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NEWS: Seven Seas Licenses Haganai, Mayo Chiki! Manga


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Ingraman



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PostPosted: Fri Mar 02, 2012 3:32 pm Reply with quote
HeeroTX wrote:
Ingraman wrote:
Just where does the title "Haganai" come from? Usually, the shorthand titles (seem to) just take a few syllables from the full title of the anime/manga/LN, but this one doesn't... Or is that spoiler material?

Boku ha Tomodachi ga Sukunai = Haganai

(In japan, the kana for "ha" is used for the particle "wa", usually pronounced "wa" in that situation)

HitokiriShadow wrote:
It's an incredibly bizarre way to do it, like shortening a title to "The-are-no", but apparently the original author chose it. I guess the author didn't like BokuTomo or Bokunai or whatever other ways it would have typically been shortened to if left to the fans.

Ah... Maybe if the title were normally romanized that way, I _might_ have picked up on it. ^^;

Thanks.
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