Japanese in manga
JLPT N5
Manga lines whose difficulty sits at N5, with what the official English had to give up to carry them.
4 notes
By kind of Japanese
- All174
- Honorifics & keigo17
- Role language19
- Register & tone35
- First-person pronouns9
- Second-person pronouns4
- Villain speech5
- Idioms55
- Body idioms48
- Four-character idioms18
- Proverbs7
- Kanji anatomy81
- Buddhist vocabulary39
- Language around death7
- Wordplay10
- Classical & archaic Japanese4
- No English equivalent40
- One word, many renderings34
- False friends5
- Cultural localisation6
By JLPT level
By series
Furigana
Pick the level you can already read — readings stay on everything above it.
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このまま…病で貴方は命を落とすでしょう
“AS A HUMAN, YOU WILL PROBABLY LOSE YOUR LIFE TO DISEASE.”
Too Polite to Say Your Name: 貴方 and the 'You' That Completes the Register Spectrum
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「いらっしゃいませイカ野郎」！！
“"WELCOME, SQUID-FACE!!"”
Bowing While Insulting You: いらっしゃいませ and the Sonkeigo Greeting VIZ Turned Into "Welcome, Squid-Face"
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おいらを弟子にしてくだせぇ！！
“PLEASE, MAKE ME YOUR APPRENTICE!!”
A Trainful of Country Boys: おいら and the Rustic 'I' VIZ Smooths Into Plain 'Me'
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わしゃちょうどへビ革の財布が欲しゅーてのォ…
“I'VE ALWAYS WANTED A SNAKESKIN WALLET...”
Old Man, Old Toad, Old God: わし and the Elder 'I' Every VIZ Line Calls Just 'I'