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A style of animation developed in Japan, characterized by stylized colorful art, futuristic settings, violence, and sex. Most of the time in a form of comics, or telvation series.
Gundam Wing
A televised Anime series and manga. Directed by Masashi Ikeda and written by Katsuyuki Sumizawa and created by Yoshiyuki Tomino and Hajime Yatate. Released in 1995 in Japan. A war/love story.
Doujinshi
Self-published Japanese works, including but not limited to comic books (manga), novels, fan guides, art collections, and games. They are often drawn by amateurs, but some professional artists participate as a way to publish material outside the regular publishing industry. The term is derived from d�jin, meaning "literary group", "coterie", or "clique", and shi which means "magazine" or "distribution".
Fan Fiction
(also spelled fanfiction and commonly abbreviated to fanfic) Is fiction written by people who enjoy a film, novel, television show or other media work, using the characters and situations developed in it and developing new plots in which to use these characters. Characters and props from more than one media work may also be incorporated into a single fanfiction (known as crossovers). It should be noted that in the pre-1965 era, the term fan fiction was used in science fiction fandom to designate science fiction written by members of fandom and published in fanzines, as opposed to fiction that was professionally published. This usage is now obsolete.
Fan Art
Is a type of artwork that is based on a person or item that the artist did not create. The term is usually used to denote any art that has been created in this manner, although, strictly speaking, "fan art" means art derived from a visual medium, like comics, or movies, and it makes use of existing artwork - as opposed to book illustration, which uses no visual reference but the artist's imagination of characters described by an author. Thus, artwork depicting Wolverine from the X-Men (either the comic or the movie) or Orlando Bloom as Legolas would be fan art, while a picture featuring a non-movie-inspired Legolas should rather be called "book illustration".
Manga
Is the Japanese word for comics; outside of Japan, it usually refers specifically to Japanese comics. Manga developed from a mixture of ukiyo-e and Western styles of drawing, and took its current form shortly after World War II.
Yaoi
The word Yaoi (pronounced /jaoi/, pronounced "Yah-Oh-ee" rather than "Yow-ee" or "Ya-oy", all three vowels are pronounced) was originally used to refer to fan manga (such as doujinshi) that focused on homosexual relationships between male characters, especially two bishōnen - the manga equivalent of slash.
Yuri
Are jargon terms amongst otaku for lesbian content, possibly sexually explicit, in anime, manga, and related fan fiction. In Western media, the term femmeslash is used instead.
Toonami
(a pun on tsunami, suggesting a "tidal wave" of animated cartoons) Is a trademark of Cartoon Network, used initially for action-oriented programming blocks on the US and UK Cartoon Network television channels, among other countries. The name was subsequently used in the United Kingdom as the title of a UK channel in its own right in 2003, a year after the network launched as CNX.
Cartoon Network
The Cartoon Network is a cable TV channel created by Turner Broadcasting and dedicated to showing cartoons. It premiered on October 1, 1992 in the United States, and 17 September 1993 in the United Kingdom.
Gundam
Gundam is a popular Japanese anime involving giant robots, collective term for the Universal Century (UC) series like Mobile Suit Gundam and series in alternative timelines, such as Gundam Wing, made by Sunrise Inc. Gundam is one of the longest running meta-series of anime featuring giant robots in Japan.
Yoshiyuki Tomino
Is a novelist and animation creator. He began his career in 1963 working for Osamu Tezuka's company, Mushi Productions. He later became one of the most important members of the animation studio, Sunrise, and went on to direct much of their anime through the 70's and 80's before slowing down in the 90's. However, he is best known for his transformation of the super robot genre into the real robot genre with 1979's Mobile Suit Gundam.
Manga
Is the Japanese word for comics; outside of Japan, it usually refers specifically to Japanese comics. Manga developed from a mixture of ukiyo-e and Western styles of drawing, and took its current form shortly after World War II.
Manga
Is the Japanese word for comics; outside of Japan, it usually refers specifically to Japanese comics. Manga developed from a mixture of ukiyo-e and Western styles of drawing, and took its current form shortly after World War II.
Manga
Is the Japanese word for comics; outside of Japan, it usually refers specifically to Japanese comics. Manga developed from a mixture of ukiyo-e and Western styles of drawing, and took its current form shortly after World War II.
Manga
Is the Japanese word for comics; outside of Japan, it usually refers specifically to Japanese comics. Manga developed from a mixture of ukiyo-e and Western styles of drawing, and took its current form shortly after World War II.
Manga
Is the Japanese word for comics; outside of Japan, it usually refers specifically to Japanese comics. Manga developed from a mixture of ukiyo-e and Western styles of drawing, and took its current form shortly after World War II.
Manga
Is the Japanese word for comics; outside of Japan, it usually refers specifically to Japanese comics. Manga developed from a mixture of ukiyo-e and Western styles of drawing, and took its current form shortly after World War II.
Manga
Is the Japanese word for comics; outside of Japan, it usually refers specifically to Japanese comics. Manga developed from a mixture of ukiyo-e and Western styles of drawing, and took its current form shortly after World War II.
Manga
Is the Japanese word for comics; outside of Japan, it usually refers specifically to Japanese comics. Manga developed from a mixture of ukiyo-e and Western styles of drawing, and took its current form shortly after World War II.
