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.


This is a "Girl's Diary" depicting four very different girls' lives recorded in four short stories.
1. The O Girl (Oの女)
A girl who is confessed to by a fellow classmate says "lets start as friends" but she finds him annoying. How will it end?
2. The S Girl (Oの女)
There's a guy and a girl. Rei-chan (the girl) has always liked the most popular guy. He treats her as a slave, but she ignores him. What will he do?
3. The Girl in the Legend (噂の女)
Yamata Tanoko is smart, not very good looking and her name is not remembered by any of her class. When popular guy Nota Sakami asks her to accompany him, she wonders why. Is there a reason?
4. The Negative Girl (-の女)
Whenever she is with a boy, Hinako has only bought him bad luck. She swears to never fall in love again, but then she meets the flower shops nephew?
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