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So here in this sentence below "との" was used 2 times. What does との standfor?
Can someone please explain it to me?

> これまで数多くのアニメ作品 **との** コラボを実現してきた痛印堂には、「好きなアニメ **との**
> コラボは嬉しいけど、自分の好きなキャラクターがいない！」「メインキャラクターだけでなく違う子もお願いします！」などの声が届いており、その要望に応えるべく今回の「ガールズ＆パンツァー」痛印第2弾が実現しました。
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Grammar of との, what is the meaning
Generally speaking:

〜と links to a following **verb** (or other predicate)  
〜との links to a following **noun** (or noun equivalent)

That's generally what の does--indicates a relationship to a following noun:

> 海 **へ** 行く The particle へ links 海 to the following **verb** 行く  
>  海 **への** 道 The particle の links 海へ to the following **noun** 道

In English, we use word order instead of a particle:

> go [ **to** the sea ]  
>  the road [ **to** the sea ]

We can tell that the **_to_** -phrase relates to the verb **_go_** or to the
noun **_road_** because they're next to each other. But that doesn't work in
Japanese--you need to specify that it relates to a noun by adding の.

Likewise, in your example, 好きなアニメ **と** needs **の** to relate to the following
noun, コラボ. In English we could just say "collaboration [ **with** 〜 ]", but in
Japanese you need to add **の**.
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