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


Fushigi no Umi no Nadia
Based on the novel Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea · via Wikidata
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Nadia: The Secret of Blue Water
In 1889, the world is on the cusp of great discoveries in technology. While mankind is reaching for the future, a sinister foe known only as Gargoyle, obsessed with restoring the former Atlantean empire to the glory it once held, begins his plans to take over the world. Nadia, with the help of a young inventor, Jean Lartigue, and Captain Nemo of the submarine <i>Nautilus</i>, must fight to save the world from Gargoyle and Neo-Atlantis. Based on the novel <i>20,000 Leagues Under the Sea</i> by Jules Verne.
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