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  2. Number24 - Wikipedia

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    English network. US: Crunchyroll Channel. Original run. January 8, 2020 – April 15, 2020. Episodes. 12. Number24 is a Japanese anime television series produced by PRA and directed by Shigeru Kimiya. It aired on Tokyo MX from January to April 2020.

  3. Japanese wordplay - Wikipedia

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    16 can be read as "hi-ro", Hiro being a common Japanese given name. 16 is also a common age for anime and manga protagonists [citation needed] (i.e., heroes). 26 can be read as "fu-ro" (風呂), meaning "bath". Public baths in Japan have reduced entry fees on the 26th day of every month. 29 can be read as "ni-ku" (肉), meaning "meat".

  4. Japanese ship-naming conventions - Wikipedia

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    Japanese ship-naming conventions. Japanese ship names follow different conventions from those typical in the West. Merchant ship names often contain the word maru at the end (meaning circle ), while warships are never named after people, but rather after objects such as mountains, islands, weather phenomena, or animals.

  5. List of common Japanese surnames - Wikipedia

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    Officially, among Japanese names there are 291,129 different Japanese surnames (姓, sei), as determined by their kanji, although many of these are pronounced and romanized similarly. Conversely, some surnames written the same in kanji may also be pronounced differently.

  6. Japanese era name - Wikipedia

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    The Japanese era name ( Japanese: 年号, Hepburn: nengō, "year name") or gengō (元号), is the first of the two elements that identify years in the Japanese era calendar scheme. The second element is a number which indicates the year number within the era (with the first year being "gan (元) "), followed by the literal "nen (年) " meaning ...

  7. The Yakuza's Guide to Babysitting - Wikipedia

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    Tokyo MX, RKB, BS NTV, TSS. Original run. July 7, 2022 – September 22, 2022. Episodes. 12. The Yakuza's Guide to Babysitting ( Japanese: 組長娘と世話係, Hepburn: Kumichō Musume to Sewagakari, transl. "The Yakuza Boss's Daughter and her Caretaker") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tsukiya.

  8. Frieren - Wikipedia

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    28 ( List of episodes) Anime and manga portal. Frieren: Beyond Journey's End ( Japanese: 葬送のフリーレン, Hepburn: Sōsō no Furīren, lit.'Frieren at the Funeral'or 'Frieren the Slayer') [a] is a Japanese manga series written by Kanehito Yamada [ ja ] and illustrated by Tsukasa Abe [ ja ]. It has been serialized in Shogakukan 's ...

  9. O-mikuji - Wikipedia

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    Ryōgen (left), 18th chief abbot (zasu) of Enryaku-ji. The omikuji sequence historically commonly used in Japanese Buddhist temples, consisting of one hundred prophetic five-character quatrains, is traditionally attributed to the Heian period Tendai monk Ryōgen (912–985), posthumously known as Jie Daishi (慈恵大師) or more popularly, Ganzan Daishi (元三大師), and is thus called ...