I've decided I want to learn Japanese, but I don't really have the energy to put into learning it properly just yet. What's the solution? Watch anime!

"Nani nani" Not exactly sure what this means. It's something like "Huh?" or "What's that?" or "What do you mean?" It's used to indicate perplexion or it's a request for more information. I think?
"Baka!" Stupid! Idiot! Simpleton!
"Gaijin" Foreigner.
"Nikkeijin" Japanese emigrants, i.e. those living in countries other than Japan.
"Dango" A dumpling, or a bun hairstyle.
"Iye!" No! Google translate gave me a lot of other translations, but not this one, so I'm not sure what's going on there.
"Hai!" Yes!/Right-o!/Okay!/Bob's your uncle!/Understood!
"Nihongo" What the Japanese call the Japanese language.
"Konichiwa!" Hello. Usually said in a twee, sickeningly sweet voice.
"Gomenasai" Sorry
"Futaro" Vagabond, vagrant.

There's also a lot you can learn about Japanese culture, but I already knew most of it. Like, advlt men sidling up to young girls and offering them money. Etc.

I did learn that younger people don't generally refer to each other by first names. Don't know why that is, exactly, yet. I guess it's because it indicates (a lot of) familiarity, and they might not want to indicate a closeness that isn't there.

So, I'm wondering... I know a lot of you watch anime. What have you learned from it?

All Japanese women are 12-year-old schoolgirls.

You get nosebleeds instead of erections when you're aroused.

What anime is this?

It can't be helped

I don't mind the art style so much. Voices bother me a lot, though. But I have Realtek Audio Manager installed, so I just lower the octaves by 2 or 3.

hahahaha that's awesome

What anime taught me: WATCH OUT FOR TENTACLES

That is brilliant, might actually make watching anime in Japanese bearable! Maybe I should give that a try sometimes.

Except for the ocational japanese word here and there.
That the japanese can't speak english (it sounds horrible)
Every girl has a squeeky voice.
All school uniforms are rather revealing.
All high school girls are either flat-chested or g-cups.

http://29.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lltzgnHi5F1qzib3wo1_400.jpg

I learned that if you gun isn't bigger than you are you can't be a good sniper.

While definitions you pick up watching anime may be fine, be careful not to pick up any anime grammar unless you want to be considered very rude during initial encounters with someone.

Bokusatsu tenshi Dokuro-chan,

That anime is messed up.
Which is also something I've learned.
Japanese people have some weird imagination.
Maybe there is something called being too creative after all.

Dunno what's so weird about it. Guy creates a pedo world where women stop aging at the age of 12, so god sends angels back in time to stop him. One angel in particular kills him multiple times only to bring him back to life, and all the angels are perverted. Finally, don't ever remove an angel's halo as #1 they are razor-sharp and #2 it'll cause the angel to have explosive diarrhea.

Seems pretty normal to me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_0zYcj-43E

Giant sweat drops!

Oh yeah, sorry I was thinkin about another anime, I think it's called Phantom, it's this messed up anime where, people use regular sized weapons and die, and don't have any kind of super powers. Now that's [censored] up right there.

Yeah, that's pretty odd. I mean, Bokusatsu tenshi Dokuro-chan has http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Btzys0P08hY. That's a pretty normal every-day person's food.

Not to mention it has an http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kL3remBDiy0 everyone can relate to.

I can't help but think of http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m0e5sszCuZ1qlf40eo1_500.jpg.

what the fuuuuck

Specially if you're female .

what i learned

never call the police for help because they are all actually in the pocket of evil capitalist corporations.

make friends with psychotic naked girls bent on xenocide.

polygamy.

all of this i learned for elfen lied at least.

I blame Slaanesh.

Also, there are 50 xanatos gambits happening for every 3 people at any given moment. I blame Tzeentch.

Can we ease up on the swearing please guys, I would like to not have this topic locked.


Hahah.



"Not sure if... "

That sounded terrible.


I wish all anime girls smoked. It would make them so much more pleasant to listen to.