Japanese Word of the Week (1/15-1/21): Love

On theme from this week's anime of the week, (should I abbreviate it aofw or is that too annoying?) this week's word is: love! A very simple word and often the first word Japanese learners learn to write. Why do you think that is? Hint: check the hiragana charts and remember it reads left upper corner to right bottom corner)

あい

ai

love

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also, I thought this was cute:

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