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[六道仙人]

Can I ask you a off-topic question :

 

Ore is for men. I think.

Boku is for boy. I think. It sounds less manlier. Well, that's how I feel.

Watashi seems to be for girls, but sometimes I can hear male characters using it. Why ?

 

How are they use ?

 

Also why sometimes girls speak of themselves at the third person, it sounds retarded, and like they try hard to sound cute of something like that...

 

'Watashi' is the general form polite of "I". It can be used from both genders. Howenver it's used more by females. Adult men uses it only towards their superiors (work, etc..). However most of men uses the more masculine 'Ore'. Orochimaru uses 'watashi', he sounds so more feminine, you surely noticed it more in the anime version lol

 

about girls speakings of themselves in third person, it considered a childlike cuteness.

Edited by 六道仙人, 22 October 2014 - 09:39 AM.

[Akashi]

Can I ask you a off-topic question :

 

Ore is for men. I think.

Boku is for boy. I think. It sounds less manlier. Well, that's how I feel.

Watashi seems to be for girls, but sometimes I can hear male characters using it. Why ?

 

How are they use ?

 

Also why sometimes girls speak of themselves at the third person, it sounds retarded, and like they try hard to sound cute of something like that...

Watashi is universal pronoun (used my both females and males). Men use watashi in a formal situation mostly (work, etc.).
Boku is less formal and yeah, you're right.. it's used mostly by young boys (or tomboy-ish girls).
Ore is probably most informal of the three and very manly, lol.

Oresama is a pronoun used by a very arrogant and selfish person.

Hope this helped.

[abloublou]

 

'Watashi' is the general form polite of "I". It can be used from both genders. Howenver it's used more by females. Adult men uses it only towards their superiors (work, etc..). However most of men uses the more masculine 'Ore'. Orochimaru uses 'watashi', he sounds so more feminine, you surely noticed it more in the anime version lol

 

about girls speakings of themselves in third person, it considered a childlike cuteness.

thank you. I can move on with life, now.

 

Watashi is universal pronoun (used my both females and males). Men use watashi in a formal situation mostly (work, etc.).
Boku is less formal and yeah, you're right.. it's used mostly by young boys (or tomboy-ish girls).
Ore is probably most informal of the three and very manly, lol.

Oresama is a pronoun used by a very arrogant and selfish person.

Hope this helped.

Thank you as well.

 

It's been a while I haven't watched the anime, and I didn't catch that sort of subtility back then, let me guess :

 

Sasuke use Ore, He's too arrogant and rude for boku.

Lee uses boku as he's an humble gentleman.

Same for Chouji.

Kiba uses Ore as he likes to talk big.

Naruto I'm not too sure, as he isn't that arrogant even if he likes to talk big and loud.

Neji, Shino  boku ?

Also I'm not so sure about Shikamaru, he's humble but he also has that macho attitude..

 

 

Tell me how wrong I am.

Edited by abloublou, 22 October 2014 - 10:01 AM.

[Akashi]

Thank you as well.

 

I prefer characters that use ore. Now, I tend to associate boku to mediocre beta MC, those you can find in those awful harem animes.

I prefer them manly and hot blooded.

No problem.

Haha, yeah.. Well, irl if one wants to use ore, they gotta be sure the situation is informal (being among friends, schoolmates, etc.), because you might sound rude and disrespectful.

Things are a bit more simple in the world of fiction... And yeah, gotta love those reckless hunks...

harem is
i must be stupid but i just don't get it

Edited by Akashi, 22 October 2014 - 10:05 AM.

[abloublou]

No problem.

Haha, yeah.. Well, irl if one wants to use ore, they gotta be sure the situation is informal (being among friends, schoolmates, etc.), because you might sound rude and disrespectful.

Things are a bit more simple in the world of fiction... And yeah, gotta love those reckless hunks...

harem is
i must be stupid but i just don't get it

I don't get it either.

I'm happy Naruto isn't one of those passive wishy washy mess and that he's dead set on Sakura...

[Akashi]

I don't get it either.

I'm happy Naruto isn't one of those passive wishy washy mess and that he's dead set on Sakura...

Yep. He's not giving up on her ever anytime soon.

Hey, so I've been browsing through the sketches again, and that necklace in casual!Sakura sketch actually looks more like a ring on a string...

[Chatte]

Hey, so I've been browsing through the sketches again, and that necklace in casual!Sakura sketch actually looks more like a ring on a string...

To be honest, ever since I saw the sketches it seemed that way to me...

[Akashi]

To be honest, ever since I saw the sketches it seemed that way to me...

Okay, let's assume it's actually a ring. Considering Sakura uses taijutsu in fights it would only be logical to wear it as a necklace, because wearing a ring while fist-fighting can damage your fingers real bad (and taking it off and on again is not very practical).

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Edited by Akashi, 22 October 2014 - 10:29 AM.

[redragon88]

harem is
i must be stupid but i just don't get it

 

So as a girl you don't like reverse harems?

[abloublou]

 

So as a girl you don't like reverse harems?

I don't like them.

 

Reverse harem shows are awful. There is no substance besides husbando pandering. Except that one vampire shinsengumi thing. It surprisingly was an otome adaptation, that wasn't a reverse harem as they clearly chose the Hijikata's path. And there was a real plot and decent fight scenes.

[Akashi]

 

So as a girl you don't like reverse harems?

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I don't like any kind of harem.

I just find the whole idea that a guy (or a girl) that was always this mr. no-one suddenly becomes Justin Beiber and everyone falls for him all of a sudden utterly stupid. Like, wtf? Having one guy (max 3, counting the obligatory rival + sometimes some random dude) is enough, although 90% of these stories (esp. shoujo) I find boring.. since, no matter what, the girl ends up with the-first-one-to-fall-for guy.. That's why I mostly stick to shounen/seinen.

Although there's this one shoujo manga that is also considered harem (but in reality it's not, just lots of guys because of fighting/yankees) that actually mocks these kinds of genre. It's called "Oresama Teacher", not your regular shoujo. There's another comedy manga by the same authour called "Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun" about the dude that writes shoujo manga. It blows up all the shoujo stereotypes in the most funny ways possible.

Edited by Akashi, 22 October 2014 - 10:58 AM.

[LadyGT]

700 pages...and the movie isn't even out yet....

[Chatte]

Yeah, haha!

[rocci]

Nozaki kun is a shonen manga about parody of shoujo manga, write by a shoujo mangaka.

@chatte
I think her necklace is a magatama.

[Chucky-kun]

700 pages...and the movie isn't even out yet...

Movie comes out in over a month's time still lel

[Diadochi]

Nozaki kun is a shonen manga about parody of shoujo manga, write by a shoujo mangaka.

@chatte
I think her necklace is a magatama.

 

I always thought it looked like a diamond. If it was a magatama necklace, wouldn't it have a circle in it, like Hagoromo's? -

 

[六道仙人]

it's a ring with uchiha symbol.

[abloublou]

it's a ring with uchiha symbol.

You mean Hatake..

If there is such a thing...

Edited by abloublou, 22 October 2014 - 01:39 PM.

[Akashi]

You mean Hatake..

If there is such a thing...

It's obviously Haruno symbol - a circle.

Edited by Akashi, 22 October 2014 - 01:46 PM.

[elmas]

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