Comments on: How to spot a herbivore boy and a carnivore boy

By: Cool guys study English, horse riding and piano | 世論 What Japan Thinks

Sun, 02 May 2010 14:21:55 +0000

[...] is karate – I’m wondering if the survey question was actually “What do you think herbivore boys would be [...]

By: Why herbivore boys don’t get the girl | 世論 What Japan Thinks

Sun, 15 Nov 2009 02:16:38 +0000

[...] poor herbivore boys have been beaten to death by both me and the mainstream press, so let’s dance on their graves with goo Ranking at why herbivore [...]

By: PeterD

PeterD — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 23:06:45 +0000

Thanks for doing these. I enjoy reading them. And once a quarter, I have to do a presentation for my Japanese class – and I often use one of these rankings as what I present on. I may be doing herbivore/carnivore for the presentation I have to do next week.

By: Ken Y-N

Ken Y-N — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:28:00 +0000

PeterD, you’re absolutely right! When I first translated it in my head it was “Indoor type” to contrast the “Outdoor type” for the carnivores, but when I actually typed it out for some reason I read it as インテリ系!

By: PeterD

PeterD — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 18:20:46 +0000

Under both herbivore listings, you have intelligent as the first category. I don’t see that on the Japanese version. Both men and women seem to list インドア派 as the top listing. I a translating this as “indoor clique”, which would seem to be the same as the ranking saying wanting to spend time in their own room? Does it actually mean intelligent?

By: Ken Y-N

Ken Y-N — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:49:58 +0000

Damn, I knew that had to be an idiom, but I just didn’t bother looking it up! I’ll fix that.

By: darg

darg — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 13:39:33 +0000

Hey Ken- just as a note, 顔が広い means that someone is well known/well connected, not that they have a broad face – makes a little more sense that way!