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.


Kurumi Yoshizawa is the student council president with excellent grades and good manners... but in private, she is stressed by her strict mother and the excessive expectations of her teachers.
One day, Yoshizawa is asked by her homeroom teacher to check on her truant classmate Naoi, but Naoi only scorns Yoshizawa, as if seeing through her true feelings. On the verge of a mental breakdown, Yoshizawa makes a clumsy attempt at shoplifting, but Naoi records the whole thing...
This is a violent coming-of-age story about two people struggling in everyday life with no escape.
(Source: Ichijin Plus, translated)
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