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Weebtastic Jargon
Chances are you came across a weeaboo and you have no idea what he/she said, and you probably have no interest either. Weeaboo jargon is a rather loathsome enigma to the average person. One can suggest it's akin to Spanglish, being both a mixture of two languages and equally annoying but instead of blending Spanish and English, you have a blend of horribly mispronounced Moonspeak combined with English. So you can pretty much expect to hear the word "baka" or "uguu~" thrown around liberally.
The tongue that is spoken by weeaboos consist of many words in Japanese that have changed definitions, or are misinterpreted given that a majority of them arrogantly believe they can speak fluent Japanese just from watching anime subs.
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Terminology
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2D - The second dimension, aka the divine and holy dimension in which the anime realm exists in, the promised land many otakus/weebs seek to immigrate to. Could also refer to two dimensional characters, or in other words, anime characters. 2D is considered vastly superior by weeaboos and otakus, who continue dreaming of a day where they can finally live in their fantasy harem anime featuring themselves.
3DPD - Short for "3D Pig Disgusting", a derogatory term otakus use to lash out at people with more than two dimensions, especially towards real life women. Most anime obsessed otakus cannot stomach the sight of 3D women, even for a couple of seconds, and find the sight of them nude as an atrocious and nauseous sight. They will, however, make a few exceptions when it comes to 3DPD. An example would be their little sister in the event that the two get involved in some sort incest situation just like in their favorite anime.
A
Ahoge - Translates to "stupid/foolish hair"; refers to a single strand of hair that sticks out of a character's head.
Anime - Cartoons originating from Japan, which became an annoying obsession and has created otakus and weeaboos all over the world.
AMV - An abbreviation for "Anime Music Video", those annoying and horribly edited YouTube videos made using Windows Movie Maker of some stupid fight scene from Dragonball Z or Naruto with that one Linkin Park song that's used in almost every single one of them. AMVs are vastly hated by those in search for clips of anime and instead are given some cut clips with loud and atrocious music thrown in. Could also mean "Animated Music Video".
B
Baka - Japanese for "stupid", "idiot", "fool", "imbecile", "philistine", and any other synonym for nouns relating to ignorance.
Battle Station - An otaku's basement or bedroom filled with a bunch of overpriced anime/Japanese merchandise such as posters, DVDs, figurines, striped panties and of course the illustrious love pillow.
BGM - Background music; OST.
Big Three - The Big Three, also known as the Holy Shonen Trinity, are the three most popular (and overrated) anime in the industry. The Big Three consists of Naruto, One Piece and Bleach and are widely hated by hardcore otakus who will often ridicule those who claim to like any of the aforementioned animes.
Bishonen - A term for male characters possessing feminine traits. In short a 'pretty boy', or a twink. Often shortened to 'Bishie'.
Brojo - Brojos are, in their perspective, the ultimate alpha males: chock-fulled with manliness, testosterone and badassery. Brojos enjoy shojo anime, anime intended for little girls (similar to how Bronies are those who like MLP and pony related media). Also, brojos before shojos.
C
Catgirl - Also called nekomimi or neko girl. Catgirls are female characters that are human but with cat features; primarily ears, tail, and sometimes paws without fully being an anthropomorphic cat. They often have cat-like personalities and may meow like a cat. It's a very common fetish among anime fans.
Cosplay - The act of dressing up (poorly) as a fictional character.
Chibi - In Japanese, the word relates to little or small; something that is small in a cute and adorable way. In western societies, it refers to super deformed, characters that are drawn in a way that emphasizes cuteness, often having deformed anatomies with small bodies/limbs and large heads.
D
Dakimakura - Japanese for hugging pillow; large pillows about the size of an average woman which are sold in Japan. Dakimakuras are body pillows, or love pillows, and they have an image of a female anime character on both sides (some have two separate characters for each side). On one side of the pillow, your precious waifu would be in a more ladylike pose when laying down, and probably mostly clothed, while on the other side she (or he if you prefer husbandos) would be in a more suggestive and erotic pose, and possibly fully or mostly nude. Some dakimakuras come with sex toys such as a fleshlight or a dildo.
Dandere - Antisocial prick that eventually becomes sweet and loving. Another variation of the dere archetype.
Desu - Japanese linking verb used in keigo, or polite language.
DFC - Abbreviation for delicious flat chest, which is a term to describe the delicacy of a flat chest/flat chested character (pettanko).
Dojinshi - Independent or amateur anime, manga, games, or music. Most doujins are, to no surprise, sexual graphic novels involving things from gore to incest to pedophilia (or all three) and can be found in vending machines in Japan.
Dub - When the voices in an anime are changed into another language from its native language. Dubs are usually bad and have the scripts changed to something entirely different from the original. Most weeaboos will hate dubs, regardless of how good or bad they are, mainly because it's not in Japanese and the lack of Norio Wakamoto.
E
Ecchi - H. Ecchi is how the Japanese pronounce the letter "h", as h is the ls the first letter in the word hentai. Ecchi isn't entirely hentai as it's more soft and laid back with the nudity, and it does not have sex involved. Basically, just nude and erotic anime artwork, albeit censored.
ED - Abbreviation for ending, which is essentially the credits/outro/ending theme of an anime.
Eyecatch - A little animation/scene used once a commercial break begins and ends.
Eroge (or ero) - Japanese/anime erotic game, also known as H-games. These are usually RPGs or dating sims.
F
Fan fiction - A term used to describe fans of a series writing fictional events, usually horrible and overly pretentious, involving characters from their favorite shows or movies.
Fan service - Unnecessary tease content for the fans. Fan service, most of the time, consists of pantsu or cleavage shots and suggestive/erotic poses strictly for the fans' perverted pleasing.
Fansub - Anime that has been subtitled by a fan. Expect unprofessional subbing, errors, and intentional mistranslated subtitles.
Filler - Fillers are fill-ins for anime; they're usually a clip, an entire episode, or an entire season. Fillers are non-canonical content that gets slapped into anime adaptions of manga, and were not included in the main story originally. Fillers are usually put in by the animation studio in order to allow the manga to build enough material to animate and to prevent the anime from overtaking the manga's storyline. That, or it's to milk the anime for more episodes to rake in more dole once it's on sale for DVD/Blu-Ray.
Fujoshi - Japanese for rotten girl; a term applied to female hardcore yaoi fans.
Futanari - Not to be confused with traps, futanari is a hentai genre that deals with female characters with a penis and they can also have both male and female genitalia. Futanari girls are often called futa, which is short for futanari.
G
Gaijin - Japanese for foreigner. Foreigners are always baka and can never understand Japan, hence they are called "baka gaijins" by weebs and the rest of the xenophobic island that is called Japan.
Ganguro - In Japanese, it means "black face". Ganguro is an asinine fashion trend among Japanese girls where they look like that Pokémon, Jynx, as they bleach their hair, have a dark tan, and flashy and bright colored attire.
Gei - Take a good guess.
Gothloli/Elegant Gothic Lolita - Gothic Lolita fashion style.
Guro - Short for "Ero-Guro", which is short for "Erotic-Grotesque". Guro is a hentai genre that is the most shocking and explicit of all hentai genres. It features violent rape, gore, plenty of blood and torture. Think of Mortal Kombat fatalities, but with sex.
H
Harem - Genre that centers around some single lucky son of a bitch that becomes a magnet for a bunch of attractive girls who are all lusting after him. A harem can also refer to ones collection of waifus (although real men only need one waifu).
Hentai - In Japanese, the word hentai means "perverted", but in the west it refers to anime porn.
Hikikomori - Japanese for basement dweller.
Husbando - Male counterpart to waifu.
I
Imoto-chan - Younger sister, who are commonly lusted for by their incestious onii-chan.
J
J-Pop - J-Pop is Japanese pop music. Most anime theme songs will include a J-Pop song, which weeaboos believe is the only thing Japanese people listen to. Additionally, as far as J-Pop goes, the only J-Pop weebs listen to are from anime openings and endings. In addition to J-Pop, other music genres by the Japanese are abbreviated with the letter J followed by the name of the music genre (i.e. J-Rock, J-Rap, etc.)
Josei - Anime/Manga for adult women.
K
Kawaii - Japanese for cute. Mostly used by weeaboos and gaiafags. Make sure to add the emoticon "^_^" and "desu ne~" for extra kawaiiness.
Kuudere - Basically another way of saying tsundere Yet another dere archetype that consists of a character showing little to no emotion, being edgy, reserved, sarcastic, and cold but eventually warms up and becomes nicer once you get to know them.
L
Lemon - Material with explicit sexual content. Used among the fan fiction community.
Lime - Derived from Lemon; like the latter it's also used among fan fiction with sexual activity, but to a lighter, more toned-down extent.
Lolicon - A genre that features prepubescent girls, or female characters with characteristics of a little girl, under sexual situations. The word is also used to describe a pedophile.
Lolita Fashion - A fashion subculture that started in Japan that deals with wearing overpriced frilly dresses you would find on porcelain dolls focused on capturing a cute and elegant look.
M
MAD - Basically AMVs, but made in Japan.
Manga - Japanese comics.
Mangaka - An author and illustrator (though not all mangakas draw) of a manga.
Mecha - Short for mechanical. It's an anime genre focusing on mechs, or giant robots with big guns that shoot lasers out their eyes (i.e. Gundam). Mecha nerds do not consider Transformers as mecha even though it technically is.
Meganekko - A female character that wears glasses; a common anime fetish.
Moe - Cute girls doing cute things. Moe is a Japanese slang term used to refer pseudo-love for an anime character. Many hardcore otakus will be enraged by those who consider it a genre and blame it for "killing anime". Anime that uses the moe art style usually consist of characters that look chibi or are very cute, and typically consist of a slice of life genre. Those who love moe are called "moebros".
Moshi moshi - Japanese telephone greeting meaning "hello".
N
NEET - Self-explanatory government acronym that stands for "Not in Education, Employment or Training" that originated from the UK. Basically, jobless scum that still mooch off their parents. Despite its origins not being from Japan, the term has been widespread among East Asian countries, especially Japan. See also Hikikomori.
Neko - Cat. See Catgirl.
Nendoroid - Small plastic anime figurines that are usually 4 in (10 cm) in height and are chibi/super deformed to emphasize their cuteness, or in other words, level of kawaiiness.
NTR - Acronym for netorare, basically meaning cuckold, and is used to define a genre of hentai/eroge consisting of the main characters' slut wife/girlfriend being unfaithful and sleeping with other men.
O
Omake - Added extra/bonus content usually found in anime DVDs.
Onee-chan - Older sister.
Onii-chan - Older brother.
OP - The opening theme, credits, song, or intro of an anime. Typically has some J-Pop song in it that weeaboos believe is what all Japanese youth listen to.
Oppai - Breasts.
OST - Original Soundtrack is the background music and mainly the only thing you'll see in a weeaboos iPod besides J-Pop.
Otaku - A Japanese term used to refer to a person who has a creepy obsession with a certain hobby, often, but not exclusively, manga or anime.
OVA - Original Video Animation, which are those straight-to-DVD anime specials that weren't good enough to warrant themselves a theatrical release.
P
Pantsu - Japanese for panties, with shima pantsu (shimapan for short), which are striped panties that are commonly blue, being the most common in anime/hentai.
Pettanko - Literally means flat chested girl. Pettan works too.
Pocky - Overrated and overpriced biscuit sticks dipped in chocolate that are popular Japanese snacks. They are among the only things weeaboos eat and they also come in strawberry.
Power Level - Level of expression for being a weeaboo/otaku. Derived from Dragonball Z. To hide your power level is to hide your love for anime and being a nerd.
R
Raw - Anime/manga in its original form with no translation or subtitles.
S
Scanlation/scanslation - Amateur scanning and translating.
Seinen - Anime and manga that appear to be intended for little girls at first glance but are actually made for adult males.
Seiyu - A Japanese voice actor. In Japan, seiyus are like rockstars and are regarded in a high manner to the point of being an obsession, being stalked by many desperate otakus, especially female seiyus.
Shojo - Anime/manga for young girls (i.e. Sailor Moon, Cardcaptor Sakura).
Shonen - Anime/manga for young boys (i.e. Dragonball, One Piece).
Shotacon - Like lolicon, but with little boys instead.
Super deformed (SD) - Characters that are drawn in a way that emphasizes cuteness, often having deformed anatomies with small bodies/limbs and large heads. Usually, SD is used for scenes dealing with comedy relief or cuteness. See chibi.
Sub - Short for subtitle.
Sugoi - Japanese for amazing.
T
Trap - A person (usually male) that resembles the opposite gender, which are either transexuals, transvestites, or happen to look so feminine they are mistaken for being a female. Female traps are referred to as "reverse traps".
Tsundere - A character archetype, the most common in anime, where a character has a shy personality that shifts from a stuck up bitch and eventually evolves into a nicer, loving, more caring person. Tsunderes are almost always female and are a big phenomenon in moe. Derived from -
- Tsun tsun, which means averting in disgust - and
- Dere dere, which means "lovey dovey".
V
Vore - Short for vorarephilia, a sick fetish that involves getting off to being swallowed. An example of this would be a nude anime girl being swallowed by a giant snake.
W
w - In Japanese, the letter w is short for warau, meaning to laugh. In other words, it's how the Japanese say "LOL" (i.e. wwwww = lolol)
Waifu - Engrish for "wife", which refers to ones 2D/anime wife, characters an otaku has fallen in love with (though it's not always limited to anime).
Y
Yandere - Another character archetype, usually female, where a character is lovely and sweet on the outside but with an insane, creepy and murderous vibe. They are the opposite of a tsundere. Basically, they make the viewer feel like they're going to murder someone the very second they slightly suspect their love interest might cheat on them.
Yaoi - Homosexual, male-on-male content typically made by women which are targeted for women (and homosexual males).
Yen - ¥ The Japanese currency ¥. To get a good sense of how much the Japanese currency is worth compared to other major first world countries (because nobody cares about any other country besides America) in order to figure out the price of your imported overpriced, scantily clad Hatsune Miku figurine where the shipping costs twice as much as the product itself, find your nation's currency below (unless you live in some war-ridden third world country):
Yuri - Like yaoi, but with lesbians instead.
Z
Zettai Ryouiki - A term that originated from the anime Neon Genesis Evangelion that describes the area of exposed thigh between the skirt and the stockings when a girl is wearing a miniskirt and thigh high socks. It literally translates to "absolute territory" in Japanese. There are 6 grades (or categories) of zettai ryouiki:
- Grade A - Thigh high socks
- Grade B - Over knee sock (Grades A & B being ideal)
- Grade C - High socks
- Grade D - Three quarter socks
- Grade E - Crew socks
- Grade F - Plain ankle socks.
It is said that the perfect ratio is 4:1:2.5.
Honorifics
In the Japanese language, honorifics are used ordinarily to address others politely and often used to show respect or endearment. In the Master Race language, honorifics are used a lot less frequently compared to Moonspeak. Weeaboos love to address themselves and their friends with Japanese honorifics, deluding themselves that this will make them more Japanese.
-chan - A diminutive suffix that expresses endearment.
-kun - Used particularly for males who are close friends and/or relatives.
-sama - Suffix for king or lord.
-san - Unisex honorific for Mr. or Mrs.
-sensei - Teacher/master
-tan - A mispronunciation of the honorific "chan", often used by children. Means the same thing.
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