(back to) page top; top of page
female fan who imitates the make-up and fashion style of visual kei bands
Gakuenmae Station (Chiba)
storm and stress; Sturm und Drang
huge amount of material (worth reading); richness of content (of a book)
to have a go; to try and do (something); to take a chance with something
fashion style heavy on make-up and elaborate hairstyles, used among Japanese rock bands, musicians, etc.
beginning of the (fiscal) year
evaluation on an absolute scale
latest news; most recent news
to be dependable; to be reliable
year of one's birth; one's birth year
vigorously; really getting stuck into
just right; ideal; perfectly suitable; fetch!; bring me ...
taking the entrance examination for a school without regard for one's chances of passing
conjugation (inflection, declension) of ichidan verbs ending in "eru"
egosearching; egosurfing; self-googling
popular (with); in favour (with); well received
mountain vapor; mountain vapour
misrecognition; mistaking (x for y)
familiarity (of a sound, etc.)
one star (rating); evening star; morning star
board (across a ditch, etc.); step; tread; pedal (of an organ, etc.); treadle
to be used to doing; to be experienced in
whole school; the first proof; one proofreading
red; crimson; red-containing colour (e.g. brown, pink, orange); Red (i.e. communist); red light (traffic); red ink (i.e. in finance or proof-reading); (in) the red