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.

Somewhere in Tokyo, Shiba, an elderly policeman, is assigned to form a special unit together with a cutting-edge android, K. As the two attempt to put their differences aside, a much grander plot slowly unfolds, following their investigation into what seemed to be a string of unrelated murders.
Note: Released as a tie-in for the 1973 tokusatsu show Robotto Keiji, with the two running concurrently but differing in terms of plot.*
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