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.


The cave beckons.
Deep in the rainforest of a southern resort island, where bones of forgotten soldiers abound, another corpse is nothing special.
A young couple grieves the death of their young son, but the husband sets out in search of a waterfall said to bring those who see it newfound happiness.
The wife is a skeptic, opposed to the trek, but "anything to start afresh," he says, so they try it.
Anything...
(Source: Kana)
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