It’s a longer read than usual, so feel free to bookmark this page and read it at your own pace. Whether you’re new to anime or you know your stuff, this list is for you. This list will tell you the essential otaku & weeb terms, and Japanese phrases that you’ll be seeing anime fans use online, in a mix of definitions and online slang in anime discussion. You tend to pick up on that memetic stuff on your own anyway, not to mention it’s not that useful on the daily. You probably know your “nani”s and all that stuff you non-baka. Anime and manga as a hobby are both easy to pick up and hard to get further into.Ī lot of the anime jargon used in discussion is from Japanese words and aren’t seen outside of anime communities, so how do I get in the loop?