In Japanese, dakimakura 抱き枕 means literally a "hug pillow," in the sense of a pillow made for hugging. In English, the term is synonymous with anime body pillow, because a dakimakura is typically a body-sized pillow featuring an anime character on its cover.
This is also known as a "daki" in English, plural: "dakis."
In Japanese, 正, the kanji used in words like tadashii 正しい, "correct," "right," is sometimes used as a tally mark, for counting stuff, e.g. how many goals a team scored, how many days passed, etc., mainly because the kanji has five strokes, so every 正 written down means 5, e.g. 正正 means 10, or it could be part of a word like seisei-doudou 正正堂堂, "fair and square."
Since I've posted a bunch of these already, here's a list of Japanese words containing English (Latin) alphabet letters, and the respective posts which talked about them. (in no particular order)
Some of these are wasei-eigo, meaning they're made up in Japan but out of English words. Some of these are abbreviations used in English too which I included because why not.
Note that since these terms are used in Japanese, the letters are pronounced in Japanese too. See katakanized English letters for how to pronounce them.
OVA
Original Video Animation. (wasei-eigo.)
Anime that's originally sold on VHS, videotape, discs, instead of airing on TV.
ONA
Original Net Animation. (wasei-eigo.)
Anime originally streamed instead.
OAD
Original Animation Disc. (wasei-eigo.)
Anime originally bundled with manga volumes as a bonus disc.
NEET (niito ニート)
Not in Employment, Education or Training.
(not wasei-eigo, but used mostly in Japan, originally from UK, it seems.)
NG. (enujii エヌジー)
Not Good. (wasei-eigo.)
(can't air on TV, "triggers me," etc.)
For reference, the names of the numbers in English and their Japanese katakanizations.
These are seldom used in Japanese.
See Japanese numbers for the normal numbers used in Japanese.
Some of these words contain rather unusual diphthongs to pronounce English correctly from a Japanese perspective. They're so unusual that I'm not sure if there's a standard romaji for them.
0. Zero.
zuirou, zero
ズィロウ, ゼロ
(zuirou is more accurate, but zero is more common.)
1. One.
wan
ワン
2. Two.
touu, tsuu
トゥー, ツー
(touu is more accurate, but tsuu is more common.)
3. Three.
surii
スリー
For reference, a list of the names of the English alphabet letters (ABC's) their respective katakanizations. Note that the pronunciation in romaji often doesn't match what you'd expect from English, since, well, it's not English, it's the romaji of the katakana.
See the Japanese alphabet, if you're looking for an overview of the Japanese characters.
A
ei
エイ
B (bee)
bee, bii
ベー, ビー
C (cee)
shii, suii
シー, スィー
In Japanese, nonke ノンケ means "straight," as in a "heterosexual" person. It's an LGBT slang.
It's the katakanization of "non" in English, as in "not something," non ノン, and the ke ケ part comes from ki 気, which means a lot of things, but in this case it'd be like "intention." In order words: someone who is nonke is someone who does "not feel like it," sono ki ga nai その気がない.
The word nonke is usually written with katakana, but it may also be written with kanji as nonke ノン気, not to be confused with nonki 暢気, which means "carefree."
Since nonke is a slang it's not always used to say "heterosexual (person)" in Japanese, the more official way would be iseiaisha 異性愛者. It's easy to guess what this word means, given the meaning of its kanji literally spell "different-sex-love-person." To say "heterosexuality" in Japanese, the term would be iseiai 異性愛. (this is the same i as in isekai 異世界, by the way)
In fiction, among the shipping labels BL (boys love), GL (girls love), etc. NL is sometimes said to stand for "nonke love," nonke rabu ノンケラブ, i.e. "straight love."
In Japanese, tachi タチ, neko ネコ, and riba リバ are gay slangs for "top," "bottom," and "switch," respectively. Not to be confused with the homonyms: ~tachi ～達, the pluralizing suffix, and neko 猫, meaning a "cat," the animal.
In Japanese, nenabe ネナベ means a girl with an online male avatar, e.g. a woman that plays a male character in an online game, MMORPG, etc. It's an abbreviation of netto nenabe ネットネナベ, "internet onabe," onabe オナベ being the female counterpart of okama オカマ. The male counterpart of nenabe is nekama ネカマ.
In Japanese, nekama ネカマ is a guy who plays as a girl online in a MMORPG, or has an online female avatar or identity. It's an abbreviation of netto okama ネットオカマ, literally "internet okama." The opposite is called a nenabe ネナベ, from onabe オナベ.
In Japanese, onabe お鍋 means multiple things. It's a sort of "cooking pot" used to make stew, a "saucepan." it's also called nabe 鍋, without the o~ お～ prefix. It can also mean "stew," which is cooked in the pot. When spelled with katakana, onabe オナベ is a LGBT-related slang for masculine women, lesbians and trans men, sometimes considered pejorative.
In Japanese, okama オカマ means an effeminate man, gay man, or trans woman. Some people call themselves okama, as do some establishments, e.g. okama bars. The term is sometimes considered pejorative, and other terms, like newhalf ニューハーフ, may be preferred instead.
The homonym okama お釜 means a type of cooking "pot" instead.
In Japanese, onee-kotoba オネエ言葉 is an unusually feminine variant of female language used by effeminate men, gay men and trans women, i.e. by okama オカマ. Someone who speaks in this way is called an onee オネエ. It's similar to the "gay lisp" used by gay men in the western world.
There are various ways to say "crossdressing" in Japanese, depending on what you mean.
In Japanese, dansou 男装 normally means crossdressing, in the sense of girls wearing "male clothes." The opposite, guys wearing "female clothes," is called josou 女装, and is more common in anime.
In Japanese, josou 女装 means "female attire," but it's typically a term for crossdressing, in the sense of a guy wearing female clothes. It's also romanized josō, with a macron for the long vowel.
The opposite, girls wearing a "male attire," is called dansou 男装, but it's less common in anime.
In Japanese, nyotaika 女体化, meaning literally "female-body-fication," refers to a man turning into a woman, a boy into a girl, etc, as a gender bender scenario in anime, manga, and other fiction, in which a character changes sex through magical or sci-fi means. It's also called nyota にょた.
For becoming male, the term is nantaika 男体化 instead.
In Japanese, nantaika 男体化, meaning literally "male-body-fication," refers a woman to turning into a man, a girl into a boy, etc. Generally, this refers to gender bender scenarios in anime, in which a character changes sex through magical or sci-fi means.
For becoming female, the is nyotaika 女体化 instead.
In the English anime community, a reverse trap is a girl that looks like a boy, typically in the sense of a character that's canonically a girl, but whose design leads the audience or other characters to mistake her for a boy. Whether a character counts as a reverse trap may vary from person to person.
A "trap" is an anime slang for a boy that looks like a girl. The "reverse" comes from the Japanese word gyaku 逆, which is prefixed to things in Japanese to reverse the genders, e.g. gyaku-haaremu 逆ハーレム, "reverse harem."
In anime, a trap is a boy that looks like a girl, or, more typically, a girl that turns out to be actually a boy, because the author drew a girl, and then used this female design for a character that's canonically male. A reverse trap is the reverse: when a boy turns out to be actually a girl.
What "looks like" means exactly, and what counts as a trap or doesn't varies from person to person, such that the same character may be considered a trap to one person, but not to another.
In the image below, there are exactly six male and six female characters, ordered by hair length. Some of them are crossdressing. If you can't guess their gender correctly, congratulations, you've found a trap.
In Japanese, otokonoko 男の子 means "boy," literally "male child." This post, however, is about otokonoko 男の娘, "male girl," an Japanese anime slang for boys that look like girls, that translates to English as the anime slang "trap," or the gay slang "femboy."
In Japanese, guro グロ, meaning literally "grotesque," katakanized gurotesuku グロテスク, refers to a genre of body horror, depicting gore, death, and other disturbing imagery. In English, guro often refers to this as a genre of drawn pornography (hentai), although shounen anime, targeted at teenagers, sometimes feature guro scenes.
This can range from imagery depicting organs, guts, spilled out from a character cut apart, slashed, crushed, pierced, blood splattered around, physical deformities, fleshy monstrosities, gross infections, executions, etc. In summary, it's all pretty gross, makes you feel bad, it's kimochi-warui 気持ち悪い, and for the faint of heart can be pretty traumatized overall.
Not to be confused with kuro 黒, "black," affected by rendaku 連濁, e.g. gangugo ガングロ.
WARNING: this article includes examples of guro imagery from anime.
In anime, ryona リョナ typically refers to scenarios where a female character is defeated in a fight, getting beaten, captured, or otherwise harmed physically or psychologically in one way or another. It originates in female game characters' moans of agony sounding similar to moans of sexual pleasure, as in Resident Evil, Tomb Raider, and so on. Nowadays, ryona is a genre for works that focus on violence, too.
WARNING: this article contains images featuring violence, blood, and bruises. It's for informative purposes only. The author doesn't condone violence against women, men, asexual sentient minerals, etc.
In Japanese, shibari 縛り means "binding" or "tying," and may refer to some sort of "restraint," "binding," or "tie." It's the noun form of the verb shibaru 縛る, which means "to bind" or "to tie up."
