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JOP

JOP noun: a foreign fan of Japanese works who speaks Japanese and experiences them in Japanese. Often bragging about the fact. Seen by many as elitist.

Noun

JOP (plural JOPs)

  1. (slang) A foreign fan of Japanese works who speaks Japanese and experiences them in Japanese. Often bragging about the fact. Seen by many as elitist.
    • Also, I wanted to point out that so far, seemingly no one in this thread had actually read the VN, and instead is either arguing about semantics, or is just being an obnoxious JOP elitist, like #4 and #8. Again, I want to know if this VN actually has a good plot, or if this whole thing is just one...2026 June 21, what-if17, “Is it actually THAT good?”, in The Visual Novel Database
    • When a TL is so good that mindbroken JOPs burn millions of tokens over months to push a narrative2026 August 2, u/Mihtaren, “We audited every line of Todokanai TL's White Album 2 translation. Its defenders now have three increasingly unfortunate choices.”, in r/visualnovels
    Antonyms:
    EOP

Examples of JOP in a sentence

  • JOP go around and pretend shit is untranslatable, only for it to be translated into other languages.2025 April 8, u/No-Satisfaction-275, “What are some Japanese only visual novels that are top notch?”, in r/visualnovels:
  • JOP tells that 'X' untranslated game is the best piece of media ever created by man when it's just another weeb recommendation, so that's why I ask.2025 June 16, u/Mitsu_x3, “New vn fans are hilarious”, in r/visualnovels:
  • r/visualnovels has been completely shit ever since these JOPs started to take over the sub.2023 May 24, u/conanssc, “A sudden epiphany”, in r/visualnovels:
  • After over a decade of naively believing the JOP circle jerk I finally played Baldr Sky and I thought it was just alright.2020 March 7, u/raydawnzen, “post where I say bad things about baldr sky”, in r/visualnovels:

Antonyms of JOP

Forms of JOP

pluralJOPs

Origin of JOP

The fandom slang sense is an initialism of "Japanese-only player".

Questions about JOP

What does JOP mean?
JOP means a foreign fan of Japanese works who speaks Japanese and experiences them in Japanese. Often bragging about the fact. Seen by many as elitist.
How do you use JOP in a sentence?
JOP go around and pretend shit is untranslatable, only for it to be translated into other languages.
What part of speech is JOP?
JOP is a noun.
What is the plural of JOP?
The plural of JOP is JOPs.

Words near JOP in the dictionary

  1. Jooz
  2. joozh
  3. joozhed
  4. joozhes
  5. joozhing
  6. JOP
  7. Jopadhola
  8. Jopara
  9. Jophiel
  10. Joplin
  11. Joplinesque

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