Futari Bus - Ch. 3 - The Bus Nearby

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One of my favorite things about this manga is not about how the characters are or whatever, but is the fact that the title is so short, like what do you mean this english title is only 3 WORDS LONG, you cant even use the word long here. If i remember correctly japanese words not translated to english but using english alphabet are called romaji and that title is only 2 words long.
Yes, sort of. Romanji is using western letters for each syllable in Hiragana and Katakana. Each Kanji symbol (borrowed from Chinese but with usually different meanings) are words (one or more) where each Hiragana and Katakana symbol are a symbol syllable. As both of the latter represent a full syllable it is a phonetic writing system and not an alphabetic writing system.

(I just know this stuff from looking it up in the past. It's not like I can read and understand the words, except for very common ones of course.)

Here's a picture of the Romaji/Heburn system phoneme mapping to Hiragana:

Japanese Romaji Hepburn system



Here's an AI-generated answer that the Brave browser gave me:

Types of Japanese Script

The Japanese writing system consists of three primary scripts: Kanji, Hiragana, and Katakana. Kanji are logographic characters derived from Chinese writing, used to represent nouns, verb stems, adjectives, and other core content words, with each character conveying meaning and often multiple pronunciations Hiragana is a phonetic syllabary with curvaceous, flowing shapes, used for native Japanese grammatical elements, particles, verb and adjective endings, and words not represented by Kanji Katakana, with its more angular and straight-lined appearance, is also a phonetic syllabary used primarily for foreign loanwords, scientific terms, onomatopoeia, names of plants and animals, and for emphasis These three scripts are typically used together in written Japanese to create a balanced and efficient system, with Kanji providing meaning, Hiragana handling grammar, and Katakana highlighting foreign or specialized vocabulary

Here's a picture of a Japanese sentence that illustrates what the AI said above.

3 scripts in a Japanese sentence
 
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considering they're the only two on the bus, surprised he doesn't sit up closer , even if not in the same seat, for convenience and such tho i guess i'd be self conscious of the bus driver overhearing
 

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