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.


Juntoku is a priest who inherited his family’s temple, and the one he doesn’t want to see the most right now… Appears during a monthly sutra copying session. A big, handsome man named Hasegawa Michi.
That's because Michi was a high school classmate, who then became his close friend, and then… the one he loved. And yet, whether he knows of Juntoku’s feelings or not, Michi suddenly reduces the distance between them…!?
An easygoing grill restaurant owner x stoic beauty priest forbidden love!
(Source: Kaiousha, translated)
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