Animu
noun ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Anime. Internet, derogatory, sometimes, uncountable
"These two links should not be anywhere near one another, thx. One is the personal site of an egomaniacal faggot who thinks he suddenly owns the images he scans from animu magazines and refers to himself in the third person, and the other is a cultural bridge between Japan and the United States, based on the exchange of image macros, catchphrases, and underage hentai."
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More examples"These two links should not be anywhere near one another, thx. One is the personal site of an egomaniacal faggot who thinks he suddenly owns the images he scans from animu magazines and refers to himself in the third person, and the other is a cultural bridge between Japan and the United States, based on the exchange of image macros, catchphrases, and underage hentai."
Etymology
Humorous alteration of anime, with -u probably based on a stereotypical Japanese accent or wasei-eigo, emphasizing the added /ɯ/ vowel which frequently occurs on Japanese borrowings from English words that phonetically end in a consonant (such as チーズ (chīzu) from cheese (/t͡ʃiːz/); a few of these are reborrowed into English and commonly used in anime fandoms, such as waifu), but of course misapplied in this case.
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