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.

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Profile (MONACA) | Twitter A Japanese composer and arranger. He joined NAMCO as a soundtrack composer in 1999, and then he joined MONACA Inc. as a music designer in 2004. Soundtracks he has worked on credited as MONACA: Star Driver: Kagayaki no Takuto (with Keigo Hoashi and Ryuichi Takada) Hourou Musuko (with Keigo Hoashi and Keiichi Okabe) A-Channel (with Kakeru Ishihama, Ryuichi Takada, Keigo Hoashi)
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