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.

朝霞れい
aka Saint-Just, Frédérique Maxima
Rei is a charming girl attending the second year at Seiran. Nanako meets her for the first time in the bus taking her and Tomoko to their first day in the new high school. Nanako is immediately impressed by her beauty, her confident attitude, and most of all by her "warm and deep" voice. Just like Kaoru, she's an androgynous beauty: she always wears dark man clothes, is a rebel (she smokes uncaring of school rules and likes throwing knives in the old clock tower); she's a very sensitive and tormented soul (she rea…
“. And exactly like the person she takes her name from, Rei's eyes, with”
“attentively observe an undefined and distant point, maybe death...”