{"id":2701,"date":"2009-06-02T00:09:05","date_gmt":"2009-06-02T07:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikoto.wordpress.com\/?p=2701"},"modified":"2009-06-02T00:09:05","modified_gmt":"2009-06-02T07:09:05","slug":"two-lines-that-i-wish-would-stop-appearing-so-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/flomu.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/two-lines-that-i-wish-would-stop-appearing-so-much\/","title":{"rendered":"Two lines that I wish would stop appearing so much"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/06\/snapshot20090424001559.png\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2704\" src=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/06\/snapshot20090424001559.png?resize=500%2C375\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>Okay, so I&#8217;ve been watching a LOT of anime recently, and there&#8217;s two (technically five) general phrases that pop up in every anime in which characters&#8230;<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>Eat food<\/li>\n<li>Live in a house with other people<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>If an anime fulfills these two conditions, then I swear that it will have these two\/five phrases scatted throughout every single damn episode. \u00a0In this post, I will use <em>K-ON!<\/em>\u00a0as a model for the overused phrases.<\/p>\n<p>Note that this is <strong>not<\/strong> a post that points out &#8220;<span style=\"color:#ff0000;\"><strong>UGUU<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;s, &#8220;<span style=\"color:#ff0000;\"><strong>HAUU<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;s, and &#8220;<span style=\"color:#ff0000;\"><strong>NIPAA<\/strong><\/span>&#8220;s, though those certainly get annoying (with the exception of Uguu. \u00a0Yuuichi and Uguu girl go hand in hand for comedy&#8217;s sake).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center;\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2702\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/06\/snapshot20090421005258.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2702\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2702\" src=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/06\/snapshot20090421005258.jpg?resize=450%2C338\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2702\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sorry, I couldn&#39;t find a screenshot with the actual line &quot;Delicious!&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>&#8220;Oishii!&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p style=\"padding-left:30px;\">translates into&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Delicious!<\/li>\n<li>It tastes good!<\/li>\n<li>Good!<\/li>\n<li>Yum!<\/li>\n<li>Ugga!<\/li>\n<li>I  DON&#8217;T KNOW HOW ELSE TO SAY SOMETHING TASTES GOOD<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is probably <strong>the<\/strong> most annoying line I have ever heard in anime.  It&#8217;s in every single anime.  Whenever and wherever there&#8217;s food in an anime, expect to hear two lines:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li>ITADAKIMASU<\/li>\n<li>OISHII<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p>The first can be excused on the grounds that it&#8217;s a custom to do that, jus tlike how Christians have to chant something before they eat (I was forced to do that when I went to a private Christian elementary school and I have hated it ever since).  I&#8217;m an atheist (at most agnostic), by the way.<\/p>\n<p>But don&#8217;t people have anything better to say than <em>oishii<\/em>!!1111oneoene!?  It really gets on my nerves whenever I hear an anime character squeal &#8220;OISHII!!! KAWAIII MOE MOEMEO M TOYOTA SONY&#8221; or whatever.  I&#8217;m not sure if this simplistic deal (as in &#8220;Japanese people have one phrase to describe all levels of tastiness&#8221;) is simply the nature of the Japanese language, but it sure is beyond-irritating to the ears of an American like me.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2703\" style=\"width: 460px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/06\/snapshot20090403172232.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2703\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2703\" src=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/06\/snapshot20090403172232.jpg?resize=450%2C338\" alt=\"\" width=\"450\" height=\"338\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2703\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Don&#39;tcha mean &quot;Ittekimasu?&quot;<\/p><\/div>\n<h2>&#8220;Ittekimasu&#8221; \/ &#8220;Ittekuru&#8221;<\/h2>\n<h2>&#8220;Itterasshai&#8221;<\/h2>\n<h2>&#8220;Tadaima&#8221;<\/h2>\n<h2>&#8220;Okaeri&#8221; \/ &#8220;Okaerinasai&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>Basically anything that relates to coming and going (doing the action and watching it be done).<\/p>\n<p>There appears to be some strange, near-symbolic importance of these four (pretty much four) phrases in anime that confuses me. \u00a0Whenever somebody leaves the house, they say <em>ittekimasu<\/em>, and the other people (if there are any present &#8211; sometimes people say <em>ittekimasu<\/em>\u00a0when they&#8217;re alone because all cool people do that) say <em>itterasshai<\/em>. \u00a0The same goes for <em>tadaima<\/em> and <em>okaeri[nasai]<\/em> when somebody returns home.<\/p>\n<p>Now that&#8217;s all fine and dandy, and could just be thrown into the scapegoat Japanese custom bin with <em>itadakimasu<\/em>, but these four phrases are always used for dramatic situations, comedic situations, etc. \u00a0When a hero returns home after over nine thousand years of awesomeness, the first thing he says is &#8220;<em>TADAIMA<\/em>.&#8221; \u00a0There ain&#8217;t no &#8220;I SURE AM GLAD TO SEE MY FAMILY AGAIN!&#8221; or &#8220;BY GOLLY, I&#8217;M ALIVE!&#8221; or just a &#8220;I love you, family!&#8221; \u00a0No, it has to be &#8220;I&#8217;m home&#8221; aka &#8220;TADAIMA,&#8221; because there is some weird significance to the phrase that nobody really cares about because by now, everybody&#8217;s heard it a few hundred times and it sounds like thunder on a lightningboard.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/06\/snapshot20090529230736.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2719\" src=\"http:\/\/mikoto.files.wordpress.com\/2009\/06\/snapshot20090529230736.jpg?resize=500%2C375\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is why we need an Azusa around. \u00a0Light music clubs are srsbsns, not some THIS KAWAII KAY-KOO IS SO OISHIII fest with a bunch of itterasshais and stuffs. \u00a0Bah.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, so I&#8217;ve been watching a LOT of anime recently, and there&#8217;s two (technically five) general phrases that pop up in every anime in which characters&#8230; 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