are comics created in Japan or by creators in the Japanese language, conforming to a style developed in Japan in the late 19th century.

They have a long and complex pre-history in earlier Japanese art.

is Japanese hand-drawn or computer animation.

The word is the abbreviated pronunciation of "animation" in Japanese, where this term references all animation.

Outside Japan, anime is used to refer specifically to animation from Japan or as a Japanese-disseminated animation style often characterized by colorful graphics, vibrant characters and fantastical themes.

Arguably, the culturally abstract approach to the word's meaning may open up the possibility of anime produced in countries other than Japan.

For simplicity, many Westerners strictly view anime as a Japanese animation product.

Some scholars suggest defining anime as specifically or quintessentially Japanese may be related to a new form of orientalism.

Japan (Nippon or Nihon; formally ' or Nihon-koku, meaning "State of Japan") is a sovereign island nation in Eastern Asia.

Located in the Pacific Ocean, it lies off the eastern coast of the Asia Mainland (east of China, Korea, Russia) and stretches from the Sea of Okhotsk in the north to the East China Sea and Taiwan in the southwest.

A figurine (a diminutive form of the word figure) or statuette is a small statue that represents a human, deity or animal, or in practice a pair or small group of them.

Figurines have been made in many media, with pottery, metal, wood, glass, and today plastic or resin the most significant.

Ceramic figurines not made of porcelain are called terracottas in historical contexts.

A video game is an electronic game that involves interaction with a user interface to generate visual feedback on a video device such as a TV screen or computer monitor.

The word video in video game traditionally referred to a raster display device, but as of the 2000s, it implies any type of display device that can produce two- or three-dimensional images.

Some theorists categorize video games as an art form, but this designation is controversial.