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Animax (アニマックス)
Animax (アニマックス) is a Japanese 24-hour anime pay-TV channel operated by Animax Broadcast Japan Inc., launched July 1, 1998 with Sony Pictures and major anime studios; ownership moved to AK Entertainment/Nojima in 2024, and Animax Asia now runs under KC Global Media.
Animax India
Animax India: Japanese anime TV channel launched July 5, 2004 by SPE Networks Asia under Sony Pictures Networks India; first 24-hour anime channel in India; replaced by Sony Yay! in April 2017; returned via JioTV and Prime Video add-on after KC Global Media's 2020 acquisition.
Anime (アニメ)
Anime (アニメ), Japanese animation spanning TV, film, OVA, and web releases. AJA put the 2024 market at ¥3.84 trillion, 56.5% overseas; production committees finance most shows; Spirited Away and Demon Slayer drove global reach.
Anime adaptation sources and media relationships
Anime adaptation sources and media relationships: how manga, light novels, games, and web novels become anime, financed by production committees (seisaku iinkai) and exploited through the media mix, streaming licensing, and buyout models.
Anime Expo
Anime Expo (AX) is an annual four-day Japanese pop culture convention held around July 4 at the Los Angeles Convention Center; founded 1991 as AnimeCon by Cal Animage Alpha, run by SPJA, largest in North America with 422,000+ turnstile attendance at its 2026 35th edition.
Anime International Company
Anime International Company (AIC, 株式会社アニメインターナショナルカンパニー) is a Tokyo animation studio founded July 1982, representative director Toru Miura, working in anime planning and production, game video, and CG from Nerima-ku.
Anime News Network
Anime News Network (ANN), founded 1998 by Justin Sevakis, is an English-language anime and manga industry news site with a credits encyclopedia, majority-owned by Kadokawa since November 2022.
Animorphs (TV series)
Animorphs (AniTV) is a 1998–2000 live-action Nickelodeon/YTV children's sci-fi series adapted from K. A. Applegate's Scholastic novels: 26 episodes, Toronto-shot, starring Shawn Ashmore, with DAVE-created morphing effects.
Aniplex (株式会社アニプレックス)
Aniplex (株式会社アニプレックス, formerly SME Visual Works) is Sony Music Entertainment (Japan)'s wholly owned anime planning and rights company, founded 1995, renamed 2003, running A-1 Pictures, CloverWorks, Lasengle, Aniplex of America, and Crunchyroll involvement.
Anita Dobson
Anita Dobson (born 1949, Stepney, London) is an English actress and singer, Angie Watts in EastEnders 1985-1988 and Mrs Flood in Doctor Who, married to Queen guitarist Brian May.
Ann Droid
Ann Droid is a 2026 BBC One sitcom created by and starring Diane Morgan as Linda, a second-hand eldercare robot for widow Sue (Sue Johnston), co-written with Sarah Kendall, six episodes, renewed for series 2.
Ann Perkins
Ann Perkins is the fictional nurse on the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation, played by Rashida Jones. Her pit beside her house starts the show's plot; she is Leslie Knope's best friend, exits as a main character in season 6.
Ann Veal
Ann Veal, full name Ann Paul Veal, is a fictional character in the American sitcom Arrested Development, the religious girlfriend of George Michael Bluth played by Mae Whitman.
Anna (안나)
Anna (안나) is a 2022 Coupang Play Korean psychological thriller series by director Lee Joo-young, starring Bae Suzy, based on Chung Han-ah's novel Intimate Stranger; released in 6- and 8-episode versions amid an editing dispute and lawsuits.
Annalise Keating
Annalise Keating (Anna Mae Harkness) is the fictional criminal defense attorney and law professor played by Viola Davis in ABC's How to Get Away with Murder (2014-2020), creator Peter Nowalk; Emmy-winning lead of the Keating 5 murder saga.
Annam (அன்னம்) (TV series)
Annam (அன்னம்) is a 2024 Indian Tamil-language TV drama on Sun TV, starring Abi Natchatra and Bharat Kumar, produced by Sun Entertainment and Ayyan Movie Makers, premiering 2 December 2024 and replacing Sundari.
Anne Shirley (アン・シャーリー) (2025 TV series)
Anne Shirley (アン・シャーリー) is a 2025 24-episode anime adaptation of Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables series (Muraoka Hanako translation) by The Answer Studio, aired on NHK E-tele from April 5, 2025, adapting three novels with Hiroshi Kawamata directing and Honoka Inoue voicing Anne.
Anne with an E
Anne with an E is a 2017–2019 CBC/Netflix drama adapted from Anne of Green Gables, created by Moira Walley-Beckett, starring Amybeth McNulty, 27 episodes, 3 seasons, cancelled after season 3.
Annoying Orange
Annoying Orange: American comedy web series created by Dane Boedigheimer (Gagfilms), first video October 9, 2009; talking orange with human eyes and mouth annoys fruit; over 1 billion views by 2012, Cartoon Network TV series 2012-2014, still running.
Anonymous Signal (夺命提示)
Anonymous Signal (奪命提示, Death Hint) is a 2025 30-episode TVB Cantonese action-suspense police sci-fi drama by producer Jazz Boon, about a phone assistant's hints that help police solve murders, airing on TVB Jade and Youku.
Another Life (2019 TV series)
Another Life (2019 TV series): Netflix sci-fi drama created by Aaron Martin, starring Katee Sackhoff as astronaut Niko Breckinridge investigating an alien artifact aboard the Salvare. Two 10-episode seasons, 2019-2021, cancelled 2022.
Another Me (七月与安生)
Another Me (七月与安生) is a 2019 Chinese drama series adapted from Qing Shan's (Annie Baobei) novel, directed by Cui Liang, starring Shen Yue and Chen Duling as best friends who love the same man; 53 episodes on iQiyi from July 22, 2019.
Another Miss Oh (또 오해영)
Another Miss Oh (또 오해영) is a 2016 tvN Korean romantic-comedy drama, 18 episodes, starring Eric, Seo Hyun-jin, and Jeon Hye-bin as two women sharing the name Oh Hae-young entangled with Park Do-kyung, a sound director who sees visions of the future.
Another Period
Another Period is an American period sitcom created by and starring Natasha Leggero and Riki Lindhome for Comedy Central (2015-2018, 3 seasons, 32 episodes). Set in 1902 Newport, Rhode Island, it parodies Downton Abbey-style period drama as a Kardashians-style faux-reality show about the Bellacourt family; canceled November 29, 2018.
Another World (TV series)
Another World was an NBC daytime soap opera (May 4, 1964 to June 25, 1999) created by Irna Phillips and William J. Bell, the first Procter & Gamble-NBC partnership, first hour-long soap, with spin-offs Somerset and Texas, canceled for Passions.
Anpan (あんぱん) (TV series)
Anpan (あんぱん) is NHK's 112th Asadora serial drama, broadcast March 31 to September 26, 2025, 130 episodes; also known as Drama Serial Anpan, modeled on Anpanman creator Yanase Takashi and his wife Komatsu Nobu, scripted by Miho Nakazono, starring Mio Imada and Takumi Kitamura, theme song Tamamono by RADWIMPS, final episode 18.1% household rating.
Anpanman (アンパンマン)
Anpanman (アンパンマン), also Soreike! Anpanman, is a Japanese children's superhero created by Takashi Yanase, first published 1969, picture book 1973, anime on Nippon TV since October 3, 1988; Guinness record 1,768 characters in 2009, over 2,300 now.
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway
Ant & Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway: British ITV light-entertainment series (also Ant and Dec's Saturday Night Takeaway) hosted by Ant McPartlin and Declan Donnelly, airing 2002-2009 and 2013-2024 over 20 series; known for the End of the Show Show, Win the Ads, and Ring My Bell.
Anthology series
Anthology series: television or radio series presenting a different story and different characters each episode or season, unified by theme or genre; examples include The Twilight Zone, Black Mirror, and American Horror Story.
Anthony DiNozzo
Anthony "Tony" DiNozzo, played by Michael Weatherly, is the fictional NCIS Special Agent from the JAG backdoor pilot who starred 13 seasons, left in 2016 for Bull, led the canceled Tony & Ziva spinoff, and returns as NCIS Director in season 24.