The Oxford English Dictionary’s latest update adds 23 Japanese words
www.theguardian.com
More than half of the borrowed words relate to cooking, while Kintsugi, the increasingly popular art of repairing broken pottery with gold lacquer is also included

It’s official. You’re not an otaku nerd anymore if you say Isekai but someone with an extensive vocabulary. Don’t let anyone tell you anything else!

  • BirdEnjoyer@kbin.social
    8·
    8 months ago

    As the other users have mentioned, its a genre about going to another world, and its real big in Japan right now, but you’re definitely familiar with it in some form.

    After all, The Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe is technically Isekai.

    Its actually really fun to look back and figure out what classic things are.

    • zabadohEnglish
      5·
      8 months ago

      The New Testament was isekai?

      “My Father Is A God, So I Was (Re?) Incarnated In A Manger And Started A Religion”