>Manga? You mean comic books?
>Anime? You mean Japanese cartoons?
>Ramen? You mean noodles?
>Shuriken? You mean ninja star?
>Onigiri? You mean rice balls?
>That movie is an isekai? You mean that movie has an Alice in Wonderland-esque plot?
I refuse to succumb to Jap language imperialism
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Calling manga and anime comic books and cartoons makes sense. It's weird, but makes sense. The rest don't make sense to complain about.
I wonder if actual Japanese people find it weird when people say "You're from Japan? That's awesome, I love anime." It'd be like if someone said "Oh you're from America? That's awesome, I love cartoons."
No, they don't think it's weird. They know that anime is one of their biggest cultural exports. They aren't stupid.
>"You're from Japan? That's awesome, I love bukkake."
>"You're from Japan? That's awesome, I love e-girls."
>"You're from Rhodesia? That's awesome, I hate Black folk."
Pretty sure in Japan anime is meant for children and hardcore incel shut-ins so it's still a bit weird
In japan anime in shown in trains to wagies going to work.
Not exactly. Manga is extremely popular and much more than anime. Anime is shown late at night and a lot of it is seen as more of an advertisement for different manga series. Watching anime not aimed for kids is more niche, but only the more perverted shows are looked down on as creepy.
>Oh you're from America? That's awesome, I love cartoons.
That's not weird though.
What also helps is that Japanese is inherently a language that fills in the gaps in the context. Like, because of their language works you don't have to specify that you love Japanese cartoons, the implication is inherently made from the context unless it is stated otherwise that you mean Japanese cartoons. So, telling to a jap that you love cartoons would be as valid as telling to American you love American cartoons, because of the way that language works that gap is filled in by default, because you aren't saying anything else to challenge that assumption. And if you meant actually to tell a Jap that love French cartoons, well, then it's not their misunderstanding, you just can't read kuuki.
silence, ESL scum
Uhh no. It's because unless you specifically specify アメリカのアニメ フランスのアニメ or whatever it's implied that you are talking about Japanese anime
You're a fricking moron
>t. Engineer at a certain Japanese space company
You’re from America. That’s awesome! I love Mickey Mouse/The Lion King/The Little Mermaid
You act like this doesn’t occur daily.
It doesn't anymore, they are all shit because Disney is on downward spiral again.
you have a theme park with cartoon characters running around, dumb Black person
Manga and anime and samurai and sushi is their apple pie and baseball and Uncle Sam and Ford Mustang, so no it's not weird but they don't respect hardcore anime troonys
I get it but it's not useful. The experience you have with anime/manga is very different from what you can get with western comics and cartoons.
No it doesn’t you moronic ugly Black person
>Anime = Animation
>Onigiri? You mean rice balls?
You mean jelly-filled donuts?
Jelly filled donuts are the best!
i have big titty jp gf and i wont share
Prove it
>ninja star
It's not "ninja", it's "shinobi".
Ironically, having learned Japanese several years ago I've become way more inclined to stop using Japanese words when speaking English. Manga is comics, etc.
Dipshit Gaijin
ninja is still a japanese word moron
Yes, one that doesn't get used the way you use it. It's basically the pop-culture derivative term for what shinobi were - the people who practiced ninjutsu. So don't use it.
>pajama-clad assassin stars
Simple-Basic-English Wikipedia was created just for people like you, OP.
https://simple.wikipedia.org/
What is japanese for pozz?
>What is japanese for pozz?
so average hater of Japan is a moronic ESL?
source?
sause?
pozzu
Who pee pee'd in your coke?
By your reasoning, you should say italian pasta instead of spaghetti, french chicken breast fillet stuffed with cheese instead of cordon bleu and extremely strong winds moving in a circular manner instead of typhoon.
>extremely strong winds moving in a circular manner instead of typhoon
Typhoon? Is that what you call flatulences?
>extremely strong winds moving in a circular manner
cyclone? hurricane? its all the same thing
Spaghetti is just one type of pasta.
cope
chicken cordon bleu is consistently terrible
Japan went for the cultural victory. Did you know Cinemaphile is owned by a japanese man and Cinemaphiles source code is japanese.
>considering this hive of scum an villiany a cultural victory
ishygddt
>Manga is a specific category of comic books. This is just being more specific. Same with "superhero comics" and "graphic novels" "comic strip" all have useful connotations in communication.
>I agree, you could say "Japanese Cartoons," but Anime is already so ubiquitous internationally you'd just be saying more syllables for no reason. Also, it comes from the english word animation, so you can feel good about it ok, my little western warrior?
>Ramen, again, is a type of noodle and its preparation. Sphagetti, lo mein, ramen, bahn pho, etc.
>Shuriken a unique weapon to that part of the world, so we use the word they do. Ninja star is baby speak. Do you call boomerangs "Curvy Return Sticks"?
>Onigiri has more than rice in it. Also its a triangle most of the time.
>Brilliant, instead of a three syllable word that adequately describes the genre, go ahead and say "Alice in Wonderland-esque" and have fun sounding more pretentious than any weeb could ever be
>"graphic novels"
>useful connotation
It's lost its usefulness. Pseuds think it means "comic I'm not embarrassed to tell people I've read" and people that know what it actually means still use it so the field is muddied and no one knows which way it's being used without prior knowledge of what's being referenced. It's much more useful to just call it all "comics".
>Do you call boomerangs "Curvy Return Sticks"?
Absolutely fair dinkum, true blue, Aussie bloke here. I absolutely do call them that. Only boongs use boong talk. You aren’t a boong, are you?
>Do you call boomerangs "Curvy Return Sticks"?
No but we should
is a specific category of comic books.
It isn't though. Comics and manga cover many different genres. American comics used to be distributed like Manga in collected anthologies. You could make an argument about tone but French comics are different from both and we don't use a unique term for those. Calling it Manga just makes it sound more exotic and marketable
I didn't say "genre" I said Category. Its simply a utility for sorting. Manga have more stylistic coherence and specific fanbase than french comics do in the west.
If there were as many fans dedicated specifically to exclusively French comics, the term "Bande Dessinée" would become just as useful of a term.
Now that "manhua" and "manhwa" have entered the vernacular, the term "manga" is fairly useful when referring to comics from a certain place. Manga is not the only type of japanese comic, either. There is also gekiga, but that term is essentially interchangeable with seinen now.
I agree with you on all points except for the last one. Isekai is gay and OP is a chad for omitting it from his vocabulary.
bodega literally means store. there is no reason to use the word bodega. youre just trying to sound "cultured"
you can tell somebody lived through the 90s if they know the word "Japanimation"
this "anime" bullshit was unheard of back then
so this is the utopia that weebs cum in their pants over?
This is just Shibuya. Young people go there, lots of foreigners, to go clubbing. People frick around and get into fights. At the end of the night you fall asleep on the road and no one bothers you. It's pretty basic gaijin shit, but it's really not all that bad. At least there are no Black folk like in Kabuki-cho or Roppongi. Either way, the chances you get actually hurt in these areas is almost zero and you can avoid them entirely by not going to basic b***h club/bar spots.
>that cut to a close-up of him on the ground
Draco Malfoy got hands.
Damn that Harry Potter wizard fricked him up
>all the trash in the street
I thought japan was impeccably clean?
>I thought japan was impeccably clean?
Hell no. Tourist spots are clean. Smaller cities and villages are clean. Suburbs are clean. Big city centers are dirty and full of literal trash. It's the same everywhere. Japan is no exception to that.
Shibuya is not a tourist spot?
No. It's primarily a transition zone for commuters, also has a lot of office space and some shops.
If you go there as a tourist, it's because you WANT to see Tokyo at its busiest and noisiest, not for actual sightseeing.
Not impeccably clean. For the biggest and most populous metropolitan area in the world, greater Tokyo is remarkably clean and cleaner than major cities in other countries
>Tokyo is remarkably clean
hamburg, germany and basel, switzerland are just as clean despite being overrun by migrants from every corner of the world - it's called paying enough money for public services.
Coomers constantly using Jap porn terminology is so irritating.
ramen NOODLES are a type, not the word for Noodle. Anime = Animation
But yes. Frick Japan. In the ass. Dressed up like a school girl with no pantie on. On the bus. While people ignore us having anal sex with our private parts censored.
is there any reason to frick a girl in the ass if you're not a homosexual?
What do you call these in Japanese?
loose pigs in heat. If they have huge breasts I call them cows instead.
Are you Korean or Koreaboo?
>I refuse to succumb to Jap language imperialism
It's funny you say this, because like 25% of modern japanese is just english loanwords
And english is like 80% loaned words
Just wait until OP learns how many languages were bastardized and blended to form English in the first place.
My friend has a Japanese girlfriend I always bring up fat boy and lil man
>fat boy and lil man
hey, a hole's a hole - at least you're getting laid.