Japanese in manga
Language around death
Japanese has registers for dying that English does not.
7 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
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英雄!英雄!犬死になんてするかってばよ!!
“I'M NOT GONNA THROW MY LIFE AWAY! I WANT TO BE LIKE THEM- A HERO!”
A Dog's Death: 犬死に and the Animal English Already Has, But Won't Use
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成仏してください
“REST IN PEACE!”
Praying the Demon Onward: 成仏してください and the Epitaph That Points the Wrong Way
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たとえそれが冥土の土産でもだ!!
“NOT EVEN AS A DEPARTING GIFT TO HELL...”
A Souvenir for the Underworld: 冥土の土産 and the Hell VIZ Wrote Into Buggy's Threat
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何の未練もなくお前たちを刻めるよ
“I'M SO IRRITATED THAT I CAN CUT YOU TO PIECES WITHOUT ANY REGRET!”
Not Yet Tempered: 未練 and the Attachment English Shrinks to 'Regret'
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てめェらは少々やりすぎた…!!往生しろよ!!
“YOU WENT TOO FAR!! NOW REST IN PIECES!!”
Telling the Dead to Move Along: 往生しろ・成仏してください and the Tombstone Pun VIZ Reached For
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往生しやがれド腐れ野郎!!
“DIE, YOU ROTTEN BASTARD!!”
Temple Word, Gutter Grammar: 往生しやがれ and the Buddhist Send-Off VIZ Flattened to "Die"
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介錯もつけずに
“THERE WAS NO SECOND!”
Borrow the Ritual, Translate the Mercy: 切腹・介錯 and the Duelist's Second English Sent Instead