Can someone translate this japanese tattoo?

[XanBcoo]

I don't see what's wrong with such shirts if you know the language decently. But if you don't know the language and they aren't 100% obvious tourist shirts, I find it more dubious. Everybody thinks English (not Engrish) prints on T-shirts are perfectly OK everywhere, so why wouldn't other languages be? I think denying the right to use them is elitist weeabooism as much as wearing them ignorantly is popular weeabooism.

It's more that they are pitiable and pathetic for trying so hard to make a display of their ignorance rather than looking down on them because they don't know the language as well as you.

It displays a childish pretension, kind of like someone adding random Japanese words into a sentence or giving themselves a Japanese nickname for no reason other than it being associated with something cool.

[Kraco]

It displays a childish pretension, kind of like someone adding random Japanese words into a sentence or giving themselves a Japanese nickname for no reason other than it being associated with something cool.

It's a fricking T-shirt... My brother always told me he wouldn't wear typical brand T-shirts (or other equivalent clothing), because he doesn't want to appear a walking ad for a company, ironically even paying for the "privilege" of being a walking commercial. Usually a company pays you if you make them more visible, not the other way around. Well, I don't really care personally. A shirt is good if it's not ugly and it's of decent quality. But like I said ealier, I wouldn't wear a shirt with text if I didn't know the language to know exactly what the text is saying and that it's not ranguage. But if you do know Japanese, or Chinese, then it should be 100% comparable to a shirt with English text for all practical purposes. Unless you really are surrounded by idiots who don't know the language but still presume to laugh at you because they learned a new word from the internets to use against you.

[shinta|hikari]

But if you do know Japanese, or Chinese, then it should be 100% comparable to a shirt with English text for all practical purposes. Unless you really are surrounded by idiots who don't know the language but still presume to laugh at you because they learned a new word from the internets to use against you.

I completely agree. I really don't think the term weeaboo applies to someone who likes AND knows the actual language and culture, not simply an adulterated version of it seen in popular media.

[Animeniax]

But if you do know Japanese, or Chinese, then it should be 100% comparable to a shirt with English text for all practical purposes.

I disagree, since English is the common language (so common that aliens in outer space and from other dimensions speak it, if sci-fi movies are to be believed) that knowing it and using it is almost a requirement of living in the 21st century. But pretending to know about some Asian culture because it's "cool" leaves you open to ridicule.

[Kraco]

But pretending to know about some Asian culture because it's "cool" leaves you open to ridicule.

Did you even read what I said? If you know the fricking language better than just being able to buy random noodles from a booth, it's not "pretending to know about some Asian culture". The one and only problem the shirt might pose is the external danger of ignorant idiots calling you names. But then again, idiots hardly need any excuse to cause disorder, so unless you are suffering from massive self-confidence issues, you can't order your life according to the whims of idiots.

Besides, last time I checked you don't need to know a culture inside out to wear a t-shirt. If I did, I couldn't even wear shirts with English text. Saying English is such a mighty important language that it's okay, yet no other language is good enough by itself is, I'd say, American imperialism and nothing else.