Choosing your Search Terms

Enter search terms on separate lines e.g., enter title of film on the top line, director's last name below, so as to articulate your search request. Take a look at "Find Anime Resources at UofT and Online" to get ideas of terminology that is used for the Fantasy Genre (e.g., Fantasy Films, folklore, supernatural, Myth In Motion Pictures, etc.)

Use Boolean Operators to improve your search:

• Quotations marks (narrows your search for specific phrases, compound words, or names)

  • "Studio Ghibli", "Hayao Miyazaki", "Howl’s Moving Castle"

• Asterisk or Wildcard  (widens your search to look for variations of the root word)

  • Anim* = Anime, Animation, Animated, Animes

• AND (narrows your search)

  • Anime AND "motion pictures"

  • Anime AND "fan studies"

• OR (widens your search)

  • film OR "motion pictures" OR cinema

  • manga OR anim*

  • "Japanese animation" OR anime

  • "Studio Ghibli" OR "Hayao Miyazaki"

Use the Boolean operators AND, OR, NOT to make your search more effective and to find more sources on your topic.

Use Boolean modifiers such as phrase searching, truncation, and wildcards to make your search more effective and find more sources on your topic.