Japanese words that Every ANIME FAN Should Know

[@coolbrotherf127]

未来 (mirai) is a word I hear a lot in Japanese and and songs. It was probably one of the first kanji words I learned because I saw it so much.

[@sje123]

A customer in Japan taught us a phrase using 'meshi'. To refer to a very easy tasks just use 朝 飯 前 (asa meshi mae), literally "before breakfast", but when referring to a task means something like "it's so easy I can finish it before breakfast." I don't know if it's a common phrase, but we all had a lot of fun with it. 🙂

[@mochirealjapanese3430]

it is common, I mean we don't use it too often but when you say "that's piece of a cake!" in English, that's when we say "朝飯前だ！" in Japanese✨

[@piotrra8811]

@@mochirealjapanese3430 Mochi do you know somebody from Poland do is any chance to meet you ? Mochi you are the moust beautifull being that exist I think the stars gave your eyes all the glow

[@elitistcentral7596]

@@piotrra8811 Bruh, przestań być przegrywem i może kiedyś sobie kogoś znajdziesz

[@piotrra8811]

​@@elitistcentral7596mam pytanie czy to nie ty hakujesz i szpiegujesz moj komputer ?

[@elitistcentral7596]

@@piotrra8811 O czym Ty mówisz do mnie człowieku

[@cmgeolo]

#24 was extremely helpful. Been confused about that one for a while.

[@BrandonB...]

Something I've observed is that slice of life, honestly, doesn't seem like a terrible way to pick up some elements of the language, as long as you take it with a massive grain of salt and put it in context. The problems happen when you try to use shounen to learn the language 😄

[@landspide]

Great video, I don't really watch anime, but I am about 150 days into learning Japanese.

[@MichaelTravelsJapan]

もち先生、ありがとうございました。ぼくはベルギー人です今１年間日本語を勉強してました。とてもむずかしですでも大好きですよ。本当にありがとうございました!!!! sorry if i made a mistake :D love you're video's :)

[@Coleish]

Wow thanks to anime... I can pretty understand all the words in this video ......

[@chienimurmann]

The Umi app you recommended is so useful. Arigatou ❤

[@JoeB1946]

I hear あばよ used to say goodbye in a lot of the older チャンバラ movies. You post a lot of very helpful videos, thanks.

[@ЮлияКапитонова-п3п]

great video, thanks! such a great and cute teacher, very pleasant to listen

[@Pallidus_Rider]

Mochi Sensei makes learning Japanese fun 👍 🙏 👍

[@mochirealjapanese3430]

arigatou for saying that!😢✨

[@Pallidus_Rider]

@@mochirealjapanese3430 Tanoshii desu ne 🙏 ❤️ 🙏

[@A_unknown_boy]

it was a really fun video✨,and i learn something new today

[@arounmean8961]

Thanks

[@mochirealjapanese3430]

thank yooou!

[@734ch3r]

Very nice video, Sensei. You are a very likeable person 🤗

[@night_fiend6]

I am still learning hirigana, myself. But that app looks fun.

[@claricetan5285]

Thanks for sharing this video

[@mochirealjapanese3430]

My pleasure

[@oponomo]

My favorite word is TAICHO!!

[@skoelapoe]

もち先生、その言葉はも全部していますstill learning, but i learned all the words watching anime and more! I'm actually learning it now, which i never expected. I am having a lot of fun and will soon watch the netflix show (from me to you) 君の届け i finished the anime and it was soo good! For the learners like me I can really recommend you to watch it aswell. 皆さんがんばて.

[@FarshidRanjbar68]

Thanks 😍 17:23 yui ishikawa voice 😍

[@clydeds123]

Your intro is very cute just like you are very cute!

[@Charlieerrrr]

This helps so much since I'm learning Japanese thank you so much ありがとう

[@qawareer1944]

arigatou gozaimasu sensei for making this video now i finally know which anime words i should use in real life or someone like me who learn japanese with anime if they visit japan they must use anime words so we maybe look like we are anime characters in real life and most of them i know thanks to naruto i learn alot of words from that anime

[@FreezingTheMind]

Hey Mochi Sensei! Can you please make more types of these videos? I think they are great! Thank you for making this video!

[@mochirealjapanese3430]

I will try!✨

[@A.K.A_whaly]

almost clicked away at the beginning. Nice one.

[@tawanhua]

Thank you mochi sensei ☺

[@maikutsukino4743]

My friends humored me one day and went to a sushi bar with me (in the States). One asked me what the first Japanese word I learn was as he stuck his chopsticks into his rice and left them stuck there. I reached out and gave a light slap to his face and said "Baka!!". Though "arigato" was really the first word I learned, their first word was "baka". Glad to see it as number one on your list! (edit) I have heard "daijoubu" (or I think it was that) used towards another person and I kinda thought it meant "are you ok?" the way it seemed to be used. I didn't mean to listen in to other peoples conversation while I visited Japan, but it was great to hear it first hand and in everyday situations. Don't get me going on how I learned it's not said as "domo arigato"......

[@Haikara401]

ご協力ありがとう！ In Naruto 、is Guy Sensei’s favorite catchphrase。 もち先生、いつも日本語を教えてくれてありがとう！

[@mochirealjapanese3430]

こちらこそいつも見てくれてありがとう！❤

[@Vividxful]

Serious question.. as im learning japanese im really.. i guess picking up the dialect but i feel "rude" actually speaking that way? i understand the emotion that goes into speaking i just dont want to go to speak mispronounce and others get the idea im making fun or being rude. so how should i speak? thanks, and sorry i just get excited now speaking with others as i can have like a full 60 second conversation XD. i get excited and things begin to blurt out at rapid speed.. and its just me trying to look at myself objectively to get better. arigato.

[@KowaiiKawaii001]

Not only Anime but watching Japanese dorama is the the reason why i learned more Japanese words.

[@mochirealjapanese3430]

Which Japanese drama do you like? I like Confidenceman JP!!

[@KowaiiKawaii001]

@@mochirealjapanese3430 i like Alice in Borderland, First Love, Anata no ban desu, Nigeru wa haji da ga yaku ni tatsu, kekkon aite wa chusen de and many more. :)

[@ariohandoyo5973]

Ya i'm also anime fan plus japan fan, sadly i haven't learning japanese due to my English learning, i reconignise some of the words there as an anime watcher, i'll add one word that cought my attention, nake! It means cry right? I heared tht word in baby crying contest festival in japan, even i addicted to it. Have you ever heared the festival sis?😂

[@AnimeMangaMom365]

I know most of these words, but you presented a few new ones. I think my favorite Japanese word/phrase is 大丈夫！

[@mochirealjapanese3430]

I'm glad you learned!✨

[@thomasnitkowski94]

Hello, I hope you are well! I don't watch anime, but I still this very useful. To me learning a language is like a puzzle, and every word is a peace! I also, want to let you know that, I can understand your all-Japanese videos now, I didn't watch all of them. I saw the one about study tips, and the one about Spain. I'm so happy with progress I've made! Thank you, for being part of my Japanese journey! last, I want to say, I thank it's cool that you moved to Spain for year!

[@mochirealjapanese3430]

arigatou!❤

[@MasterQuestMaster]

Before watching, I’m guessing that I already know all of those words. Edit: I knew all except „あばよ“, never heard that one before. I learned something new.

[@danielantony1882]

It's not ðat common in Anime. Ðe only time I recognized it was in Sekiro, and ðat's not even an Anime.

[@klicka1]

Cool thank you 😊

[@mochirealjapanese3430]

You're welcome!

[@yusufsaiddemetgul3007]

Hii Mochi-san, first comment from me. It is late here and I'm on the bus also 😄 You found the best time again 😂 I put like in advance がんばってね

[@francisfrancis785]

Sensei, I have some questions here...

[@mochirealjapanese3430]

thank you first comment!✨

[@KoreanBeauty1985]

As a South Korean that watches anime I know all these words and meanings 😊

[@aa-cx8nc]

ありがとね

[@najafullahsajid4688]

I think I've heard the most of them

[@sunnyyu5669]

Sugoi!

[@akiranorakage3675]

1:20 oh! where did you get that "abayo" of Jigen? i realy like it! could you please share with me?

[@resop3]

I think I understood all but around eight of them.

[@qawareer1944]

sensei what actually dattebayo means most of people says it means believe it but there are other phrases similar to it are used in naruto like once he used dattebanya and kushina oftently used dattebane so what all these words mean

[@NicholasObst]

anata wa kawaii desu

[@JasonReyes-q8o]

Thank you for the app. This will be very helpful ^_^

[@JacksHardenedLiver]

App seems pretty good. Trying to get the waifu and 1 other friend to try it

[@vasyear]

I'm actually a Tokusatso fan, 23: I learned that from mahou sentai magiranger 31: I thought "sempai" was applied to someone that was higher than you at a company for example regardless of age or am i wrong?

[@FF2Guy]

Another Japanese word I’ve seen a lot is “miihaa” = trendy or obsessive. Not sure if it used in daily conversation in Japan

[@NicholasObst]

i want to use yare yare

[@marcusmeins1839]

Ryokai Taichou Ojosan

[@professorJorge11]

Mochi Sensei Hime

[@varshajangra1615]

こんにちは先生。日本語の学生です。

[@oskarsandstrom4209]

I sometimes see the word いこうぜ. Is it similar to 行くぞ or is it more rough?

[@英語わかりません]

Mer eller mindre samma sak, bara det att ぜ låter mer seriefiguraktigt och förekommer främst i anime.

[@donutkilla]

thats just the informal volitional form, ironically called 意向形 （いこうけい) in Japanese. Its used all the time, she literally uses it in this video when talking about meshi, 食べよう

[@danielantony1882]

-ou ze is an ending particle ðat means "let's do X".

[@YoboiAmani_]

Thanks for this video it helped me alot I luv anime

[@rupulstilskin]

Where can we learn the Japanese characters?

[@sifatkhan642]

What is senpai? 2:06

[@hildaortiz7537]

🥰 ohayo my teacher good morning thank you so much can you please tell me the first anime from those three family cartoons arigato so kind 😊

[@KrakenPines]

Kakkoii Channel! 🎉

[@mochirealjapanese3430]

🎉🎉🎉

[@vsmriti]

Ganbare is sukuna's line

[@EMPER0RC0W]

また面白い動画作ってくれてありがとう！😊

[@Deibi078]

why are otaku and tsundere written with katakana?

[@amirquf4196]

arigato mochi sensi

[@mochirealjapanese3430]

👍✨

[@SheetMan]

the only one I didn't know (if it was used in real life) was yare yare

[@Rumeel12708]

Mai 😍, baka!!!

[@0fficialsoul]

Nostalgia in japanese?

[@Katrina_abenojar]

Um i joke around with one of my classmates i say "onichan" and i chase him around is that good😅

[@francisfrancis785]

Isn't an "otaku" somewhat similar to an expert or specialist over a topic or field? (Like "gun otaku"...)

[@TheAlexR96]

More like nerd or geek. So has a negative connotation depending on who you ask and whet the interest is

[@mochirealjapanese3430]

Little bit different from expert or specialist, as I said I'm cosmetic otaku, I'm in love and into it too much, I search for cosmetic video a lot and watching the swap all day and go check the new items at the store very often, something like that is otaku!

[@danielantony1882]

An expert is a Sensei 先生. Ðat's why you see it used in oðer contexts besides schools.

[@Ayaz2OverPowered]

10:41 😂

[@shun0825]

rimuru 😁😁😁

[@5milliondollarsindebt385]

Lmao most of them i know

[@mansoorjahanifar3544]

Hi Mochi U are very nice And u nice too

[@haniehes]

i see Gintama i click:>>>

[@megnice9978]

The hentai is also a word in Filipino

[@francisfrancis785]

What's the difference between "baka" and "aho"? 🤔

[@Its_Dave_Just_Dave]

Aho is Kansai dialect, i use it more than Baka

[@francisfrancis785]

@@Its_Dave_Just_Dave Really? (Honto? 😁) But it got absorbed into standard, daily Japanese now, right? 🤔

[@Its_Dave_Just_Dave]

@@francisfrancis785 "Baka" is used more throughout Japan but both can be used

[@francisfrancis785]

@Dave, just Dave Been hearing "aho" often in the "Urusei Yatsura" reboot. Also, in "Kanojo mo Kanojo", Shino used that term once in referring to her BFF, Saki-chan

[@Its_Dave_Just_Dave]

@@francisfrancis785 Shino is best girl of the 4

[@bheemyakha7112]

ありがとうございます。mochi sensei ,i loved to watch japanese anime a lots....

[@shun0825]

mochi sensei seiyuu san desu ka

[@mochirealjapanese3430]

いいえ😂

[@viola0livido]

What is the meaning of dattebaio?

[@キュウリジョー]

It doesn't mean anything specific, it's kind of a few words mashed together to sound really emphatic. だ is like the casual way of saying です which is the polite copula used to end clauses which don't end in a verb. ってば is like a casual way of saying "of course" or "you should already know by now" or something to that effect, and it can also be used to indicate that someone is being forceful or expressing a feeling of annoyance that's intended to make the listener do what the speaker is asking. よ is a particle used to place emphasis on what's being said, so when you put it all together, you get だってばよ. I guess the closest English translation is something like "so that's the way it is!" or "so there!". Honestly, the "believe it" translation from the English dub isn't too far off from the feeling だってばよ evokes. He's just putting emphasis on the statement he's making.

[@viola0livido]

@@キュウリジョー thankualot!

[@viola0livido]

What the meaning of dattebaio?

[@mochirealjapanese3430]

no meaning just Naruto says!

[@Monk3y-D-luffy--h3re]

It means... believe it or ya know

[@michaeldeoz]

looks like you missed: こちらこそ

[@mh13382]

Thanks to Asuka from WWE I know what baka means.

[@mochirealjapanese3430]

ya very famous phrase of Asuka!😊

[@ganCheng-ci3gb]

🎉❤

[@balazsrupa6232]

😊😉🌹

[@pravindave4194]

Colambo,andaman

[@francisfrancis785]

Isn't "gohan" the word for "rice" only? 🤔

[@kylegent6566]

Mochi Sensei explained this too me. If I can remember correctly. ‘Gohan’ means meal. For example. Breakfast = asa gohan. Using gohan to refer to rice is only used when it’s a full meal that has rice as a part of it. Rice on its own is something else. But I can’t remember what it is 🙈

[@bestiaonthedrums]

​@@kylegent6566 rice is kome 米

[@kotori_no_saezuri]

"Gohan" means boiled rice or meal.

[@francisfrancis785]

@@bestiaonthedrums Now I know - real kewl y'can type kanji with your phone, aside from romanji...

[@mitsuyakagimoto7481]

The most popular word is: Kisama😅

[@najafullahsajid4688]

Meaning?

[@StudywithMiejie]

アニメを見るのが大好きで、日本語も勉強しているので、この動画の単語は全部知っています。 ଘ(੭ˊ꒳ˋ)੭✧

[@DarkDragonSlayer]

The funny thing is that "baka" in Tagalog means "cow", but in Japanese, it means "idiot" lol. Yes, I speak a bit of Tagalog as a Pinoy American. Edit: shoutout to Daniel Antony for being a bigger baka (idiot) than me for not knowing that "baka" also means idiot lel

[@mochirealjapanese3430]

really😂

[@DarkDragonSlayer]

@@mochirealjapanese3430 yes, really lol. Go and google translate "cow" from English to Tagalog. It might give you a different translation from Japanese to Tagalog.

[@DarkDragonSlayer]

@@mochirealjapanese3430 did you google translate "cow" from english to tagalog? just curious

[@danielantony1882]

Baka 馬鹿 means Horse and Deer. I don't how it became to mean stupid.

[@DarkDragonSlayer]

@@danielantony1882 "Baka (馬鹿 or ばか) is a Japanese swear or curse word meaning idiot, jackass, dumbass, or unthinking fool. (Excuse our language, please!) That said, baka's meaning is highly contextual, as our resident Japanese expert explains: “Baka (馬鹿) means a fool or an idiot, and used as an insult."

[@wandilenhlapo3816]

*says I am not your brother in Japanese*

[@SIPEROTH]

Whenever i hear NANI, i imagine a big muscular man with a deep voice shouting "NANI?!" with a shocked expression on his face. Thank you Fist of the North Star(Hokuto no Ken) and JoJo. 🤣

[@francisfrancis785]

I often watch the "Urusei Yatsura" reboot and often hear Lum add "-dacha" to the end of her statements. What is that? Can you do an in-depth discussion on the dialogue used in the "Urusei Yatsura" reboot?

[@maosama599]

as a huge otaku, thank you

[@Tarry_Plaguer]

I would also add, Daijōbu? 大丈夫？"You OK?" Maybe after #17 itai. I hear this phrase a lot in anime, often followed by Genki da yo 元気だよ "I'm fine" #10 gomennasai "I'm sorry". I will also often hear, sumimasen すみません "excuse me" You may want to tell us the distinction between #11 hentai "pervert" and ecchi, kōshokuna, midarana エッチ, 好色な, みだらな "naughty, lustful, lascivious" Although, I think most people know already. Also I often confuse #21 kawaii "pretty, cute, adorable" with kowhai 怖い "scary". I guess scary E's are cute. 😼

[@danielantony1882]

I'm struggling to understand what confuses you about Kawaii and Kowai. One is a clear phonetic A while ðe oðer is a clear phonetic O. Are you, perhaps, a native English speaker?

[@Tarry_Plaguer]

@@danielantony1882 Darn tootin! Err.... That is a yes. 😸One who is almost 60 and has bad hearing.

[@danielantony1882]

@@Tarry_Plaguer Ah, I'm sorry. I didn't know.

[@Tarry_Plaguer]

@@danielantony1882 Not sure which you are sorry about. The fact I am English or the fact I am an old fart with bad hearing. 🤔🤷‍♂ In either case, no need for an apology. I took the liberty of clicking your profile. So that is a hedgehog. My daughter is a HUGE hedgie fan! She owned one for a number of years, and has a stuffed plushie one, called Jefferie, that she takes with her on trips and photographs. Jefferie is a world traveler now, he has gone with my sister to just about everywhere. Someday we plan to take him to Japan. She also is an artist and has done Sonic the Hedgehog art and comics. I also noticed that you are into 3D and using SFM. 😮‍💨You sound like me when I was young. I was really born to early. I have always been a fan of animation. I wanted to make animated films. I can't draw, but I did learn to do computers and filming, I know about multiplane cameras and all that. My wife is the artist. We made a few traditional animated clips when we were young on 35mm film. When I graduated from high school we were still using a teletype printer that was connected to a WAN for the public school system, OTIS, as an intranet connecting colleges etc. The internet didn't exist yet and things connected with modems. We would play text based games on it. My very first computer I bought was an IBM 386 DX with SVGA graphics 8MB of RAM and a 40MB HD with a 9-pin dot matrix printer for $2,600 in 1990 It ran DOS 6.0 and Windows 3.1. You can pity me now. I took an interest in 3D graphics after seeing TRON and The Last Starfighter. Back then it was mainly Video Toaster on the Amiga. I took a class at the local University on 3D graphics using PictureMaker and an IBM with an attached video processor box. We used a puck to plot points and made wireframe models that we stored on 3 1/2" floppy disks storing 1.44MB each. It took about an hour to render one Phong shaded image that we could then make an BMP image of to use as a frame of video in our project. It was a painstakingly slow and laborious process. As already stated I was a fan of The Last Starfighter. Of course I also loved Battlestar Galactica (the original one from the 70's), and the first few Star Wars movies had come out. Needless to say my project was a space battle. I had made my spaceships and had a background where they flew up from a planet the trailing ship blasting little missiles at the lead ship. It was awesome! Then in the final week of class some idiot typed Format c: on the main computer while attempting to format a floppy. GONE! All gone. We got still slides made from what we had on our floppies. Anyway, yeah, I was born in the wrong era. Now you guys have Blender which is hundreds of times more powerful than the software I was using, and your dang smartphone has a better graphics processor than what I was trying to render images on. That image renderer costs thousands of dollars. It was the most expensive piece of equipment in the computer lab. Today it would make a good door stop.

[@danielantony1882]

@@Tarry_Plaguer Ah, I apologized because I was not showing respect to a senior(Or Erfellow, if we base it on Japanese). My profile picture was chosen because of what I believe around 7 years ago, about who I am. I was sure ðat I have ðe hedgehog's dillema, and am still unsure if it's not ðe case, after 7 years. I do love animation, but my interest and enþusiasm for it got more or less twharted because of ðe diagnosis I got during ðe pre army service check ups and ðe diagnose I got. It was a 1-3 minute diagnosis, and ðe only reason I got freed from ðe mandatory army service was because of what I assume was ðe general. He looked at me once, saw ðat I'm miserable as is, because of how my body language told him about what I've been þrough, and said what at ðe moment, felt like "dismissed", but since ðe word meant boþ "dissmissed" and "you are free", I realized what he meant. Ðe diagnosis was Schizotypal Personality Disorder, and unfortunately, my mom didn't understand ðat it was a fake diagnosis done in minutes, and believed it cuz she's too gullible to suspect people in ðe positions of power. So since I listen to her, even if I have a bad relationship wið her, she decided to bring me somewhere to heal me based on ðat diagnosis. I was doubting it. I þought it would negatively influence me if I take ðe psychoþeraputic pills, but I still took ðem cuz of peer pressure. And my worries were completely valid. for ðe last 3 to 4 years ðat I was taking pills, my cognitive functions felt like a rock, I have no mental flexibility. Ðe pills did not help me wið anyþing whatsoever, and only handicapped my cognitive capabilities, which right now makes me feel as if my mental flexibility is under a lock or someþing. And it was during ðat time ðat my interest for Animation was twharted. Doing anyþing mentally tense or stressful for more ðan 30 to 60 minutes, makes my head burn and hurt, which is unnaccaptable, since ðe average human does ðis as easy as breaðing air. My critical þinking hasn't been touched, but it more has to do wið my mind maturing over ðe years, but ðe influence of ðe pills made my sensitivity and impulsiveness worse. I keep trying to tell ðis almost every monþ to my mom, but she doesn't do anyþing about it, even ðough she looks like she's þinking hard about it when I complain to her. At ðis point, I concluded ðat what looks to be her, þinking hard about my worries, is actually just her taking in more negativity and pessimistically stressing over it just to drown herself in more stress, since she has ðat type of personality. Ðat's basically how I got here, and my abilities did improve, but my family is a mess XD If I had to say why I liked animation before, was because of my overall interest in fiction, which I still have, and is why I use, for example, Eth and Thorn, because language is an important part of fiction and story-telling, so I naturally am interested in most þings in life. Gotta see how my life goes, really. A lot of minor þings between us in ðe family snowball into making me lose motivation to become a better person, and at ðis point, it's just a hell-hole. I don't have a faðer, my moðer doesn't understand ðat I'm a male, and so I became more sensitive and aggressive towards my family in terms of arguments, which destroyed my motivation to become better.

[@fobinc]

大丈夫 confused me for the longest time being Chinese. I couldn't figure out why people kept asking for big husband until I realized it was in Kanji

[@danielantony1882]

丈夫 means healþy so you can take your guesses from ðat. A lot of Japanese words developed based on association. Originally, 様probably only meant likeness or ðe way someone looks, but since it was used to also describe describe beautiful and strong people, ðey naturally attached a meaning of respect to it. So 丈夫 could easily be interpreted as "A husband is usually healþy" so ðe word 丈夫 started to mean healþy as well.

[@ericsoncristobal455]

Hentai is sus i searched on Google 🤨

[@estebanguzra]

This is not a problem because im learning japanese to watch anime y read manga 😂

[@BlondeCyborg]

化け物 美人 だな

[@NotXecutioner]

I dont know if i should be concerned that i knew all the words in the video maybe despite the fact that i have no relation with japan or whatsoever i guess i should stop watching anime

[@mdkhalidhossen874]

Hentai😳😳😳😳

[@francisfrancis785]

What's the difference between "ero", "ecchi", and "hentai"? 🤔

[@原岡信]

Her explanation is not always correct. It is highly recommended not to believe totally in these explanation.

[@Idtelos]

1) OPPAI!!!! 2) ECCHI 3) loli