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.


A collection of stories that revolves around Chiisako and the humans around them.
- Garden 1: A little girl's unexpected meeting in the secret garden of their new house.
- Garden 2: A romance novelist and an editor's mountain trip together.
- Garden 3: A withdrawn teenage boy saves a girl from a crow.
- Garden 4: The tipping point of the relationship between a young wife and her older husband.
- Garden 5: An author's precious memory involving a prince.
(Source: Japanese Publisher, translated)
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