“Anata ga sekai de ichiban daisuki!”あなたが世界で一番大好き!(I love you more than anyone in the world!) However, this expression is mostly used by children or in anime, and some Japanese would argue that the “Dai” in this expression is superfluous, as simply saying “ichiban suki...
Lodz Papers in Pragmatics3 (2007):97-117DOI 10.2478/v10016-007-0007-697Keiko YoshimuraUniversity ofChicagoWHATDOESONLYASSERT ANDENTAIL?AbstractThis paper investigates the semantics of Englishonlyand twoequivalent expressions in Japanese–dakeand–shika, givingattention to two aspects: (i) the debate ...
Otaku takepossessionof what they love and make it their own. They take a fictional series' official universesekaikan世界観せかいかん(worldview) into account. But the author's vision is not absolute. And this possession is the result of remixing the source material and contributing it to the...
When it comes to Japanese media tropes, there are a few that get tossed around the anime community pretty often. From the beloved tsundere to the generic shounen protagonist, but one is probably more infamous than all the rest. That trope is commonly known as the yandere and even if you ...
Boku Dake ga 17-Sai no Sekai de - 6.5/10 4 episodes watched. Timepass. That song episode 3. Love Lasts Forever - 5/10 i don't like fluff. Shift of audience as there isn't much fluff nonsense virus in K+CN media. Ship of Theasues - As said few days ago - Hero is a crybaby...
Manga—along with anime and Japanese video games—has become a staple element of youth culture in a large number of countries around the world. As such, it serves as an example of the potential multi-directionality of globalization and cultural flows (cf.Iwabuchi 2002). It also stands as an...
the manufacturing sector has declined 4.5 points, with the service sector achieving a corresponding gain over the same two decades (according to my calculations based on UN statistics on GDP breakdowns at current prices). Does this mean that those working in the service sector are rolling in ...