In Japanese, hikikomori 引きこもり means a "shut-in." Someone who "shuts [themselves] into [somewhere]," hikikomoru 引きこもる, like in their room, or in their home.

• Definition
• In Japanese
• How to Become a Hikikomori
• In Anime

In Japanese, otaku オタク means a hardcore "anime fan," or, more generally, a "nerd," a "hobbyist." It's abbreviated ota オタ. Sometimes, otaku お宅 means "your house" instead, and may also mean "you," used as a second person pronoun.

• Anime Fan
  • Stereotype
  • Hobbyist
    • Weeaboo
  • Female Otaku
    • vs. Otome
    • vs. Fujoshi
• "Your House"
• Second Person Pronoun

In Japanese, moteru モテる means "to be popular," in the sense of a guy being popular with girls, or of a girl being popular with guys. Being romantically popular. Like a bishoujo 美少女, with thousands of admirers, love letters, a boyfriend, and so on.

Not to be confused with: the homonym moteru 持てる, which means "to have" or "to hold" something; or with ninki 人気, which means "popular" in the general sense.

• Grammar
  
  • モテない
  • モテたい
• モテモテ
• モテ期
• 持てる
• 人気

In Japanese, ikemen イケメン means "hot guy," "handsome," "cool guy," as in a "pretty" guy, an "attractive" guy. It's a slang. Similar words include bishounen 美少年, "beautiful boy," and binan 美男, "beautiful man."

In anime, a bishoujo 美少女 is, literally, a "beautiful girl," or less literally, a "pretty girl." Characters called bishoujo or introduced as bishoujo are supposedly more beautiful than the average anime girl.

• Kanji
• Definition
• Characters
• Trope
  • Popular Girl
  • Perfect Girl
  • Rich Girl
  • Neck Turner
  • Orientation Turner
• Bishounen 美少年
  • Bishounen Tropes
• Bijin 美人
• Bijo 美女
  • Matsubara Rumiko
• Bimajo 美魔女
• Beautiful Men

For reference, all the Japanese vocabulary concerning body parts that you'll ever need.

Let's start with the word for "body" in Japanese: karada 体. It's often read tai 体 when it's part of another word, e.g. tainai 体内, "inside of the body.

• Head
  
  • Face
  • Eye
  • Nose
  • Mouth
    
    • Teeth
• Arm
  
  • Hand
    
    • Finger Names
• Torso
  
  • Back
• Leg
• Organs
  
  • Muscle
  • Heart & Blood
    
    • Blood Types
  • Respiratory Organs
  • Digestive Organs
• Bones
  
  • Cranium Bones
  • Facial Bones
  • Spine & Vertebrae
  • Rib Cage Bones
  • Shoulder & Arm Bones
  • Hand Bones
  • Leg Bones
• Word Patterns
  
  • Body Sides
  • o- お～ Prefix
  • Reduplicated Plurals
• Idioms

There are various ways to say "body" in Japanese. A physical body is karada 体, or karada 身体, but the word mi 身 is used in some cases. The morpheme tai 体 is used to refer to aspects of the body. And words like nobody, somebody, anybody, everybody are formed with dare 誰 plus some particle.

This article is about the word for whole "body." See Names of Body Parts in Japanese for a list of terms for specific parts.

• 体 vs. 身
  
  • karada 体
  • mi 身
• 体 vs. 身体
• tai 体
  
  • Body Sides
• Nobody, Anybody, Somebody, Everybody

The terms for the "moon phases" in Japanese, gessou 月相, would be:

The word for "Moon" in Japanese is tsuki 月, e.g. tsuki ga kirei 月がきれい, "the Moon is pretty." This word is the kun'yomi 訓読み of the kanji, getsu is the on'yomi 音読み.

In Japanese, omake おまけ, also spelled omake お負け, is something given as an extra when selling a product. In manga, anime, and games, omake are bonuses generally bonuses included at the end of the an episode or tankōbon 単行本 volume.

• Usage in Japanese
• Omake in Anime and Manga
  
  • Examples of Omake

In Japanese, kimochi 気持ち means literally "feeling," a noun, but it's used in some weird ways that don't make much sense. In this article, I'll explain what kimochi means, how it's used, and the difference between kimochi, kimochi ii, and kimochi warui.

• Usage
  • "How I Feel"
  • "How Someone Thinks"
  • "Put Yourself in Their Shoes"
• Kanji
• Related Words
  • kimochi ii 気持ちいい
  • kimochi warui 気持ち悪い
    • kimoi キモい
  • kankaku 感覚
  • kanji 感じ

By the way, "a shounen protagonist" is the protagonist "of" a shounen manga/anime, not a protagonist who "is" a shounen, i.e. not a boy protagonist, a protagonist of a series for boys.

Note: not to be confused with shounen-ai and shoujo-ai, which, in English, refers to gay and lesbian genres of manga and anime.

Brothers and sisters, we are here united on this day to talk about the difference between "brother" and... "brother"... in Japanese. And "sister" and "sister." Of course I'm talking about the words oniichan 御兄ちゃん and otouto 弟, and oneechan お姉ちゃん and imouto 妹, and some other words related to siblings.

• Otouto 弟 vs. Oniisan お兄さん
• Imouto 妹 vs. Oneesan お姉さん
• What Is Not An Imouto or Otouto
• Oniichan, Oniisan, Oniisama, Oneechan, Oneesan, Oneesama
• Other Words for Brother and Sister
• Kyoudai, Shimai - Brothers and Sisters
• Different Romaji
• Referring to Other People's Siblings

If you watch anime, you might know that a neko 猫 is a "cat" and that an inu 犬 is a "dog", but what about the others? What are the animals' names in Japanese? Well, I've put together a list of them!

• Names List
  • A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, W, Y, Z
• Animal Kanji
• Word "Animal" in Japanese
• "Zoo"
• Animal Genders
  • Osu 雄
  • Mesu 雌
  • Hermaphroditism
• Feeding Behavior
  • Carnivore
  • Herbivore
  • Omnivore
• Animal Body Parts
• Pet in Japanese
  • Pet Collar
  • Pet Owner
• Animal Food
• Animal Training
  • kunren 訓練
  • shitsuke しつけ
  • choukyou 調教
• "Puppy" and "Kitten"
• Onomatopoeia

In Japanese, ~dono ～殿 after someone's name is a honorific suffix used in formal letters, and in historical anime about samurais, or by anachronistic characters, or by otaku オタク characters.

Not to be confused by the interrogative pronoun dono どの, "which."

• Usage
  
  • Business
  • Samurais
  • Nerds

In Japanese, yobisute 呼び捨て means calling someone without a honorific suffix after their names.

For example, if there's someone called Tarou 太郎, people normally call him: Tarou-san 太郎さん, with the san さん honorific. If you call him by just his name, Tarou 太郎, then that's yobisute.

• Usage
  
  • Parents and Children