About Mimi & Otto
About Mimi & Otto
What is Mimi & Otto?
Mimi & Otto is a small project for exploring Japanese onomatopoeia through scenes, guesses, and real response patterns.
Watch a scene, enter the Japanese onomatopoeia that comes to mind, and compare your answer with native and learner responses.
What is Japanese onomatopoeia?
Japanese uses many sound-symbolic words to describe sounds, movement, texture, mood, and feelings. Some are close to sound effects, while others express more subtle sensations.
How it works
- Watch a scene
- Enter the onomatopoeia that comes to mind
- Compare your answer with native and learner responses
- Submit your own scene if you have one to share
Submit a scene
You can submit your own scene. Submitted scenes are reviewed before they appear publicly.
Please only submit images you have the right to use. We may reject or remove content that appears inappropriate, unsafe, or infringing.
Safety and moderation
Mimi & Otto may review submitted content and remove scenes or answers that violate our rules or harm the experience for other users.
Submitted scenes may be cropped, resized, or otherwise adjusted for display within the service.
Operator
- Operator
- maics Inc.
- Address
- Konotorabiru 7F
1-1-14 Shimomeguro
Meguro-ku, Tokyo-to 153-0064
Japan - Contact
- contact@maics.jp