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Animation city
An animation city (动漫城, dongmancheng) is a Chinese venue dedicated to animation: an indoor center of anime shops, arcades, and fan activities, or a larger animation-themed park.
Animation industry in Canada
Canada's animation industry: NFB-led art animation plus commercial hubs in Montreal, Toronto and Vancouver; $175M production volume in 2023/24, CPTC and provincial tax credits, and a 2024–25 downturn.
Animation industry in Japan
The animation industry in Japan is a cluster of studios and rights holders that produces anime. In 2024, its market reached 3.84 trillion yen, with overseas revenue exceeding the domestic market.
Animation industry in the United States
The US animation industry: Hollywood-based production of animated film, TV, and games, from Disney's 1923 founding and the TV era of Hanna-Barbera to today's 51,900-artist workforce, $460 billion global market, and AI-driven contraction.
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.
Animatronics
Animatronics is a branch of engineering that builds electromechanical figures imitating living creatures; developed by Disney as Audio-Animatronics in the early 1960s, it is used in theme parks, film, and research.
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 Friends
Anime Friends is an anime and Asian pop-culture convention founded in 2003, held every July in São Paulo, Brazil, and described as the largest of its kind in Latin America.
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.
Animelo Summer Live
Animelo Summer Live (アニメロサマーライブ), nicknamed Anisama, is an annual anime-song concert held in Japan every summer since 2005 and billed as the world's largest anime-song live event.
Animesh Debbarma
Animesh Debbarma (born 1970) is an Indian politician from Tripura and a Tipra Motha Party minister who was Leader of the Opposition from 2023 to 2024.
Animesh Kujur
Animesh Kujur, Indian sprinter (born 2003, Jashpur, Chhattisgarh), 200m national record holder at 20.32s from the 2025 Asian Championships, first Indian male sprinter at the World Championships, trains under Martin Owens in Bhubaneswar.
Animesh Pardanani
Animesh Pardanani (Animesh D. Pardanani) is a hematologist-oncologist and Professor of Medicine at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, known for the MPL515 mutation study and research on myeloproliferative neoplasms.
Animism
Animism is the worldview in which animals, plants, places, and other non-human beings are treated as persons; Edward Tylor coined the anthropological sense in 1871.
Animoca Brands
Animoca Brands (安拟集团) is a Hong Kong company founded in 2014 by Yat Siu and David Kim, known for The Sandbox and a portfolio of over 620 crypto investments.
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
Animorphs is K.A. Applegate and Michael Grant's Scholastic sci-fi series (54 books, 1996-2001, 35 million copies) about teens Jake, Rachel, Cassie, Tobias, and Marco, who morph into animals to fight the parasitic Yeerks within two-hour limits.
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.
Animusic
Animusic is the computer-animated music of Animusic, LLC (originally Visual Music), founded by Wayne Lytle with David Crognale; MIDI note data drives its proprietary MIDImotion/Animusic Studio software, animating impossible virtual instruments in the DVDs Animusic (2001) and Animusic 2 (2005), best known for Pipe Dream.
Anin power station
Anin power station (강릉안인화력발전소) is a 2,080 MW coal-fired power station in Gangneung, South Korea, with two ultra-supercritical units that entered operation in 2022 and 2023.
Anindya Dutta
Anindya Dutta is a biochemist and cancer researcher who studies DNA replication and noncoding RNAs, and chairs the Department of Genetics at the University of Alabama at Birmingham.