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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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Composer
Eiko Tanaka
田中栄子
Producer
The president of Studio 4°C, an animation studio she founded with Koji Morimoto and Yoshiharu Sato in 1986. Tanaka is also the chief executive officer of a production company called Beyond C, which initiated the project with Michael Arias that became Tekkon Kinkreet. Tanaka was an executive producer on Tekkon Kinkreet and Mind Game, both Studio 4°C films. She was also an animation producer on Beyond and The Second Renaissance Part 1 for the Animatrix project. Tanaka previously worked with Studio Ghibli and played the role of line producer on My Neighbor Totoro and Kiki's Delivery Service.
