In Japanese, fujoshi 腐女子, meaning literally "rotten girl," refers to a girl that fantasizes about guys being in a homosexual relationship with other guys, specially shipping male characters with other male characters in manga and anime, writing gay fanfics, drawing gay doujinshi 同人誌, and fan art featuring them, and enjoying gay genres called BL (Boys' Love) and yaoi やおい / 801.
In Japanese, boku 僕 means multiple things. Normally, boku means "I" or "me," as a first person pronoun used mostly by boys. It can also mean "boy," as a way to call out a young boy. Originally, it referred to male servants. It's also spelled boku ボク and boku ぼく.
In Japanese, waga 我が means "my," it's a possessive singular first person pronoun, that's rather archaic, but still has certain usage in modern Japanese. Sometimes, it means "one's own" instead.
It's also spelled 我ヶ, 吾が, 吾ヶ, 我, or 吾.
In Japanese, wareware 我々 means "we," or "us." It's a plural reduplication of the first person pronoun ware 我. The word wareware tends to be used to refer to us as individuals members of a group, or of an organization.
In Japanese, ware 我 means "I," or "me." It's a literary first person pronoun that particularly emphasizes one's very existence,. It's not used normally, except in some set phrases, and by some anachronistic or deity-like anime characters.
It's also spelled ware 吾.
In Japanese, washi わし is a first person pronoun typically associated with old men, elders, like a white-haired king of a medieval fantasy country, or an equally ancient sorcerer.
It's also spelled washi ワシ, washi 儂, or washi 私, the latter homonymously with watashi 私. Not to be confused with washi 鷲, which means "eagle," the animal.
In Japanese, oira おいら is a first person pronoun used mostly by men, and, in some cases, a second person pronoun, too, as the plural of onore 己.
It's also spelled oira オイラ, or oira 己等.
In Japanese, atashi あたし is a first person pronoun used mostly by women.
It's also spelled atashi アタシ, or atashi 私.
In Japanese, watakushi ワタクシ is a very formal first person pronoun.
It's also spelled わたくし, and spelled with kanji as 私, but this spelling is sometimes avoided due to a more common word being spelled with the same kanji: watashi 私.
In Japanese, using your own name as first person pronoun is something that very young children do, and that some people in real life, and some anime characters, do in order to appears more childish, sillier, and cuter. Specially girls.
In Japanese, ore 俺 means "I" or "me." It's a masculine first person pronoun, used mostly by men, and the pronoun that most men use. It's considered rude and arrogant in respectful contexts, and typically avoided with honorific speech. It's also spelled ore オレ, ore おれ.
In Japanese, watashi 私 means "I" or "me." It's one of the various Japanese first person pronouns. It's considered polite and feminine in casual contexts, but neutral in formal contexts.
In Japanese, watashi 私, ore 俺, boku 僕, and various other words, all mean "I" or "me," that is, they're Japanese "first person pronouns," ichininshou daimeishi 一人称代名詞.
But why are there so many ways to say "I" and "me" in Japanese? What's the difference between them?
The basic gist is that some pronouns, like watashi, are used by women, while other pronouns, like ore and boku, are used by men, except that in business and formal contexts everybody uses watashi, except some men use boku or watakushi ワタクシ instead. It's complicated.
If you're learning Japanese and are unsure of what pronoun to use, just use watashi until you become sure.
In Japanese, dame ダメ, also spelled dame 駄目, dame だめ, means a bunch of bad things. It can mean something is "bad," that it's "no good," "inadequate," "poor," "unfit;" that it's become "ruined," "spoiled;" that doing it is bad, that you shouldn't, "no;" that someone is bad at something, that their skills "suck;" that someone is a "failure," they're "useless;" and so on.
In Japanese, anime アニメ means "animation," from the katakanization animeeshon アニメーション, as in cartoons that move around. Any animated drawing is an anime. In English, anime refers to Japanese animation, just like manga 漫画 refers to Japanese comics.
![Parts of an anime episode: at start, "the story [so far] (up until the last episode," zenkai made no arasuji 前回までのあらすじ; then the cold open, in Japanese avant-title アバントタイトル; the intro or OP; which ends in the "sponsor," teikyou 提供; after the OP, the A Part Ａパート; a commercial break, CM; before and after the commercial break, the "eyecatch," アイキャッチ; then the B Part Bパート; the ED with the credits; an after-credits scene, called a C Part Cパート in Japanese; and the "next episode preview," jikai yokoku 次回予告.](https://media.japanesewithanime.com/images/1738/parts-of-an-anime-episode.png/)
In Japanese, senpai 先輩 means somebody's "senior." That is, someone who has been in an organization for longer than you have. This organization can be a school or school club with students, a workplace with employees and salaryman, etc. Sometimes it can refer to someone who has been doing an activity, like a sport, for longer than you have.
The opposite of senpai would be kouhai 後輩, "junior." For every senpai, there's a kouhai, and vice-versa. Someone who is neither a junior nor a senior is a douhai 同輩. These words are also romanized sempai, kōhai, and dōhai.
