Animation "is the general name and abbreviation of animation and comics." It is rarely used in other languages. With the development of modern media technology, cartoons (manga；; In particular, story cartoons are more and more closely linked, and the two are often combined into "animation".

Due to the development of comics itself, the expression of modern story comics has been formed, and the integration of film and television art into comics makes the combination of comics and animation easier. The uniqueness of film and television art lies in that it can express thoughts and feelings through the montage skills of push and pull, translation and fragment editing of the lens. Comics absorb these two characteristics of film and television art. When the story to be told is more complicated and the characters are more abundant, the traditional single-line narrative method is even more unworkable, and the intervention of montage becomes a necessity. When cartoonists can't find a more suitable way to express their feelings in traditional means of expression, and when readers need works with stronger impact and expressive force, the flexible use of various lenses becomes a necessity. A modern story cartoon often combines four kinds of shots: far, middle, near and special. Cartoonists can skillfully use camera movements and montage clips to render the mood and atmosphere of specific parts of the story. This is also one reason why modern story comics are easy to be combined with animation, because it is naturally like an animated storyboard, and readers seem to be watching a movie when reading comics. It is precisely because of this similarity that animation and comics are now collectively referred to as "animation"

The United States and Japan are the most famous countries that make and produce animation.

The word "animation" did not appear in Chinese mainland before 1996, and the two were separated and interrelated. The appearance and popularity of this word originated from 1998, the first domestic animation information magazine, Comic Comic Time. So the word "animation" appeared and gradually became popular among anime fans in China, becoming the general name of animation and comics. Animation is based on comics and animation, and now it is classified into one category because of its similarity, resulting in a noun. The word "anime" originated from You Man magazine and was founded in 1997.

How do comics exist for us? Today, comic art presents three forms of expression: one is a single-grid or four-grid comic that is very common in newspapers and magazines, with irony and humor as its main purpose; The other is a story cartoon closely combined with animation, which is usually serialized or compiled into a book and published in a professional comic magazine; There is also a comic book, which is rare today, but it flourished in the 20th century and even in19th century. Among them, modern story comics are the most common form of comics, especially Japanese comics, which are entertaining, artistic and commercial. The profit of products derived from comics is even more enviable. And animation, different countries, different institutions and different masters in the world, have many definitions of "animation". Take Japan as an example. Encyclopedia of Japan explains the word "animation" as follows: animation is a kind of film and television that shoots pictures, puppets and so on. Whose ontologies don't move, they gradually change their shapes frame by frame (sometimes multiple frames), making them look dynamic repeatedly. Animation itself can also be used independently as pure technology. The animation that everyone generally watches and contacts is actually a composite art that combines other art forms such as film and television art. Animation is also a method of subverting reality, redefining it every day, subverting our accepted view of reality, challenging our orthodox understanding of existence and so on. As a part of fine arts, cartoons and animations show the culture and civilization of human beings and reflect the spirit of human beings from an artistic point of view, and the world today has also formed a situation led by the United States and Japan. However, as a symbol of world culture, the United States has gathered talented artists from all over the world, led by Disney and Marvel Comics, and created elegant galleries. For children, it should be pure; For adults, it should be beautiful. Cartoon is also the art of the mind, so it should be eternal beyond thinking ... We can continue to make up cartoons one by one and pass on happiness to everyone, so that they can get knowledge and happiness from cartoons!