cheap-looking; tawdry; insignificant
script; screenplay; scenario
there is no way that ...; easy; simple
taking (a suspect to the police); dragging (someone) away
shame; embarrassment; disgrace
order; observance; discipline; rules; law; regulations
observance (of laws, rules, etc.); adherence; obeying; following; abiding by; compliance
to keep in mind; to bear in mind; to try; to aim to do; to endeavor; to endeavour
after this; henceforth; henceforward; from now on
qualitative difference; disparity; gap
solid body; three-dimensional object; multi-storey car park
animation; animated film; animated cartoon; anime
large screen (TV, film, etc.)
fluently (speaking a foreign language); incessantly (speaking); glibly; one after the other (flipping through pages); thin (paper, cloth, etc.); flimsy
kamishibai; storytelling with pictures; form of Japanese street theater and storytelling (popular from the 1930s to the 1950s)
hardly any; almost nonexistent; very little
oh well, fine; fine, I guess; alright, I suppose; OK, then
before I knew it; next thing you know; when I came to
vacuum cleaner; vacuum; hoover
slip; omission; upshot; denouement; punch line (of a joke)
to run into; to rush into; to (run and) seek refuge in; to take shelter in
just as one thought; as usual; sure enough
leaving something where it is; abandoning something
juicy (i.e. having lots of juice or liquid); Okinawan rice gruel meal
to knit one's brows (in discomfort, unease, disapproval, etc.); to raise one's eyebrows; to frown; to scowl
(villains) of the same stripe; birds of a feather; (lit.) badgers of the same hole
to marry (of a woman); to become a bride; to marry into (a family)
adjacency; contiguity; being adjoined
to run (a business); to operate; to carry out; to perform; to hold (a Buddhist or Shinto ceremony)
(somebody else's) parents; both parents
infancy; childhood; tender age
facing; opposite; across the street; other side
counter for stories, episodes of TV series, etc.
endless; boundless; innumerable; endless; never-ending; going on forever