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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.

The narrator and main character of the story. As she reaches the fateful day in which she was cursed to eternal sleep she begins to unravel the mystery of the man behind the curse and his relationship to her mother. She is never given an actual name in the story but is eventually referred to as the Briar Rose or The Sleeping Beauty by her many princely courtiers.