Baka (bah-kah)
馬鹿
ばか
1. N.
Idiot. "Ahou", 阿呆 in kanji and あほう in kana (ah-hoh-oo), is also said.
2. Adj.
Silly or foolish.
3. Adj.
Absurd or impossible.
Bakayarou (bah-kah-yah-roh-oo)
馬鹿野郎
ばかやろう
1. N.
A real annoying idiot.
2. N.
A really mean person with the idiotic trait being optional.
Beat up game
ビートアップゲーム
N.
A beat up game, beat them up games as some people call them or just an action game/アクションゲーム in Japan, is a kind of game in which your job is to beat up a person. Beat up games make you face a bunch of enemies to make your way towards a goal. Examples include "Bare Knuckle", "Final Fight", "Golden Axe" and "Sousetsu Ryuu" or if that name does not sound familiar to you, "Double Dragon".
Bentou/Bento (beh-n-toh-oo)
弁当
べんとう
N.
A bentou is a meal, usually lunch, in some sort of container, usually a box. They usually have rice and a bunch of other types of food like a fruit arranged. The bentou you see at train stations are called ekiben/駅弁/えきべん. You also see bentou prepared in romantical scenarios and you see parents prepare a bentou for their kids.
Biseijin (bee-seh-ee-jee-n)
美成人
びせいじん
N.
Beautiful adult. Not a word that is said a lot in entertainment as well as its related words, but the reason I want you to learn this word is because I don't want you to call a certain character a bishounen or bishoujo by mistake. If you're twenty, you're an adult in Japan and a lot of events occur when you become twenty such as having the right to vote. From my experience, the characters that are called by the wrong term frequently are "Love Hina's" very own Mutsumi, Benimaru, one of the many annual fighters of "The King of Fighters" and Nakago from "Fushigi Yuugi". Fujitaka, the father of Sakura and Touya of "Cardcaptor Sakura", is easily a biseijin.
Remember. "Love Hina's" Mutsumi is a biseijin, not a bishoujo.
Bishoujo (bee-shoh-oo-joh)
美少女
びしょうじょ
N.
A beautiful girl. You see them everywhere such as those girls of "Tokimemo", Yukino of "Karekano", and Tooru of "Furuba".
Bishoujo game
美少女ゲーム
びしょうじょゲーム
N.
A bishoujo game is a type of game that has lots of pretty girls and they're naughty for the most part. Some of these games will have an all-ages version, but not many. Examples include "To Heart", "Kanon", "Tokimemo", and "Witch's A-La-Mode".
Bishounen (bee-shoh-oo-neh-n)
美少年
びしょうねん
N.
A beautiful boy. They usually have long hair or feminine looking features. Sometimes, it's hard to tell if the bishounen is a guy or a girl. Some boys that fit in the bishounen group are Kaoru of "Ai Yori Aoshi", Makoto of "El Hazard", Kyousuke of the "Justice Gakuen" series, Shizumaru of the "Samurai Spirits" series and Kazuki of "Get Backers".
Block
ブロック
N.
A block, also known as a guard in Japan or a defend, is a form of defense that is meant to protect yourself from serious harm in an attack. It's important to perform this tactic a good amount of the time in various games. There's also a form of defense known as a repel and you move an attack elsewhere manually, making the attacker vulnerable. "Street Fighter III" is one of the few fighting games that has more that one kind of block, the other kind of block being known as the parry among non-Japanese players.
Boku (boh-koo)
僕
ぼく
Pn.
I. People who only know Japanese through forms of entertainment or rather though anime, manga and games will think that this form is usually said by children or young boys for that matter. The truth is that this is a form said by men. The only time a girl says this is if she is a tomboy, as from my experience, I have never heard a girl that is not a tomboy say "boku". I heard that this form is derived from low class people back in the old days, and though this is not really an informal form, there are more polite forms out there. A good amount of Hoshi Souichirou-san's characters use this form, but besides his characters, characters that use this form include Shuuji of "Saikano", Kyousuke of "Justice Gakuen" and "Hime-chan no Ribbon's" title character. If I do not say "watashi" or "watakushi", you will usually see me say this form.
Bukkyou/Bukkyo (boo-k-kyoh-oo)
仏教
ぶっきょう
N.
Buddhism. Japan has Buddhism and Shintou as its two main religions. Buddhism was introduced to Japan in 522 by Chinese travelers who had to go through Korea (if I recall).
Last update - 2006/11/28