The Almost FULL GUIDE TO ANIME and Anime Terms + Japanese lessons

Now once.. I'd like to see someone actually STUDY Japanese to learn the language, not look at a guide for about 5 minutes and then say "YATTA! I know Japanese~desu"
It puts a dent in the otaku business...

 

My point exactly, I have friends who actually STUDY Japanese and can tell me exactly what something says and what it means.

 

HOLY SHIT for real? it's just a small thread on the internet. Why do you all bitch so much?
It DOES help a bit so stop complaining and make your own ''perfect guide'' if you are better.
Well? I'm waiting

 

I don't think you see the point.
I can't make a perfect guide.
I don't think anyone here can. One can look at this guide and become the PERFECT weeaboo
but to know the language and to speak the language without a flaw calls for months maybe years of study.

 

There are things you can learn from Japanese games and anime, like bad words, slang, and informal speaking in general. A Japanese text book usually doesn't tell you that "heei" is just a lazy punk way of saying "yeah." And I've never heard an English guide to the Osaka accent, lol.

MANKO

 

Did I say you are going to know japanese perfectly after reading this guide? NO
now please leave me alone T^T

 

Lol. I get the feeling that people consider rock making this guide equivalent to the raping of old ladies.

 

Aho n: Dumbass. Can be used in a friendly manner in Osaka's Den-Den Town, but sounds harsh to Akihabara otaku

Electronic goodness Akiba n: Akihabara, Tokyo's famed gizmo shopping district. The area used to be called "Akibahara," but was changed to the present-day name

Akiba Kei n: Somebody that looks like they spend a lot of time in Akihabara

Baka n: A stupid person. Not as mean as "aho"

Bakana adj: Stupid

Bishounen n: Pretty boy

Beautiful girl Bishoujo n: Beautiful girl. Sometimes shortened to "bijo"

Copipe n: Copy and paste

Dai Panikku n: Big panic. Encountering real girls causes this for many otaku

Dai Pinchu n: A difficult situation, to be in a pinch

Geek love Densha Otoko n: Literally, Train Man. A book, comic, movie and TV show that's purportedly the true story of an otaku who meets a beautiful girl and seeks dating advice from other geeks on an internet BBS

Doujin Soft n: PC games created by Japanese hobbyists; shareware video games. Usually it is pornographic and has come to mean adult games

DQN interj: An exclamation, pronounced "doh-ke-on", to express that something bad is about to happen

Eroge contr: A shortened form of "erotic game"

FA abv: As in "final answer" from the TV program Quiz Millionaire (The Japanese version of Who Wants to be a Millionaire)

Famikon n: The word used to describe the Nintendo Entertainment System in Japan

GJ abv: Short for "good job". Used in emailing and instant messages

Guguru vt: The Japanese verb for Googling. Literally, "to Google"

H abv: Short form for "sex". Pronounced "et-chi"

H game n: A video game with a focus on sex

Herm s n: 1. The heroine of Densha Otoko. The name has come to embody the otaku's dream girl: a beautiful, classy woman that accepts them 2. The luxury apparrel brand favored by wealthy otaku


Hikikomori n: 1. Extremely awkward otaku who has trouble socializing, even refusing to leave home to go to school or work 2. adj: Literally, "confining" or "pulling away

Hentai adj: Perverted. Often used to describe media like books, comics, games

Ikato abv: Nerd; shortened form of "ikanimo Todai-sei" ("he/she's totally like a Tokyo University student")

Kawaii adj: Cute

Kitira n: A devoted fan of Hello Kitty, known in Japan as "Kitty-chan"

Maniakku n: Maniac or extremely devoted fan

Four-eyed love Meganeko n: "Girl with glasses", an image found in H and doujin games

Moe adj: Erotically arousing, exciting. Anime characters are often described with this word

Neta n: Discussion thread or topic of conversation

Nekomimi n: "Cat's ears." Popular otaku coplay image

Nounai Kanojo n: Fantasy girlfriend; literally, "inside brain girlfriend"

Ota abv: Short for "otaku"

Puresute n: PlayStation

Renai Game n: Dating game

Resu n: A response to an email, post or instant message

Riaru n: As in "riaru de wa" or "in reality." This is used when describing things that happen outside of games

San-Roku-Maru n: Xbox 360; literally "3-6-0"

-tan suf: A cutesy suffix for the "chan" name marker, which can be used for either female or male subordinates. So Ayu-chan becomes "Ayu-tan"

Teribi Game n: TV game or video game

Terawarosu abj: The Japanese equivalent of "rolling on the floor laughing" or "ROFL". Tera refers to trillion. "Warosu" refers to laughing

Tsundere n: A icy girl who melts when you get her alone. The sound "tsun-tsun" is used when ignoring. Fans of this type of heroine are called, "tsunderera-"

Western kickass Youge n: Any loud, 3D game from the west; literally, "you" is "west" and "ge" is corruption of game ("ge-mu")

Yuri n: Lesbian manga and anime

 

It's actually Girls' Love in Japan. But "GL" in Western culture means a totally different thing XD

 

Studying, probably. But anime, Never. Let me quote a phrase.

"You can't learn Japanese that can help you in real life when you watch anime. I don't need one hundred ways to say KILL or DIE in japanese."

 

I like how being realistic automatically makes me a hater. More assumptions please. Maybe you could tell me my height, weight, and a/s/l?

THAT IS WHY WE HAVE SUBTITLES IF YOU WANT TO WATCH ANIMU WITHOUT SUBTITLES BEST BE LEARNING JAPANESE PROPERLY YADIDIMEAN?
Also I contend that you learn very little Japanese from anime, as well as nothing about Japan itself. I've got a working knowledge of Japanese, spent years with the language (and I've also watched plenty of anime) so really my opinion here is just as valid, if not moreso, than anyone who's going "OMG YATTA THIS GUIDE IS TOTTEMO SUGOII~ DATTEBAYO"

I'm not going to bash the whole guide though - one thing that I do think could come in handy is the guide to honorifics (sometimes subbers don't explain these well/at all). The "100 Essential Words" thing though? Garbage. If you're going to learn a language, do it properly instead of learning "essential" words for what basically amounts to children's entertainment.

Better believe it. I'm a mushroom cloud-laying motherfucker, motherfucker.

 

Useless argument is useless ....read point 6 of the guide. That is the point which helps you learn Japanese and NOT the 100 words

 

You have learnt a valuable lesson today rock91.

 

This is more useless than you know. Christ on a bicycle. I'm asking what the point is for having a list of 100 words in Japanese and pointing out from an experienced viewpoint that anime isn't really a valid learning resource unless you already have plenty of experience with Japanese, and you have simply skipped my questions like an idiot. What do you mean "understand anime", for starters?

Basically when it comes to criticism all I see you doing is resorting to calling people names and ignoring their questions, which leads me to believe that you couldn't give a shit about anyone who isn't kissing your ass. You seem to be quite happy with replying to people going "THANK YOU I LOVE THIS GUIDE." How about doing me the same courtesy?

 

i learned japanese by following this guide

 

Wrong, you learned Japanese terms. You didnt learn Japanese as a language.

 

Wrong, he learned nothing because he is Littlekill

 

I like how people say they learnt Japanese off Anime.
Seriously, some Anime's not even Japanese people themselves know what they are talking about.

Either spend some money on lessons, buy a book, learn online or just don't do it.

Anyway, this whole guide screams weeaboo so I'm just going to head off.

 

I learnt the word Baka from anime, surely i can learn the rest from anime?

 

And I learned that people don't know that learnt inst a word. Rather than learnt you should use English and say learned.