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.


Hii-chan is my sister's friend, who likes to come by our house where my sister and I live together. She's absolutely gorgeous, but she has a strange sense of personal space, and it's got me, Asahi, all flustered. Is she just teasing me…?
(Source: Tonari no Young Jump, translated)
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