lol
It's Etiquette but I've always wanted to say Itadakimasu at some Japanese restaurant...always chickened out.

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♪MONSTARR~ will eat all your cookies and steal your bishies~♪ Φ_Φ

I would looove the opportunity to say Do itashi mashte akin to "You are welcome" but never met someone who would say Arigato to me

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sasuga - as expected of ____
don't decide that on your own!
your opponent is me!
shoubu da! - it's a challenege!
i won't lose! - anything with makenai in
yamete - stop it
jama yo - you're in the way!

these lines do get the eye rolling after a while

When something happens in the first episode/chapter, and someone says "This is gonna get interesting..." It makes me wanna go in the anime/manga and slap them, because you can tell that those people are almost always gonna become the Captain Obvious of the story.

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hahaa- so true.

hmm.

Also- when characters say "thank you" for random stuff that wouldn't normally be thanked for and the mangaka turns it into a really "deep" moment. hahaa. Situation really plays a big part. I guess the authors just use these types of lines as plugs for when they run outta ideas. Sorta sad.

I just finished watching a dorama that placed great importance/significance on "aisatsu", those things like tadaima/okairi, itadakimasu, etc. that may seem so overused to non-Japanese but are really an important part of their everyday culture.

Based on other Japanese tv shows I've watched, "masaka!" and "sugoi!" are also VERY commonly used, along with "oishi!" They may qualify as overused in manga, but in this case manga seems to imitate reality~

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"[English] not only borrows words from other languages; it has on occasion chased other languages down dark alley-ways, clubbed them unconscious and rifled their pockets for new vocabulary."
-James Nicoll, can.general, March 21, 1992

"don't decide that on your own."

GAH.

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probably has been said, but I didn't read this thread.

"I'll remember this!" <-- number 1 cliche villain line.

y'know, like those bullies that get their karma.

"iikkkuuuuuu!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"

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Kizaru, the only person who can say Ben Beckman without his lips touching

~just CARL is fine~

This is way too easy. I see this in yaoi all the time:

"I'm already at my limit."

This applies to shoujo/yaoi:

"Don't touch her/him, she/he's mine!"

Overused lines like these make me laugh.

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*__* I'll have what she's having... please~♥

Yup ^^

"Even if you say that..." is a weird one. It just doesn't sound right in English.

Neither does "That is..." aka "Sore wa..."

Almost forgot:

Seme: "Let your voice out"
Uke: "But it's embarassing..."

in every other yaoi sex scene

+



= Torauma (trauma)

Engrish ftw.

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Listen here
Livin just to keep from dyin

Urusai!

Daijoubu?

Sore wa...

Chotto matte kudasai...

Nani?!


Mostly in BL: "You're already wet down there..." how??!

"ITS OVER NINE THOUSAND!"


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don't kill me

I hate 'you're a hundred years too early' - it just doesn't seem natural in English. Also 'That's my line' and 'Don't decide things on your own' seem way too overused. My absolute pet hate is I'll never ever give up and I'm already at my limit/I can't go on appears a lot in action manga as well and yet somehow they manage to continue to fight and usually miraculously win. I actually start wishing for the hero to lose at that point.

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