seme

Borrowed from Japanese 攻め (seme), derived from the verb 攻める (semeru, “to attack”).

[…] BL manga readers chose intelligence, protectiveness, and beauty/handsomeness as the top three most important traits in a seme […]

2008, Dru Pagliassotti, “Better Than Romance? Japanese BL Manga and the Subgenre of Male/Male Romantic Fiction”, in Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry, Dru Pagliassotti, editors, Boys' Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre, McFarland & Company (2008), →ISBN, page 73:

Sebas has always been the seme.

2010, Pentabu, My Girlfriend's a Geek, volume 1, Yen Press (2012), →ISBN:

The seme is larger, stronger, and more traditionally masculine, while the uke is smaller, weaker, and more feminine.

2011, Robin E. Brenner, Snow Wildsmith, “Love through a DIfferent Lens: Japanese Homoerotic Manga through the Eyes of American Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Other Sexualities Readers”, in Timothy Perper, Martha Cornog, editors, Mangatopia: Essays on Manga and Anime in the Modern World, Libraries Unlimited (2011), →ISBN, page 97:

(Japanese fiction, fandom slang) An active or dominant male character in a same-sex relationship; a top.


stand

en-verb

stand (third-person singular simple present stands, present participle standing, simple past stood, past participle stood or (obsolete) standen or (nonstandard) stand)

stands (present singular third-person)
standing (participle present)
stood (past)
stood (participle past)
standen (obsolete participle past)
stand (nonstandard participle past)
stand (infinitive)

→ Ido: standar

→ Norman: stanner, sténer

Sranan Tongo: tan

From Middle English standen, stonden (verb) and stand, stond (noun, from the verb), from Old English standan (“to stand, occupy a place”), from Proto-West Germanic *standan, from Proto-Germanic *standaną (“to stand”), from Pre-Germanic *sth₂-n-t-´, an innovative extended n-infixed form of Proto-Indo-European *steh₂-.
Cognates
Cognate with Scots stand (“to stand”), Saterland Frisian stounde (“to stand”), West Frisian stean (“to stand”), dialectal German standen (“to stand”), Danish stande (“to stand”), Swedish stånda (“to stand”), Norwegian standa (“to stand”), Faroese standa (“to stand”), Icelandic standa (“to stand”), Gothic 𐍃𐍄𐌰𐌽𐌳𐌰𐌽 (standan), Russian стоя́ть (stojátʹ, “to stand”). Also from *steh₂-: Irish seas, Latin stare, Lithuanian stóti, Old Church Slavonic стояти (stojati), Albanian shtoj (“to increase”), Ancient Greek ἵστημι (hístēmi, “to put”), Avestan 𐬵𐬌𐬱𐬙𐬀𐬌𐬙𐬌 (hištaⁱti), Sanskrit तिष्ठति (tiṣṭhati). From the related Proto-Germanic *stāną (“to stand”): West Frisian stean, Dutch staan, German stehen, Danish stå.

cog

a house divided against itself cannot stand

behind every successful man there stands a woman

dwarf standing on the shoulders of giants

where you stand depends on where you sit

To position or be positioned socially:
(intransitive) To appear in court.

To position or be positioned socially:
To appear in court.


stand

→ Catalan: estand

→ Danish: stand (semantic loan)

→ Dutch: stand

desctree

→ French: stand
→ Khmer: ស្តង់ (stɑng)
→ Romanian: stand

→ Italian: stand

→ Japanese: スタンド (sutando)

→ Norwegian Bokmål: stand

→ Norwegian Nynorsk: stand

→ Portuguese: estande, stand

→ Russian: стенд (stend)
→ Armenian: ստենդ (stend), սթենդ (stʻend)

→ Southern Ndebele: isitandi

→ Spanish: estand, stand

→ Swahili: stendi

(US, historical) Short for tavern stand (“a roadside inn”).


RS

Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire
w:Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire

(fandom slang) Initialism of Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire.


ML

en-noun

ML (countable and uncountable, plural MLs)

(slang, manga, anime) Abbreviation of male lead.


FL

FLs (plural)
effell (alternative)
Fl (alternative)

(slang, manga, anime) Abbreviation of female lead.


clean

en-verb

clean (third-person singular simple present cleans, present participle cleaning, simple past and past participle cleaned)

cleans (present singular third-person)
cleaning (participle present)
cleaned (participle past)
cleaned (past)

From Middle English clene, clane, from Old English clǣne (“clean, pure”), from Proto-West Germanic *klainī (“shining, fine, splendid, tender”), perhaps from Proto-Indo-European *glēy- (“gleaming”), from Proto-Indo-European *gel- (“to gleam”). Cognate with Scots clean (“absolute, pure, clear, empty”) and clene, clane (“clean”), North Frisian klien (“small”), West Frisian klien (“small”), klean (“clean”), Dutch klein (“small”), Low German kleen (“small”), German klein (“small”), Swedish klen (“weak, feeble, delicate”), Icelandic klénn (“poor, feeble, petty, snug, puny, cheesy, lame”).

cog

(manga fandom slang) To purge a raw of any blemishes caused by the scanning process such as brown tinting and poor color contrast.


animé

From Japanese アニメ (“anime”), from アニメーション (“animēshon”), from English animation.


anime

en-noun

anime (countable and uncountable, plural anime or animes)

anime (plural)
animes (plural)
animé (alternative)

Borrowed from Japanese アニメ (anime), an abbreviation of アニメーション (animēshon), itself borrowed from English animation, from Latin animātiō, from animāre.

Gotta get in tune with Sailor Moon / 'Cause that cartoon has got the boom anime babes / That make me think the wrong thing

1998, “One Week”, performed by Barenaked Ladies:

After three months of successful sales in manga form, it was made into an anime for television.

2005, Peter J. Katzenstein, A World of Regions, page 165:

Usually the manga comes first, though it may be an offshoot of a novel, and an anime may be inspired by a video game.

2005, Joan D. Vinge, The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror: Eighteenth Annual Collection, page cix:

These anime prepared the way for Otaku no video, a two-part Original Video Animation (OVA).

2006, Thomas LaMarre, edited by Tomiko Yoda and Harry D. Harootunian, Japan After Japan, page 363:

(countable) An animated work that originated in Japan, regardless of the artistic style.


anime

anime (absolutive indefinite)
animea (absolutive indefinite singular)
animeak (absolutive indefinite plural)
animek (ergative indefinite)
animeak (ergative indefinite singular)
animeek (ergative indefinite plural)
animeri (dative indefinite)
animeari (dative indefinite singular)
animeei (dative indefinite plural)
animeren (genitive indefinite)
animearen (genitive indefinite singular)
animeen (genitive indefinite plural)
animerekin (comitative indefinite)
animearekin (comitative indefinite singular)
animeekin (comitative indefinite plural)
animerengatik (causative indefinite)
animearengatik (causative indefinite singular)
animeengatik (causative indefinite plural)
animerentzat (benefactive indefinite)
animearentzat (benefactive indefinite singular)
animeentzat (benefactive indefinite plural)
animez (indefinite instrumental)
animeaz (indefinite instrumental singular)
animeez (indefinite instrumental plural)
animetan (indefinite inessive)
animean (indefinite inessive singular)
animeetan (indefinite inessive plural)
animetako (indefinite locative)
animeko (indefinite locative singular)
animeetako (indefinite locative plural)
animetara (allative indefinite)
animera (allative indefinite singular)
animeetara (allative indefinite plural)
animetaraino (indefinite terminative)
animeraino (indefinite singular terminative)
animeetaraino (indefinite plural terminative)
animetarantz (directive indefinite)
animerantz (directive indefinite singular)
animeetarantz (directive indefinite plural)
animetarako (destinative indefinite)
animerako (destinative indefinite singular)
animeetarako (destinative indefinite plural)
animetatik (ablative indefinite)
animetik (ablative indefinite singular)
animeetatik (ablative indefinite plural)
animerik (indefinite partitive)
animetzat (indefinite prolative)

Borrowed from Japanese アニメ (anime), an abbreviation of アニメーション (animēshon), ultimately from English animation.

Beste batzuk, berriz, animeetako marrazkien antzera janzten dira; Alizia herrialde miresgarrian ipuinetik ateratakoak ematen du zenbaitek.

2009 December 27, Elena Senao, “Japoniarren bi aurpegiak”, in Argia, number 2212:

Others, however, disguise themselves in the style of anime cartoons; some look like characters from the tale Alice in Wonderland.


anime

Borrowed from Japanese アニメ. First attested in 1997.

Coordinate term: manga

(animation) anime (artistic style originating in, and associated with, Japanese animation, and that has also been adopted by a comparatively low number of animated works from other countries)

Coordinate term: manga

(animation) anime (animated work that originated in Japan, regardless of the artistic style)


anime

pl-adj

anime (not comparable, no derived adverb)

(animation, postpositive, relational) anime (artistic style originating in, and associated with, Japanese animation, and that has also been adopted by a comparatively low number of animated works from other countries)

(animation, postpositive, relational) anime (animated work that originated in Japan, regardless of the artistic style)


manga

en-noun

manga (countable and uncountable, plural manga or mangas)

manga (plural)
mangas (plural)
mangwa (alternative)

desc

→ Hindi: मांगा (māṅgā), माँगा (māṅgā), मैंगा (maiṅgā)

Black Cat (manga)
Hokusai
manga (disambiguation)

Borrowed from Japanese 漫画(まんが) (manga), from Middle Chinese 漫 (MC manH, “free, unrestrained”) + 畫 (MC hweaH|hweak, “drawing”). Compare Mandarin 漫畫／漫画 (mànhuà), Korean 만화 (漫畵／漫畫, manhwa). After an 1814 book by Katsushika Hokusai. Doublet of manhua and manhwa.

zh-l

漫畫／漫画 (mànhuà)

English speakers are quick to notice the at times incorrect use of English in anime and manga. Many English words are customarily used in standard Japanese speech, and sometimes they are pronounced and employed in a manner quite different from their native use.

2001, Gilles Poitras, “What makes anime unique”, in Anime Essentials: Every Thing a Fan Needs to Know, page 63:

Manga (Japanese comics) are everywhere. Even here in Auckland. One can find various titles in their original versions as well as in Chinese, Korean and English translations.

2007, Yukako Sunaoshi, “Who reads comics? Manga readership among first-generation Asian immigrants in New Zealand”, in Popular Culture, Globalization and Japan, page 94:

Manga-influenced comics by Western authors are frequently sold alongside manga, although in most bookstores the decision is primarily a matter of format and packaging (i.e., whether the book is printed in the compact manga size or the traditionally larger American comic book format).

2012, Jason Thompson, “Introduction”, in Manga: The Complete Guide, page 46:

(countable, comics) A comic originating in Japan.


manga

From Japanese 漫画(まんが) (manga), after an 1814 book by Katsushika Hokusai.

(comics) manga (comic originating in Japan)


manga

manga (nominative singular)
mangat (nominative plural)
manga (accusative nominative singular)
mangat (accusative nominative plural)
mangan (accusative genitive singular)
mangat (accusative genitive plural)
mangan (genitive singular)
mangojen (genitive plural)
mangain (genitive plural rare)
mangaa (partitive singular)
mangoja (partitive plural)
mangassa (inessive singular)
mangoissa (inessive plural)
mangasta (elative singular)
mangoista (elative plural)
mangaan (illative singular)
mangoihin (illative plural)
mangalla (adessive singular)
mangoilla (adessive plural)
mangalta (ablative singular)
mangoilta (ablative plural)
mangalle (allative singular)
mangoille (allative plural)
mangana (essive singular)
mangoina (essive plural)
mangaksi (singular translative)
mangoiksi (plural translative)
mangatta (abessive singular)
mangoitta (abessive plural)
mangoin (instructive plural)
See the possessive forms below. (comitative)
mangani (nominative singular)
mangani (nominative plural)
mangani (accusative nominative singular)
mangani (accusative nominative plural)
mangani (accusative genitive singular)
mangani (accusative genitive plural)
mangani (genitive singular)
mangojeni (genitive plural)
mangaini (genitive plural rare)
mangaani (partitive singular)
mangojani (partitive plural)
mangassani (inessive singular)
mangoissani (inessive plural)
mangastani (elative singular)
mangoistani (elative plural)
mangaani (illative singular)
mangoihini (illative plural)
mangallani (adessive singular)
mangoillani (adessive plural)
mangaltani (ablative singular)
mangoiltani (ablative plural)
mangalleni (allative singular)
mangoilleni (allative plural)
manganani (essive singular)
mangoinani (essive plural)
mangakseni (singular translative)
mangoikseni (plural translative)
mangattani (abessive singular)
mangoittani (abessive plural)
mangoineni (comitative plural)
mangasi (nominative singular)
mangasi (nominative plural)
mangasi (accusative nominative singular)
mangasi (accusative nominative plural)
mangasi (accusative genitive singular)
mangasi (accusative genitive plural)
mangasi (genitive singular)
mangojesi (genitive plural)
mangaisi (genitive plural rare)
mangaasi (partitive singular)
mangojasi (partitive plural)
mangassasi (inessive singular)
mangoissasi (inessive plural)
mangastasi (elative singular)
mangoistasi (elative plural)
mangaasi (illative singular)
mangoihisi (illative plural)
mangallasi (adessive singular)
mangoillasi (adessive plural)
mangaltasi (ablative singular)
mangoiltasi (ablative plural)
mangallesi (allative singular)
mangoillesi (allative plural)
manganasi (essive singular)
mangoinasi (essive plural)
mangaksesi (singular translative)
mangoiksesi (plural translative)
mangattasi (abessive singular)
mangoittasi (abessive plural)
mangoinesi (comitative plural)
mangamme (nominative singular)
mangamme (nominative plural)
mangamme (accusative nominative singular)
mangamme (accusative nominative plural)
mangamme (accusative genitive singular)
mangamme (accusative genitive plural)
mangamme (genitive singular)
mangojemme (genitive plural)
mangaimme (genitive plural rare)
mangaamme (partitive singular)
mangojamme (partitive plural)
mangassamme (inessive singular)
mangoissamme (inessive plural)
mangastamme (elative singular)
mangoistamme (elative plural)
mangaamme (illative singular)
mangoihimme (illative plural)
mangallamme (adessive singular)
mangoillamme (adessive plural)
mangaltamme (ablative singular)
mangoiltamme (ablative plural)
mangallemme (allative singular)
mangoillemme (allative plural)
manganamme (essive singular)
mangoinamme (essive plural)
mangaksemme (singular translative)
mangoiksemme (plural translative)
mangattamme (abessive singular)
mangoittamme (abessive plural)
mangoinemme (comitative plural)
manganne (nominative singular)
manganne (nominative plural)
manganne (accusative nominative singular)
manganne (accusative nominative plural)
manganne (accusative genitive singular)
manganne (accusative genitive plural)
manganne (genitive singular)
mangojenne (genitive plural)
mangainne (genitive plural rare)
mangaanne (partitive singular)
mangojanne (partitive plural)
mangassanne (inessive singular)
mangoissanne (inessive plural)
mangastanne (elative singular)
mangoistanne (elative plural)
mangaanne (illative singular)
mangoihinne (illative plural)
mangallanne (adessive singular)
mangoillanne (adessive plural)
mangaltanne (ablative singular)
mangoiltanne (ablative plural)
mangallenne (allative singular)
mangoillenne (allative plural)
mangananne (essive singular)
mangoinanne (essive plural)
mangaksenne (singular translative)
mangoiksenne (plural translative)
mangattanne (abessive singular)
mangoittanne (abessive plural)
mangoinenne (comitative plural)
mangansa (nominative singular)
mangansa (nominative plural)
mangansa (accusative nominative singular)
mangansa (accusative nominative plural)
mangansa (accusative genitive singular)
mangansa (accusative genitive plural)
mangansa (genitive singular)
mangojensa (genitive plural)
mangainsa (genitive plural rare)
mangaansa (partitive singular)
mangojaan (partitive plural)
mangojansa (partitive plural)
mangassaan (inessive singular)
mangassansa (inessive singular)
mangoissaan (inessive plural)
mangoissansa (inessive plural)
mangastaan (elative singular)
mangastansa (elative singular)
mangoistaan (elative plural)
mangoistansa (elative plural)
mangaansa (illative singular)
mangoihinsa (illative plural)
mangallaan (adessive singular)
mangallansa (adessive singular)
mangoillaan (adessive plural)
mangoillansa (adessive plural)
mangaltaan (ablative singular)
mangaltansa (ablative singular)
mangoiltaan (ablative plural)
mangoiltansa (ablative plural)
mangalleen (allative singular)
mangallensa (allative singular)
mangoilleen (allative plural)
mangoillensa (allative plural)
manganaan (essive singular)
manganansa (essive singular)
mangoinaan (essive plural)
mangoinansa (essive plural)
mangakseen (singular translative)
mangaksensa (singular translative)
mangoikseen (plural translative)
mangoiksensa (plural translative)
mangattaan (abessive singular)
mangattansa (abessive singular)
mangoittaan (abessive plural)
mangoittansa (abessive plural)
mangoineen (comitative plural)
mangoinensa (comitative plural)


manga

Borrowed from Japanese 漫画(まんが) (manga). Doublet of manhwa.

Hiromu Arakawa est une jeune mangaka débutante quand elle envoie son premier projet chez un éditeur. L’histoire courte deviendra FullMetal Alchemist, un des mangas les plus vendus au Japon : 12 millions d’exemplaires !

2005 November 1, “Duck Action : 5 mangas inmangables ! [Duck Action: 5 Manga You Can’t Miss!]”, in Picsou Magazine (non-fiction), Disney Hachette Presse, page 27:

Hiromu Arakawa was a young mangaka debuting when she sent her first project to a publisher. That short story became FullMetal Alchemist, one of the best-selling manga in Japan: 12 million copies!

Osamu Tezuka est le plus grand dessinateur de manga. De 1947 à 1989, il dessine 150000 pages et crée d’innombrable séries : Astro Boy, le roi Léo, Metropolis, BlackJack, Les trois Adolf, Ayako, Phénix […]

Osamu Tezuka was the greatest manga artist. From 1947 to 1989, he drew 150,000 pages and created countless series: Astro Boy, Kimba the White Lion, Metropolis, Black Jack, Message to Adolf, Ayako, Phoenix…


manga

Ultimately from Japanese 漫画(まんが) (manga).


manga

From Japanese 漫画(まんが) (manga), from Middle Chinese 漫 (MC manH, “free, unrestrained”) + 畫 (MC hweaH|hweak, “drawing”). Doublet of manhua and manhwa.


manga

manga (nominative singular)
mangi (nominative plural)
mangi (genitive singular)
mang (genitive plural)
mandze (dative singular)
mangom (dative plural)
mangę (accusative singular)
mangi (accusative plural)
mangą (instrumental singular)
mangami (instrumental plural)
mandze (locative singular)
mangach (locative plural)
mango (singular vocative)
mangi (plural vocative)

Coordinate term: anime


manga

manga (indefinite nominative singular)
mangas (genitive indefinite singular)
mangan (definite nominative singular)
mangans (definite genitive singular)
mangor (indefinite nominative plural)
mangors (genitive indefinite plural)
mangorna (definite nominative plural)
mangornas (definite genitive plural)
manga (indefinite nominative singular)
mangas (genitive indefinite singular)
mangan (definite nominative singular)
mangans (definite genitive singular)
manga (indefinite nominative plural)
mangas (genitive indefinite plural)
mangana (definite nominative plural)
manganas (definite genitive plural)


manga

head

manga (definite accusative mangayı, plural mangalar)

mangayı (accusative definite)
mangalar (plural)


doujinshi

en-noun

doujinshi (countable and uncountable, plural doujinshi or doujinshis)

doujinshi (plural)
doujinshis (plural)
dojinshi (alternative)
dōjinshi (alternative)

Borrowed from Japanese 同(どう)人(じん)誌(し) (dōjinshi, “fan-produced manga or essay booklets”), from 同(どう)人(じん) (dōjin, “group for the same interest”) + 誌(し) (shi, “magazine or a pamphlet”).

ja-r

(manga) A fan-produced book or magazine of Japanese fiction; especially manga.


harem

en-noun

harem (countable and uncountable, plural harems)

harems (plural)
hareem (alternative)
harim (alternative)

Borrowed from Ottoman Turkish حرم (harem) Turkish harem, from Arabic حَرَم (ḥaram, “something prohibited; sanctuary, women”); and later also from حَرِيم (ḥarīm) with same meaning, both from حَرُمَ (ḥaruma, “be forbidden or unlawful”). Doublet of haram.

der

(uncountable) A genre of anime and manga in which a man is the love interest of three or more women.


PG

Prince George's County
Prince George's County#English


齣

齣 (canonical)
齣 (canonical)
koma (romanization)

Probably cognate with 小間, 細 (koma, “small; a small piece of something”).

(film, animation, manga) a frame of a comic or film


raw

From Middle English rawe, raw, rau, from Old English hrēaw (“raw, uncooked”), from Proto-West Germanic *hrau, from Proto-Germanic *hrawaz, *hrēwaz (“raw”), from Proto-Indo-European *krewh₂- (“raw meat, fresh blood”).
Cognate with Scots raw (“raw”), Dutch rauw (“raw”), German roh (“raw”), Swedish rå (“raw”), Icelandic hrár (“raw”), Latin crūdus (“raw, bloody, uncooked”), Irish cró (“blood”), Lithuanian kraujas (“blood”), Russian кровь (krovʹ, “blood”). Related also to Old English hrēow, hrēoh (“rough, fierce, wild, angry, disturbed, troubled, sad, stormy, tempestuous”). More at ree.

(anime fandom slang) A recording or rip of a show that has not been fansubbed.

生肉

anime fandom: a recording or rip that has not been fansubbed

(manga fandom slang) A scan that has not been cleaned (purged of blemishes arising from the scanning process) and has not been scanlated.

生肉

manga fandom: a scan that has not been cleaned and scanlated


scanlation

en-noun

scanlation (countable and uncountable, plural scanlations)

scanlations (plural)
scanslation (alternative)

LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-scanlation.wav

(comics, chiefly manga) The process of scanning and translating foreign-language comics (especially Japanese manga or Korean manhwa) into the translator's language, for free distribution over the Internet.


hentai

hentai (countable and uncountable, plural hentai or hentais)

→ Cebuano: hentai

→ Finnish: hentai

→ French: hentai

→ German: Hentai

→ Indonesian: hentai

→ Italian: hentai

→ Korean: 헨타이 (hentai)

→ Polish: hentai

→ Portuguese: hentai

→ Russian: хентай (xentaj)

→ Spanish: hentai

→ Swedish: hentai

→ Tagalog: hentai

→ Ukrainian: хента́й (xentáj)

Pseudo-Japonism, derived from 変態(へんたい) (hentai, “pervert”), short for 変態性欲者(へんたいせいよくしゃ) (hentai seiyoku-sha, literally “person with abnormal sexual desires”).

ja-r

へんたい せいよく-しゃ

There was a hentai video that I saw / I told you about the night that we first made love

2019, “Hentai”, in Cry, performed by Cigarettes After Sex:

X defines adult content as […]
This definition also applies to "AI-generated, photographic or animated content such as cartoons, hentai or anime".

2024 June 5, “Porn now officially allowed on X with safeguards for those under 18”, in Channel News Asia:

A work of anime or manga (or any similar medium) that contains heavily sexual or pornographic art.

hentai

a work of anime that contains sexual art (esp. manga or anime)


hentai

From English hentai, a semantic shift from Japanese 変態(へんたい) (hentai, “pervert”).

hentai; a work of anime or manga (or any similar medium) that contains heavily sexual or pornographic art


hentai

hentai (a work of anime or manga—Japanese cartoon art, respectively animated and static—that contains pornography)


hentai

hentai (a work of anime or manga — Japanese cartoon art, respectively animated and static — that contains pornography)


mai

(anime, manga, fandom slang, Internet slang) Alternative form of my (used in the expressions mai waifu and mai husbando)


mon

From Japanese 文 (mon). Cognate to wen, mun and van.

The shimonsen or shimon, originally worth four mon, but debased to two mon.

1902, Walter Del Mar, Around the World Through Japan, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company; London: Macmillan & Co., Ltd., page 136:

(historical) The former currency of Japan until 1870, before the yen.


mon

From a dialectal variant of man; compare Western Middle English mon (alongside Eastern man).

Ee I'm allus glad to see a mon like thee. That's as welcome lad, as welcome as can be. Fotch thi cheer up t'table. Stop as long as th'art able. Fer I'm allus glad to see a mon like thee.

1974, “A Mon Like Thee”, in Best o't' Bunch, performed by The Oldham Tinkers:

I am a Black Country mon. Yow dow know and the Brummies woh understond.

2020, “Black Country Mon”performed by Johnny Cole:

(colloquial) Man; used in places such as Jamaica, and Lancashire, Shropshire and the Black Country in England.


mon

Clipping of monster, via Japanese モン (mon) in Pokémon, Digimon, etc.

Here they are, the fans voted for them, and here they are, the Mons that can...

2000 November 25, Thomas Conner, “Digimon Top Ten Choice List”, in alt.fan.digimon (Usenet):

When a mon attacks him, he returns the same strike with the world "Reflection" after it, double the original strength.

2003 February 15, sirSTACK, “Digimon #429”, in alt.fan.digimon (Usenet):

And thus did it come to pass that the boy and the two mons, after a brief final discussion began the training.

2011 June 6, Clayton, “PW! - Training Interlude”, in alt.games.nintendo.pokemon (Usenet):

(fandom slang) A creature in a video game, usually one which is captured, trained up and used in battles.

Pokemon, digimon and all other merchandised mons, what good parent will disagree with me that those little invading, mind rotting things should be tolerated... those should be illegal, too...

2001 May 27, Travis Anton, “Cigarette Smoke”, in alt.home.repair (Usenet):

And dont buy Pokemon or Digimon or any other bloody Mons or you will never hear the ned^([sic]) of it :-)

2001 May 24, Horace Wachope, “Kids Toys”, in alt.ozdebate (Usenet):

At any rate Digimon was the best mon/collector series we've seen yet, to the point its popularity was prolly bigger here than its marketing.

2003 December 9, tito, “Main difference between anime and U.S. cartoons?”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):

(fandom slang) A video game or anime in which catching and battling creatures is an important element.


Narutard

Narutards (plural)
narutard (alternative)

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For quotations using this term, see Citations:Narutard.

(Internet slang, fandom slang, derogatory) An obsessive fan of the Japanese manga series Naruto.


CV

en-noun

CV (countable and uncountable, plural CVs)

CVs (plural)
C.V. (alternative)
C. V. (alternative)

Abbreviation
* (anime, Japanimation): From Japanese CV (CV), from English character+voice
* (aircraft carrier): Initialism of cruiser (“croiseur”) + French voler (“to fly”).

initialism of

(anime) character's voice (“voice actor”)


boing

Onomatopoeic. The “large breasts” sense is reborrowed from Japanese ボイン, in turn from English boing.

A representation of the sound of something bouncing.

(fandom slang, chiefly in the context of anime and comics) Announcing the presence of large, pert breasts, which are bouncy.


boing

→ Japanese: ボイン

→ English: boing

(fandom slang, chiefly in the context of anime and comics) Large breasts.


shojo

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From the Japanese 少女 (shōjo, “young woman”).

(anime, manga) A style of anime and manga intended for young women.


shojo

en-adj

shojo (comparative more shojo, superlative most shojo)

more shojo (comparative)
most shojo (superlative)
shoujo (alternative)

(anime, manga) Being in the style of shōjo manga or anime.


少女

ja-noun

少(しょう)女(じょ) • (shōjo) ^(←せうぢよ (seudyo)?)

少女 (canonical)
shōjo (romanization)
seudyo (romanization)
せうぢよ (hiragana historical)

From Middle Chinese compound 少女 (MC syewX|syewH nrjoX|nrjoH). Compare modern Mandarin 少女 (shàonǚ).

少女歌劇

少女歌劇 しょうじょかげき

a kind of traditional Japanese light drama with no male actors and mostly young girls playing the parts

少女趣味

少女趣味 しょうじょしゅみ

hobbies or interest common to young girls

(anime, manga) a style of anime and manga made for young women, shojo


baka

en-adj

baka (comparative more baka, superlative most baka)

more baka (comparative)
most baka (superlative)

Borrowed from Japanese 馬鹿(ばか) (baka, “stupid”).

(anime manga, fandom slang, endearing) Stupid, silly.


baka

(anime manga, fandom slang, endearing) A foolish person, a dummy, a silly goose.


legendary

From legend + -ary; from Medieval Latin legendārius. Earlier it was a noun meaning "a collection of legends" (1510s) (Medieval Latin legendārium, Old French legendier), from Latin legenda. In English, both the noun and the adjective first appeared in the 16th century.


アニメ

→ English: anime

→ Malay: anime

→ Spanish: anime, ánime

→ Portuguese: anime, animé, animê

→ Russian: аниме (anime)

→ Hindi: ऐनिमे (ainime)

→ Burmese: အာနီမေ (anime)

→ Turkish: anime

Anime
Daijirin
Daijisen
Kyōsuke Kindaichi
Momotaro's Divine Sea Warriors
ja:アニメ
ja:松村明

Clipping of アニメーション (animēshon), itself borrowed from English animation.
Not directly related to French animé (“animated”).

(animation, anime) anime, Japanese animation


Anime

de-noun

Anime m (strong, genitive Animes or Anime, plural Anime or Animes)

Animes (genitive)
Anime (genitive)
Anime (plural)
Animes (plural)
Anime (nominative singular)
Anime (definite nominative plural)
Animes (definite nominative plural)
Animes (genitive singular)
Anime (genitive singular)
Anime (definite genitive plural)
Animes (definite genitive plural)
Anime (dative singular)
Anime (dative definite plural)
Animes (dative definite plural)
Anime (accusative singular)
Anime (accusative definite plural)
Animes (accusative definite plural)

anime (A style of art that originated in Japan)


H

Coordinate term: M (“Muslim”)

(India, Hinduism, Internet slang) Abbreviation of Hindu; mostly used by Indian Muslim netizens primarily towards Hindutva supporters.


Manga

Manga m (strong, genitive Manga or Mangas, plural Manga or Mangas)

Manga (genitive)
Mangas (genitive)
Manga (plural)
Mangas (plural)
Manga (nominative singular)
Manga (definite nominative plural)
Mangas (definite nominative plural)
Manga (genitive singular)
Mangas (genitive singular)
Manga (definite genitive plural)
Mangas (definite genitive plural)
Manga (dative singular)
Manga (dative definite plural)
Mangas (dative definite plural)
Manga (accusative singular)
Manga (accusative definite plural)
Mangas (accusative definite plural)

Borrowed from Japanese 漫画(まんが) (manga), from Middle Chinese 漫 (MC manH, “free, unrestrained”) + 畫 (MC hweaH|hweak, “drawing”).

(comics) manga (comic originating in Japan)


TS

ちなみに、なぜ日本で「TS」が一般的になったかというと、私が「yaysの性転換の館」開始時に、性同一障害に関するサイトから「TS」という用語を拝借してきて盛んに使っていたのも一因かもしれません。

2000, Yaesu, 八重洲メディアリサーチ [Yaesu Media Research], archived from the original on 2000-09-19:

By the way, as for why 'TS' became popular in Japan, it might be because when I started 'Yays Gender Transformation Mansion,' I borrowed the term 'TS' from websites related to gender dysphoria and used it extensively.

F氏「ＴＳの定義についての明記なんですが一体ＴＳの定義って・・・・？例の決まりあるあの一言でいいのかな？「このサイトは男性が女性、あるいは女性が男性に変化するようなことを主題として扱っているサイトです〜」

2000 May 28, Mr. F, “TS学入門 [Introduction to TS Studies]”, in TS-WEEK, archived from the original on 2006-06-06:

"Regarding specifying the definition of TS... what exactly is the definition of TS? Is it enough to have that one specified phrase like, 'This site deals with themes where men become women, or vice versa'?"

ＴＳＦという言葉が使われ始める前（１９９９，２０００年頃）には、Ｔｒａｎｓｓｅｘｕａｌの略語であるＴＳという言葉が、前述のＴＳＦの意味と同様の意味を表す言葉として用いられていました。この用法は、八重洲性転換の館（現：八重洲メディアリサーチ）の主催者である八重洲さんの提案によるものです。なお、今でも多くの人がＴＳＦと同じ意味でＴＳという言葉を使っています。

2015 June 4, F_TSF, “ＴＳＦとは [What is TSF?]”, in TSFのF [blog], archived from the original on 2015-08-10:

Before the term TSF came into use, the abbreviation "TS," standing for Transsexual, was used to convey a similar meaning around 1999-2000. This usage was proposed by Yaesu-san, the organizer of Yaesu Gender Transformation Mansion (now: Yaesu Media Research). Many people still use the term "TS" with the same meaning as TSF.

(fiction) genderswap; genderbend; sex change


Japanimation

en-noun

Japanimation (countable and uncountable, plural Japanimations)

Japanimations (plural)
japanimation (alternative)

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(anime, dated) Synonym of anime (“Japanese animated cartoons”).


BW

Pokémon Black and White
w:Pokémon Black and White

(fandom slang) Initialism of Pokémon Black and White.


DP

DP (countable and uncountable, plural DPs)

displaced person
displaced person#English


SS

Pokémon Sword and Shield
w:Pokémon Sword and Shield

(fandom slang) Initialism of Pokémon Sword and Shield.


AV

From Japanese AV(アダルトビデオ) (adarutobideo), from English adult video.

(Japanese pornography) Initialism of adult video (“video pornography”).


cunny

cunny (countable and uncountable, plural cunnies)

cunnies (plural)
cute and funny (alternative)

(countable, fandom slang, chiefly anime and manga) The vulva or vagina of a child or childlike character (loli).

(countable, synecdochically) A child or childlike character, especially when considered sexually attractive; a loli.

(uncountable, metonymically) Lolicon-themed media, especially when erotic (hentai).


bara

Short for barazoku, from Japanese 薔薇族 (barazoku, literally “rose tribe”), the name of Japan's first modern gay men's magazine, named after a post-World War II term for gay men.

bor

(Internet slang) A genre of homoerotic media, usually manga and often pornographic, made by gay men for gay men in Japan.


DPP

Pokémon Diamond, Pearl
w:Pokémon Diamond and Pearl

(fandom slang) Initialism of Pokémon Diamond, Pearl and Platinum.

Democratic Party of the Philippines
w:Democratic Party of the Philippines

(Philippine politics) Initialism of Democratic Party of the Philippines.


DPP

After months of troubling silence, the DPP Keir Starmer, finally stepped forward and directly and loudly challenged Yates.

2014, Nick Davies, Hack Attack: How the truth caught up with Rupert Murdoch, Random House, →ISBN, page 299:

Director of Public Prosecutions
w:Director of Public Prosecutions

(chiefly Commonwealth, law) Initialism of Director of Public Prosecutions.

Deputy Public Prosecutor
Deputy Public Prosecutor#English


uke

From Japanese 受け (uke), derived from the verb 受ける (ukeru, “to receive, to get”).

Yaoi uke in fanfics often bear the brunt of stereotypical "negative female characteristics" such as passivity, helplessness, and masochism.

2008, Tan Bee Kee, “Rewriting Gender and Sexuality in English-language Yaoi Fanfiction”, in Antonia Levi, Mark McHarry, Dru Pagliassotti, editors, Boys’ Love Manga: Essays on the Sexual Ambiguity and Cross-Cultural Fandom of the Genre, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 142:

You'd rather have Sebas be an uke?

2010, Pentabu, My Girlfriend’s a Geek, volume 1, Yen Press, published 2012isbn=9780316221801:

Shizuku is so, so, so cute! I love him as an uke so much I can't stand it!

2010, Kyoka Wakatsuki, “Afterword”, in The Selfish Demon King, Digital Manga Publishing, →ISBN:

(Japanese fiction, fandom slang) A passive or submissive male fictional character in a same-sex relationship; a bottom.


STAB

(fandom slang, Pokémon) A 50% damage boost applied when a Pokémon uses a move with the same type as itself (for example, an Electric-type Pokémon using an Electric-type move).


Moonie

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The Unification Church, or the "Moonies" as they are commonly known, have a thriving work in South Africa, with their headquarters in Hillbrow and a Moonie farm near Muldersdrift.

I am a proud Korean – a proud Moonie – and a dedicated anti-Communist and I intend to remain so the rest of my life -Bo Hi Pak

1991, Carlton Sherwood, Inquisition: The Persecution and Prosecution of the Reverend Sun Myung Moon, Regnery Gateway, →ISBN:

We "Moonies" were willing to sacrifice personal choice to spin gold out of the raw silk of ourselves, to help create world harmony through family harmony.

2005 July 3, Renee Watabe, “Modern Love - A Leap of Faith”, in New York Times:

(informal) A member of the Unification Church; a follower of its founder Sun Myung Moon

How did Moonie get his nickname? He told us it had something to do with him being born during a full moon.

2013, Hayden Nicholas, Ezekiel's Choice,, WestBow Press, page 100:

Michael "Moonie" Miller was feeling pretty good about things. The day was beautiful. A little breeze, nice and warm, was blowing in from the desert as if often does this time of year in the Los Angeles basin. Two days before Halloween and it's 81 degrees, mid-afternoon. It can't get much better than this, he thought. "Moonie" acquired his nickname years ago but it was hardly relevant anymore.

2010, Bob Ruchhoft, Phil Smith, Good Cop, Dead Cop,, Author House:

He was nicknamed Moonie, because he was such a daydreamer in school.

2005, Maggie Siggins, Bitter Embrace: White Society's Assault on the Woodland Cree, McClelland & Stewart, page 128:

(informal) A nickname in English-speaking countries, sometimes for a person who moons around.

The Moonies and the Dragonballers aren't minorities; they're as large or larger than any other group of animeniacs you're going to find.

1995 December 12, Sea Wasp [username], “Re: Too Many SM/DB posts! ARRGGHH!!!”, in rec.arts.anime (Usenet):

Nope, you're not the only Moonie here. Unfortunately, the US Bandai figures are kinda ugly.

1997 January 3, thewkt [username], “Re: Sailor Moon blow-out at Kay-Bee”, in rec.toys.action-figures (Usenet):

Mike- who has a Sailor Moon webpage up, carries a Sailor Moon wallet and matching coinpurse irl and is just in general a major Moonie.

1998 September 14, Mike Oliva, “OT Sailor Moon”, in alt.games.everquest (Usenet):

(fandom slang) A fan of the Japanese manga and anime franchise Sailor Moon.


kokoro

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/ˈkoʊkəˌɹoʊ/

Borrowed from Japanese 心(こころ) (kokoro, “heart, mind, spirit”).

Fame is for weenies. I'd rather be remembered for inventing a weird guitar effect or a recording technique than becoming famous by a song, unless the song is genuinely from my kokoro.

1992 December 7, Mike, “Re: When Things Go Wrong”, in bit.listserv.allmusic (Usenet), message-ID <ALLMUSIC%92120719125825@AUVM.AMERICAN.EDU>:

(fandom slang, chiefly anime and manga) A heart.


chibi

en-noun

chibi (countable and uncountable, plural chibis)

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Borrowed from Japanese ちび (chibi, “something small; runt, dwarf; pipsqueak”)

bor+

(countable) A child-like character with exaggerated features, particularly in anime.


Doitsu

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From Japanese ドイツ (Doitsu, “Germany”) with influence from the anime Hetalia: Axis Powers; ultimately from Dutch Duits. Doublet of Dutch and Deutsch.

emTeX is from Eberhard Mattes, I believe a PhD student in Stuttgart, Doitsu.

1992 October 5, Eugene N. Miya, “[l/m 6/5/91] Soc.culture.japan references”, in soc.culture.japan (Usenet):

i'm from doitsu!

2003 March 27, FuNG [username], “icq people from japan?”, in japan.app.icq (Usenet):

How are things in Doitsu?

2008 June 18, mozark [username], “Re: My Whining 2008 Scorecard”, in alt.sports.basketball.nba.la-lakers (Usenet):

List of Hetalia: Axis Powers characters#Germany


genki

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Borrowed from Japanese げんき (“energetic, peppy”).

(anime and manga) A playful, hyperactive girl.


genki

en-adj

genki (comparative more genki, superlative most genki)

more genki (comparative)
most genki (superlative)

Akira, the genki red head, is accosted by Kyouko, a predatory blond girl in her high school.

2009 July 7, Dave Baranyi, “Aoi Hana - Blue Flowers for a Blue Girl”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):

(anime and manga, typically of a girl) Playful and hyperactive.


yaoi

en-noun

yaoi (countable and uncountable, plural yaoi or yaois)

From Japanese やおい (yaoi), a blend of 山(やま)無(な)し (yama nashi, “no climax”) + 落(お)ち無(な)し (ochi nashi, “no point”) + 意味(いみ)無(な)し (imi nashi, “no meaning”), originally mocking those who criticised early yaoi works for being too focused on sex scenes instead of storylines.

ja-blend

(pornography, anime, manga) A form of hentai involving two or more males in a gay relationship.

ইয়াওই

(anime, manga) A narrative or visual work featuring a romance or sexual relationship between two or more men.


yaoi

head

yaoi (definite accusative yaoiyi, plural yaoiler)

yaoiyi (accusative definite)
yaoiler (plural)
yaoi (nominative singular)
yaoiler (nominative plural)
yaoiyi (accusative definite singular)
yaoileri (accusative definite plural)
yaoiye (dative singular)
yaoilere (dative plural)
yaoide (locative singular)
yaoilerde (locative plural)
yaoiden (ablative singular)
yaoilerden (ablative plural)
yaoinin (genitive singular)
yaoilerin (genitive plural)
yaoim (first-person nominative singular)
yaoilerim (first-person nominative singular)
yaoin (nominative second-person singular)
yaoilerin (nominative second-person singular)
yaoisi (nominative singular third-person)
yaoileri (nominative singular third-person)
yaoimiz (first-person nominative plural)
yaoilerimiz (first-person nominative plural)
yaoiniz (nominative plural second-person)
yaoileriniz (nominative plural second-person)
yaoileri (nominative plural third-person)
yaoimi (accusative definite first-person singular)
yaoilerimi (accusative definite first-person singular)
yaoini (accusative definite second-person singular)
yaoilerini (accusative definite second-person singular)
yaoisini (accusative definite singular third-person)
yaoilerini (accusative definite singular third-person)
yaoimizi (accusative definite first-person plural)
yaoilerimizi (accusative definite first-person plural)
yaoinizi (accusative definite plural second-person)
yaoilerinizi (accusative definite plural second-person)
yaoilerini (accusative definite plural third-person)
yaoime (dative first-person singular)
yaoilerime (dative first-person singular)
yaoine (dative second-person singular)
yaoilerine (dative second-person singular)
yaoisine (dative singular third-person)
yaoilerine (dative singular third-person)
yaoimize (dative first-person plural)
yaoilerimize (dative first-person plural)
yaoinize (dative plural second-person)
yaoilerinize (dative plural second-person)
yaoilerine (dative plural third-person)
yaoimde (first-person locative singular)
yaoilerimde (first-person locative singular)
yaoinde (locative second-person singular)
yaoilerinde (locative second-person singular)
yaoisinde (locative singular third-person)
yaoilerinde (locative singular third-person)
yaoimizde (first-person locative plural)
yaoilerimizde (first-person locative plural)
yaoinizde (locative plural second-person)
yaoilerinizde (locative plural second-person)
yaoilerinde (locative plural third-person)
yaoimden (ablative first-person singular)
yaoilerimden (ablative first-person singular)
yaoinden (ablative second-person singular)
yaoilerinden (ablative second-person singular)
yaoisinden (ablative singular third-person)
yaoilerinden (ablative singular third-person)
yaoimizden (ablative first-person plural)
yaoilerimizden (ablative first-person plural)
yaoinizden (ablative plural second-person)
yaoilerinizden (ablative plural second-person)
yaoilerinden (ablative plural third-person)
yaoimin (first-person genitive singular)
yaoilerimin (first-person genitive singular)
yaoinin (genitive second-person singular)
yaoilerinin (genitive second-person singular)
yaoisinin (genitive singular third-person)
yaoilerinin (genitive singular third-person)
yaoimizin (first-person genitive plural)
yaoilerimizin (first-person genitive plural)
yaoinizin (genitive plural second-person)
yaoilerinizin (genitive plural second-person)
yaoilerinin (genitive plural third-person)
yaoiyim (first-person singular)
yaoilerim (first-person singular)
yaoisin (second-person singular)
yaoilersin (second-person singular)
yaoi (singular third-person)
yaoidir (singular third-person)
yaoiler (singular third-person)
yaoilerdir (singular third-person)
yaoiyiz (first-person plural)
yaoileriz (first-person plural)
yaoisiniz (plural second-person)
yaoilersiniz (plural second-person)
yaoiler (plural third-person)
yaoilerdir (plural third-person)


moe

From Japanese 萌え (moe, “budding, sprouting”), imperfective or continuative form of 萌える (moeru, “to burst into bud, to sprout”).

Someone who is pretty or beautiful isn't moe by definition. Moe characters don't always have to be younger girls, but it certainly helps! In fact, moe characters don't even have to be female! As long as they make you feel like you want to hug and protect them, that's enough!

2015 December 9, Jankenpopp, “Top 15 kawaii and moe anime girls”, in My Anime List:

Despite its moe roots and preference for hijinks, Bocchi The Rock is a loving celebration of rock music and the joys of being in a band.

2023 September 5, Trent Murray, “10 Best Anime Like Bocchi The Rock”, in Dual Shockers, Carole and Tuesday:

(fandom slang) Strong interest in, and especially fetishistic attraction towards, fictional characters in anime, manga, video games, and/or similar media.

萌

strong interest or attraction towards fictional character


moe

en-adj

moe (comparative more moe or moe-er, superlative most moe or moe-est)

more moe (comparative)
moe-er (comparative)
most moe (superlative)
moe-est (superlative)
moé (alternative)

(fandom slang) Cute, adorable. (of fictional characters in anime, manga, video games, and/or similar media)


物語

/u⁵¹ y²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/mɐt̚² jyː¹³/

/but̚⁴⁻³² ɡu⁵³/

/but̚²⁴⁻² ɡu⁵⁵⁴/

/but̚¹²¹⁻²¹ ɡu⁵³/

/but̚⁴⁻³² ɡu⁵³/

/but̚⁴⁻³² ɡu⁴¹/

/u⁵¹ y²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/mɐt̚² jyː¹³/

/but̚⁴⁻³² ɡu⁵³/

/but̚²⁴⁻² ɡu⁵⁵⁴/

/but̚¹²¹⁻²¹ ɡu⁵³/

/but̚⁴⁻³² ɡu⁵³/

/but̚⁴⁻³² ɡu⁴¹/

Orthographic borrowing from Japanese 物(もの)語(がたり) (monogatari).

(in Japanese contexts) tale; story; legend


mangaka

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Borrowed from Japanese 漫(まん)画(が)家(か) (mangaka). Doublet of manhwaga and manhuajia.


mangaka

fr-noun

mangaka m or f by sense (plural mangakas)

Hiromu Arakawa est une jeune mangaka débutante quand elle envoie son premier projet chez un éditeur. L’histoire courte deviendra FullMetal Alchemist, un des mangas les plus vendus au Japon : 12 millions d’exemplaires !

2005 November 1, “Duck Action : 5 mangas inmangables ! [Duck Action: 5 Manga You Can’t Miss!]”, in Picsou Magazine (non-fiction), Disney Hachette Presse, page 27:


mangaka

mangaka (nominative singular)
mangacy (nominative plural)
mangaki (genitive singular)
mangaków (genitive plural)
mangace (dative singular)
mangakom (dative plural)
mangakę (accusative singular)
mangaków (accusative plural)
mangaką (instrumental singular)
mangakami (instrumental plural)
mangace (locative singular)
mangakach (locative plural)
mangako (singular vocative)
mangacy (plural vocative)

(comics) mangaka (professional manga or anime artist)


futanari

en-noun

futanari (countable and uncountable, plural futanari or futanaris)

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From Japanese ふたなり (futanari, “hermaphrodite”), from 二(ふた)つ (futatsu, “two”) + 形(なり) (nari, “shape, form”) or 態(なり) (nari).

(uncountable, Japanese pornography) A genre of Japanese pornography featuring intersex or hermaphroditic characters that are depicted as attractive, usually works containing female characters with a penis and sometimes testicles.

فُوتَانَارِي

genre of pornography featuring intersex characters

(countable, Japanese pornography) An intersex or hermaphroditic character, usually female and with a penis, in such works.


futanari

From Japanese ふたなり (futanari, “hermaphrodite”).

(Japanese pornography) futanari (pornography genre featuing intersex characters)


futanari

(Japanese pornography) futanari (intersex character in such works)


cosplay

en-verb

cosplay (third-person singular simple present cosplays, present participle cosplaying, simple past and past participle cosplayed)

cosplays (present singular third-person)
cosplaying (participle present)
cosplayed (participle past)
cosplayed (past)

→ Norwegian: cosplay

→ Portuguese: cosplay

→ Russian: коспле́й (kospléj)

→ Spanish: cosplay

→ Thai: คอสเพลย์ (kɔ́ɔs-plee)

→ Ukrainian: коспле́й (kospléj)

Borrowed from Japanese コスプレ (kosupure), which is a clipping of コスチュームプレイ (kosuchūmu purei), from a compound of English costume + play.

Why has the Russian Federation decided to cosplay the Nazi Third Reich by attacking the peaceful neighboring state and plunging the region into war?

2022 March 17, Aila Slisco, “Ukrainian UN Ambassador Accuses Russians of Engaging in 'Nazi Cosplay'”, in Newsweek, retrieved 2022-03-18:

On weekends, there was usually a party. Her classmates, free from their wealthy families, cosplayed as struggling intellectuals.

2022, Ling Ma, “Office Hours”, in Bliss Montage, New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN:

[…] turning conservative white men into amateur commandos cosplaying war wherever they liked and the US into a war zone.

2022 May 30, Rebecca Solnit, “US mass shootings will continue until the majority can overrule the minority”, in The Guardian:

Whilst their stability was generally an improvement on earlier German destroyers, as the vessels no longer displayed a strong desire to cosplay as U-boats, the main armament proved to be something of a problem.

2022 August 27, Drachinifel, 2:44 from the start, in Type 1936A / Narvik class - Guide 298, archived from the original on 2022-08-29:

(figurative, often derogatory, transitive) To adopt the behavior and mannerisms of another.


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From Japanese コスプレイヤー (kosupureiyā). Equivalent to cos- + player or cosplay + -er.

The environments and spaces created for and by cosplay provide cosplayers with a variety of spaces for social interactions.

2006, Frenchy Lunning, Mechademia 1: Emerging Worlds of Anime And Manga, page 75:


cosplayer

es-noun

cosplayer m or f by sense (plural cosplayers)

Unadapted borrowing from English cosplayer.


yuri

Borrowed from Japanese 百合(ゆり) (yuri, “lily”), by analogy to 薔薇(バラ) (bara, “rose”), indicating love. See Yuri (genre) § “Terminology and etymology” at Wikipedia.

(slang) A narrative or visual work featuring a romance or sexual relationship between two or more women.

Yuri (genre)
Yuri (genre)#Terminology and etymology

ガールズラブ (gāruzu rabu, literally “girls' love”)

가르즈라부 (gareujeurabu, literally “girls' love”)


ポケモン

desc

→ Arabic: بوكيمون

→ Arabic: بوكيمون

→ Belarusian: Покемон (Pokjemon)

→ English: Pokémon

→ Greek: Πόκεμον (Pókemon)

→ Hebrew: פוקימון

→ Hebrew: פוקימון

→ Hindi: पोकेमोन (pokemon)

→ Korean: 포켓몬 (pokenmon)

→ Mandarin: 寶可夢 /宝可梦 (Bǎokèmèng)

→ Cantonese: 寶可夢 /宝可梦 (bou² ho² mung⁶)

→ Russian: Покемон (Pokemon)

→ Tamil: போகெமொன் (pōkemoṉ)

→ Thai: โปเกมอน

→ Thai: โปเกมอน

→ Telugu: పోకెమొన్ (pōkemon)

→ Urdu: پوکیمون (pokemon)

→ Ukrainian: Покемон (Pokemon)

ポケットモンスター ポケットモンスター#Japanese

Clipping of ポケットモンスター (Poketto Monsutā, “Pocket Monster”); a Pokémon


SV

S.V. (alternative)
S. V. (alternative)
S.V. (alternative)
S. V. (alternative)
S/V (alternative)
Sv (alternative)
Sv. (alternative)
SV. (alternative)

Pokémon Scarlet and Violet
w:Pokémon Scarlet and Violet

(fandom slang) Initialism of Pokémon Scarlet and Violet.


アニメーション

[a̠ɲ̟ime̞ːɕõ̞ɴ]

From English animation, from Latin animātiō, from animāre.


аниме

bg-noun

аниме́ • (animé) n

аниме́ (canonical)
animé (romanization)
аниме́ (indefinite singular)
аниме́та (indefinite plural)
аниме́то (definite singular)
аниме́тата (definite plural)

аниме́-филм ― animé-film ― anime film

аниме́-сериа́л


аниме

анимеа (plural)
аниме (anime) (indefinite singular)
анимеа (indefinite plural)
анимето (definite singular unspecified)
анимеата (definite plural unspecified)
анимево (definite proximal singular)
анимеава (definite plural proximal)
анимено (definite distal singular)
анимеана (definite distal plural)
аниме (anime) (singular vocative)
анимеа (plural vocative)

аниме-филм ― anime-film ― anime film

аниме-серија


аниме

ru-noun

аниме́ • (animɛ́) n inan (indeclinable, relational adjective аниме́шный)

аниме́ (canonical)
animɛ́ (romanization)
аниме́шный (adjective relational)
анимэ́ (alternative)

аниме-фильм ― anime-filʹm ― anime film

аниме-сериа́л


魔法

Apparently from Middle Chinese compound 魔法 (MC ma pjop, literally “devil, magic + law, method”). Compare modern Min Nan reading mô͘-hoat.

魔法少女

魔法少女 まほうしょうじょ

The arts of magic, spellcraft, witchcraft, wizardry, sorcery.


otaku

[əʊ̯ˈtʰɑːkʰuː]

[o̞ʊ̯ˈtʰɑkʰu]

From Japanese オタク (otaku, “anime obsessive, geek”) originally used in reference to the 1982 Macross fandom, from the honorific form お宅 (otaku, “you”), from the honorific form 宅 (taku, “home”).

bor

(fandom slang) One with an obsessive interest in something, particularly (originally derogatory) obsessive Japanese fans of anime or manga.

أُوتَاكُو

one with an obsessive interest in something such as anime or manga

死宅

one obsessed with Japanese things/weeaboo


otaku

First recorded in 1992: from Japanese オタク (otaku, “nerd, geek”), from お宅 (otaku, honorific for “you”), originally the honorific version of 宅 (taku, “home”).

(fandom slang) otaku (one with an obsessive interest in something such as anime or manga)


otaku

(fandom slang) otaku (person with an obsessive interest in something, particularly obsessive Japanese fans of anime or manga)


أنمي

ar-noun

أَنِمِي • (ʔanimī) m

أَنِمِي (canonical)
ʔanimī (romanization)
أَنِمِي (indefinite informal invariable singular)
الْأَنِمِي (definite informal invariable singular)
أَنِمِي (construct informal invariable singular)
أَنِمِي (indefinite invariable nominative singular)
الْأَنِمِي (definite invariable nominative singular)
أَنِمِي (construct invariable nominative singular)
أَنِمِي (accusative indefinite invariable singular)
الْأَنِمِي (accusative definite invariable singular)
أَنِمِي (accusative construct invariable singular)
أَنِمِي (genitive indefinite invariable singular)
الْأَنِمِي (definite genitive invariable singular)
أَنِمِي (construct genitive invariable singular)

anime (Animated works that originated in Japan)


東方

ja-r

東方(とうほう) (tōhō)

CJKV/code

Sino-Xenic (東方):
* → Japanese: 東方(とうほう) (tōhō)
* → Korean: 동방(東方) (dongbang)
* → Vietnamese: đông phương (東方)

/tʊŋ⁵⁵ fɑŋ⁵⁵/

/tʊŋ⁵⁵ fɑ̃ɻ⁵⁵/

/toŋ⁵⁵ faŋ⁵⁵/

/tuŋ²⁴ fɑŋ²⁴/

/tuŋ²⁴ fɑŋ⁵¹/

/tʊŋ⁵⁵ fɔːŋ⁵⁵/

/tuŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ foŋ²⁴/

/tʊŋ⁴⁴ fɔŋ⁴⁴/

/tɔŋ³³ hɔŋ³³/

/tɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² hɔŋ⁴⁴/

/tɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ hɔŋ⁴⁴/

/taŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ hɔŋ⁴⁴/

/taŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ hŋ̍⁴⁴/

/taŋ⁴⁴⁻²² hŋ̍⁴⁴/

/taŋ³³ hŋ̍³³/

/taŋ³³⁻²³ huaŋ³³/

/tʊŋ⁵⁵ fɑŋ⁵⁵/

/tʊŋ⁵⁵ fɑ̃ɻ⁵⁵/

/toŋ⁵⁵ faŋ⁵⁵/

/tuŋ²⁴ fɑŋ²⁴/

/tuŋ²⁴ fɑŋ⁵¹/

/tʊŋ⁵⁵ fɔːŋ⁵⁵/

/tuŋ²⁴⁻¹¹ foŋ²⁴/

/tʊŋ⁴⁴ fɔŋ⁴⁴/

/tɔŋ³³ hɔŋ³³/

/tɔŋ⁴⁴⁻²² hɔŋ⁴⁴/

/tɔŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ hɔŋ⁴⁴/

/taŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ hɔŋ⁴⁴/

/taŋ⁴⁴⁻³³ hŋ̍⁴⁴/

/taŋ⁴⁴⁻²² hŋ̍⁴⁴/

/taŋ³³ hŋ̍³³/

/taŋ³³⁻²³ huaŋ³³/

崛起東方

崛起东方

她教授東方美術史。

她教授东方美术史。


東方

ja-pos

東(とう)方(ほう) • (Tōhō)

Short for 東方Project (Tōhō Purojekuto, “Touhou Project, a popular bullet hell video game series”).


東方

ja-noun

東(ひがし)方(かた) or 東(ひがし)方(がた) • (higashikata or higashigata)

東方 (canonical)
東方 (canonical)
higashikata (romanization)
higashigata (romanization)

the fighters on the east side in a match


catgirl

catgirls (plural)
cat girl (alternative)
cat-girl (alternative)

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But publishers cannot survive on cute catgirls alone.

2009, Jason S. Yadao, The Rough Guide to Manga, page 222:

Back in 1997, the Japanese magazines made a big deal out of the fact that the catgirl detective anime Hyper Police was on at one in the morning[…]

2010, Jonathan Clements, Schoolgirl Milky Crisis: Adventures in the Anime and Manga Trade:

"Why do we need to leave the mall first?" "Even if I can undo this myself, I don't know how to do it or how it works! I might become more cat-like first, or turn you into a cat, or unleash a shockwave of catness that turns everyone in the mall into cat girls!"

2016 October 7, Dan Shive, El Goonish Shive - EGS:NP (webcomic), Comic for Friday, Oct 7, 2016:

(Japanese fiction) A female fictional character who has a cat's ears, tail, or other feline characteristics on an otherwise humanoid body.

貓人 /猫人

female character with feline characteristics


catgirl

/ˌkɛ.t͡ʃiˈɡɐɹw/

/ˌkɛt͡ʃˈɡɐɹw/

/ˌkɛ.t͡ʃiˈɡɐɹw/

/ˌkɛt͡ʃˈɡɐɹw/

/ˌkɛt͡ʃˈɡɐɹw/

/ˌkɛ.t͡ʃiˈɡɐɹw/

Unadapted borrowing from English catgirl.

ubor

catgirl (fictional girl or woman resembling a cat)


shonen

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From the Japanese 少年 (shōnen, “few years”).

shōnen (alternative)
shounen (alternative)

(anime, manga) A style of Japanese animation and comics aimed at a younger male audience.


shonen

en-adj

shonen (comparative more shonen, superlative most shonen)

more shonen (comparative)
most shonen (superlative)
shōnen (alternative)
shounen (alternative)

(anime, manga) Being in the style of shonen comics or animation.


Ева

ru-proper noun+

Е́ва • (Jéva) f anim (genitive Е́вы, nominative plural Е́вы, genitive plural Ев)

Е́ва (canonical)
Jéva (romanization)
Е́вы (genitive)
Е́вы (nominative plural)
Ев (genitive plural)
Е́ва (nominative singular)
Е́вы (nominative plural)
Е́вы (genitive singular)
Е́в (genitive plural)
Е́ве (dative singular)
Е́вам (dative plural)
Е́ву (accusative singular)
Е́в (accusative plural)
Е́вой (instrumental singular)
Е́вою (instrumental singular)
Е́вами (instrumental plural)
Е́ве (prepositional singular)
Е́вах (plural prepositional)
Е́ва (dated nominative singular)
Е́вы (dated nominative plural)
Е́вы (dated genitive singular)
Е́въ (dated genitive plural)
Е́вѣ (dated dative singular)
Е́вамъ (dated dative plural)
Е́ву (accusative dated singular)
Е́въ (accusative dated plural)
Е́вой (dated instrumental singular)
Е́вою (dated instrumental singular)
Е́вами (dated instrumental plural)
Е́вѣ (dated prepositional singular)
Е́вахъ (dated plural prepositional)

From Ancient Greek Εὔα (Eúa), from Biblical Hebrew חַוָּה (ḥawwā).
Sense 4 is a clipping of Евангелион (Jevangelion), from Japanese エヴァンゲリオン, then English evangelion, ultimately from Ancient Greek εὐαγγέλιον (euangélion, “good news, gospel”).

bor

Japanese エヴァンゲリオン

der

a female given name from Ancient Greek [in turn from Hebrew], equivalent to English Eva or Eve


Godzilla

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From Japanese ゴジラ (Gojira), blend created for the movie from the words ゴリラ (gorira, “gorilla”) and 鯨 (kujira, “whale”).
The phonetic shift from Goji- to Godzi- was probably to imply relation to the word God.

What other television show would feature a gorgeously designed sequence where a horrifically mutated Pierre and Marie Curie, their bodies swollen to Godzilla-like proportions from prolonged exposure to the radiation that would eventually kill them, destroy an Asian city with their bare hands like vengeance-crazed monster-Gods?

2012 May 20, Nathan Rabin, “TV: Review: THE SIMPSONS (CLASSIC): “Marge Gets A Job” (season 4, episode 7; originally aired 11/05/1992)”, in The Onion AV Club:

A fictional Japanese monster (kaiju) from a series of science-fiction films.


Godzilla

Godzilla (nominative singular)
Godzilli (genitive singular)
Godzilli (dative singular)
Godzillę (accusative singular)
Godzillą (instrumental singular)
Godzilli (locative singular)
Godzillo (singular vocative)

Orthographic borrowing from English Godzilla.

obor

Godzilla (fictional Japanese monster (kaiju) from a series of science-fiction films)


mecha

From Japanese メカ (meka), from an abbreviation of the English mechanical.

Having deprived her of both her mecha and her lover, Masato looks set for a nasty end, but Miku arrives to save him.

1997, Helen McCarthy, The anime movie guide:

A transformation occurs when a mecha character, vehicle, or weapon unfolds and reassembles itself in a totally new form.

2002, Christopher Hart, Anime mania: how to draw characters for Japanese animation:

Porco Rosso evinces a deep fascination with mechanical objects of all sorts but it is by no means a mecha movie...

2006, Dani Cavallaro, The animé art of Hayao Miyazaki:

Each week the good guys fight the bad guys and vanquish them in a mecha battle, only to have the bad guys reappear intact the following week.

2007, Frenchy Lunning, Mechademia 2: Networks of Desire:

[…] to be a “lifter”—to pilot a mecha that can also transform into an air board […]

2007, Robin E. Brenner, Understanding manga and anime, page 170:

In this section, I show you mechas that are large enough to be piloted by humans from the inside. Although most of them are designed for combat, some function as transportation or construction mechas.

2011, Kensuke Okabayashi, Manga For Dummies, page 275:

(anime, manga) A large armoured robot on legs, typically controlled by a pilot seated inside.


haa

(pornographic manga) The sound of heavy breathing when sexually aroused.


PLA

(historical, trading) NYSE stock-ticker symbol for Playboy Enterprises, Inc., now PLBY.

Pokémon Legends: Arceus
w:Pokémon Legends: Arceus

(fandom slang, video games) Initialism of Pokémon Legends: Arceus.


galge

Borrowed from Japanese ギャルゲー (gyarugē), a shortening of ギャルゲーム (gyaru gēmu), a wasei-eigo derived from English gal + game.

(video games) A video game centered around interactions with attractive anime-style girls.


senpai

senpais (plural)
senpai (plural)
sempai (alternative)

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Borrowed from Japanese 先(せん)輩(ぱい) (senpai). Doublet of sunbae.

(anime and manga, fandom slang) An upperclassman or elder student, in the context of Japan.


fandub

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The fandub Evangelion: ReDeath is shown every year at Fanime.

(US, anime) An anime title that has been dubbed by fans.


OAV

Initialism of original animation video, a direct-to-video Japanese anime.


OVA

(anime) Initialism of Original Video Animation, a direct-to-video anime.


mangá

pt-noun

mangá (Brazil, Portugal) m or (Portugal) f (plural mangás)

(chiefly Brazil, comics) manga (comic originating in Japan)


漫畫

English: manhua (“Chinese comics”)

French: manhua (“Chinese comics”)

desc

Russian: маньхуа́ (manʹxuá, “Chinese comics”)

/män⁵¹⁻⁵³ xu̯ä⁵¹/

/maːn²² waː²²⁻³⁵/

/ban²²⁻²¹ ua²²/

/ban²²⁻²¹ ui²²/

/ban⁴¹⁻²² ue⁴¹/

/ban³³⁻¹¹ ue³³/

/ban³³⁻²¹ ue³³/

/baŋ²¹⁻⁴¹ ɡa²¹/

/baŋ¹¹⁻⁵³ ɡa¹¹/

/män⁵¹⁻⁵³ xu̯ä⁵¹/

/maːn²² waː²²⁻³⁵/

/ban²²⁻²¹ ua²²/

/ban²²⁻²¹ ui²²/

/ban⁴¹⁻²² ue⁴¹/

/ban³³⁻¹¹ ue³³/

/ban³³⁻²¹ ue³³/

/baŋ²¹⁻⁴¹ ɡa²¹/

/baŋ¹¹⁻⁵³ ɡa¹¹/

Wasei kango (和製漢語), orthographically borrowed from Japanese 漫(まん)画(が) (manga).

wasei kango

comics; caricature; cartoon; manga; manhwa; manhua


CCS

(animanga, Japanimation) Initialism of Cardcaptor Sakura. (manga and anime series)


源氏

From 源 (gen, on-reading of minamoto, literally “fountainhead, source”) + 氏 (-shi, “family”).

suffix

(painting) Short for 源氏絵 (Genji-e, “paintings based on the events of the Tale of Genji; paintings depicting the Heian era in general”).

源氏絵

Short for 源氏織り (Genji-ori, “a type of fabric woven with intermittently gold wrapped thread, woven in Kyoto in the Edo period”).


源氏

Short for 源氏物語 (Genji Monogatari): The Tale of Genji, a novel by Murasaki Shikibu

源氏物語

Short for 光源氏 (Hikaru Genji): the titular protagonist of the novel


sankyu

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From Japanese サンキュー (sankyū), from English thank you.


yandere

/ˈjɑːndɛɹeɪ/

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Borrowed from Japanese ヤンデレ (yandere), a portmanteau of 病んでる (yanderu), contraction of 病んでいる (yande iru), progressive tense of 病む (yamu, “to be sick”), and デレデレ (dere-dere, “in a lovey-dovey, infatuated, or lovestruck manner”, adverb).
Developed on the model of tsundere (“being cold and even hostile towards another person before gradually showing a warm and caring side over time”).

And it finally answered the question as to whether Senjougahara is tsundere or yandere.

2009 October 4, sanjian [username], “Re: Bakemonogatari - comments on the end of the TV broadcast”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):

Looking at anime charts, there's always the harem series with the dense hero and a bunch of girls whose personalities are pulled out of a set cast of tropes (the Childhood Friend, Tsundere, Yandere, and Lolita, for instance).

2012, Jazmine Brusola, Rabble Rousers: A Fate/Zero Anime Review, Flyleaf (Ateneo Literary Association), page 14:

“Believe it, man. In fact, she's seriously creepy. Like creepier than that pink-haired girl from Future Diary.”
 “Wait, what?” Sam got that reference quickly, but was not happy with the comparison. She wasn't a psychopathic, murderous Yandere stalker, from what he could see.

2014, Olivia D. Knight, Please, Let Me Be a Seiyuu!, BookRix, →ISBN, unnumbered page:

(chiefly Japanese fiction) A character, usually a girl, who has an obsessive and possessive side in regards to their crush, ready to use violent (if not murderous) means to maintain an exclusive bond.

يَانْدِرِي

character who fits the archetype of being genuinely kind, loving, or gentle, but suddenly switching to being aggressive or deranged


loli

From Japanese ロリ or a clipping of lolicon.

(fandom slang, chiefly anime and manga) A childlike female character, particularly in the lolicon genre.


head

★ (English symbol name star or five-pointed star)

star (English name symbol)
five-pointed star (English name symbol)

Likely from Egyptian 𓇼 (“determinative for stars and constellations”) (image: dwA). However, around the same time in Mesopotamia, non-cuneiform depictions of a star with eight- or six-points are attested; compare Sumerian 𒀭, a cuneiform character descended from such drawings.

der

(animation, especially anime, comics) Appears in the eyes of a character to indicate that they are star-struck, excited or incredibly happy.


ecchi

en-noun

ecchi (countable and uncountable, plural ecchi)

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From Japanese エッチ (etchi, “dirty; perverted”), which is derived from English aitch (“name of the letter ⟨H⟩”), which is an initialism of the romaji of Japanese 変態(へんたい) (hentai, “pervert”).
エッチ (etchi) is not a genre in Japanese; this is a development in English.

der

The manga fan was disturbingly proud of his extensive ecchi collection.

(uncountable) A genre, especially of anime and manga, featuring playful, tongue-in-cheek usage of sexualized scenes and situations such as double entendre or flirtation, while remaining non-pornographic. Often used to differentiate from hentai which features overt sexual themes.

There was a moment of ecchi for comic relief in the otherwise serious story.

(rare, countable, chiefly proscribed by fandom slang) A situation within a story, especially anime and manga, which ventures into the ecchi genre.


HMV

(aviation) Initialism of heavy maintenance visit.

Coordinate term: PMV

(pornography) Abbreviation of hentai music video. A fan-made hentai anime clipshow set to music


Pokéfan

This is fantastic... I've never met so many Pokéfans, and I've never seen so many Pikachu rucksacks around.

2000 November 12, Cliff Barnes, “My Whitby Diary”, in uk.people.gothic (Usenet):

When die-hard Pokéfans outside Japan discovered that portions of the original narrative were being withheld, they flocked to online chatrooms dedicated to the series, where they complained bitterly about censorship and debated various forms of protest.

2004, Hirofumi Katsuno, Jeffrey Meret, “Localizing the Pokémon TV Series for the American Market”, in Joseph Tobin, editor, Pikachu's Global Adventure: The Rise and Fall of Pokémon, Duke University Press, →ISBN, page 81:

Few of even the most hard-core Pokéfans will ever have tried this, so just pulling together a copy of Pokémon XD for GameCube and two GameCube-Game Boy cables can deliver a play experience that they've never had before.

2007, Eli Neiburger, Gamers…in the Library?!: The Why, What, and How of Videogame Tournaments for All Ages, American Library Association, published 2007, →ISBN, page 71:


kohai

kohais (plural)
kohai (plural)
kōhai (alternative)
kouhai (alternative)

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Borrowed from Japanese 後(こう)輩(はい) (kōhai, literally “later cohort”). Doublet of hoobae.

ja-r

(anime and manga, fandom slang) An underclassman or younger student.


霊気

ja-noun

霊(れい)気(き) or 霊(れい)気(ぎ) or 霊(りょう)気(げ) • (reiki or reigi or ryōge) ^(←りやうげ (ryauge)?)

霊気 (canonical)
霊気 (canonical)
霊気 (canonical)
reiki (romanization)
reigi (romanization)
ryōge (romanization)
ryauge (romanization)
りやうげ (hiragana historical)

(anime, manga) qi or life-force, spiritual power or energy


animanga

en-noun

animanga (countable and uncountable, plural animanga or animangas)

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(countable) A manga created from cels from an anime.


怪盗

ja-noun

怪(かい)盗(とう) • (kaitō) ^(←くわいたう (kwaitau)?)

怪盗 (canonical)
kaitō (romanization)
kwaitau (romanization)
くわいたう (hiragana historical)

Uncertain. May be from Middle Chinese 怪盜 (kˠuɛiᴴ dɑuᴴ, literally “peculiar thief”), or alternatively may be a coinage in Japan of Middle Chinese-derived elements as a compound of 怪 (kai, “phantom”) + 盗 (tō, “stealing, thievery; thief”).

compound

1999 March 27, “魅(み)惑(わく)の怪(かい)盗(とう) [The Bewitching Phantom Thief]”, in Vol.2, Konami:

A smug phantom thief in a black cape. He mesmerizes his opponents with a mere cane swing.

黒いマントをはおるキザな怪盗。杖を振って、相手を魅了する。

Kuroi manto o haoru kiza na kaitō. Tsue o futte, aite o miryō suru.

2007 March 15, Gosho Aoyama, “ゴールデン・アイの巻(まき)【前(ぜん)編(ぺん)】 [Golden Eye (First Chapter)]”, in まじっく快(かい)斗(と) [Magic Kaito], volume 4 (fiction), Tokyo: Shogakukan, →ISBN:

News of the showdown in Japan… between the French phantom thief Chat Noir and you is spreading all over Paris…

パリじゃ評判になってるよ…フランスの怪盗黒猫が日本で君と対決するとね…

Pari ja hyōban ni natteru yo… Furansu no kaitō Sha Nowāru ga Nippon de kimi to taiketsu suru to ne…

a mysterious "phantom thief" in Japanese fiction, who excels at theatrics and evading capture and who steals for thrill rather than for personal gain


獣耳

獣耳 (canonical)
獣耳 (canonical)
kemonomimi (romanization)

Compound of 獣 (kemono, “animal, beast”) + 耳 (mimi, “ear”).

com

(neologism) kemonomimi; animal ears, as worn or possessed by a human or humanoid


kemonomimi

en-noun

kemonomimi (plural kemonomimi or kemonomimis)

kemonomimi (plural)
kemonomimis (plural)

From Japanese 獣(けもの)耳(みみ) (kemonomimi), from 獣(けもの) (kemono, “animal”) + 耳(みみ) (mimi, “ear”).

(Japanese fiction) A humanoid fictional character who possesses animal ears and/or tails.


меха

ru-noun+

ме́ха • (méxa) f inan (genitive ме́хи, nominative plural ме́хи, genitive plural мех)

ме́ха (canonical)
méxa (romanization)
ме́хи (genitive)
ме́хи (nominative plural)
мех (genitive plural)
ме́ха (nominative singular)
ме́хи (nominative plural)
ме́хи (genitive singular)
ме́х (genitive plural)
ме́хе (dative singular)
ме́хам (dative plural)
ме́ху (accusative singular)
ме́хи (accusative plural)
ме́хой (instrumental singular)
ме́хою (instrumental singular)
ме́хами (instrumental plural)
ме́хе (prepositional singular)
ме́хах (plural prepositional)


GL

[d͡ʑiːe̞ɾɯ̟]

ガールズラブ ガールズラブ#Japanese

Initialism of ガールズラブ (gāruzu rabu, “girls' love”).

NL

heterosexual love; normal love; nonke love


omake

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Borrowed from Japanese お負け (omake, “extra, bonus”).

In this omake, the characters are breaking the fourth wall to talk to the audience.

(anime) A special video feature that accompanies an anime, such as a collection of deleted scenes or outtakes.

(manga) Additional material to the main series added to the tankobon edition of a manga.


OEL

My Dead Girlfriend is one of the best OEL manga ever.

(attributive, of manga, anime, visual novels) Initialism of original English-language: Manga-, anime-style media originally published in English; (loosely, by extension) Any non-Japanese media which features a manga or anime style.


superdeformed

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(anime, manga) Alternative form of super deformed (“drawn in an exaggerated way, typically small and chubby, with stubby limbs and oversized heads”).


weeaboo

Bulgarian: уийб (uijb)

Indonesian: wibu

Polish: łibus

A nonce word in "Weeaboo", a 2005 Perry Bible Fellowship comic by Nicholas Gurewitch, used later that year as a wordfilter replacement for the abusive term wapanese on the message board 4chan, from which its current sense derived and spread. Now sometimes reclaimed as a self-description by anime and manga fans.

(fandom slang, sometimes positive) A person who is obsessively interested in anime, manga or Japanese culture more generally.


BL

From Japanese BL(ビーエル) (bīeru), from ボーイズラブ (bōizu rabu), from English boys + love.

Initialism of boys' love (“yaoi media”).


BL

ボーイズラブ ボーイズラブ#Japanese

Initialism of ボーイズラブ (bōizu rabu, “boys' love”).


BL

보이즈 러브
보이즈 러브#Korean

Initialism of 보이즈 러브 (boijeu reobeu, “boys' love”).


magical girl

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Calque of Japanese 魔法少女 (まほうしょうじょ, mahō shōjo).

calque

まほうしょうじょ, mahō shōjo

The magical girl starts out as a typical schoolgirl. Her transformation—via a glamorous costume, and amplified by special powers—gives her a new identity.

2013, Christopher Hart, Magical Characters, Watson-Guptill Publications, →ISBN, page 17:

Contrary to conventional magical girl anime, in which protagonists happily accept their superpower, shōjo heroines are reluctant to become Magical Girls in Puella Magi Madoka Magica.

2014, Lien Fan Shen, “The Dark, Twisted Magical Girls: Shōjo Heroines in Puella Magi Madoka Magica”, in Norma Jones, Maja Bajac-Carter, Bob Batchelor, editors, Heroines of Film and Television: Portrayals in Popular Culture, Rowman & Littlefield, →ISBN, page 183:

The magical girl genre was originally aimed at girls: series like Sailor Moon were first serialized in shōjo manga (girls' comics) magazines and contained many traits common to that genre.

2015, Deborah Shamoon, “The Superflat Space of Japanese Anime”, in Lilian Chee, Edna Lim, editors, Asian Cinema and the Use of Space: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Routledge, →ISBN, page 98:

In Japanese anime and manga, a young girl with superhuman abilities who is called upon to fight evil.

девочка-волшебница f (devochka-volshebnitsa, literally “a girl wizard”)

девушка-волшебница f (devushka-volshebnitsa, literally “a young woman wizard”)


калитка

ru-noun+

кали́тка • (kalítka) f inan (genitive кали́тки, nominative plural кали́тки, genitive plural кали́ток)

кали́тка (canonical)
kalítka (romanization)
кали́тки (genitive)
кали́тки (nominative plural)
кали́ток (genitive plural)
кали́тка (nominative singular)
кали́тки (nominative plural)
кали́тки (genitive singular)
кали́ток (genitive plural)
кали́тке (dative singular)
кали́ткам (dative plural)
кали́тку (accusative singular)
кали́тки (accusative plural)
кали́ткой (instrumental singular)
кали́ткою (instrumental singular)
кали́тками (instrumental plural)
кали́тке (prepositional singular)
кали́тках (plural prepositional)

→ Ingrian: kalitka

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Per Vasmer, most likely from *колита (*kolita, “door”) + -ка (-ka) with akanye, where *колита (*kolita) comes from кол (kol, “stake, peg”) and its original meaning was "equipped with pegs".


愛蔵版

ja-noun

愛(あい)蔵(ぞう)版(ばん) • (aizōban) ^(←あいざうばん (aizauban)?)

愛蔵版 (canonical)
aizōban (romanization)
aizauban (romanization)
あいざうばん (hiragana historical)

Compound of 愛蔵 (aizō, “to treasure or cherish something”, literally “to love something and keep it safe”) + 版 (han, “version, edition”). The han changes to ban as an instance of rendaku (連濁).


XY

(fandom slang) Initialism of Pokémon X and Y.


Hentai

de-noun

Hentai m or n or f (strong, genitive Hentai, no plural)

Hentai (genitive)
Hentai (definite nominative singular)
Hentai (definite genitive singular)
Hentai (dative definite singular)
Hentai (accusative definite singular)

From English hentai, a semantic shift from Japanese 変態(へんたい) (hentai, “pervert”).


отаку

ru-noun

ота́ку • (otáku) m anim or f anim (indeclinable)


けっかい

(manga, anime) on a small scale, meaning a projected energy barrier, force field, or shield; and on a larger scale, meaning a pocket universe, spiritual or otherwise


paizuri

en-noun

paizuri (countable and uncountable, plural paizuri or paizuris)

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Borrowed from Japanese パイ擦(ず)り (paizuri), a blend of オッパイ (oppai, “titty”) + 擦(す)り (suri, “rubbing”).


AMV

Coordinate term: PMV

Initialism of anime music video: a fan-made anime clipshow set to music.


fujo

Clipping of fujoshi, from Japanese 腐女子 (ふじょし, fujoshi, literally “rotten girl”).

uder

They consider themselves “Fujo” (Yaoi readers or creators are referred as “Fujoshi” in Japanese) and they have been reading Yaoi for more than five years.

2010, Dienfang Chou, “Exploring the Meaning of Yaoi in Taiwan for Female Readers: From the Perspective of Gender”, in Intercultural Communication Studies, volume 19, number 1, page 82:

people be like “fujos suck and fetishize gay men” and then talk about their favorite BL 😳😳

2019 October 25, mahi alina (@noctupavo), Twitter:

"So, while I'm personally self-aware of the fact that I'm a fujoshi," she continued, "I would still be upset if someone were to say, 'You're into that fujoshi crap?' or call me a 'nasty fujo' to my face. […]

2022, Kota Nozomi, translated by Tristan K. Hill, When Supernatural Battles Became Commonplace, Volume 1, unnumbered page:

(informal, fandom slang, sometimes derogatory) A female fan of yaoi or more broadly of slash fiction.


Basic Pokémon

A Pokémon card (in Pokémon Trading Card Game) that does not evolve from any other Pokémon card, or evolves from a Baby Pokémon card.


Eeveelution

Eeveelutions (plural)
Eevolution (alternative)
eevolution (alternative)

(fandom slang) Any Pokémon that is an evolution of Eevee, either official or made up by fans.


Pokémaniac

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Blend of Pokémon + maniac. Derived from "POKéMANIAC", the name of a class of opponent characters in-game. The characters are nowadays seen donning cosplay pieces resembling the Pokémon creatures (though originally wearing lab coats and portrayed as being somewhat lunatic). "POKéMANIAC" was the term used in the English translation for the aforementioned, originally called 「かいじゅうマニア」 [kaijuumania] ("monster maniac") in Japanese. Equivalent to Poké- + maniac.

A dedicated or obsessive fan of Pokémon.


Pokédollar

From Poké- + dollar, coined by fans to describe an alternative symbol for yen that first appears on the games Pokémon Red and Pokémon Blue, from 1996.

(Pokémon) A unit of currency that is usually described as having characteristics of yen and/or dollar. Its symbol is .


eevolution

For quotations using this term, see Citations:Eevolution.


Rocketshipper

From rocket + shipper (after the characters' team, Team Rocket, and punningly on rocketship).

Those of you who have read my fanfics will know that I am a Rocketshipper.

2000 January 13, Blue-Jackal and her box-o-Skywarp [username], “Jessie and James, an item?”, in alt.fan.team-rocket (Usenet):

All the Rocketshippers love to talk about evidence in favor of Jessie/James being in love and such.

2000 February 7, BBD127 [username], “Rocketshipping... negative evidence?”, in alt.fan.team-rocket (Usenet):

You realize, of course, that this thread would probably get us lynched by the large Rocketshipper population on the net.

2001 January 15, Bodger [username], “Re: Gay couple in Godzilla vs. Megalon”, in rec.arts.tv.mst3k.misc (Usenet):

(fandom slang) A shipper of Jessie and James, characters in the animated version of Pokémon.


Pikachu

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(video games, anime, manga) A small yellow rodent-like Pokémon species that has red cheeks and a tail shaped like a lightning bolt, and has electricity-related powers.


Pikachu

Borrowed from English Pikachu, from Japanese ピカチュウ (Pikachū).

(ACG, video games, anime, manga) Pikachu


animesque

en-adj

animesque (comparative more animesque, superlative most animesque)

more animesque (comparative)
most animesque (superlative)

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Whilst it doesn't include anything specifically anime, there are a variety of animesque elements to the event and I'm sure some of you will find something of interest there...

2002, Happosai, “[Event] Jam:Tokyo-London”, in uk.media.animation.anime (Usenet):

His blush increasing to truly animesque proportions, the younger conjoined mutant/immortal scuffs one toe against the floor...

2003, skyefire, “AAE 8: Catch-up and wrap-up”, in alt.callahans (Usenet):

Resembling or with aspects characteristic of anime.


light novel

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Calque of Japanese ライトノベル (raito noberu, ultimately from English light + novel).

calque

A Japanese novel primarily targeting young adults, typically illustrated (in an anime/manga style) and containing not more than 50,000 words.


tsundere

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Borrowed from Japanese ツンデレ (tsundere), from つんつん (tsun-tsun, “in a cross, aloof, or standoffish manner”, adverb) + でれでれ (dere-dere, “in a lovey-dovey, infatuated, or lovestruck manner”, adverb).

I usually draw very peaceful, happy manga, so it has been a real challenge for me to illustrate the vice president's death glare and Ri-chan's subtle tsundere attitude.

2008, Kio Shimoku, Kujibiki Unbalance 1, Del Rey/Ballantine Books, →ISBN, unnumbered page:

Even Kaname's rude and overbearing tsundere personality is explained by her having gone to school in the United States where she was socialized to just bluntly say what she thought.

2010 August 14, David Johnston, “Full Metal Panic: One Night Stand”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):

Despite his apparent power, the boy behaves with uncharacteristic meekness toward the formidable tsundere Misato Tachibana, whose grotesquely distorted romantic feelings for Koujirou almost invariably result in her shooting him all over the school with heavy weaponry (which seems to spring out of nowhere).

2012, Dani Cavallaro, Kyoto Animation: A Critical Study and Filmography, McFarland & Company, →ISBN, page 157:

(chiefly Japanese fiction) A fictional character who fits the archetype of being cold or even hostile towards another person before gradually showing a warm and caring side.

تْسُونْدِرِي

character who fits the archetype of being cold or hostile before gradually showing a warm and caring side


eroge

Borrowed from Japanese エロゲー (erogē), a portmanteau of エロチックゲーム (erochikku gēmu), from English erotic game.


pikachurin

Named after Pikachu, a Pokémon character, + -in.

(biochemistry) A dystroglycan-interacting polysaccharide which has an essential role in the precise interactions between the photoreceptor ribbon synapse and the bipolar dendrites.


萌え

→ Chinese:

Mandarin: 萌 (méng, “moe”)

→ English: moe, moé

→ Korean: 모에 (mo'e, “moe”)

The 連用形 (ren'yōkei, “stem or continuative form”) of verb 萌える (moeru, “to bud, sprout; be aroused”).
The "feelings of affection towards a fictional character" sense likely first appeared in the early 1990s.

(anime, manga slang) moe: feelings of affection towards a fictional character


meido

From Japanese メイド (meido, “maid, maidservant”), from English maid.

uder

I was really struck by how many of the bishoujo cliches it managed to bring up. We already have the older sister, younger sister, childhood friend, and exotic transfer student. We have a genki girl, a ditzy girl, a hime-sama, and a meido.

2006 October 13, Abraham Evangelista, “Re: Crescent Love - dull new anime”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):

And then there’s Roberta, who seems like a typical meido (maid) character until she pulls out machine guns from her lacy uniform!

2008 October 12, Kitty Sensei, “Playing pirate”, in Malaysia Star:

Although this is a manga about maids, don’t expect to see the submissive and fawning maids of the meido category. The protagonist here is a faithful, skilled and courteous maid from the old English society.

2008, Memedi, "Loyal helper", Malaysia Star, 9 November 2008

(chiefly Japanese fiction) A female fictional character who is employed as a maid, typically wearing a stylized French maid outfit.


NTR

Coordinate term: NTP

nuclear-thermal rocket
nuclear-thermal rocket#English

(astronautics) Initialism of nuclear-thermal rocket.


pseudo anime

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An animated work that has many typical characteristics of Japanese animation but is not from Japan.


鬼法

(Buddhism) the practices of demons or evil spirits


visual novel

Calque of Japanese ビジュアルノベル (bijuaru noberu), from English visual + novel

cal

(video games) An interactive fiction video game of a style originated in Japan, consisting primarily of narration illustrated by anime-style images.


魔法少女

ㄇㄛˊ ㄈㄚˇ ㄕㄠˋ ㄋㄩˇ

/mu̯ɔ³⁵ fä²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʂɑʊ̯⁵¹ ny²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/mɔː⁵⁵ faːt̚³ siːu̯³³ nɵy̯¹³/

/mɔ̃²⁴⁻²² huat̚³²⁻⁴ siau²¹⁻⁵³ lu⁵³/

/mɔ̃²⁴⁻²² huat̚⁵⁻²⁴ siau⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ lu⁵⁵⁴/

/mɔ̃¹³⁻²² huat̚³²⁻⁵ siau²¹⁻⁵³ lu⁵³/

/mɔ̃²⁴⁻¹¹ huat̚³²⁻⁴ siau¹¹⁻⁵³ lu⁵³/

/mɔ̃²³⁻³³ huat̚³²⁻⁴ siau²¹⁻⁴¹ lu⁴¹/

/mu̯ɔ³⁵ fä²¹⁴⁻²¹ ʂɑʊ̯⁵¹ ny²¹⁴⁻²¹⁽⁴⁾/

/mɔː⁵⁵ faːt̚³ siːu̯³³ nɵy̯¹³/

/mɔ̃²⁴⁻²² huat̚³²⁻⁴ siau²¹⁻⁵³ lu⁵³/

/mɔ̃²⁴⁻²² huat̚⁵⁻²⁴ siau⁴¹⁻⁵⁵⁴ lu⁵⁵⁴/

/mɔ̃¹³⁻²² huat̚³²⁻⁵ siau²¹⁻⁵³ lu⁵³/

/mɔ̃²⁴⁻¹¹ huat̚³²⁻⁴ siau¹¹⁻⁵³ lu⁵³/

/mɔ̃²³⁻³³ huat̚³²⁻⁴ siau²¹⁻⁴¹ lu⁴¹/

Wasei kango (和製漢語), orthographically borrowed from Japanese 魔(ま)法(ほう)少(しょう)女(じょ) (mahō shōjo, “magical girl”). Doublet of 馬猴燒酒／马猴烧酒 (mǎhóu shāojiǔ).

ja-r

ま%ほう %しょう%じょ

wasei kango

ま%ほう %しょう%じょ

zh-l

馬猴燒酒／马猴烧酒 (mǎhóu shāojiǔ)

《魔法少女小圓》

《魔法少女小圆》

(manga, anime) magical girl (a girl or young woman with magical abilities and engaged in magical adventures)


魔法少女

ja-noun

魔(ま)法(ほう)少(しょう)女(じょ) • (mahō shōjo) ^(←まはふせうぢよ (mafafuseudyo)?)

魔法少女 (canonical)
mahō shōjo (romanization)
mafafuseudyo (romanization)
まはふせうぢよ (hiragana historical)

→ Chinese:

zh-l

馬猴燒酒／马猴烧酒 (mǎhóu shāojiǔ)

Mandarin: 馬猴燒酒／马猴烧酒 (mǎhóu shāojiǔ)

魔法少女 (mófǎ shàonǚ)

Mandarin: 魔法少女 (mófǎ shàonǚ)

→ Korean: 마법소녀(魔法少女) (mabeopsonyeo)

→ English: magical girl (calque)

From 魔法(まほう) (mahō) + 少女(しょうじょ) (shōjo).


animeverse

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tokusatsu

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A Japanese genre of film and television drama featuring superheroes and special effects.


変身

Nihon Kokugo Daijiten
Shapeshifting
ja:変身

Probably from Middle Chinese as compound 變身 (MC pjenH syin, “change” + “body; self”). Compare modern Mandarin 變身／变身 (biànshēn).
First attested in Japanese in 1060.

ltc-l

shapeshifting, a transformation of one's body, particularly of a human into some other creature or form


変身

変身する (canonical)
henshin suru (romanization)
変身し (stem)
変身した (past)
変身し
へんしんし
henshin shi
変身する
へんしんする
henshin suru
変身すれ
へんしんすれ
henshin sure
変身せよ (imperative literary)
変身しろ (colloquial imperative)
へんしんせよ (imperative literary)
へんしんしろ (colloquial imperative)
henshin seyo (imperative literary)
henshin shiro (colloquial imperative)
変身される (passive)
へんしんされる (passive)
henshin sareru (passive)
変身させる (causative)
変身さす (causative)
へんしんさせる (causative)
へんしんさす (causative)
henshin saseru (causative)
henshin sasu (causative)
変身できる (potential)
へんしんできる (potential)
henshin dekiru (potential)
変身しよう (volitional)
へんしんしよう (volitional)
henshin shiyō (volitional)
変身しない (negative)
へんしんしない (negative)
henshin shinai (negative)
変身せず (continuative negative)
へんしんせず (continuative negative)
henshin sezu (continuative negative)
変身します (formal)
へんしんします (formal)
henshin shimasu (formal)
変身した (perfective)
へんしんした (perfective)
henshin shita (perfective)
変身して (conjunctive)
へんしんして (conjunctive)
henshin shite (conjunctive)
変身すれば (conditional hypothetical)
へんしんすれば (conditional hypothetical)
henshin sureba (conditional hypothetical)

to shapeshift, to transform physically into some other creature or form


Pokémon

en-noun

Pokémon (plural Pokémon or (nonstandard) Pokémons)

Pokémon (plural)
Pokémons (nonstandard plural)
Pokemon (alternative)

From Japanese ポケモン (Pokemon), a contraction of ポケットモンスター (Poketto Monsutā), itself from English pocket monster.

contraction

Pokémons are the latest and adamantly conformist craze among middle-childhood boys. The theme of the video games that started the craze is, as usual, the triumph of good over evil. The hero is a child, twelve-year-old Ash. His goal is to capture all 150-plus nonhuman creatures called Pokémons, train them to be good, and use them to capture the remaining wicked Pokémons that so far have escaped. In the games, Ash is not your ally: he is you. Each of the Pokémons has its own sort of power which, after conversion, accrues to Ash’s (your) favor.

2001, Sara Stein, “Games They Play”, in Noah’s Children: Restoring the Ecology of Childhood, New York, N.Y.: North Point Press, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, page 248:

Game strategy (and tactics) are full of such learning about real life, like the rules, the strategy in games needs to be lifelike for the games to make sense, even if the characters, such as Pokémons, are purely imaginary.

2005, Marc Prensky, “Computer Games and Learning: Digital Game-Based Learning”, in Joost Raessens, Jeffrey Goldstein, editors, Handbook of Computer Game Studies, Cambridge, Mass.: The MIT Press, →ISBN, part II (Design), page 106, column 2:

He had been delighted when his mother said, Just leave everything as it is. Not even his bed was made. He could see that little kid’s mess, his clothes, his Pokémons, his old Winnie Dubdoub, his Spiderman poster; and the truck, alone in the empty house for days now, nearly two weeks.

2005, Eva Sallis, The Marsh Birds, Crows Nest, N.S.W.: Allen & Unwin, →ISBN, page 15:

Professor Oak, the world's leading Pokémon expert, is at once a genius and a bumbling, absent-minded professor

2009, Mark I. West, The Japanification of children's popular culture: from godzilla to miyazaki, page 59:

A pocket monster; a fictional creature from the universe of the Pokémon franchise.


半妖

(anime, manga) half-human, half-demon(?) characters; often due to one parent being human and the other being demon


仙法

仙術: a specific technique of mystical sagehood

(fantasy, manga) magic, spellcraft, witchcraft, wizardry, sorcery


პიკაჩუ

ka-noun

პიკაჩუ • (ṗiḳaču) (plural პიკაჩუები)

ṗiḳaču (romanization)
პიკაჩუები (plural)
პიკაჩუ (nominative singular)
პიკაჩუები (nominative plural)
პიკაჩუნი (archaic nominative plural)
პიკაჩუმ (ergative singular)
პიკაჩუებმა (ergative plural)
პიკაჩუთ (archaic ergative plural)
პიკაჩუთ (archaic ergative plural)
პიკაჩუთაt) (archaic ergative plural)
პიკაჩუთაta) (archaic ergative plural)
პიკაჩუს (dative singular)
პიკაჩუს (dative singular)
პიკაჩუსაs) (dative singular)
პიკაჩუსაsa) (dative singular)
პიკაჩუებს (dative plural)
პიკაჩუებს (dative plural)
პიკაჩუებსაs) (dative plural)
პიკაჩუებსაsa) (dative plural)
პიკაჩუთ (archaic dative plural)
პიკაჩუთ (archaic dative plural)
პიკაჩუთაt) (archaic dative plural)
პიკაჩუთაta) (archaic dative plural)
პიკაჩუს (genitive singular)
პიკაჩუს (genitive singular)
პიკაჩუსაs) (genitive singular)
პიკაჩუსაsa) (genitive singular)
პიკაჩუების (genitive plural)
პიკაჩუების (genitive plural)
პიკაჩუებისაs) (genitive plural)
პიკაჩუებისაsa) (genitive plural)
პიკაჩუთ (archaic genitive plural)
პიკაჩუთ (archaic genitive plural)
პიკაჩუთაt) (archaic genitive plural)
პიკაჩუთაta) (archaic genitive plural)
პიკაჩუთ (instrumental singular)
პიკაჩუთ (instrumental singular)
პიკაჩუთაt) (instrumental singular)
პიკაჩუთაta) (instrumental singular)
პიკაჩუებით (instrumental plural)
პიკაჩუებით (instrumental plural)
პიკაჩუებითაt) (instrumental plural)
პიკაჩუებითაta) (instrumental plural)
პიკაჩუდ (adverbial singular)
პიკაჩუდ (adverbial singular)
პიკაჩუდაd) (adverbial singular)
პიკაჩუდაda) (adverbial singular)
პიკაჩუებად (adverbial plural)
პიკაჩუებად (adverbial plural)
პიკაჩუებადაd) (adverbial plural)
პიკაჩუებადაda) (adverbial plural)
პიკაჩუვ (singular vocative)
პიკაჩუებო (plural vocative)
პიკაჩუნო (archaic plural vocative)
-ზე
პიკაჩუზე (singular)
პიკაჩუებზე (plural)
-თან
პიკაჩუსთან (singular)
პიკაჩუებთან (plural)
-ში
პიკაჩუში (singular)
პიკაჩუებში (plural)
-ვით
პიკაჩუსავით (singular)
პიკაჩუებივით (plural)
-თვის
პიკაჩუსთვის (singular)
პიკაჩუებისთვის (plural)
-ებრ
პიკაჩუსებრ (singular)
პიკაჩუებისებრ (plural)
-კენ
პიკაჩუსკენ (singular)
პიკაჩუებისკენ (plural)
-გან
პიკაჩუსგან (singular)
პიკაჩუებისგან (plural)
-ადმი
პიკაჩუსადმი (singular)
პიკაჩუებისადმი (plural)
-დან
პიკაჩუდან (singular)
პიკაჩუებიდან (plural)
-ურთ
პიკაჩუთურთ (singular)
პიკაჩუებითურთ (plural)
-მდე
პიკაჩუმდე (singular)
პიკაჩუებამდე (plural)


村雨

(Japanese fiction) a character in Kan'ami's Noh play Matsukaze


яой

ru-noun+

яо́й • (jaój) m inan (genitive яо́я, uncountable, relational adjective яо́йный)

яо́й (canonical)
jaój (romanization)
яо́я (genitive)
яо́йный (adjective relational)
яо́й (nominative singular)
яо́я (genitive singular)
яо́ю (dative singular)
яо́й (accusative singular)
яо́ем (instrumental singular)
яо́е (prepositional singular)


яой

uk-noun

яо́й • (jaój) m inan (genitive яо́ю, uncountable)

яо́й (canonical)
jaój (romanization)
яо́ю (genitive)
яо́й (nominative singular)
яо́ю (genitive singular)
яо́ю (dative singular)
яо́єві (dative singular)
яо́й (accusative singular)
яо́єм (instrumental singular)
яо́ю (locative singular)
яо́ї (locative singular)
яо́ю (singular vocative)


thwop

(chiefly pornographic manga) Alternative form of fwop.


アヘ顔

→ English: ahegao

→ Korean: 아헤가오 (ahegao)

→ Mandarin: 阿嘿顏 /阿嘿颜 (āhēiyán)

→ Persian: آهگائو (âhegâ'o)

→ Russian: ахэга́о (axɛgáo)

→ Tajik: аҳегао (ahegao)

→ Ukrainian: aхеґао (axegao)

Compound of アヘアヘ (aheahe, “panting, as from physical exertion or sexual arousal”, onomatopoeia) + 顔 (kao, “face”). The kao changes to gao as an instance of rendaku (連濁).

compound

(slang) ahegao (an exaggerated facial expression consisting of flushed cheeks, rolled-back eyes, and the tongue hanging out, intended to depict a person having an orgasm)


ahegao

en-noun

ahegao (countable and uncountable, plural ahegao or ahegaos)

From Japanese アヘ顔(がお) (ahegao), from アヘアヘ (aheahe, “panting”) + 顔(かお) (kao, “face”).

"The ahegao you draw is the best ever, ■■-sensei!."

2017, Takashi Kajii, My Little Sister Can Read Kanji: Volume 3, unnumbered page:

During the set of intercourse at the end of the story, Sherlock is also drawn featuring ahegao expressions, frequently used in hentai or pornographic works.

2017, Carolina Lindström, "'The power of characterization': A comparative analysis of the transformative works created by the English-language and Japanese-language fandoms of BBC Sherlock", thesis submitted to Stockholm University, page 26

Without anime I would never have been introduced to such thought provoking concepts as ahegao or 15 year old girls with boobs the size of basketballs.

2019 March 6, “Personals”, in The Medium, Rutgers University, page A6:

(chiefly Japanese fiction) An exaggerated facial expression consisting of flushed cheeks, rolled-back eyes, and the tongue hanging out, intended to depict a person having an orgasm.


dickgirl

(colloquial, vulgar) A person with a female body plus a penis; usually either a futanari, or a non-op or pre-op trans woman.


newhalf

newhalfs (plural)
newhalves (plural)
new half (alternative)

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Calque of Japanese ニューハーフ (nyūhāfu, “new half”). ニューハーフ is wasei eigo, from English.

calque

(anime, manga, slang) A character with a female body but only male genitals.


nekomimi

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From Japanese 猫耳 (nekomimi), from 猫 (neko, “cat”) + 耳 (mimi, “ear”).

Thank you, Galen - I was pretty sure that she wasn't really a nekomimi, but this gives me some proof.

2005 February 17, Rob Kelk, “Re: DiGi Charat without her hat”, in rec.arts.anime.misc (Usenet):

(chiefly Japanese fiction, by extension) A fictional character who has cat ears on an otherwise human body, and possibly other feline characteristics such as a tail.


kaiju

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From Japanese 怪獣 (かいじゅう, kaijū), from Middle Chinese 怪 (kˠuɛiᴴ, “strange, fantastic”) + 獸 (ɕɨuᴴ, “beast”) (compare Mandarin 怪獸 /怪兽 (guàishòu)).

bor

かいじゅう, kaijū

compound

The resurrections of Mothra, the giant butterfly in Japanese kaiju movies, are treated as colourful religious events, glitter falling upon fat children as the fluffy-faced behemoth dries its wings.

2015, Steve Aylett, Heart of the Original, Unbound, page 117:

A giant monster, particularly of the kind found in Japanese science fiction films, like Godzilla or Gamera.


ガールズラブ

→ English: girls' love, GL

→ Chinese: GL

[ɡa̠ːɾɯ̟zɨɾa̠bɯ̟]

Wasei eigo (和製英語; pseudo-anglicism), derived from girls + love


юри

Borrowed from Japanese 百合(ゆり) (yuri, “lily”), by analogy to 薔薇(バラ) (bara, “rose”), indicating love.


анимэ

анимэ́ (canonical)
animɛ́ (romanization)

аниме́ аниме#Russian

(anime) Alternative form of аниме́ (animɛ́) anime


(anime) A sweat droplet that appears in-front of a character's face when confused, embarrassed or irritated.


(anime, manga) Represents anger or frustration on a person's face.


にじこん

二次コン: (anime, manga) The feeling or opinion that two-dimensional anime or manga characters are more attractive (visually, physically or emotionally) than real-life people.


アンソロジー

[ã̠ɰ̃so̞ɾo̞ʑiː]

(manga, specifically) official fan work collection


少年愛

ja:少年愛
ja:少年愛 (少女漫画)

少年愛 (canonical)
shōnen'ai (romanization)

[ɕo̞ːnẽ̞ɰ̃a̠i]

少(しょう)年(ねん) (shōnen, “boy”) + 愛(あい) (ai, “love”)

ja-compound

(manga) yaoi, boy's love, shounen ai (a subgenre of manga depicting love affairs between young men or boys)


単眼

→ English: monoeye (calque)

沢山お待たせしました！💦 単眼のみなさんいっぱい描けて満足まんぞく…🥰

2021 October 29, でん子[translit?] (@denko_ch), Twitter:

(chiefly anime and manga) monoeye, cyclops girl


ネーム

ja-noun

ネーム • (nēmu)

2009 January 10, Tsugumi Ohba with Obata, Takeshi, “３(さん)ページ ペンとネーム [Page 3: Pens and Names]”, in BAKUMAN(バクマン)。 [BAKUMAN.], volume 1 (fiction), Tokyo: Shueisha, →ISBN, page 104:

It’s basically a rough sketch for manga. First you make one and show it to the editor, and only if it’s okayed can you go ahead with the draft. You may have to do it over a couple of times till it gets okayed. Though good manga artists can just pass with the storyboard alone.

マンガの下描きみたいなもん まずこれを描いて編集者に見せてＯＫが出たら初めて原稿にできる ＯＫが出るまでは何度でも描き直し もっともネームで見せていいのはマンガ家としての才能を認められた奴な

Manga no shitagaki mitai na mon Mazu kore o kaite henshūsha ni misete ōkē ga detara hajimete genkō ni dekiru ōkē ga deru made wa nando demo kakinaoshi Motto mo nēmu de misete ii no wa mangaka toshite no sainō o mitomerareta yatsu na

(manga) a manga storyboard, focusing on the words in the speech or thought bubbles to help determine the drawing and frame layout


fujoshi

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Borrowed from Japanese 腐(ふ)女(じょ)子(し) (fujoshi, literally “rotten girl/woman”).

ja-r

(fandom slang) A female fan of yaoi. A female shipper.


wincest

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Oh I see, so if they were over the age of 18 you wouldn't be having "wincest" with them as you put it, huh?

2009 October 22, Onideus Mad Hatter [username], “Re: Tomba's pedo website ...ripe for hacking”, in alt.support.boy-lovers (Usenet):

5. Powerpuff Girls wincest (It's basically an act of hot sex between family members, which makes it WINcest according to www.urbandictionary.com).

2009 October 27, Ashleigh Johnson, “Playboy steals the Internet's idea”, in The Daily Titan, volume 85, number 27, California State University, Fullerton, page 6:

(slang, with a positive connotation, originally anime, fandom slang) incest, usually of two siblings.