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.
Each story highlights, without hypocrisy, man's meanness towards those who are "different". Cursed stories of genetic mutations, where metamorphoses, painful and gruesome, become an act of purification towards a society that repudiates every "abnormality".
1. Seikimatsu Bansankai (世紀末晩餐会)
2. Tsuuya (通夜)
3. Mou Hitotsu no Kao (もう一つの顔)
4. Boku no Mimi ha Zou no Mimi (僕の耳は象の耳)
5. Mangetsu no Mushiotoko (満月の蟲男)
6. Akai Me no Nezumi (赤い目の鼠)
7. Shitai to Kurasu Otoko (死体と暮らす男)
8. Splatterman (スプラッターマン)
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