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.

After school, Kotaro Nakayama returns to the classroom to pick up something, and he finds Shiho Shimotsuki asleep in the empty room. Shiho is rumored to be the favorite of Ryoma Ryuzaki, a boy popular with all the girls, even though she always seems expressionless and no one has ever seen her smile. But all of a sudden, she is holding Kotaro's hand!?
"You are the one that's special to me."
The popular web sensation has been adapted into a novel and finally into a manga!
The girl who falls in love with a boy and changes their destiny.
(Source: Micro Magazine, translated)
Note: Includes seven extra chapters.
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