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.

八木沼悟志
Twitter Satoshi Yaginuma is a Japanese musician, composer, arranger, lyricist, music producer, synthesizer keyboarder, and guitarist. He is part of the pop duo fripSide and the hip-hop/synthpop trio ALTIMA. He is also the CEO of p.m.works, Inc.