What is a gijinka?

Answer 1

Below is directly from http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Transwiki:Gijinka

Gijinka (擬人化) is a Japanese word meaning "humanoid", "personification", or "anthropomorphic"

Answer 2

that is not a word check the dictionary, geinus

A.harris4: And learn that it's obviously not ENGLISH you idiot.

Answer: Gijinka (擬人化) is a Japanese word meaning "humanoid", "personification", or "anthropomorphic", although the use of the word outside of Japan has come to be slightly different from the use of the word "anthropomorphic" in the anime/manga/furry/etc communities. Rather than referring to just any animal with human characteristics, a gijinka is most often a fan re-design of an animal-like character from an animation or graphic novel in a human or humanoid form, (ex: a Digimon or Pokémon) or of a humanoid version of the artist's own original animal-like character.