I read Nana!!

I was forced to read Nana but gave up.
少女漫画はむりぽ

終電無くなったら、満喫でしょ！

This picture is the inside of 漫画喫茶 that Nori usually goes to. Thanks to Nori, I could know how 漫画喫茶 is.

One issue this lesson brings up is the whole vexed topic of swearing in Japanese.

Looking around online you read a lot of very confusing, very ambiguous stuff about whether it’s even possible to swear in japanese. I’m still really confused about this, and I notice that whenever I’ve asked Japanese people about this I get really, really complicated answers.

From what I’ve been able to understand, what Japanese doesn’t have is specific tabu words - like the classic English four letter words - that are “sweary” in and of themselves. It seems like it’s more that Japanese has tabu usages, like “damare”, which isn’t offensive in itself, but is an offensive form of a perfectly vanilla word “damaru”.

Someday JPod101 will work up the guts to slap an “explicit” label on a series and explain exactly how that all works! It’s confusing!

終電がなくなったら、満喫でもいいし、カラオケでも良いですね
Manga cafe and Karaoke are good place to spend night when the last train has left.

>Marky
「ぽ」をリスナーのみなさんに教えちゃだめですよー 笑　かっこいい？かわいいスラングですね！

hahahahaha, i see i opened up a can of worms here…

「ぽ」has no meaning, but gets attached to the end of certain words in ２ちゃん語, a kind of japanese slang. stay tuned, in a few months yuki and i will be doing a series of lessons based on japanese neologisms and slang from different subcultures as well as standard slang and we plan to cover 「ぽ」. but it’s pretty underground, most japanese people don’t know about 「ぽ」.
今「ぽ」の使い方を教えるのはちょっとムリぽww
がまんしてくださ～い！

“Plutonic relationship”って何でしょうピーターさん？

Plutonic adj.
1. Of or relating to the god Pluto or the underworld; infernal.

そんな関係は面白そうけどだめでしょう。　て言うか、”Platonic relationship”が言いたいの言葉何でしょうネ。