'Amazing', 'wow' — the Japanese exclamation that every subtitle left untranslated and every viewer therefore learned, later used by the English internet for anything impressive and, more often, for a weeb impression of a person impressed. The record's entry for the word fansubs taught a generation.
A reader writes that 'sugoi' also means 'terrible', depending on tone, and that 'sugoi' about a meal can go either way. The record thanks the reader and now hears every compliment differently.
The record remembers a 2008 fansub note reading 'sugoi: amazing (note: keikaku means plan)', and remembers being, then and now, no better informed.
The headnote reads like an autopsy. Adding, for balance: at its peak in 2015, Sugoi was genuinely useful — it did a job no existing word did, and it did it in under a second.
What does it mean? Write it the way you would say it out loud.
