I remember doing some research recently on Yoshitaka Amano and spotted a term that I was unfamiliar with, “Ga-nime”. You can imagine my curiosity and, upon digging into it, I soon realised that Ga-nime was a strange fusion of anime and manga. Having learned about this, I thought it might be interesting to explain what Ga-nime is, how it’s unique and several other interesting details that I’ve found.
Something that’s important to note is that Ga-nime isn’t necessarily a style in and of itself and is actually a product line from the collaboration between Toei Animation, an anime company, and Gentosha, a publishing company. The name itself,画ニメ, is a fusion of the character 画, the second half of the word manga, and ニメ, the last two characters of the word anime. As the name implies, Ga-nime is a strange fusion of anime and manga which is a short work, distributed as an OVA, that features voice acting and music but very minimal animation, mostly being still images that are occasionally supplemented by limited animation, computer animation etc.