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[artdigital]

“Anime” comes from the Japanese Katakana word for animation (animeeeshon), so it usually refers to the animated/moving images

[tuukkah → artdigital]

Intriguing, why does it have a triple e when written - is it just a way to emphasize that the vowel is pronounced long, or is it reallly long?

[e12e → tuukkah]

It's a bit of an artifact of the "dash indicating long e":

アニメーション - a-ni-me-ee-ts(u)-yo-n

Just means long e "me". It could be written more like:

anime-tsyon (dash indicating long vowel). Or: a-ni-me-e-ts(u)-yo-n.

[rjh29 → e12e]

Three 'e's is not correct. ー is a single mora, so should usually be one vowel. E.g. ラーメン is raamen not raaamen.

ショ is sho (or syo if you use Japan-style romanization) not tsu.

So the proper romanisation is something like 'animeeshon'. That said, romanisation is often done inconsistently, e.g. Osaka vs. oosaka.

[artdigital → rjh29]

I just wanted to make it clear that its a long “e”, but pretty much the same word as “animation”, not the correct english spelling of an english-imported word :p

[e12e → rjh29]

> ショ is sho (or syo if you use Japan-style romanization) not tsu.

Of course - I'm a little rusty and sometimes confuse シ (shi) and ツ (tsu) - even when obvious from context :/

[tuukkah → e12e]

What I've seen most is the line put above the vowel, resulting in animē (but difficult to type). As there is no additional (fourth) syllable, a-ni-mee would be more logical to me, rather than a-ni-me-ee or a-ni-me-e.

That being said, I like how the triple vowel makes it clear it's not the same sound as in say meet. (This gives me the idea to change my name to tuuukkkah...)

[tough → tuukkah]

It's adopted from english?

Just sounds like how a japanese would write animation

[artdigital → tough]

Yeah that’s pretty much it. Katakana words are mostly just imported foreign words

There’s “moving images” (動画), but that’s used for video in general, not specific to animation