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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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Voice Actor
Kazuo Kumakura
熊倉一雄
Active 1951–2015Azabu (today's Minato), Tokyo, Japan
From 1957, he became the Japanese voice of Alfred Hitchcock in Nippon TV's TV broadcasts of Alfred Hitchcock Presents, and from 1989, he played the voice of Hercule Poirot in Agatha Christie's Poirot. He died of rectal cancer on October 12, 2015, at a hospital in Tokyo, at the age of 88.
Voice roles
Other work
Shiritori Mambo
1 ep
Music Performance
6-chan ga Nekoronde
1 ep
Music Performance
Watashi wa "Tofu" Desu
1 ep
Music Performance