In Japan, manga are widely read by children and adults of all ages, so that a broad range of subjects and topics occur in manga, including action/adventure, romance, sports and games, historical drama, comedy, science fiction and fantasy, mystery, horror, sexuality, and business and commerce...
Another popular style is コント (konto), a word that derives from the French “conte”, meaning a short tale of story. This style is much more freeform and is pretty similar to a comedy skit you would see in the Western World, including things like costumes and props. While Manzai is...
The Japanese word for ‘mountain’ could be written in kana (phonetically) by using two characters—that for ya and that for ma—or in kanji (by using the Chinese character meaning ‘mountain’). That possibility helped to establish a relation between the Chinese character and its Japanese ...
why do you think the stories of Robin Hood have lasted from the Middle Ages through to the modern day? I suppose it's got appeal on lots of levels – action, adventure – there's some comedy stuff there with the merry men. /əˈpiːl/ It's a programme designed to appe...
for his death. But overall the movie was pretty good and I would watch it again. I would rate the movie 6 because of the level of interest. It does make you want to watch the movie all the way through. The confusing parts of the movie doesn't throw it off to much. I like how ...
It is overly familiar and can be quite offensive because it is expressing the speaker’s superiority, although you will often hear it in anime, comedy or TV dramas. A quick search on Jisho.org’s sentence examples shows the flavor of this word: insulting, exasperated and used for rough and...
Monolingual but still useful for coverage to a beginner! If a word shows up in one of these dictionaries but not an English one, you can just web search/translate to find out more information. [JA-JA] 実用日本語表現辞典 [JA-JA] デジタル大辞泉 [JA-JA Encyclopedia] Pixiv Kanji informa...
Chichi ue (父上 / ちちうえ) is an archaic word for father in Japanese. It translates to ‘honorable/honored father’.The word ue (上 / うえ) means ‘above’ or ‘up’, and when added to chichi signifies honor or respect for one’s father. This was originally used in households of...
a point not too surprising if you look at the gags and slapstick stunts that pass for comedy in the Japanese media today. Crass, mercantile Osaka has long been considered the low-brow antidote to the over-mannerliness of the rest of the country, so it is only natural that its woodblock...
Go-Con! Japanese Love Culture: Directed by Nobuyuki Shintani. With Ryuta Kawabata, Ryoji Ando, Kazuhito Kosaka, Rina Uchiyama. Go-Con is a fashionable Japanese-English word often used by young and trendy Japanese. It means hanging out in a new age matchm