Work in Progress: Glossary of Seiyuu Terms and Phrases
When I started getting interested in seiyuu about 5-6 years back, my Japanese skills were awful and I could hardly find any info about what all those weird, mind-boggling phrases I kept coming across meant (Afureko…what?). And it bugged me a lot. So I just worked harder at learning Nihongo…
So I’ve been building up my vocabulary over that period of time, but I guess you can never run out of things to learn 
Now that I know a few more phrases than I did then, I wrote up a short list of common seiyuu-related phrases that you might come across in magazines, web material and radio shows. I hope it helps those who are interested in seiyuu stuff but don’t quite have the language skills required to understand and enjoy all those videos and whatnot.
Have a look (I’ve put a permanent tabbed link up top) if you so feel inclined; it’s not, & probably will never be complete and I’m still revising it as I go along. I also plan on writing up a guide to seiyuu nicknames (their origins blablabla)…eventually.
If you want a great guide to otaku speak, I recommend bangin’s blog. It’s way too crazy for me as I don’t particularly care for all those moe & dere terms mean but if you’re into reading 2channel threads or just want to show off your otaku cred it might be pretty helpful.
May 28th, 2008 at 5:52 am
whoa, nice work its an interesting read even if you know the words, thanks