character (esp. kanji); letter; handwriting; penmanship; the ... word (e.g. "the L word" = "love")
mouth; opening; hole; mouth (of a bottle); spout; gate; door
ninja; person trained in ninjutsu and employed for covert purposes in feudal Japan
village; hamlet; countryside; country; home (of one's parents, etc.); hometown
to come along; to come around; to turn up; to arrive at the present; to get where one is; to have been doing something (for a period of time)
mitsuba (Cryptotaenia japonica); Japanese honewort; Japanese honeywort; three-leaved; trefoil
lodger who pays nothing for room and board; freeloader; sponger
to chastise; to punish; to discipline
pleasant; delightful; enjoyable; joyful; cheerful; amusing
strife; riot; (media) uproar; brouhaha; feud; tussle
to create (a sensation); to give rise to (controversy)
to fade (of a colour); to grow dull in color (colour); to lose vividness; to lose freshness; to grow stale
Fujiko Fujio (1934.3.10-)
masterpiece; best work; amusing blunder; funny mistake; boner
to cross (legs or arms); to link (arms); to put together; to construct; to braid; to plait; to grapple
great laughter; burst of laughter
splendid; magnificent; utter (esp. defeat); total; (arch.) something worth seeing; (arch.) sight
cast-off skin (snake, insect, etc.); husk; empty shell; exuvia; exuviae
big hit; smash hit; popular item (e.g. movie, music)
ghost; apparition; goblin; monster; something unusually large
(not) at all; (not) a bit; (not) in the least; (not) in the slightest
scary; frightening; eerie; dreadful
to laugh; to smile; to sneer; to ridicule; to be dumbfounded; to be flabbergasted
story; tale; legend; plot; storyline
Shōwa era (1926.12.25-1989.1.7); reminiscent of the Shōwa era; Shōwa- nostalgic; old-fashioned
representative; representation; delegation; switchboard number; main number
all you want; as much as one wants
TV series; television series
more and more; all the more; at last; finally; (at the) last moment; worst possible time
regular; regular member (e.g. of football team, etc.); regular (petrol, gasoline)
start of broadcast; commencement of transmission; sign-on
high-definition television; HDTV
work (e.g. book, film, composition, etc.); opus; performance; production
book; volume; this; present; main; head
not less than; ... and over; beyond (e.g. one's expectations); above; above-mentioned; aforementioned
detailed; full; minute; knowing very well; knowledgeable (about); well-acquainted (with)
looking up (e.g. a word in a dictionary); retrieval (e.g. data); searching for; referring to