The word 'anime' (アニメ) is a Japanese shortening of the English word 'animation', a gairaigo, or foreign loanword.
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The word 'anime' (アニメ) is a Japanese shortening of the English word 'animation', a gairaigo, or foreign loanword.

Before Narumi Taiga, Bitou Tatsuya, King Joe and Tsukimoto Mitsumasa, there was Terakado Butta. This is the story of how, under his leadership, Housen became the powerhouse that would become Suzuran High School's greatest opponent. Butta was there the year the school was founded, and without him, we would have never had the Housen Hitman we know and fear today.
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