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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.

DAICONの女の子
aka DAICON Girl
The DAICON Girl is main character in the opening animations for the DAICON sci-fi conventions held in Osaka, Japan. The DAICON III animation features the girl as an adolescent, who is visited by the Science Patrol from Ultraman, and asked to deliver a glass of water to a dying daikon plant. Along the way, a slew of sci-fi characters attempt to stop her mission, but her superhuman strength and multipurpose backpack defeat her pursuers. Upon pouring the water onto the daikon, the plant revives and transforms into The…