thank you for waiting; sorry to have kept you waiting
borderline between life and death; verge of death; deadline (boundary around a prison which prisoners were not allowed to cross)
indicates possessive; nominalizes verbs and adjectives; substitutes for "ga" in subordinate phrases; indicates a confident conclusion; indicates emotional emphasis; indicates question
magician; wizard; sorcerer; witch; mage
pluralizing suffix (esp. for people and animals; formerly honorific)
indicates direct object of action; indicates subject of causative expression; indicates an area traversed; indicates time (period) over which action takes place; indicates point of departure or separation of action; indicates object of desire, like, hate, etc.
honorific/polite/humble prefix
to give (as a gift); to present; to confer; to bestow; to award
to do; to carry out; to cause to become; to make (into); to serve as; to act as; to wear (clothes, a facial expression, etc.)
perusal; one reading; reading through (once)
to understand; to comprehend; to become clear; to be known; I know!; I think so too!
street; road; traffic; coming and going; flow (of water, air, etc.); passage; transmission (of sound)
more and more; all the more; at last; finally; (at the) last moment; worst possible time
too; also; both A and B; A as well as B; even; as much as
to approach the finale; to come to a close
next; following; subsequent; stage; station
volume (of book); reel (of film); scroll (of books or paintings); roll (paper, etc.)
indicates the subject of a sentence; indicates possession; but; however; and; used after an introductory remark or explanation; regardless of ...
conclusion; decision; end; settlement
and; and then; thus; and now; and finally
original story (as opposed to a sequel, spin-off, etc.); main story; this volume; the movie (as opposed to the trailers; at a movie theater); feature film (main item in a cinema program); movie based on a TV series
last; final; closing; last train (bus, flight, etc.; of the day)
plans; arrangement; schedule; program; programme; expectation
supplementary biography; anecdote; side story; spin-off
as (i.e. in the role of); for (i.e. from the viewpoint of); apart from ... (used to change the topic); even (e.g. "not even a single person"); thinking that ...; trying to ...
in the future; another day; later
story; tale; narrative; account; fable; legend
to take out; to get out; to put out; to reveal; to submit (e.g. thesis); to turn in; to publish
may; might; perhaps; may be; possibly
one roll; one book; one volume; first volume; rolling once; wrapping once around
to lend; to loan; to rent out; to hire out; to hand (over); to give
from; since; through (e.g. a window, door); via; because; as; from (as in "made from")
to think (about, of); to think over; to consider; to bear in mind; to think (that); to believe; to intend (to do)
to come (spatially or temporally); to approach; to come back; to do ... and come back; to come to be; to become
plan; plot; idea; conception; vision; scheme
indicates sentence topic; indicates contrast with another option (stated or unstated); adds emphasis
at; in; at; when; by; with; so
end; close; conclusion; termination
called; named; as many as; as much as; all ...; every single ...
to have been decided (so) that; to have been arranged (so) that; to be the result (of); to be the outcome; to be the reason (for)
end; ending; close; end of (one's) life; death
or; either ... or; maybe; perhaps; some ... and others ...; sometimes ... and at other times ...
death; (an) out; death penalty (by strangulation or decapitation; most severe of the five ritsuryō punishments)
if; when; and; as well as; with; together with; used for quoting (thoughts, speech, etc.)