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Animes! An anime is a Japanese animated video. The word is written in three katakana
characters a, ni, me (???). It should be pronounced "ah-nee-meh" (the "me" sound is
not long, it is like a truncated pronunciation of "met"), but in America is typically
pronounced "an-ee-may" ("an" pronounced as in "hand"). Ironically, the word is an
English transliteration of a Japanese term, which in turn is generally supposed to be
an abbreviation of the Japanese transliteration of the English word animation
(shortened, as many foreign words are; for example terebi is the Japanese word for
"television", or in Japanese pronunciation "terebijon"). However, some anime fans
state that the Japanese word comes from the French animé, meaning "animated" although
no Japanese believes it. The voice actors for anime are usually called by the Japanese
equivalent term seiyuu.
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