Anime means animation in Japanese.
Japanese animation is a special style of storytelling and filming.
In the United States, animation and filming are two different things, but in Japan they are both the same. There are all types of topics, from history, fantasy, drama, science to fiction, popular culture, cyber-reality, and more. In other words, for every category that there is for live action movies, there are one for anime. Anime is a thing that has taking over the internet also, more then half of the websites on the world wide web has been talking over by anime site. Japan has been making cartoon art for a very long time.