Flying Squid@lemmy.worldM to Lemmy Shitpost@lemmy.world · 9 months agoDo you have to be Japanese to be a Kaiju?lemmy.worldimagemessage-square49fedilinkarrow-up10arrow-down10
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minus-squareILikeBoobies@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0·9 months agoIt’s a Japanese word, in English we just say giant Like Isekai, in English we just say fantasy
minus-squareNιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-29 months agoIsekai means different world and is specific a subgenre of fantasy. For literal fantasy, it’s just ファンタジー or fantoji, lol.
minus-squareILikeBoobies@lemmy.calinkfedilinkarrow-up0·edit-29 months agoIn English it’s not popular enough to differentiate Other examples of words without direct translations https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/untranslatable-01
It’s a Japanese word, in English we just say giant
Like Isekai, in English we just say fantasy
Isekai means different world and is specific a subgenre of fantasy. For literal fantasy, it’s just ファンタジー or fantoji, lol.
In English it’s not popular enough to differentiate
Other examples of words without direct translations
https://www.babbel.com/en/magazine/untranslatable-01