ACG
English
Noun
ACG (uncountable)
- (Greater China) Initialism of anime, comics and games: a Chinese subculture that revolves around anime, manga, and Japanese video games.
- 2014 August 20, Amy Qin, “Theaters in China Screen Movies, and Viewers' Text Messages”, in New York Times Sinosphere Blog:
- The idea behind “bullet screens” originated in Japan, where they were first popularized by a Japanese ACG (animation, comics, games) video portal called Nicodou, which later became the inspiration for similar Chinese ACG video sites such as Bilibili.
- 2017 November 23, Yin Lu, “A ‘two-dimensional’ subculture”, in Global Times, archived from the original on 1 November 2021:
- The culture used to be a niche but as the community has grown and relevant facilities have been developing over time, being passionate about ACG is no longer a rare hobby and it has become as common as liking to watch movies.
- (medicine) Initialism of angle closure glaucoma.
Related terms
- ACGN (“anime, comics, games, and novels”)
- JK
Proper noun
ACG
- (video games, historical) Initialism of Ashby Computers & Graphics: a British video game developer.
- 1984, Underwurlde (game review) in Crash (issue 12)
- Underwurlde is definitely Ultimate’s best game yet. It has super sound and graphics, as you would expect from ACG […]
- 2010, Steven Kent, The Ultimate History of Video Games:
- Chris and Tim Stamper set up a game company called Ashby Computer Graphics (ACG) and began publishing games for the Sinclair Spectrum, a tiny computer that sold very well in Europe but never caught on in the United States.
- 1984, Underwurlde (game review) in Crash (issue 12)
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