Anima Explained

Anima may refer to:

Arts, entertainment and media

Fictional entities

• Anima, in the Spira world in Final Fantasy games
• Anima, in the Fire Emblem game series
• Anima, a DC Comics character

Film

• Anima – Symphonie phantastique, a 1981 Austrian drama film
• Anima (2003 film), a 2003 American short film
• Ánima, a 2018 Mexican film directed by Kuno Becker
• Anima, a 1998 film with George Bartenieff
• Anima (2019 film), a short film directed by Paul Thomas Anderson

Literature

• Anima, a 1972 novel by Eileen-Marie Duell Buchanan
• , a comic series by Johnny Tay
• +Anima, a 2001 manga series by Natsumi Mukai
• , a Japanese light novel series

Music

Performers

• Anima (chorus), an American children's chorus
• Anima (ensemble), a Brazilian chamber music ensemble
• Aenima (band), a Portuguese rock band
• Anima Sound System, a Hungarian electronic band

Recordings

• Anima (Nightmare album), 2006
• Anima (Thom Yorke album), 2019
• Anima (Vladislav Delay album), 2001
• anima, a 2020 album by Daoko
• Anima, a 2023 EP by Pendulum
• Anima, a 1974 album by Riccardo Cocciante
• "Anima", a 2020 single by Reona
• "Anima", a 2015 single by Romina Falconi
• Ænima, a 1996 album by Tool

Other uses in arts, entertainment and media

• Anima (role-playing game)
• Anima, or Her Soul, an 1898 play by Amelia Pincherle Rosselli

Businesses and organizations

• Anima (organization), Danish animal-rights organization
• Ánima (company), a Mexican animation studio
• Anima (film company), a Filipino entertainment production company

People

• Anima Anandkumar (fl. from 2009), Indian-American scientist
• Anima Choudhury (born 1953), singer from India
• Anima Patil-Sabale (fl. from 2012), Indian engineer
• Anima Roy (fl. from 2009), Bangladeshi academic and Rabindra Sangeet singer
• Anima Wilson (fl. 2013), Ghanaian politician

Religion and philosophy

• Psyche (psychology), Latinized to anima in medieval psychology
• Anima and animus, a syzygy of dualistic, Jungian archetypes

Other uses

• Anima, Togo, a village
• Gum anima, or anima, a kind of gum or resin
• Córdoba International Animation Festival – ANIMA, in Argentina
• Anima, crowd-animation software developed by AXYZ and acquired by Chaos

See also

• Anima Mundi (disambiguation)
• Animas (disambiguation)
• Anema (disambiguation)
• Anemia (disambiguation)
• Las Animas (disambiguation)
• Animism, the belief that objects, places, and creatures all possess a distinct spiritual essence
• Anime, hand-drawn and computer-generated animation originating from Japan
• Animé, sap of Hymenaea courbaril
• Enema, an injection of fluid into the lower bowel
• Soul, the non-material essence of a person
  • On the Soul (De anima), Aristotle's treatise on the soul
• Spirit (animating force)
• Vitalism