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.

Late 19th century, London.
Rui, a boy living as a vagrant in the back alleys, encounters Sherlock Holmes, a detective, after becoming entangled in a murder case. Despite his resentment of Holmes's indifference to the lower classes, Rui decides to work under him as a “hound” to save the street children caught in the swirling crimes and conspiracies of London—the “demonic city.”
Thus begins a mystery epic set in the underground world of street children!
(Source: MANGA MILLION)
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