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.


Hakofugu to Minamata no Umi
The Boxfish and the Sea of Minamata
The boxfish has no confidence in himself, he always spends his time alone on the rocks watching the other fish, feeling envious. "Everyone else is so lucky. All I do is float back and forth in the same place on these rocks every day..." Then one day, he meets a lost sea horse who seems to have come from the Minamata ocean, he then decides to embark on his first ever adventure to return the fish to the Minamata's sea... (Source: Official Website, translated)
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