Have you heard the phrase 'Otonagai' before ?
It means, for example, adults who collect the free gifts attached to kids' candies and who go ahead and buy a large amount of candies with a single purchase. Because you cannot see which free gift is attached to the candy without opening the package, they buy a lot of candies at one time.
Also, buying products in bulk or by the box , even those without free gifts attached, and buying full volumes of comics all together, is also known as 'Otonagai'.
When we were kids, we had to take time and save money in order to buy just one thing, but as we became adults, we become able to use more money freely and this type of buying could be seen as we adults buying our childhood dreams .
Right now in Japan, the comic book with the most volumes is 'This is the local police station in front of Kame Ari park in Katsushika ward' ( Kochi Kame for short ). In February 2010 the 168thvolume will go on sale.
Buying all the volumes from 1 to 168. the 'Otonagai' way, would be terribly expensive !
今週の語彙
This week's vocabulary
語彙
■お菓子 sweets, candy ■おまけ a free gift ■大量 a large quantity ■購入 purchase, buy ■開封 breaking the seal , opening the packet ■全巻 the whole volume ■巻数 number of volumes in a series
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