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.

どろろ
~!Gender: Female!~ After seeing his swordsmanship, Dororo decides to follow Hyakkimaru. Dororo was a thief before meeting Hyakkimaru. ~!Dororo's bandit father Hibukuro was wounded by a samurai official and later died. Her mother froze to death while fleeing in the snow, but before she died she drew a map on Dororo's back to locate money hidden by her father at Bone Cape. Hyakkimaru learns that Dororo is female with the latter continuously insisting she is a boy, though this is because her parents raised her as o…