| Written by Kyle Barghout, on 14-02-2008 09:11 |
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As a fan of Anime and Manga for many years, I have used the term 'Japanimation' for many years, but now it appears that word is dead, and the more recent anime fans do not know the origins of the word, and how it relates to the anime that we know today.
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Anime is occasionally referred to as Japanimation, but this term has more or less fallen into disuse. Japanimation saw the most usage during the 1970s and 1980s, but was replaced by the term anime in the mid-1990s as the material became more widely known in English-speaking countries.
In general, the term now only appears in nostalgic contexts. Although the term was coined outside Japan to refer to animation imported from Japan, it is now used primarily in Japan, to refer to domestic animation; since anime does not identify the country of origin in Japanese usage, Japanimation is used to distinguish Japanese work from that of the rest of the world. In Japan, manga can additionally refer to both animation and comics (although the use of manga to refer to animation is mostly restricted to non-fans). Among English speakers, manga usually has the stricter meaning of "Japanese comics".
An alternate explanation is that it is due to the prominence of Manga Entertainment, a distributor of anime to the US and UK markets. Because Manga Entertainment originated in the UK the use of the term is common outside of Japan. The portmanteau "animanga" has been used to collectively refer to anime and manga, though it is also a term used to describe comics produced from animation cells.
[Some of the information in the article was provided by Wikipedia]
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