veronica 2 Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 What is the generally accepted characteristics of a bloke being "otoko-rashii" (according to Japanese)? ? Link to post Share on other sites
wakaran 1 Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 Gravelly voice (60 cigs a day for 30 years style) Link to post Share on other sites
montoya 0 Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 try googling it: http://images.google.com/images?hl=en&lr...%84&sa=N&tab=wi Link to post Share on other sites
slow 0 Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 Ken Watanabe!(from his appearance) Nomo!(for me) Don't talk too much but very gentle and ambitious. Link to post Share on other sites
brit-gob 9 Posted March 16, 2004 Share Posted March 16, 2004 Gentle? Interesting... I think "talking very loud and forcefully" must be an otokorashii thing here too. Link to post Share on other sites
rach 1 Posted March 17, 2004 Share Posted March 17, 2004 BECKS! (well, maybe with an adjusted voice tone ) Link to post Share on other sites
bazillion 0 Posted March 18, 2004 Share Posted March 18, 2004 Becks as in Beckham? I think I'm pretty otoko-rashii.... Link to post Share on other sites
snobee 0 Posted March 18, 2004 Share Posted March 18, 2004 As I understand it otoko-rashii can be loosely translated as "A man's man" and I don't think Becks quite fills that category (in it's out-dated sense). He appears to be ....er....well too nice a bloke to be the O-R. Kind of NAMMM (New Age Man's Man) In sports "The Hermanator" new world downhill champ, would be the outstanding candidate. Eh? Link to post Share on other sites
slow 0 Posted March 19, 2004 Share Posted March 19, 2004 Beckham!?? No way! He is far from Otoko-rashii and not attractive for me. Link to post Share on other sites
rach 1 Posted March 19, 2004 Share Posted March 19, 2004 Well, he is for me Link to post Share on other sites
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