do they actually say swear words in sentai

[Glamador]

Like using "thou" as an expletive.

That's even better than saying "darn you!"

 

[Kamen rider sol]

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yeah but has anyone actually heard kuso or kutabare as that one guy said in sentai? i've heard ankh, gaoh and diend say it rider before.

 

[arnoldmcguire335]

If I remember correctly, The stuff like "Kuso", "Onore" "Kisama" and the like often gets translated to profanities in subs. In truth, they're just disrespectful variants of "you", considering Nihongo lacks true profanities.

 

[Toku Prime]

Soooo... curse words just aren't as big a deal in Japan?

IIRC they don't have "swear words" in quite the same way that we do. Of course they have insults (no matter what language it is, nobody likes being compared to dung) but my understanding is that they don't quite have the same idea that some words are just inherently ruder to say than others with an identical meaning. If you want to be really rude to someone in Japan then you use the wrong honorific when referring to them. If you watched Kamen Rider OOO and wondered just why Goto seems to get irritated so easily by Date, it's because Date is constantly using the wrong honorific when he says his name (don't call me that!).

 

[Kamen rider sol]

actually

kuso does mean damn/**** not you

 

[Tom Constantine]

I definitely remember Japanese swear words being in Jetman at least.

 

[Shourikan]

I'm curious now.. Isn't kutabare just something like "drop dead"? That's what I've been told by my teacher.

 

[Jacky392000]

I'm curious now.. Isn't kutabare just something like "drop dead"? That's what I've been told by my teacher.

yeah, the real meaning for kutabare means that you're ordering the person to drop dead but because of the tone they usually use whenever they scream kutabare ends up making it sound as if they're screaming "**** you!!" in a sense. same goes to onore but onore has two meanings: "Damn you!"/"You bastard!" or one's self. it all depends on context, though.

nowadays, Sentai don't use these words that much anymore but very mild phrases instead such as like:

Shibutoi yatsu da na! / You're a very persistent bastard, aren't you?
Koshaku na! / You cheeky bastard!

 

[Kamen rider sol]

onore means this

curse you not damn you or you bastard

 

[Shynilyte]

"Curse" and "damn" mean the same thing. http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/damn

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