JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (ジョジョの奇妙な冒険)
やれやれだぜ
Yare yare daze
“Good grief...”
— Jotaro Kujo
Answer both practice questions correctly to complete this line.
Not yetThe scene
Jotaro Kujo, the stoic hero of Part 3, Stardust Crusaders, sighs this whenever trouble walks up to him — which is roughly every ten minutes. It is less a sentence than a pressure valve: part complaint, part warning. Heard from his debut (Part 3, episode 1) onward, and English-speaking fans quote it in romaji, 'yare yare daze', as a meme in its own right.
Word by word
| Japanese | Romaji | Meaning |
|---|---|---|
| やれやれ | yare yare | interjection: 'good grief' — a sigh for exasperation, for trouble, or for relief that trouble is finally over |
| だぜ | daze | assertive masculine sentence ending: 'I'm telling you!' energy |
Grammar notes
やれやれ: the sigh you can say
Japanese interjections often come doubled: やれやれ, まあまあ, ほらほら. やれやれ is the sound of shoulders dropping — used when something troublesome happens, or right after it finally ends. Jotaro's version leans toward 'oh, it's THIS again'.
だぜ: instant machismo
だぜ = declarative だ + rough ぜ. Keep やれやれ and swap the ending, and you swap the person: やれやれだわ (his daughter Jolyne's version in Part 6) sounds wry and feminine; bare やれやれ sounds like your grandfather. The ending particle is the personality dial — Ash's ゲットだぜ on this site turns the same dial.
Can you say this in real life?
Bare やれやれ is real Japanese — people do mutter it when the train is late again, usually with an actual sigh. Gluing だぜ onto it makes it a Jotaro impression: rough, macho, clearly a quote. For an everyday sigh among friends, まったくもう (mattaku mō, 'honestly...') is the natural choice.
Practice
Q1. When does Jotaro say 「やれやれだぜ」?
Q2. 「＿＿、また電車が遅れた」 (Good grief, the train is late again)
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