for that matter in the anime .
- 5. Our next stop was radio kaikan , akihabara 's first high-rise , which now sells figurines , customizable dolls and amateur comic books based on popular anime .