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Animation studio
Animation studio: a company creating animated media with the equipment and personnel to produce animation; includes feature studios like Disney/Pixar, anime studios like Toei and Ghibli, stop-motion houses like Laika, and contract/outsourcing studios, distinguished by IP ownership versus client work.
Animator
Animator: an artist who creates the illusion of movement in 2D, 3D, stop-motion, or motion-graphics media for film, TV, games, and ads; U.S. median pay $102,030 (May 2025), 51,900 jobs, flat 2025–2035 outlook.
Animator vs. Animation
Animator vs. Animation (AvA) is Alan Becker's web series, begun June 3, 2006 as a viral Flash animation, in which mute stick figures battle their animator's cursor on a computer desktop, later expanding into sequels, seasons, and Animation vs. spin-offs.
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.
Anime-influenced animation
Anime-influenced animation: animation made outside Japan, such as Avatar: The Last Airbender and Castlevania, that adopts anime aesthetics and narrative style; distinct from Japanese anime and from localized imports like Battle of the Planets.
AnimEigo
AnimEigo is an American home video company that licenses and distributes Japanese animation and live-action Japanese films in North America, founded in 1988 in Ithaca, New York.
Animol
Animol is a 2026 British prison drama, the directorial debut of actor Ashley Walters, written by Nick Love. Set in a young offenders institution, it premiered in Berlinale's Perspectives section, won the FIPRESCI Prize, and was released by StudioCanal UK on 30 October 2026.
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.
Anirban Bhattacharya (অনির্বাণ ভট্টাচার্য)
Anirban Bhattacharya (অনির্বাণ ভট্টাচার্য), born 1986 in Midnapore, is a Bengali theatre and film actor-director known for Hoichoi's Byomkesh, Ballabhpurer Roopkotha, and Minerva Repertoire stage work.
Anishma Anilkumar
Anishma Anilkumar (അനിഷ്മ അനില്കുമാര്), Indian actress born 1999 in Kattakkada, Kerala; Malayalam debut Poovan (2023), known for I Am Kathalan, Maranamass, and Tamil films Sirai, Youth, and Modha Rathiri.
Anissa Jones
Anissa Jones (Mary Anissa Jones, 1958-1976), American child actress of Lebanese descent who played Buffy Davis on CBS's Family Affair (1966-1971, 138 episodes); died at 18 in Oceanside, California, of combined drug intoxication. Not the Georgia legislator of the same name.
Anita Barone
Anita Barone (Anita Louise Barone), American actress born 1964 in St. Louis, raised in Detroit; played Carol Willick in one Friends episode, Karen Foxworthy on The Jeff Foxworthy Show, Vicky Gold on The War at Home, and Georgia Jones on Shake It Up.
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.
Anita Ekberg
Anita Ekberg (Kerstin Anita Marianne Ekberg, 1931–2015) was a Swedish actress and model, Miss Sweden and star of Fellini's La dolce vita (1960); her Trevi Fountain scene with Marcello Mastroianni made her a cinema icon.
Anita Harris
Anita Harris (Anita Madeleine Harris, born 1942) is an English singer and actress known for the 1967 hit Just Loving You and Carry On films Follow That Camel and Carry On Doctor; later a variety and pantomime performer.
Anita Hassanandani
Anita Hassanandani, born Natasha Hassanandani (also credited as Natassha), is an Indian actress known for Telugu film Nuvvu Nenu, Kkavyanjali, Shagun in Yeh Hai Mohabbatein, Naagin 3, and Suman Indori.
Anita Morris
Anita Morris, also Anita Rose Morris, American actress, dancer, and singer (1943-1994) from Durham, North Carolina; Tony-nominated and Drama Desk-winning for Carla in Broadway's Nine, also known for Ruthless People and The Hotel New Hampshire.
Anita Pallenberg
Anita Pallenberg, German-Italian actress, model, and Rolling Stones muse; partner of Brian Jones then Keith Richards; starred in Performance (1970), Barbarella, and Candy; died 2017 aged 73.
Anita Raj
Anita Raj (Anita Raaj), Indian actress and producer born 1962 in Bombay, daughter of actor Jagdish Raj; 1980s Hindi films like Prem Geet, Ghulami, Clerk, later TV roles in 24: India, Ek Tha Raja Ek Thi Rani, Choti Sarrdaarni, and Yeh Rishta Kya Kehlata Hai.
Anjaam (अंजाम)
Anjaam (अंजाम) is a 1994 Hindi psychological thriller directed by Rahul Rawail, starring Madhuri Dixit as Shivani and Shah Rukh Khan as obsessive villain Vijay Agnihotri; it was their first pairing, earned an Average verdict, and won Khan the Filmfare Best Villain award.
Anjaam Pathiraa
Anjaam Pathiraa is a 2020 Malayalam crime thriller directed by Midhun Manuel Thomas, starring Kunchacko Boban as a criminologist helping police hunt a serial killer in Kochi.
Anjaan (2014 film)
Anjaan (2014 film), also known as Fearless (अஞ்சான்), is an Indian Tamil action film directed by N. Lingusamy, starring Suriya as Raju Bhai and Vidyut Jammwal.
Anjaana Anjaani (अनजाना अनजानी)
Anjaana Anjaani (अनजाना अनजानी), 2010 Hindi rom-com by Siddharth Anand, produced by Sajid Nadiadwala, starring Ranbir Kapoor and Priyanka Chopra as strangers Akash and Kiara who meet attempting suicide; distinct from the 2026 Telugu song of the same name.