Pronunciation Noun
anime
- (uncountable) An artistic style originating in, and associated with, Japanese animation, and that has also been adopted by a comparatively low number of animated works from other countries.
- I can draw an anime version of you, if you want.
- (countable) An animated work that originated in Japan, regardless of the artistic style.
- 2005, Peter J. Katzenstein, A World of Regions, page 165,
- After three months of successful sales in manga form, it was made into an anime for television.
- 2005, Joan D. Vinge, in The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighteenth Annual Collection, page cix,
- Usually the manga comes first, though it may be an offshoot of a novel, and an anime may be inspired by a video game.
- 2006, Thomas LaMarre, in Japan After Japan (Tomiko Yoda & Harry D. Harootunian, eds.), page 363,
- These anime prepared the way for Otaku no video, a two-part Original Video Animation (OVA).
- 2005, Peter J. Katzenstein, A World of Regions, page 165,
- (rare, countable, chiefly, proscribed) An animated work, regardless of the country of origin.
- (a Japanese animated work) Japanimation (dated), Japanime (dated)
- French: animé
- German: Anime
- Italian: anime
- Portuguese: anime, animé, animê
- Russian: аниме́
- Spanish: anime
anime (uncountable)
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