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.


Nagatsuka Soujiro who works as a candy maker and his wife Makoto welcome a 4-year old Kuriko as their foster child. Soujiro, who doesn't have many memories of his childhood, worries whether he can properly take care of his foster daughter. This is a story about how people who are not related by blood become a family through making candy.
(Source: natalie.mu, translated)
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