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.

Kutsuzawa Yasuo is a gloomy loner with zero friends. As he walks home alone like always, he has a chance encounter with the class’s top-tier beauty a popular gyaru admired by everyone! After helping her when she nearly falls and fixing her bicycle, he plans to quietly leave... but she looks at him with sparkling eyes instead.
A gloomy introvert and a cheerful extrovert who were never supposed to cross paths yet somehow, they begin to grow closer. Thus begins an awkward but heartwarming youthful romantic comedy between two opposites.
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