'Otosu Shi'. It's supposed to say Drop Dead in Japanese, "otosu" is the simple verb drop and obviously "shi" is dead/death (and sometimes the number 4). And it took me ages before I knew the entire title, too! My Nihongo sucks, because I only took 3 years of Japanese age 12-13-14 and maybe a semester with my Mom at some community college at 10. I can still read/write(pretty much) hiragana/katakana, but yeah, I was very lazy with kanji, because it's fuckin' hard!
I was definitely not the greatest Japanese student, and I was watching Dragonball Z with my friend on tapes recorded from the OG broadcasts his aunt sent to him when we were 2nd graders in the '80s. His family even hosted me when I was 12 after they'd moved back. Still have some VHS tapes with ridiculous Japanese cartoons and kids' shows that were like Sesame Street but had talking ants crawling out of assholes and anamorphic coils of shit, also hilarious commercials. I have been a Japanophile long before the weeb shit hit, it's embarrassing now! Unfortunately my friend didn't get into HC/Powerviolence/Death metal like I did, but I did meet some of his friends who were into punk/HC who visited the US. He had brought me a CD from a popular band I'd imagine then called Luna Sea his mom sent for me, I played him what I was into, and he was not impressed. Japanese folks always thought they were emulating Amerika, but they'd do it way better, and neither of us realized. It was really obvious when you'd watch old anime shows and Japanese TV, and especially the restaurants and fashion and shit. Even most of the characters in their cartoons were white guys. Now they realize fully that they are way better than us, and that corny white people will watch any fucking anime show or movie at any age just because it's anime. But they really excelled at HC and powerviolence, and extreme music in general. Funny how most extreme Japanese bands (besides Gauze) of the '80s-'90s would all their albums and songs in English, while we were doing Japanese logos and album titles!
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fucking great shirt from a killer band, i saw dropdead at obscene extreme festival last summer and they stole the show!!!
i'm not sure about japanese but i can tell you that same character in chinese means to lack, so it probably has a similar meaning in japanese.
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awsome shirt! i got somewhere still a couple of patches of them :)
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'Otosu Shi'. It's supposed to say Drop Dead in Japanese, "otosu" is the simple verb drop and obviously "shi" is dead/death (and sometimes the number 4). And it took me ages before I knew the entire title, too! My Nihongo sucks, because I only took 3 years of Japanese age 12-13-14 and maybe a semester with my Mom at some community college at 10. I can still read/write(pretty much) hiragana/katakana, but yeah, I was very lazy with kanji, because it's fuckin' hard!
I was definitely not the greatest Japanese student, and I was watching Dragonball Z with my friend on tapes recorded from the OG broadcasts his aunt sent to him when we were 2nd graders in the '80s. His family even hosted me when I was 12 after they'd moved back. Still have some VHS tapes with ridiculous Japanese cartoons and kids' shows that were like Sesame Street but had talking ants crawling out of assholes and anamorphic coils of shit, also hilarious commercials. I have been a Japanophile long before the weeb shit hit, it's embarrassing now! Unfortunately my friend didn't get into HC/Powerviolence/Death metal like I did, but I did meet some of his friends who were into punk/HC who visited the US. He had brought me a CD from a popular band I'd imagine then called Luna Sea his mom sent for me, I played him what I was into, and he was not impressed. Japanese folks always thought they were emulating Amerika, but they'd do it way better, and neither of us realized. It was really obvious when you'd watch old anime shows and Japanese TV, and especially the restaurants and fashion and shit. Even most of the characters in their cartoons were white guys. Now they realize fully that they are way better than us, and that corny white people will watch any fucking anime show or movie at any age just because it's anime. But they really excelled at HC and powerviolence, and extreme music in general. Funny how most extreme Japanese bands (besides Gauze) of the '80s-'90s would all their albums and songs in English, while we were doing Japanese logos and album titles!