Top 95 Anime Quotes & Sayings

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Last updated on April 18, 2025.
I'd forgotten I'd done the anime called Spirited Away, the English version of a Japanese film.
I grew up on anime and manga. That's part of who I am.
Inside me, 'Dragon Ball' became a thing of the past, but later, I got upset at the live-action film, revised the script for the anime film, and complained about the quality of the TV anime. I guess, at some point, it became a work that I like so much that I can't leave it alone.
My kids love anime, but I don't show them the really graphic stuff — © Brad Bird
My kids love anime, but I don't show them the really graphic stuff
I go through phases when I'm super into my anime stuff.
For children of my generation, anime was an escape from Japan's loser complex following World War II. Anime wasn't foreign. It was our own.
My kids love anime, but I don't show them the really graphic stuff.
I grew up watching anime, and the girls in anime have really rosy cheeks. That's how I got inspired to do my rosy pink cheeks on TikTok. I think it's really cute.
When I was very young, even before I went to what you call elementary school, I used to read and watch Japanese comic books and anime all the time. These were the seeds of my future.
Anime has sent me all over the world, introducing me to people who have touched my life in indescribably profound ways.
You don't want to be imitating his style. Every anime-maker is thinking, 'I can't be too like Miyazaki.'
I'm really inspired by the show 'Future Boy Conan' from the '70s. It's a really beautiful show, and I love shonen anime and shojo anime, and I like the thought of mixing them together.
The technology in making games and in making anime is really similar. There are common concepts.
I'm totally addicted to Japanese anime, and spend way, way, way too much time watching it.
The first Nintendo game I ever got was 'Clash at Demonhead.' I got into anime and manga thanks to that Canadian classic, 'Sailor Moon.' — © Bryan Lee O'Malley
The first Nintendo game I ever got was 'Clash at Demonhead.' I got into anime and manga thanks to that Canadian classic, 'Sailor Moon.'
Anime is something I loved to watch as a kid.
You know, it's a wonderful thing. I have to say that some of the greatest actors I've ever worked with have been doing anime for years. It's not just because of the popularity, either.
I'm really interested in independent publishers and memes and mini comics. But even before that, I was interested in Japanese manga and anime.
I guess anime helped me understand the Japanese culture a little better and makes me want to honor certain language nuances that don't always translate to English.
Do you like manga?" she asked after a minute. "Anime?" "Anime's cool. I'm not really into it, but 1 like Japanese movies, animated or not." "Well, I'm into it. I watch the shows, read the books, chat on the boards, and all that. But this girl I know, she's completely into it. She spends most of her allowance on the books and DVDs. She can recite dialogue from them." She caught my gaze. "So would you say she belongs here?" "No. Most kids are that way about something, right? With me, it's movies. Like knowing who directed a sci-fi movie made before I was born.
Kevin Zeitler, who plays for the Browns, he watches quite a bit of anime.
To me, the thing about anime is that it's so adult-oriented. I remember going to Suncoast growing up, and you see 'Akira' there with the little 'Not for Kids' sticker on it. That always made an impact on me.
I'm part of the first generation who grew up with manga [comics] and anime [animation], you know, after 'Godzilla.' I was absorbed with Ultraman on TV and in manga. The profession of game designer was created really recently. If it didn't exist, I'd probably be making anime.
Geek cred points for trying to stump me, but sorry, you'll have to do better than that. Would you like to try anime for a hundred?" When she looked blank, he sighed. "What took it down, anime, or the Jeopardy reference?
When you're making anime, if you get all of your inspiration from anime... it's going to lack originality and creativity, so I try to get my inspiration from different genres.
I've been watching anime for a minute, so I know like real weird deep anime that people probably don't care about.
I listen to this mix of smooth jazz, independent hip-hop, chiptunes, and anime music.
I'm really into this anime called 'Food Wars.'
Anime is not the end. Don't stop believing.
My aesthetic sense was formed at a young age by what surrounded me: the narrow residential spaces of Japan and the mental escapes from those spaces that took the forms of manga and anime.
I tried to teach myself to draw anime, but I was so bad.
My favorite anime movie is 'Fist of the North Star'.
I love the ath-leisure look, but I'm also super inspired by anime, and I love Japanese culture so much.
Like many other kids, I liked watching anime.
I get most of my inspiration from anime and video games.
I grew up with a lot of monster movies, robot movies, since I was a kid. I love anime movies, like 'Evangelion' and 'Ghost in the Shell.'
The work that has influenced me the most in my anime profession would be, of course, 'Blade Runner.'
I feel like I want to make anime that destroys the norms, something that would be strong, even if it is unconventional.
This kind of stuff, it wasn't the cool thing when I was growing up. Now, pop culture is comic books, super-hero movies, anime, manga, and I've been doing it for a long time.
I'm such a fan of anime and manga to this day, but I never really like got to know all the characters and everything, so I don't think I'd be able to pick one. — © Lights
I'm such a fan of anime and manga to this day, but I never really like got to know all the characters and everything, so I don't think I'd be able to pick one.
I'm totally addicted to Japanese anime and spend way, way, way too much time watching it.
The different arenas that I've been able to do Iron Man in are fun, but some more than others. The anime that we did early on was tough. That was the hardest one. It was a reinterpretation of a reinterpretation. I don't think I'd do that again.
I think starting in anime, like I did, gave me a good idea of how to approach games that come from Japan. Japanese developers can be very different from companies here in the western market.
The line between anime and regular animation is very difficult to cross, even for people who have been doing anime successfully for years.
One of the things I've always loved about anime is that, even though it comes from Japan, it's so international - so much of the big anime I love takes place in Italy or France or New York.
I know Geno Atkins is a big anime fan. Cameron Jordan, Larry Warford, my boy Adam Gettis is a big anime fan.
The new fans of Japan won’t be Orientalists, but they will be anime-savvy.
I do enjoy animated movies. I really love anime and movies like 'Spirited Away' and 'Howl's Moving Castle.'
Hridaan, my younger son, has this unique talent of drawing incredible doodles and anime. Watching him draw soothes my mind. He is so detailed and focused that it never fails to amaze us.
I'm a huge anime and manga fan. — © Ryan Potter
I'm a huge anime and manga fan.
The title 'Spirited Away' could refer to what Disney has done on a corporate level to the revered Japanese animation director Hayao Miyazaki's epic and marvelous new anime fantasy.
In Japan, animation is a big part of your media diet. I moved out to Los Angeles at 9, and when I got homesick, I would watch anime.
I take time to watch anime. I don't know whether I'm allowed to, but I do it anyway.
Anime is intended to have ambiguous features. That's part of the art form.
Wikipedia is so dangerous. You go online to look up the definition of eclampsia, and three hours later you find yourself reading this earnest explanation of tentacle porn in [Japanese] anime.
I want to have the fun of doing anime and I love anime, but I can't do storyboards because I can't really draw and that's what they live and die on.
My favorite anime of all time is 'Yu Yu Hakusho.' And this is because when I was living with my parents before I moved to Florida for NXT - which was FCW at the time - I just had a ton of anime that I was watching, and one of them was 'Yu Yu Hakusho.' So, I had seen it as a kid, but I never watched it all the way through.
For me, influences really come from everywhere: literature, comics, movies, anime, Internet, science, real-life situations. In fact, I think that writing is just about living.
I work at a high school, and we have an anime and manga club.
I love comic books and I love anime.
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