The word 'anime' (アニメ) is a Japanese shortening of the English word 'animation', a gairaigo, or foreign loanword.
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The word 'anime' (アニメ) is a Japanese shortening of the English word 'animation', a gairaigo, or foreign loanword.

Mori no Kuma-san
The Japanese version of the traditional American camp song The Other Day I Met a Bear, composed in 1919 by Carey Morgan and Lee David. The video was animated for the NHK Minna no Uta by Yoji Kuri, accompanied by Japanese male chorus group Dark Ducks.
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