In anime, "flat as a board" is a rude way to describe flat-chested characters, who have "small breasts"," hin'nyuu 貧乳.

This everybody knows. What you may not know is that there are two different terms for this in Japanese, depending on the sort of board.

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In Japanese, sumaki 簀巻き is a method of execution in which someone is rolled up in a bamboo mat and thrown in the river to drown. It may also refer to anime girls being wrapped in blankets like a burrito.

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In Japanese, hadaka epuron 裸エプロン, literally "naked apron," refers to a situation in which a girl is wearing nothing but an apron, which is a garment normally worn while cooking in the kitchen to protect your clothes from stains. There's no practical purpose in wearing it naked.

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In Japanese, shinkon santaku 新婚三択, meaning "newly-wed three choices," refers to a scenario in which a newly wed husband arrives home to his newly wed wife, who provides him with three choices:

• Context: Yukimoto Yuzu 雪本柚子 imagines herself as a bride who would support her future husband.
• okaerinasai anata ♡
  おかえりなさいあなた♡
  [Welcome home, dear.]
  • anata
    あなた
    You. (second person pronoun.)
    Sometimes used by a wife to refer to her husband.
• ofuro ni suru?
  gohan ni suru?
  soretomo... wa... ta... shi...?
  お風呂にする？
  ご飯にする？
  それとも･･･わ♡た♡し♡？？
  [What do you want to do]?
  [Eat]? [Take a] bath? Or... me?
  • soretomo watashi
    それとも私
    Or me. (often pronounced with coquettish pauses between syllables.)
  • gohan means a "meal," and can be "lunch" or "dinner." It's normally dinner since the scenario is usually about a husband coming home from work.
  • ni suru にする means to settle on doing something. It doesn't carry a sexual innuendo like "do me" in English. Although suru する alone, "to do [it]," is sometimes an innuendo for "to have sex."

Despite the name, most instances of this scenario do not happen between newly wed couples, or even wed couples, just between any two random characters.

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In anime, sometimes a character has dark spots under their eyes, usually dark blue, or eye bags, baggy eyes, which are permanent and part of their design.

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In anime, sometimes a character's "mouth becomes a 3," kuchi ga san ni naru 口が３になる.

Like this: ・3・.

Not like this: ・ω・. See nekoguchi 猫口 for mouths drawn like 3's rotated.

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In Japanese, kuro-shirome 黒白目 means "black sclera"—the sclera being the (normally) white part of the eye.

Anime characters with black sclerae are often somehow inhuman. They may demons, cyborgs, androids, or other sort of robot, or have possibly demonic powers which, when activated, change the color of sclerae to black from white, maybe to imply the character has been corrupted.

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In Japanese, shirome 白目 means literally "white eye," and normally refers to the white part of the eye, the "sclera," kyoumaku 強膜, but can also refer to a character that has fully white eyes..

It's also spelled hakugan 白眼.

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In Japanese, osoroshii ko 恐ろしい子 means "what a terrifying child," or "what a terrifying girl," "what a terrifying guy," "what a terrifying person," and so on.

In manga and anime, osoroshii ko refers to a pose of shock, with eyes drawn completely white, and usually with one's index finger placed across the chin, sometimes drawn in monochrome like manga, accompanied by background effects like lightning or flash lines, used when a character has realized the terrifying capability of somebody.

It originates in the drama shoujo manga, Glass Mask, Garasu no Kamen ガラスの仮面. Today, it's pretty much always used in comedy, often sarcastically. It's become a meme.

In Japanese, nonojinome のの字の目 is a way to describe someone looking to the side, with their iris at the corner of the eye, perhaps averting their eyes from something or someone.

Literally, we're talking about "no" no ji no me 「の」の字の目, meaning "no の character eyes," because when someone looks to the side their eyes look like the no の hiragana character.

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In Japanese, henohenomoheji へのへのもへじ refers to a face drawn using the hiragana characters he へ for eyebrows and mouth, no の for eyes, mo も for nose, and ji じ for outline, though this last ji じ is often omitted.

It's also called hehenonomoheji へへののもへじ.

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In anime, sometimes characters' "eyes become 3's," me ga san ni naru 目が３になる. As in, they become drawn as the number 3, the Arabic numeral.

This article is about "3-shaped eyes." Not to be confused with having three eyes instead of two, or having a 3-shaped cat mouth （・ω・）.

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In Japanese, gigan 義眼 means a "prosthetic eye," or an "artificial eye," as opposed to an innate one.

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In Japanese, magan 魔眼, "magic eye," or "demon eye," also called "evil eye," jagan 邪眼, or satirically jakigan 邪気眼, is an eye that has some sort of magical power or ability. Sometimes a cursed, evil, demonic one.

In Japanese, fukugan 複眼, means "compound eyes," as in insect eyes.

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