| 5:55am | 極道へようこそ！[Welcome to gokudou!] | | | | In fact, I am a big fan of yakuza(Japanese maphia) or host-and-hostess manga such as Ikegami Ryouichi(池上遼一) or Kurashina Ryo(倉科遼) . However, this kind of thing are hardly made into anime because of excessive violence and sex scene. So I was a bit surprised to know this anime,... | | |
| 12:20pm | 地下アイドル[chika aidoru] | | | | After I posted on ヲタ芸[otagei], I found something was missing. Yes, I forgot to write about this term, 地下アイドル[chika aidoru], so I shall add it now. Well, you could guess what this means. 地下[chika] means underground, and アイドル[aidoru] means idol. So literally it means an... |
| 5:49am | ヤンデレ[yandere] | | | | I just thought it would be an abbreviation of やんちゃデレデレ[y ancha deredere]. やんちゃ means merry, sowould it mean a merry-and-sweet temper? Nah, it’s not so interesting. But actually, I was fully wrong. At any rate, this term must be spin-off of ツンデレ[tsundere], but... | | |
| 2:58pm | セカイ系[sekaikei] | | | | There’s often an old saying; if the protagonist is such a cute girl who is bound by an outrageous fortune, and a helpless boy has to watch over her, the storyline should be classified as セカイ系[sekaikei]. I don’t know why sekai is written in katakana, not in kanji, 世界, but this... | | |
| 2:44am | ヲタ芸[otagei] | | | | ヲタ芸[otagei] is a special performance by ヲタ芸師[otagei-shi,” otagei performer”] and mostly it can be seen at events for idol groups. Even on the street in Akihabara, they could be practicing. ヲタ芸 must be an abbreviation of ヲタク芸[otaku-gei], and it is written as... |
| 8:47am | 痛車[itasha] | | | | I’m not sure since when we Japanese started to say 痛い[itai] to describe something pityful, pathetic, awkward, hideous, or ugly although it is supposed to mean hurt or painful. I have heard someone saying like 痛い結末[itai ketsumatsu,”pathetic conclusion] or 痛いコスチューム[itai... |
| 11:43am | オタ魂[otakon] | | | | So a friend of mine who suggested I should start this blog, made a request that I should post on オタ魂[otakon](frequently, it is also written ヲタ魂). If I write this in English(Romaji), it would sound like a big yearly convention for anime fans in Baltimore, but in Japanese, it’s... |
| 10:49am | セレブ婚[serebukon] | | | | I was kind of surprized to see the live-action drama version of 山田太郎ものがたり[Th e tales of Yamada Taro] for the first time because I know the original shoujo manga of it. Anyway, the protagonist Taro Yamada(left side in the above images) is almost perfect in anything. But his only... |
| 3:05am | キモイ同盟[kimoi doumei] | | | | When I heard of it for the first time, I couldn’t stop laughing though I had no idea what this term meansXD Well, キモイ[kimoi] is an abbreviation of 気持ち悪い[kimochiwarui], which means hideous, grotesque, annoying, unpleasant, uncomfortable, and so on. 同盟[doumei] means an... |
| 8:47am | ボンボン[bonbon] | | | | If you look at any bishounen anime, you would absolutely find at least one boy who is extremely well-bred and posh(sometimes a bit snobbish). Yes, he is 王子様[ouji-sama,”pri nce”] or simply 王子[ouji]. Know 王子様 does not even necessarily mean he is a son of a noble. But... |
| 11:07am | 冤罪[enzai] | | | | If you have watched the movie, それでもボクはやって ない[soredemo boku wa yattenai,” Yet, I didn’t do that“], you must have heard of this term, 冤罪[enzai]. My dictionary says it means a false accusation, but I think there must be more appropriate word in English, though... |
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