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 beautiful transcendent Ichika just entered high school but since then, she hasn’t talked to anyone since she’s so shy. One day, out of bad luck the rumored former Yankee Yotsuya Takuya, decided to talk to her out of the blue behind the school and for some reason went to karaoke together…
“I want to return the lost item I picked up. Is he really the rumored yankee she thought…?”
The strategy meeting of 2 people after school drawn to each other “to realize their dream” begins!
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