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.

Pi, an alien, leaves his home planet for personal reasons and lands on the shores of the Earth city, Busan. He loses his spaceship, and ends up becoming a beggar. He tries endlessly to find the earthling, U-Ju, who had helped him previously, but things continue getting more complicated...
(Source: Bomtoon, translated)
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