Japanese words of anime fans, by anime fans, for anime fans

 I have introduced various xx萌え[-moe] and xxデレ[-dere] so far. Like otakus love to come up with crazynew terms, fujoshis(BL fangirls) are also creating brand-new terms. I already explained some classification for top[seme] and bottom[uke] in my previous post, but darn it, I’ve got to list them out in order to update. While I was not aware, they created some new types.

a. 女王様受け[jo'ousama-uke]: This type of uke should be very beautiful and strong. Sometimes even commanding. Unlike オレ様受け, he has to be elegant, not so rude. I think Wolfram in Kyou kara maou counts.

b. ノンケ攻め[nonke-zeme]: ノンケ[nonke] means straight orientation. This type of seme is straight in the beginning. But he would be tempted by uke as the story goes on, and eventually become gay. Come to think of it, in ぼくのぴこ[My Pico] the protagonist salaryman gets into Piko, not knowing he is actually a boy.

c. 姫受け[hime-uke]: 姫[hime] means a princess. This type of uke is surrounded by several semes(more than two tops). I can’t think of a better example. Maybe Shibuya Yuuri? He can be paired up with Gunter or Conlad…but he ends up being uke.

d. 平凡受け[heibon-uke]: 平凡[heibon] means ordinary or common. So this type of uke has nothing special.

e. 無邪気攻め[mujaki-zeme]: 無邪気[mujaki] means innocent and pure. If such an innocent uke-looking boy is seme, he would be. Shimizu Keiichi in Kin’iro no Corda could be.

f. 健気攻め[kenage-zeme]: 健気[kenage] means tough-minded. This type of seme is amazingly tough-minded so that you might be touched. No matter how cold the seme is, the uke follows him. Similar to ワンコ攻め[wanko-zeme].

g. ホモ百合[homoyuri]: In となりの８０１ちゃん[My neighbor Yaoi-chan] which follows fujoshis’ culture, this is mentioned. Literally it means gay-and-lesbian. This pairing consists of two ukes, in other words, both of the two are bottoms.  Mostly they nestle and flirt with each other like lesbian. I was wondering why they made this. The answer is in the film…below is a part of the conversation;

A: あたし、誘い受けや襲い受けのせいで、世の中の８０％の男が受けに見えてしょうがないの！[In fact, about 80% of all the men seem to be uke because of sasoi-uke or osoi-uke.]

B: 大丈夫、ホモ百合を使うのよ。 [Don't worry. Use homoyuri, so you can make a pairing without seme.]

h. サンド[sando]: A bottom for two tops.

 Below is all about genres of BL.

i. ML: Stands for Men’s Love. Technically, BL caters to minors. If a pairing consists of two adults, it should be ML. Well, I don’t think all the fujoshis care about this, though.

j. ロボやおい[robo yaoi]: If either of the two is a robot, it should be this. Whichever the robot becomes, it should have a heart. I mean, it can talk, laugh, cry, angry, whatever like a human being. The only one mistery is how they do it. Well, maybe やおい穴 can clear everything. Speaking of ロボやおい, I can definitely think of Fullmetal Archemist. 

k. 匂い系[nioi-kei]: 匂い[nioi] means smell. Yes, it smells like BL. Even though the stroy is not BL, it has a scent of BL…For example, Water Boys, Ouran High-School Host Club, Hanazakari no Kimitachi e, Prince of Tennis or something like that.

l. 健全[kenzen]: It means sound. In short, there’s no sex scene. In other words, you can say NL[Normal Love].

m. 微裏[biura]: I guess this could be an abbreviation of 微妙に裏[bimyou ni ura]. In short, it’s slightly porno. But not too much. At best, it should be only kissing. Not more than that.

 That’s all I can think of now. I think there will be more in the future because fujoshis’ delusion never ends.

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 If you happen to be a shota fan, you might be sure of this genre of shota. Well as you can see above image, kemoshota is a hybrid of an animal(dog, cat, lion, wolf etc.) and a shota-looking boy. It is an abbreviation form of ケモノショタ[kemono shota]. ケモノ means an animal…and if you love this, you would be a ケモナー[kemona-].

 There are technically five types of ケモショタ.

a. A humanized animal(you can say 擬人化[gijinka]). Like above image, it’s like a hybrid of a young boy and an animal. In real life, a musical, Cats can count. This is a fundamental form of ケモショタ.

b. Obviously a human part and an animal part of his body should be separated. Like a merman or Centaur. But this is absolutely less popular.

c. Even though it is totally an animal, it speaks or walks like a human being. For example, Rakushun in Twelve Kingdoms or all the characters in Keroro Gunsou. Deep kemoshota fans love this.

d. A dressed shota-looking boy as an animal. If he wears cats’ ears or doll, it could count as a kemoshota. Some people might count the Suzaku in a cat doll. But actually this is less recognisable as ケモショタ.  

e. If the animal has a shota-looking or is merely childish, it could be. Shamisen in the Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi doesn’t count because the way it speaks is too old.

 Although shota fans are everywhere, kemoshota fans are not so. Even in doujin comic markets, there’s not much kemoshota stands though there are kemoshota fans on the net. Umm, this is because they are too shy to come out of the closet? Also in BL circles, this kind of genre exists as ケモホモ[kemohomo]. Ugh, I don’t want to think about it. orz 

 This is something relates to ヘタレ I have already explained here. ヘタレ is such a hopless guy (mostly) who is reluctant to do something.  But in this genre, there is another classification as a matter of fact…that is ダメエリート[dame elite]. ダメ[dame] means no good. In general, such suckers are called ダメ男[dameo]. エリート[erito] means elite. So literally this is a mixture of ダメ男 and エリート. Wait, I need to learn about elite more…I shall find it out in my dictionary. orz Elite means a small group who are powerful or important because they have money, knowledge, special skills etc…Yes, this is it.

 To get to the point, ダメエリート means a clumsy and hopeless guy even though he is a well-born, or a guy who doesn’t do good in the great company. You can simply picture a hetare guy in the elite group. Just hetare guys are everywhere, but how did this ダメエリート start? How come such a hopless could become one of the elite group in the first place?  At any rate, this type of guys are awkwardly pathetic so that there’s almost no salvation. But even that, he tries to make it better…and goof up again. Although any other characters in the story are all smart, he is the only one hopeless. Comparing to just a hetare, dame elite is more awkward. But that’s why this could turn girls who want to help him on somehow…I assume.

 Besides, ダメエリート doesn’t even necessarily mean a hopless worker in the great company, but a sucker in the great family. Even though he was born in the great family, he is a hopeless…Yes, this is ダメエリート, too. I think this could be easily found in anime or manga. Two major ones are Himura Kenshin in Rurou ni Kenshin and Tenka in Houshin Engi. But I can definitely think of Zetsubou-sensei! Though he comes from the great Itoshiki Family, he is in despair. His brother is a doctor, and sister is a master of flower arrangement…but zetsubou-sensei actually goofs around when he stays at his hometown, and plays with some girls…Anyone else? I am so sorry to say like this, but come to think of it, what about Lelouch in Code Geass? He is actually the son of Britannia Emperor, isn’t he? But he abandoned Britannia and started a new life as an ordibary student. Well, I know he is not a hopeless, though. Oh Arima’s father in His and Her Circumstance could be. He is a delinquent guy though he is well-born…Yes in this way, there is a deep story beside a ダメエリート.

 In BL circles, this ダメエリート is quite popular as well, especially when the story takes place between two salarymen(リーマンもの). Mostly a 鬼畜眼鏡 is to be a seme and a ダメエリート is to be a uke, or a ダメエリート後輩[kouhai] is to be a seme and his 先輩[sempai] is to be a uke.

 Jesus.    

 If you happen to be in Tokyo, and a big fan of Evangelion, you would be sure that Cure Maid-Cafe is supposed to feature Evangelion themed service. Actually this is not their first time doing this, but this year must be more than last year since the Evangelion movie DVD has just released. I have been to this maid-cafe a long time ago, but there was nothing special but humble maids. So I hadn’t been here since then…

 Meanwhile, I was looking for a new character I cosplay next time a while ago, and I decided to do Nagisa Kaworu for some reason. I am an オトメン, not ガチホモAnyway, just after I got the hairdresser’s to cut my wig, I got an e-mail from the certain writer. She was going to interview Cure Maid-Cafe, so asked me to go in cosplaying Kaworu. Well, I hadn’t tried my Kaworu’s costume out, so I had no idea how it went…But yes, I was on it.

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 Needless to say, Dragon Ball has been in the mainstream for ages though the series has finished. When I was a kid, it was already that popular among shounen manga fans. Well at that time, speaking of the mainstream anime series, I can think of Saint Seiya[聖闘士星矢], Kin-niku man[キン肉マン], City Hunter[シティーハンター], or Fist of Northern Star[北斗の拳]. Oops, you already figured out my age? Anyway, I must say Drangon Ball had been at the top for a long long time…The main theme of this anime is, as you know, adventure, dream, and friendship. Goku quests the world to find out the seven Dragon Balls in the sake of somebody or for the certain purpose with his fellows. On the points of his journey, he encounters a lot of enemies who are basically stronger than him. He stands up to the enemy with his fellows, defeats it, and thankfully the enemy is to be Goku’s new fellow. In this way, he has actually got a lot of fellows Oolong, Yamcha, Kuririn, Tenshinhan, Majunior, or Vegeta…Even though they show up as Goku’s enemy, they shall be friends with him after the duel…

 Yes, same goes to any other shounen anime. Look at One Piece, it’s a perfect example,isn’t it? A young boy Luffy starts his voyage, and meets people who are going to be his fellows. Even if the person is supposed to fight against Luffy, he would end up following after the battle. This is what’s called, ドラゴンボール現象[Dragon Ball genshou]. Genshou means a phoenomenon. If you look at any adventure anime, you might know the story goes like this rule-of-thumb. 

 Having said that, above is only one definition of this term. Actually there’s one more…what’s that? If the anime is too popular to end, watch out, this phoenomenon is happening. Actually Dragon Ball was supposed to end when Goku defeated Majunior, however, Goku’s elder brother showed up as a new enemy from all the way his mother planet. I still remember Kamesen-nin said もうちっとだけ続くんじゃ[it will last a bit more] at the very end of the last episode[when Goku defeated Majunior]. A bit more? How many years did it take?? In this way, whether the author wants to finish doesn’t matter so long as fans want to see. Yes, in other words, it has to last, shouldn’t end. Even if the author has no plot, it would be okay. His staff can create a new story so that the series never ends. Speaking of such a never-ending-anime series, I can think of D.C[ダ・カーポ], Sazae-san[サザエさん], or Kitarou[ゲゲゲの鬼太郎]. Well, Kitarou could be. That’s the series which has been re-created again and again. In that case, Toki wo kakeru shoujo[時をかける少女] could be as well. 

 One more thing, there’s the way you can check this is happening to the anime you are watching. If the story goes on so slowly, or doesn’t carry on at all, watch out, the author is still making a story. If the anime is based on the manga, the anime should basically follows it. The manga comes first, and next is the anime. Come to think of it, this used to happen when I watched Dragon Ball. One punch took 30 minutes, and two kicks took two episodes. In Captain Tsubasa, it takes at least 5 minutes from Tsubasa shoots at goal to the ball reaches. Ugh, how come no one can blocks?        

 Thanks of one of the regular visitor w, I got a tip for this post. Well, if tsundere is supposed to be a girl who is always cold but sometimes sweet to you, would it be alright to describe such a guy? If he is so cold to you, but sometimes becomes nice, could he be labelled as a tsundere as well? Well, maybe yes. Tsukimori Ren in Kin-iro no Corda or Wolfram in Kyou kara maou could be. But is there any other saying? Yes…that is オラニャン[oranyan].

 In fact, this was not born in the otaku society, but kogals’ circles. To get to the point, オラニャン is an abbreviation form of オラオラニャンニャン[ora-ora nyan-nyan]. I can’t translate it! オラオラ[ora-ora] sounds like a rude guy’s shouting. Maybe you could hear this in such a delinquent boys’ story like Gokusen, Bebop High-School or something like that. Well, how can I put it…sounds like “Oi! Oi!”?? They would say like 行くぜオラァ！[ikuze, oraa!, let's go, guys!]. オラオラ金出せや！[ora-ora, kane dase ya!, Oi oi, give fucking money, eh?]. Does it make any sense?

 Meanwhile, ニャンニャン[nyan-nyan] is actually a cat’s mew-mew. Caught on, haven’t you? Although he is so cheeky and rude in front of everybody else, he would be very sweet to a girl who he loves. Probably he could be still sweet even when others are there. In this case, it might be called as オラデレ[oradere]. There is a more common word to describe this type of guy, 恐妻家[kyousaika]. However, this is something like a husband who is under his wife’s thumb. Even though he is arrogant to his surbordinates, he can’t resist his wife or be very sweet to her.

 I think you can see a オラニャン guy in real life. I have seen it in Korean soap operas. Umm, this is an irrelevant note, I have shared a room with Korean guy a long time ago. He was definitely a oranyan. He used to be very rude to me and other roommates, but he changed his attitude when his girlfriend was near him, or phoned him. In fact, he was hated by anyone else…To tell the truth, I didn’t like him, nor like this type of guy. Because I am an otomen, you know.

 At any rate, speaking of oranyan, I can think of Inori and Morimura Tenma in Harukanaru toki no naka de, Maebara Keiichi in Higurashi no naku koro ni. Unlike tsundere, he would have to be cheeky[生意気], rather than cold. This is the most distinctable point between tsundere and oranyan.  

 Okay, this is still a new type of -dere. Yes, that is 悪魔デレ[akumadere]. If she is a real Satan or so evil like a devil, she could be labelled as this. Needless to say, 悪魔[akuma] means a devil. Mostly in this genre, a devil comes to you to make a contract. Thanks to(because of) this, you can get an awesome power, but you have to work for her, in other words, you could be her slave not knowing what you are getting yourself into. Having said that, she should make you alive under the contract…so no matter how she is cruel and mean, she would protect you when you get in danger. Would you like to say thank you? Go ahead, she would reject it coldly. This is a bit her tsuntsun side. Sometimes she would get dressed as a maid or other occupations, and serve you. But don’t get confused. She is moody but actually lonely…well, I must say there’s less chance to see her deredere side than any other tsundere girls. She is not a human being, so basically she is bored with human world…What intersets her is, yes, you. While you are alive, she takes care of you. But after you die, she would take you to the hell…And she would find another contractor. Yes, she is the devil!

 Speaking of 悪魔デレ, I can definitely think of C.C in Code Geass. Umm, she gets dressed as a Goth girl and a junior high-school student using Nunally’s uniform. Yuti La in Heroic Age could be. And this is not anime, but in BLAN’s Dining(you can see this manga’s review here), a Shinigami(an Angel of Death) named Blan forces the protagonist to contest the contract which he has to find out criminals of cases he encounters. Blan is such a diminutive lolita-looking angel and always annoys him. In this way, 悪魔デレ girls mostly bother you. However, when she stays away from you, you would miss her. Yes, because you have a 悪魔デレ萌え[akumadere-moe].

 I want to count Jikoku Shoujo, but too bad, she never falls in love with anybody.

 It started since I got e-mail from the certain person one day…

 When the young and talented photographer, Windbell told me he had planned to come to Japan, I asked him to take photos of my cosplaying. Since my cosplay buddy who used to do it went back to his hometown, I seriously needed a photographer… I thought this was a good chance…and he kindly took my request. I was quite pleased to hear it, and I started to find someone who could cosplay with me. The more people, the merrier, right? So I spoke to the young and nice cosplayer named miho whom we got to know at the cosplayers’ circle.  I was really happy that things went well as planned. She accepted my request. Oh no, if nothing else, terrible things happen here. How could such a young girl take a request from someone whom she had never seen?? Though I told all the information to her very carefully as much as I could…

 I booked the certain place for the cosplay shooting, and finally the fateful day came…Around noon, Windbell, double, miho, and I met up, and started the wonderful shooting. Miho cosplayed Suzumiya Haruhi, and I did Kyon. Hey, she is 19! Ugh, my age! Ouch! No one wants to see オジサン’s Kyon. At any rate, Windbell is awesome. He brought a very gorgeous camera and good took care of the shooting place. I am not familiar with this kind of thing, so left everything to him and Double who worked as a sub photographer.

 I actually made some quick illustrations from the certain fragments of the anime in order to learn good pose. Well, we shall call it ネタ写[netasha] to copy a certain scene, situation, or pose. Anyway, miho is awesome. She can cosplay not only Suzumiya Haruhi but Nagato Yuki as well while she said she had been a cosplayer for a month or so. She looked a bit nervous(of course, she came to the three unknown guys!), I was quite surprised to see how well she acted as I asked. And of course I really really want to say thank you to Windbell and Double for their good job.

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 This -dere things never end…What is coming this time??

 Umm, I don’t think this is very different from クーデレ[coo-dere]. To get to the point, ダンデレ is an abbreviation of だんまりデレデレ[danmari deredere]. だんまり[danmari] means to be calm or to shut one’s mouth up all the time. And デレデレ means, you know, such a sweet attitude. She doesn’t speak at all mostly, but when there’s no one else but you two, she would be sweet to you. In other words, she would be in deredere-mode. I am not sure why this term had to be born. Now that there’s this term, it has to be different from クーデレ…What’s that?

 Coo-dere girls have to be cool. Does カッコいい[kakkoii] come first when you hear “cool” in English? At any rate, I assume she has to show her something special side, far from other common girls. Look at Kawasumi Mai in Kanon. She is actually a demon slayer, so she can fight with a sword. Next look at Ayanami Rei, she can pilot the first Eva, in other words, Chosen One. Nagato Yuki in The Melancholy of Suzumiya Haruhi is actually an alien, and she can protect Kyon.

 However, だんまり[danmari] doesn’t sound so cool if you ask me. She just shuts her mouth and show her dere-side when she is near you. Maybe ダンデレ is much easier to become than クーデレ if you want to turn someone you like on. Having said that, those mentioned girls could count as a ダンデレ because they don’t speak at all.

 Umm, I can’t think of a good example. Such a common girl without any special skills doesn’t speak at ll…Ah, what if she is too shy to speak to him in front of everybody else? And what if she starts to show dere-side when she is near you? In that case, I can think of Kiyoura Setsuna in School Days. Yeah! She is not so special, but doesn’t speak at all…and she even kisses Makoto while he is sleeping. Okay, she is labelled as a ダンデレ.