ok, not sure where this goes in the forum, but I just wanted to ask everyone here a question.

'What's the plural of anime and manga?'

is it animeS and mangaS? cos it just sounds weird like that, and since they both are words changed from the pronunciation of the japanese language (romaji/romanji) into english, I don't think it'd be right to add an 's' to the end for the plural of them, so I think it should be just 'anime' and 'manga' for the plural, like 'fish' and 'sheep', but there's loads of people saying just 'anime' and then 'mangaS' for the plurals (eg. scanlators and some people)
oh yeah, that also reminds me of the word, 'otaku'. Is the plural of it 'otakuS' or just 'otaku'

p.s sorry for the random question but it's been bugging me for a while! >.<

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All 3 are the same singular and plural. I often absent-mindedly stick an S on the end though when it's unclear in context.

would've been better to put this on the Random Questions thread than make a whole new thread about it...

but what's done is done and i'm just telling you if you've got a question next time just go there

Japanese words don't have any plural form, so that should also apply with the words 'anime', 'manga', and 'otaku'. Though I also don't care either way if people use "animeS" or "mangaS", because they're using it inside english sentences, a language that requires most words to have plural forms.

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