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  • noun anime Japanese animated cartoons; anime

Etymologies

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Blend of Japan and animation

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Examples

  • I both prefer anime with and without subtitles, and I call it Japanimation, so I must be in the middle, and look down on myself.

    SF Tidbits for 7/27/06 2006

  • At one time, the genre was also known as Japanimation, but this term has fallen into disuse.

    MyLinkVault Newest Links 2009

  • "What used to be called Japanimation is now the single most popular form of episodic entertainment in the country among the key 8-38 age demographic ....

    GreenCine Daily 2009

  • "What used to be called Japanimation is now the single most popular form of episodic entertainment in the country among the key 8-38 age demographic ....

    GreenCine Daily 2009

  • "What used to be called Japanimation is now the single most popular form of episodic entertainment in the country among the key 8-38 age demographic ....

    GreenCine Daily 2009

  • As it stands everything is pretty cartoony and kind of Japanimation looking.

    Conan Neutron: Why Turntable.fm Might Just End Up Saving Music Conan Neutron 2011

  • My knowledge of Japanimation runs thin, because I've never heard of this movie before, and now I MUST SEE IT! evilninjax

    Wolfgang Peterson Talks About His Live-Action Adaptation of Paprika | /Film 2010

  • The Agent was old, at least eighty, Toby guessed, and he had these huge bright blue eyes, like in Japanimation.

    Big Secrets Benjamin Matvey 2011

  • In the Independent, Charlotte Cripps previews the Japanimation series at the Barbican: "[T] he first event will reveal how Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo (1958) and David Fincher's Se7en (1995) influenced Satoshi Kon's animated psychological thriller Perfect Blue (1998)."

    GreenCine Daily: Fests and events, 1/1. 2007

  • On looking at a self portrait she's drawn, she muses that It was supposed to be a pop-art portrait, but in it, I looked more like a Japanimation action hero.

    Archive 2006-12-01 2006

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