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 ''Anima - Symphonie phantastique'' is a 1981 Austrian drama film directed by Titus Leber. It was shown out of competition at the 1981 Cannes Film Festival. Cast * Mathieu Carrière - Bachelor * Charo López María del Rosario López Piñuel ...

'', 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 Eileen-Marie Duell Buchanan (15 November 1922 – 20 May 2010) was a British author who specialized in writing literature belonging to the mystery, suspense, or detective genre. She wrote over forty novels under a number of various pseudonyms, ...

* '' Anima: Age of the Robots'', a comic series by Johnny Tay * ''

+Anima is an internationally published ten-volume manga series by Natsumi Mukai. The story focuses on four "+Anima" characters—humans who have metamorphic abilities, and are shunned by society as a result. Plot The plot revolves around four +A ...

'', a 2001 manga series by Natsumi Mukai * '' Neon Genesis Evangelion: Anima'', a Japanese light novel series

Music

Performers

Anima (chorus) Anima - Glen Ellyn Children's Chorus is a chorus based in Glen Ellyn, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. Formerly the Glen Ellyn Children's Chorus (GECC), the chorus changed its name to Anima in May 2008. History The chorus was founded in 1964 as th ...

, an American children's chorus *

Anima (ensemble) Anima (''musica mundana humana et instrumentalis'') is a Brazilian chamber music ensemble. Anima was formed in 2011 by Marlui Miranda (singing, arrangements, Brazilian indigenous flutes, percussion, and research); Silvia Ricardino (Trobadour harp ...

, a Brazilian chamber music ensemble *

Aenima (band) Aenima is a Portuguese dark wave, rock band formed in Almada in 1997. The name of the band is a play on the Latin word ''anima'', meaning "soul". The band is notable for its guitar-based ambient sound and clear female vocals. Critics quite often ...

, a Portuguese rock band *

Anima Sound System Anima Sound System is a Hungarian electronic band founded in 1993 in Szombathely. ''Anima'' is one of the first and most important Hungarian electronic acts, a unique fusion of Eastern-European folk music and modern electronic styles. The band i ...

, 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 Reona ( ; stylized as ReoNa, born October 20, 1998) is a Japanese singer who is signed to Sacra Music. Having been active as a cosplayer and independent musician, she made her major debut in 2018 as the singing voice of the character Elza Kanzak ...

* "Anima", a 2015 single by

Romina Falconi Romina Falconi (born 1 January 1985) is an Italian electropop singer-songwriter. Biography Early life and career Romina Falconi grew up in Torpignattara (a known area of Rome), and made her debut on Teatro Ariston, at the 57th Sanremo Music Fes ...

* '' Ænima'', a 1996 album by Tool

Other uses in arts, entertainment and media

* ''Anima'' (role-playing game) * ''Anima'', or ''

Her Soul ''Her Soul'' (''Anima'' in Italian) is the first play by Italian playwright Amelia Pincherle Rosselli, the grandmother of Italian poet Amelia Rosselli. The play received national acclaim and the Italian state gave the play a national prize. It was ...

'', an 1898 play by

Amelia Pincherle Rosselli Amelia Pincherle Rosselli (16 January 1870 – 26 December 1954) was an Italian writer. The daughter of Giacomo Pincherle Moravia and Emilia Capon, she was born Amelia Pincherle Moravia in Venice. Her family were wealthy non-practising Jews. ...

Businesses and organizations

Anima (organization) Anima is a Danish animal rights organization founded in 2000. Its core focus is on factory farms and the fur industry. The organization's motto is "the organization for the rights of all animals". Anima works by organizing protests, raising awarene ...

, Danish animal-rights organization *

Ánima (company) Ánima Estudios, S.A.P.I. de C.V. (stylized and also known as ÁNiMA formerly ánima) is a family entertainment company founded in 2002 by Fernando De Fuentes S. and Jose C. Garcia De Letona, the studio is best known for producing ''El Chavo Anim ...

, a Mexican animation studio * Anima (film company), a Filipino entertainment production company

People

Anima Anandkumar Animashree (Anima) Anandkumar is the Bren Professor of Computing at California Institute of Technology. She is a director of Machine Learning research at NVIDIA. Her research considers tensor-algebraic methods, deep learning and non-convex prob ...

(fl. from 2009), Indian-American scientist *

Anima Choudhury Anima Choudhury (born 28 February 1953) is a singer from the Indian north eastern state of Assam. Her musical career over more than four decades has focussed on folk and modern Assamese songs. She has been awarded local and state level mus ...

(born 1953), singer from India *

Anima Patil-Sabale Anima Patil is an Indian born Software, Aerospace and Space Human Factors Engineer. She's currently working as Orion Spacecraft Simulations Lab Manager at NASA's Johnson Space Center in Houston. She's a Scientist-Astronaut Candidate for commercia ...

(fl. from 2012), Indian engineer *

Anima Roy Anima Roy is a Bangladeshi academic and Rabindra Sangeet singer. As of 2014, she has been serving as a professor in the Music and Drama Department of Jagannath University. Early life Roy learned music from Debasish Chakrabarty, Sadhon Chandra B ...

(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 The anima and animus are described in Carl Jung's school of analytical psychology as part of his theory of the collective unconscious. Jung described the animus as the unconscious masculine side of a woman, and the anima as the unconscious femi ...

, a syzygy of dualistic, Jungian archetypes

Other uses

Anima, Togo Anima, Togo is a village in the Doufelgou Prefecture in the Kara Region of north-eastern Togo Togo (), officially the Togolese Republic (french: République togolaise), is a country in West Africa. It is bordered by Ghana to the west, Ben ...

, a village *

Gum anima Gum anima, or anima, in pharmacy, is a kind of natural gum, gum or resin, of which there are two kinds, western and eastern. The first flows from an incision in a tree around Central America, called ''Courbati''; it is transparent, and of a color s ...

, or anima, a kind of gum or resin *

Córdoba International Animation Festival – ANIMA The Córdoba International Animation Festival – ANIMA is a competitive animated film and media festival that is held in the city of Córdoba, Argentina every two years. ANIMA's first edition was held in April 2001, and has been replicated in od ...

, in Argentina * Anima, crowd-animation software developed by AXYZ and acquired by Chaos