Meanings
Readings
Common Words
cartoon; comic; comic strip; manga
slow; sluggish; dull; slack; inactive
lax (regulation, handling, etc.); slack; sloppy
cartoonist; comic book artist; manga artist; manga author; mangaka
manzai; comic dialogue; two-person comedy act, usu. presented as a fast-paced dialogue, occ. presented as a skit
innocent; naive; artless; unaffected; genuine; childlike
without authority
without reason; unnecessarily
recklessly; indiscriminately; arbitrarily
vague; desultory; distracted; loose; half-hearted; diffuse; scattered
Adjectival nouns or quasi-adjectives (keiyodoshi)
restless; on edge (and unable to concentrate); distracted
Adverb (fukushi); Of an emotional or psychological state
for some reason
romance (e.g. Arthurian romances); heroic tale
(nigh) impossible dream; adventurous spirit; great undertaking; epic adventure
(full-length) novel
romance; love affair
romanticism
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