What is the difference between manga and anime?

Anime is the Japanese Word for "Animation", and are watched in movies and TV shows. Anime is a type of manga.

Manga is the Japanese Word for "comic", although people call them "graphic novels". A lot of comics are manga style.

Most people like to refer "anime" and "manga" as "Japanese animation" and "Japanese comic".

Just for future reference, the Words "anime" and "manga" are both singular and plural.

You can tell a manga apart from a comic because manga is read left to right, how some Japanese stories are written as.

Summed up, the difference between anime and manga is that manga is on paper and anime is manga on television.
Manga are the printed black and white comics. Anime almost always come after manga, based on its stories. Often anime will take its own direction, taking liberties with the manga's plot line and characters, sometimes creating totally original content. Manga is in comic form. Anime is a television or cartoon series.