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.


Her life began with misfortune. Ever since she woke up in a hospital room at age twenty with no memory of her past, and saw something she shouldn’t have on her way home, Seo Yi-Yeon had been desperate in everything she did. To get better, to be normal, to keep from dying of loneliness. After years of effort, the countless cracks in her life were finally about to be covered in dust and forgotten. But—
“Have you ever lost something important?”
On her twenty-ninth birthday, which had arrived before she knew it, a mysterious man appeared before her. Yi-Yeon’s daily life, which had been peaceful, at least on the surface, began to be shaken once again.
(Source: Naver, translated)
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