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Saturday, December 3, 2011

More Japanese Terminology (found on FB)

Hello everyone,
How are you?
I'm sure you are somehow happy because it’s already December
That means that Christmas is coming! yeah!!!!(obviously if you're going to attend to parties, or you are going to travel, or receive gifts)

          Anyway, leaving that aside. Yesterday I found in a Facebook group called OCGM,NL(Otakus, Cosplayers y Gamers de Monterrey, Nuevo León/Otakus, Cosplayers, and Gamers of Monterrey, Nuevo Leon) an interesting picture explaining more terms people who doesn't know about Japanese culture critic or misjudge sometimes(at least here in Mexico). the picture is in Spanish, but I'm going to explain in English what it says below.


Ok, here I go...
"This is not just comic, is 'Manga' Ò_Ó
This is not a cartoon, is 'Anime' Ò_Ó
This is not a costume, is 'Cosplay' Ò_Ó
This is not fetishism, is 'Moe' Ò_Ó
This is not lesbianism, is 'Yuri' Ò_Ó
This is not perverted, is 'Hentai' Ò_Ó
This is not erotic, is 'Ecchi' Ò_Ó
This is not pedophile, is 'Lolicon' Ò_Ó
This is not incest, is 'Kinshinsoukan' Ò_Ó
This is not gay, is 'Yaoi' Ò_Ó
This is not bloody, is 'Gore' Ò_Ó
This is not a bipolar girl, is 'Tsundere' Ò_Ó
This is not robot, is 'Mecha' Ò_Ó
This is not drawing, is 'Doujinshi' Ò_Ó
This is not schizophrenic girl, is 'Yandere' Ò_Ó
This is not sexual aberration, is 'Eroguro' Ò_Ó
This is not a sexual videogame, is 'Eroge' Ò_Ó
This is not Chinese, is 'Japanese' Ò_Ó
And the most important: I'm not a freak; I'm an 'Otaku'.
If you're proud of being an otaku click 'Like'. "

         Well, as you had seen, the term bloody and gore in English is really related, if not, the same. The only diffenrence would be the pronunciation. But in Spanish those are really different things, so it was written like that, XD
         Another thing,  the terms tsundere and yandere, which are very common in mangas, i didn't explained them in my first post. as it is mentioned at the picture, Tsundere is a term for mention a bipolar girl, and Yandere is used for call 'schizophrenic girl'. Tsundere is just used in that way, but Yandere is more refered to milti-facetious girls instead of schizophrenic girls.
        The term Moe is used to refer to girl, to 'the ideal type of girl', kawaii girls. It is usually used on cute and a little bit weak, clumsy girls; with a hot body, and a nice voice.(At least this is my perception.) That's why it is somehow a fetichism.(check this to know more about this word).
         Kinshisoukan is another common terms, specielly for those who like ecchi and hentai, but as I don't like incest I usually don't use it. :P
         Lolicon is used as we use the term Lolita Complex in the western world, to refer to ecchi/hentai of young girls and pedophile of those who like those genres.

         The rest os the terms that can be read upward, had been explicated in my first post of all, so if you have any question you can read it clicking here or you may ask leaving a comment.
Thanks for reading, Arigatougozaimashita!
GBU, have a nice week.
Sayounara Minna!
PS: right now in this computer I'm not able to write in Japanese. -_-

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