Monster Girl
The word is also romanized monsutaa musume モンスター娘, and abbreviated monmosu もん娘. The musume 娘 part can mean "daughter," but in this case it means "girl." (see: suffix -kko っ娘)
- Origins
- Jingai Musume 人外娘
- Ajin 亜人
- Types & Examples
- Mamono Musume 魔物娘
- Monster Girl Encyclopedia
- What is Not a Monster Girl?
gijinka 擬人化
Peachification
In anime, peachification, in Japanese Piichi-hime-ka ピーチ姫化, literally "Princess Peach-fication," is the term for turning characters into Princess Peach-like characters by putting a Super Crown on them. It's also spelled peachfication or peach-fication.
See Bowsette and Other Princesses for reference.
Bowsette's Japanese Name
(and of Other Princesses that got "Peachfied" too)
If you don't know who Bowsette is, she's the gender-bent / rule 63 / nyotaika 女体化 version of Bowser that turned into a meme overnight this week. (it all began in 2018-09-19.)
doki doki ドキドキ
Often, however, it implies romance, like in Doki Doki Literature Club or in PreCure.
Reduplication in Japanese
When such thing happens, it's called reduplication, or choujou 重畳, the process of creating "reduplicative words," jougo 畳語, and it's not specific of the Japanese language. English has it too.
In this article I'll explain how it works in Japanese, and common effects it has on the meaning of words.
- Same Word Twice
- Same Kanji Twice
- Change in Pronunciation
- Effect Patterns
- Plurals and Groups
- Groups of Individuals
人々, 神々 - Geographic Groups
国々, 島々 - Other Groups
数々, 隅々 - Parallels and Alternatives
- Reduplicative Alternatives
様々, 色々 - Reduplicative Parallels
別々, それぞれ - Emphasis
- Adverbs from Adjectives
丸い to 丸々
軽い to 軽々 - -shii ~しい Adjectives
騒々しい, 痛々しい - Other Emphatic Words
少々, 満々 - Continuity
- Sequences, Frequencies, Progresses
日々, 次々, 益々, 代々, 順々 - Indefinite Infinite Repetition
ドキドキ, わくわく - Definite Unreduplicated Finite
ドキっと - References
Iteration Marks
In Japanese, iteration marks are symbols which can be used to repeat parts of a word. The most common mark, 々, is written instead of a repeated kanji. The marks ゝゞヽヾ are written instead of a repeated kana. Besides those, there's also a long く mark, this thing 〻, and the ditto mark 〃.
〃 (Ditto Mark)
In Japanese, the ditto mark (〃), called nono-ji-ten ノノ字点, because it resembles the katakana ノ twice, tenten てんてん, chonchon ちょんちょん, and officially onajiku kigou 同じく記号, works just like the English ditto mark: it's used when a part of one line is the same thing as the previous line.
The only difference being that English uses a ditto mark for each word repeated, while Japanese uses just one ditto mark for the entire repeated part.
This mark is unlikely to show up in manga, or in any dialogue text. It can show up in a school, an actual, real school, in class, when a teacher is writing on an actual blackboard, as well as in tables when you have multiple rows and cells of a row are the same thing as cells of the row above.
ゝゞヽヾ
In Japanese, the symbols ゝゞヽヾ are iteration marks for kana (hiragana and katakana). They work just like 々 works for kanji, by repeating the character that precedes them, except that, while 々 is commonly used, ゝゞヽヾ are rarely used in modern Japanese.
Note: if you saw ヽ in the furigana space, that's probably an emphasis mark instead.
The differences between the five symbols are pretty simple:
- 々 is used with kanji.
- ゝ and ゞ are used with hiragana.
- ヽ and ヾ are used with katakana.
- ゞ and ヾ add a dakuten ゛ accent.
- ゝ and ヽ remove the accent.
The symbols ゝゞヽヾ are called ichi-no-ji-ten 一の字点, "character mark [that looks like] 一," but they're also known by the same names 々 has: kurikaeshi 繰り返し, odoriji 踊り字, etc.
Mimetic Words
This post will explain how such words work.
- What are Ideophones?
- Types of Ideophones
- Onomatopoeic vs. Mimetic Words
- Word for Ideophones in Japanese
- Usage and Grammar
- Ideophonic Portmanteaus
- How are Ideophones Made
- Ideophonic Patterns
- Lists of Ideophones
Japanese Onomatopoeia - Grammar
(In case you need it: なまえのないかいぶつ on Amazon.)
"It" in Japanese - Pronoun
This happens because most of the time you need an explicit "it" in English, you can simply omit "it" and leave "it" implicit in Japanese.
- Context: Kobayashi 小林 sees a dragon girl in maid clothes.
- meido fuku...
メイド服・・・
Maid clothes... - yume? yahari yume ka?
夢?やはり夢か?
[Is it a] dream? As I thought, [is it a] dream?
But let me explain more about each use of "it" in English and what's done in Japanese instead.
zettai ryouiki 絶対領域
Yes, seriously. That's what Zettai Ryouiki means. It's an anime trope.
ヶ - Small Ke ケ
In Japanese, the small katakana ke ケ, ヶ, is a bit different from the other small kana, in that it's not usually read ke, but instead as ka か, ga が, or even ko こ. Similar to how the small tsu っ isn't read as tsu つ.
For example, ni-ka-getsu 二ヶ月 is how you say "two months," as in counting the months. It's not read ni-ke-getsu despite having a ke in the middle.











