door; gate; opening; title page
visitor (to a shop or restaurant); customer (visiting a store or restaurant); patron
tall figure; high stature
black; dark; blackish; suspicious; criminal; darkened and dirty; sooty
honest; respectable; respectable occupation (i.e. not yakuza, prostitute, etc.); person in a respectable occupation
proper; respectable; decent; honest
store interior; inside of a shop
counter for occurrences; a time; an instance; inning (baseball); round; episode; chapter
the West; the Occident; Western countries
very cheesy; very flashy; extremely gaudy
ringlets; ringlet curls; sausage curls
it's been a long time; long time no see
standing on formality; in a reserved manner; treating a friend as a stranger; unduly distant; formal
way of talking; speaking style
addressing (someone) without using a suffix such as "-san" or "-chan" (considered impolite)
to stick up (hair, etc.); to stand up straight; to stand up abruptly; to jump to one's feet; to stand in one place, doing nothing in particular; to stand around
-clad; in the midst of; tenths (e.g. wholesale price, as tenths of retail price); times (i.e. multiplied by); able-to-seat (of a chair, etc.)
taking a seat; sitting down (in one's seat)
after (practically) no time; immediately after; just; having no time to
black; black (coffee); without cream or milk; exploitative (esp. of employees); overly harsh; boldface
to pour (into); to sprinkle on (from above); to water (e.g. plants); to shed (tears); to concentrate one's energy (strength, attention, etc.) on; to devote to; to flow into (e.g. of a river)
cup (drinking vessel, measure, brassiere, prize, etc.)
dear (old); fondly-remembered; beloved; missed; nostalgic
novice; beginner; starting to run; running off; running away
one's cherished opinion; pet theory
at the height of one's power or influence; at the peak of one's popularity
history; pedigree; lineage
looking up (e.g. a word in a dictionary); retrieval (e.g. data); searching for; referring to
sacred place; holy ground; the Holy Land; real-life location used as a setting in a novel, film, anime, etc.
youthful indiscretion; youthful enthusiasm; youthful excess
20 years old; (arch.) twenty
year; age; years; past one's prime; old age
at once; right away; promptly; on the spur of the moment
old tale; folk tale; legend; reminiscence