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.


X Densha de Ikou
A young man named Tohru working for a railway company is disinterested by the modern world, and is suddenly thrust into a chase across Japan when an old electric locomotive becomes possessed and bonds with him. As the government and media pursue him and the runaway ghost train, he is forced to examine what he really desires in this world, all set to the jazzy soundtrack of Duke Ellington.
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