12 definitions by The 2-Belo
Term that describes Japanese animated cartoons made in the 1980s or earlier, usually television series made on small budgets resulting in Bullwinkle-style art and as much story as possible crammed into a half hour. This term has been generally replaced with the word anime since the 1990s.
Kyojin no Hoshi, Heidi of the Swiss Alps, and The Flanders' Dog are the most well-known japanimation titles within Japan.
by The 2-Belo January 8, 2004
The error message given by a modem when the telephone line carrier signal is lost. In the days of BBSs this was a frequent occurrence, often at the very moment someone was typing a sentence. Loss of signal would cause a string of garbage characters to be displayed to the recipient.
In later years this gave rise to an unending joke, depicting someone getting forcefully interrupted or otherwise cut off the internet, out of spite, in the middle of a particularly boring thought, irritating tirade, or some Famous Last Words.
In later years this gave rise to an unending joke, depicting someone getting forcefully interrupted or otherwise cut off the internet, out of spite, in the middle of a particularly boring thought, irritating tirade, or some Famous Last Words.
by The 2-Belo June 30, 2004
To get hit by a freak or otherwise unseasonably heavy snowstorm, usually causing school closings, impassable roads, and general paralysis of society. Used in certain snowboarding circles in an ironic fashion, to indicate that the substance their very sport relies on is preventing them from getting to a destination that will allow participation in that sport.
We were planning to go up to Big Bear this weekend, but on Friday night we got totally SN0WN3D and couldn't even get out of town.
by The 2-Belo January 20, 2006
A non-Japanese person who has developed a severe affection for Japanese exported popular cultural items, particularly anime, snack foods, toys, video games, and other mass-produced trinkets (while caring little about Japan as a nation or as a people). Such fans are typically young white Americans, which led them to be labeled with this decidedly racially-charged nickname. Although extremely irritating, they are ultimately harmless, as few become proficient enough in the actual Japanese language to actually travel to Japan to become Janks, McSenseis, or etc. The average "Wapanese" should only be given the same weight as that of the Radiohead fan, or similar follower of middle-America strobe-flash trends.
To a Wapanese, a box of Pocky chocolate sticks is high cuisine from an alien planet that should be carried around prominiently in the webbing of their rucksacks for all the world to see, rather than a cheap box of oversweet junk food.
by The 2-Belo December 2, 2003
A conversational English teacher in Japan; stereotypically a young unskilled Western male working for a small English school on a short contract.
Jonathan was your typical Tokyo McSensei: classes for bored housewives by day, desperate skirt-chasing by night...
by The 2-Belo May 8, 2003