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.

Ten years after a meteorite strike obliterated the capital. Riku Kurita, a tough 13-year-old surviving in the slums of the neo-futuristic "Tokyo," gets caught up in a crime and thrown into a prison at the edge of the world...!! Sentenced to 30 years for a crime he never committed, a young boy's desperate battle for freedom begins!!
(Source: Emaqi)
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