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 (comics), a DC Comics character

Film

  • Anima – Symphonie phantastique, a 1981 Austrian drama film
  • Anima (2003 film), an 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
  • Anima (2026 film), an American road comedy film

Literature

  • Anima, a 1972 novel by Eileen-Marie Duell Buchanan
  • Anima: Age of the Robots, a comic series by Johnny Tay
  • +Anima, a 2001 manga series by Natsumi Mukai
  • Neon Genesis Evangelion: Anima, 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
  • ANIMA, a 2016 maxi-single by sukekiyo

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

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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