non-Japanese celebrity; foreigner celebrity
affiliate blog; affiliate marketing blog
to bare one's fangs; to snarl (at)
advisor; adviser (to a lord, etc.); wise counselor allowed to speak to a lord without restraint
monthly mean; monthly average
Vocaloid producer; person producing music using Vocaloid systems
generous; soft-hearted; having a good personality
padding (clothing or bedding); insulation; cotton wadding; stuffing (furniture)
cartoon characters; anime characters
to make (one's heart) beat fast (with excitement, etc.); to flutter; to pound
extremely; exceptionally; extraordinarily; terribly; super
circle and cross; right and wrong (answers); true-false
evasion; avoidance; shirking; recusation (of a judge); taking exception (to a judge); challenge
forget it; forget what I just said; scratch that; check that
selling like hotcakes; explosive sales
Lolita fashion; fashion style characterized by frilly dresses, knee socks and bonnets
pinning someone on the floor by lying on them; banging on the floor (e.g. to quieten one's neighbor)
double-lined fusilier (Pterocaesio digramma); Taiwan (nickname); Takasago (classic noh play by Zeami)
to be lonely at the top; to be left high and dry by one's friends; (lit.) to have the ladder pulled out from under one
to take off one's clothes; to undress
flat chest; small breasts
difficult to say which of the two is better; hard to tell which is better; (there is) little to choose between them
thankfully; fortunately; luckily; mercifully
caricaturing; turning a movie, novel, etc. into a manga; making a comic version of something
to break down; to fail; to fizzle; to flop; to peter out; to fall flat
sudden; abrupt; impromptu skit; bandwagon fan; fair-weather fan
truth is stranger than fiction
thrift (Armeria maritima); sea thrift; sea pink
self-satisfaction; (self-)complacency
national glory; Ralls Genet (cultivar of apple); Ralls Janet; Rawls Jennet
kurin; nine vertically stacked rings on a pagoda finial
to win the favour of (favor); to be acknowledged (e.g. by a superior); to measure up to