The word 'anime' (アニメ) is a Japanese shortening of the English word 'animation', a gairaigo, or foreign loanword.
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The word 'anime' (アニメ) is a Japanese shortening of the English word 'animation', a gairaigo, or foreign loanword.

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Website | Twitter Marty Hicks is a Tokyo-based pianist, composer and sound designer from Melbourne, Australia. A graduate of the jazz improvisation course at The University of Melbourne (Faculty of the VCA), Marty became a MEXT scholar in 2015 and entered into a Masters course at Tokyo University of the Arts, where he majored in composition for film, animation and various media projects. Marty's musical inclination falls somewhere between the organic and the artificial - his work extensively features layers of warm electronic sounds and soft computer noise alongside acoustic instruments and…