ACG

English

Noun

ACG (uncountable)

1. (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^[1]:

     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.

   • 2019, Hui Faye Xiao, Youth Economy, Crisis, and Reinvention in Twenty-First-Century China‎^[2], Routledge, →ISBN:

     The four girls are dressed up as different types of manga characters and spend more time exploring the ACG world than the human world.

   • For more quotations using this term, see Citations:ACG.
2. (medicine) Initialism of angle closure glaucoma.

Related terms

• ACGN (“anime, comics, games, and novels”)
• JK

Proper noun

ACG

1. (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.

Anagrams

• GAC, gac, cag, CAG, AGC, CGA