middle and high-school students
to get on well (with a person); (lit.) to be a good match with one's horse (e.g. of a rider)
by nature; from the very beginning; through and through; absolutely (not); (not) at all
humanities, social sciences, and fine arts; liberal arts
sashimi (raw sliced fish, shellfish or crustaceans)
vegetables or fish boiled in soy sauce
matchless; unequalled; unequaled
marine products; seafood; fish and shellfish
salmon (Salmonidae spp.); chum salmon (Oncorhynchus keta)
gambling den; gambling house
oden; dish of various ingredients, e.g. egg, daikon, potato, chikuwa, konnyaku, etc. stewed in soy-flavored dashi
frank; candid; frankfurter; frank
wrong (guess or estimate); misdirected; irrelevant; off the point
accessible; approachable; easy to approach
fairy tale; fairy story; nursery tale
mark; target; object; subject; point (e.g. of argument)
to attract notice; to catch the eye; to stand out
likes and dislikes; pickiness (about food); choosiness; fussiness; tastes; preferences
to branch; to fork; to separate; to split; to disperse; to scatter
the two views (of an object) referring to the same thing; being inseparable like the two sides of an object; two sides of the same coin
weak ending; tapering; anticlimax; tame ending
rural area; countryside; the sticks; hometown
inn with hot spring facilities; hot spring inn; hot spring ryokan; onsen ryokan
heart-warming; kind-hearted; warm-hearted; considerate; kind; heartfelt
attractive; good-looking; stylish; cool; smooth; neat
turning a comic, novel, etc. into an animated movie or TV series; making an animated version
to be sluggish (business); to make little progress; to not grow as much as expected
opening credits; title sequence; theme song (played during the opening credits of a TV show, etc.); overprint
to shake; to jolt; to shake (e.g. the political world); to disturb; to put off a batter (by varying one's type of pitch)
to be unusual (of a person or of a thing); to be uncommon; to be peculiar; to be crazy; to be eccentric; to be different
inherent flavor; inherent flavour; natural taste; distinctive characteristic (of a person, work, etc.); peculiar quality; special ability
breaking ball (pitch); curve ball; screwball
commerce; trade; business
elementary level; beginner level
seeing through; fluoroscopy; roentgenoscopy; clairvoyance; seeing through (objects)
to read a large number (of); to read widely; to read everything that one can lay one's hands on (usu. of specific type, genre)
minimum; at the very least
last-minute cramming; overnight cramming; (vegetables) salted just overnight
thin veneer; hasty preparation; knowledge or skill learned as a stopgap; re-tempering a dull sword (so that it looks as if it's sharp, but is actually unusable)
automatic lock; automatic door-locking system
suffix for room numbers; suffix for apartment numbers
stairs; stairs at the front of a noh stage