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Japanese's Words and Phrases

Bishoujo - pretty girl
A term that describes any pretty girl, the word has come to refer to the adult anime simulation games that are so popular in Japan. Bishoujo games are also called "hentai" games.

AV - adult video
Different countries use abbreviations for different things. In Japan for example, a P.A. is a "parking area" or a little place you pull off the freeway to buy food, drinks and gasoline. AV is Japanese parliance for "adult video" (not audio/visual), and an AV girl or AV idol is an adult video star.

Gaijin - foreigner
A word that literally means "outsider," gaijin is kind of a rude word when used in some situations, as it sounds short and might offend some listeners. A more politically correct word is "gai-koku jin" or "outside country person." There is a tendency for gaijin to refer to themselves by this word, but sometimes take offense if Japanese say "Hey, gaijin." In this way, it's not unlike American blacks and their use of the "n" word as a way of forming groups.

Bukkake - facial shower of semen
Ejaculating on a woman, principally on her face. "Kakeru" means "to deposit onto" in Japanese.

Zamen - semen
The German pronounciation for the word "semen" which the Japanese imported back when Germany was their friend and America was their enemy.

Hair nude - nude photo with pubic hair showing
A long time ago, in the wild, wooly days of Japanese adult magazines and photobooks, it was illegal to show pubic hair without some kind of element hiding it - a mosaic, or a silk scarf, the girl's hand, anything. Then, in 1994, a magazine called Tenmei started boldly publishing nude model photography with full pubic hair visible - "hair nude" - insisting that such photography was art and the government had no business censoring photography. When no action was taken against them, all magazines and (still) photography publishers started doing the same thing. The law has never been changed, although it has been "de facto" repealed.

Shojo - girl
Meaning simply "girl," this word has come to describe any kind of anime or manga comic for girls. Weekly manga magazines like Ribbon are "shojo comics." Often, shojo themes are cross-bred with other themes.

Kawaii - cute
This term means "cute." Usually said "Kawaii!!!" in a very high pitched voice by cute anime girls.

Cosplay - costume play
Basically, dressing up in your favorite costumes, usually as characters from anime. As a category of adult product, seeing a pretty girl dressed up as Chun Li while getting banged by Ryu.

Jankenpon - rock, paper, scissors
This is what you say when you do rock, paper, scissors in Japan.

Urabon - underground book
Ostensibly, an illegal book containing uncensored sex photos. "Ura" means "underside" or "the other side" (the dark side of the moon = tsuki no ura) and in this case, underground. Pornography companies in Japan latch on to this, though, and use the term liberally. There are also "ura video" (uncensored, underground video) sold in Japan, but they're almost always censored!

Kogal - Japanese version of "valley girls"
Really difficult to describe. Ko = "child" and Gal = "gal." Also called just "gals," kogals are a kind of Japanese girl who wear outrageous styles, paint their faces with weird make-up, and tan their bodies in tanning salons. There have been many shifts in kogal culture since they emerged around 1995, growing out of the old Amuler boom (when all the girls wanted to dress up like Amuro Namie. Various types have included including younger versions of kogals (mago-gals, where "mago" means "grandchild"), yamanba ("mountain hags," girls who tan themselves til they're black), and one-gal ("oh-nee gal," gals who act grown up, like stylish actress/model Noriko Fujiwara). Kogals are sexually very loose, which is exciting to see, thus Japan's pornography industry has latched onto that with magazines, videos and more. Since girls who have sex can get pregnant, there are also "mama-gals" in Japan now, silly young women in their early 20's who wear outrageous fashions yet push baby carriages.

Loose socks - big, bulky socks
These big, loose socks (if you're talking to a Japanese person, you need to pronounce them as "lose socks") are the trademark of kogals. Virtually no high school girl goes around without loose socks on. To keep them stuck to your leg, apply "socks glue."

Omanko - pussy
The only "really" bad word in Japanese, omanko (or just "manko" -- the "o" on the front of words in Japanese is a polite prefix that could be translated as "honorable" if you wanted the translation to sound stupid) just means pussy. Don't speak it to the Japanese, it's very rude.

Gokkun - gulp
This is the sound of swallowing to the Japanese. Thus, as a pornographic term, it implies a woman sucking off a guy and swallowing.

Seiyuu - voice actress
There is a cult that worships voice actresses in Japan, and they are very famous, so much so that there's a special issue of Animage just for following voice actors published each month.

Race Queen - pretty girl in a bikini advertising (something)
Those lovely girls who wear those skimpy, fun to look at uniforms. They're basically cheerleaders for the racing scene.

Oshiri - ass
A girl's rear end. A taboo word to use.

Pai-zuri - titty fucking
The fetish of humping boobs. From pai (breasts) and suri (to stroke). The Japanese word for a man coplating with a woman's breasts. "Pai" comes from "oppai" (a normal word for breasts). Zuri means "stroke".

Tamakeri - ball-kicking
An interesting fetish that's come up in recent years, tamakeri is "ball-kicking" and is the fetish of a pretty girl kicking men in the balls, usually quite hard. The "slap' sound effect that's raised when a good karate kick lands home is what most of the fans say they like.

Tekoki - hand job
Another fetish to come up in recent years, tekoki is the act of a woman giving a man a "hand job".

Meganekko - glasses girl
A word that means a girl (ko) wearing glasses (megane).

Otaku - fan of anime, manga, anything
A word which really means "you" or "your family," this is a term that has come to mean anyone who gets carried away in his love of anime, manga, sci-fi films, J-POP idols, or any other topic. There are all kinds of otakus in the world, perfume otaku, goth otakus, shoe otakus. It's fun to get obsessive over pop culture! Note that fans of anime use the term all over the world, but in Japan it's not really a positive concept. Just as you wouldn't always feel right about a "Trekkie" who wore Spock ears while shopping, celebration of one's self as an otaku is better done quietly and with others who share your passion.