漫

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

'taru' adjective

aimless; rambling; desultory; casual

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

Abbreviation

society for the study of manga

manga club

comic book

'taru' adjective

in full bloom; in full glory; glorious; luxuriant; splendid

chat; desultory conversation

pleasure trip; tour

manzai performer

Abbreviation

manga cafe; coffee shop with a manga library (usu. has Internet facilities and charges by the hour)

whimsy; looseness; indiscretion; laxity

caricaturing

turning a movie, novel, etc. into a manga; making a comic version of something

'taru' adjective

vast; boundless

rambling; sauntering; strolling

verbosity

Formal or literary term

spread; pervasion; permeation

spring in full bloom; spring at its height