Japanese way to quickly wrap a gift

If you want to pack the Christmas gift as fast!

Here is a Japanese way to quickly wrap a package with gift wrapping paper. Fast and efficient!

Secret about "one piece" what is really?

Everyone thinks that one piece is a treasure but I think it more than that...May be a letter in which it is written something like "Thank you, to who discovered the one piece. The true treasure is to have lived all this adventures. One piece is in your heart" something like that...Or, The Goat! It is who gives the most mystery in One Piece, so may be the one piece. xd

Personally I would say that one piece is what the crew search :

Luffy : the title of Pirate King
Zorro : Become the best swordsman in the world
Nami : Make a world map
Sanji : Find the legendary All-Blue Sea
Chopper : Cure all diseases worldwide
Franky : Build the boat that will travel all seas
Ussop : Become a brave warrior of the sea
Nico Robin : Find the Rio Poneglyphe
Brook : find Laboon

I really do not think that one piece is a treasure. And you what do you think?

How to wish a Happy New Year in Japanese and some Traditions

Today I invite you to discover the different ways to wish a happy new year in Japanese and some traditions :

The most evident way to translate "happy new year" in Japanese is :

しんねんあけましておめでとうございます
Shinnen akemashite omedetō gozaimasu

To translate this expression in detail :

• しんねん shinnen = new year
• あける akeru = begin, exemple : としがあける toshi ga akeru = start a new year
• おめでとうございます omedetō gozaimasu = congratulations

Replay new year wishes :

ことしもよろしくおねがいします

Kotoshi mo yoroshiku onegai shimasu

• ことし kotoshi = this year
• も mo = also
• よろしくおねがいします yoroshiku onegai shimasu = sentence polite which means thank you for your consideration

As often in Japanese, there is a shorthand way to say this set of sentence. We take the beginning of several syllables : shinen AKEmashite OMEdetō gozaimasu, KOTOshi mo YOROshiku onegai shimasu, which will turn into あけおめ！ことよろ！Ake ome, koto yoro ! this expression is very familiar so be careful when using it.
more formal way to start the new year よいおとしをおむかえください Yoi otoshi wo omukae kudasai which means = I wish you a happy new year

• よい yoi = good
• おとし otoshi = year
• むかえ mukae = meet, greet
• ください kudasai = please

Now I propose to tell you about some traditions :

• お と し だ ま otoshidama : it is small envelope given to children for the new year containing some money.
• は つ も う で hatsumode : first shrine visit.
• Each throw money/coins into a designated box "さいせんばこ saisen bako" and pray for a happy new year.
• It is also common to buy a "おみくじ Omikuji" kind of horoscope written on a piece of paper which can announce happiness may be not. When the prediction is bad, it is a custom to fold up the strip of paper and attach it to a pine tree.
• ねんがじょう Nengajō : greeting card for the New Year. It is possible to write itself in calligraphy New Year's wishes, it is mandatory to deposit these cards in the mail before December 25 order to be received by the recipient on January 1, exactly.

"One Piece" Tops Oricon’s Best Selling Manga in 2014 in Japan

Here's the top 15 best selling manga series 2014.
The ranking is determined by series and expressed in number of volumes sold between 11/18/2013 and 11/16/2014.
One Piece has once again proven its dominance as the top selling manga series of 2014 in Japan, it is closely followed by Shingeki No Kyojin.

1. One Piece (11,885,957)
2. Shingeki No Kyojin (11,728,368)
3. Haikyu!! (8,283,709)
4. Tokyo Ghoul (6,946,203)
5. Kuroko's Basket (6,729,439)
6. Naruto (5,505,179)
7. Daiya no A (4,681,031)
8. Magi - The Labyrinth of Magic (4,657,971)
9. Seven Deadly Sins (4,633,246)
10. Assassination Classroom (4,622,108)
11. Hoozuki no Reitetsu (4,385,701)
12. Terra Formars (4,295,257)
13. Blue Spring Ride (4,166,875)
14. Yowamushi Pedal (4,098,510)
15. Silver Spoon (3,957,991)

Source: Oricon

High School DxD BorN : Treaser

A teaser of the new season of High School DxD just been released this weekend.
The series is scheduled for spring (April) 2015 in Japan and was titled High School DxD Born.


TVアニメ『ハイスクールDxD BorN』PV第一弾 - High School DxD... par Korosu_no_Sekai

Kuroko no Basket 3: Teaser

Here's a teaser of Kuroko no Basket Season 3 scheduled for 10 January 2015.

30 secrets you didn't know about Dragon Ball

Here are 30 big and small Dragon Ball secrets that you probably don't know.

1. The Kamehameha is a technique of tossing a blue energy beam. In real life, it is a dynasty of kings Hawaiian.
2. Sangoku (or Son Goku 孫悟空 in Japanese), don't kill any enemy before Yakon, the henchman of the witch Babidi in chapter 452 of the manga. He will kill a second later: Boo.
3. Sangoku is inspired from the Monkey King, recurring character in the classical Chinese literature.
4. Before being transformed into cyborgs, C17 and C18 were twins prenamed Lapis Lazuli and (such as stone).
5. The name 'Bulma" means "panties" in Japanese.
6. Sangoku is afraid of injections.
7. Piccolo is believed to have purple blood...however, it is blue when Raditz cut his arm at the beginning of the annime Dragon Ball Z.
8. The favorite character of Akira Toriyama is Piccolo.
9. Sangoku confronts Superman in a story invented by Wizard magazine in 2002. Obviously, this is "Goku" who wins.
10. In the Anime, the fight between Goku and Frieza extends itself over twenty episodes, about twenty minutes each. Nearly 7 hours in total.
11. At one point, in the same battle, Freezer says the Namek planet will explode in "five minutes". This eventually take 10 episodes (over three hours).
12. Obviously, we like to give names of food to children in the family of Goku, Gohan means "rice bowl" in Japanese and Pan (the granddaughter of Gohan) translates to "bread".
13. The character of Yamcha is also a baseball player.
14. Sangoku has won only once the great martial arts tournament in six participation.
15. Roshi was nice to live on an island, it has a postal address: NBI 8250012 B.
16. Sangoku has also address: 439 East District.
17. The voice of Goku is interpreted from the beginning to the end of the anime by a woman, Masako Nozawa.
18. Mister Satan est réellement fort par rapport au reste des humains "normaux". 
19. The hair of the Saiyans will not grow. Practice.
20. An episode of the anime, Goku and Piccolo shows that take driving lessons.
21. The recurring character Lunch disappears in the middle of the series, without good reason and never reappear not later.
22. The Nameks as Piccolo are asexual and give birth spitting eggs.
23. Another feature of Nameks: they don't eat and simply drink water.
24. Boo was created by the wizard Bibidi no less than five million years before the birth of Goku.
25. The characters Bibidi, Babidi and Boo were named from a drawn cast of Cinderella.
26. Hitler appears in Dragon Ball Z: Fusion Reborn, one of the films from the world of manga.
27. Dragon Ball GT has been published in the form of anime, but Akira Toriyama is not completely foreign as much. The author of the manga has been involved in major decisions on the script of this continuing adventures of Goku.
28. Sangoku would be dead from heart disease if Trunks was not come from the future with the proper treatment.
29. Like no one in the family of Goku does not work, they live on the fortune of his wife's father, Chichi.
30. Sangoku has a mom and her name Gine. Akira Toriyama revealed this information on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the series.

Source: lexpress.fr