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According to Google, anime means a style of japnese film animation. Its origin come from word animation of English and a similar sounding word of Japanese. It means the word is not animation, short form or slang word but a proper distinct word which means Japanese style animation. So word anime and animatio are different words but animation is same word as cartoon.