connection; attachment; changing trains; conjunction
structure; construction; arrangement; plan; plot; contrivance
special effects; SFX; tokusatsu; genre of live-action film or television that makes heavy use of practical special effects
program (e.g. TV); programme
remodeling; remodelling; reconstruction; modding
horsepower; hp; energy; vitality; horse-drawn cart
there's no (other) way; cannot be helped; unavoidable; it's no use (doing); pointless; hopeless (person)
one tenth; one hundredth; one percent; one tenth of a sun; one quarter ryō (an old coin)
training; education; development; cultivation
to turn away; to bear off; to veer away; to deviate (e.g. of a conversation); to digress; to go astray
redoing; doing over again
as one likes; as one wants; as one wishes; as one hopes; as one sees fit; to one's satisfaction
to forge; to temper; to drill; to train; to discipline
to shrink; to contract; to diminish (in size)
pit of the stomach; solar plexus
last moment; eleventh hour; platform made of dirt used to perform executions (decapitations) in the Edo period
bird; bard (esp. as a character class in role-playing games)
range; stove; cooker; microwave oven
ding (of a bell); bing; honk (i.e. sound of blowing one's nose); snort; heating in a microwave; cooking in a microwave
to swallow; to gulp down; to understand; to grasp; to engulf; to swallow up
to threaten; to menace; to intimidate; to startle; to frighten; to scare
confusion; disturbance; commotion; chaos; disorder
calling (someone a thief, coward, etc.); branding (as); denouncing
manzai; comic dialogue; two-person comedy act, usu. presented as a fast-paced dialogue, occ. presented as a skit
to snarl (at each other); to growl (angrily); to quarrel; to fight; to argue
sophism; chop logic; far-fetched argument; quibble; cavil; argument for argument's sake
happy family get-together
source (of a river); fountainhead; source; origin; root
another place; somewhere else; outside (one's family or group); someone else; not caring for; being indifferent to
dispensable chopsticks; throwaway chopsticks; chopsticks (hand game)
just after a holiday break; the first day after the holidays
careless; thoughtless; stupid; heedless; unobservant; inadvertent
national; founded and run by the central government
advancing to the next stage of education; going on to (high school, college, etc.)
to cut into (a conversation); to interject
backdoor admission to a school; backdoor entry to a school; buying one's way into school; bribing one's way into a school
absolute best; very finest; top-class; first-rate; elite
living room (Western style); sitting room
government office; public office
parental authority; parental rights; custody
transfer; assignment; conveyance