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"That's wicked." (Japanese: "マジやばくね", Romaji: "majiyabakune") is a catchphrase from the 2017 anime Miss Kobayashi's Maid Dragon. After the catchphrase's appearance and usage in the anime, fans of the anime cite to spread it's wicked humor. Isn't that wicked?

Although マジやばくね is difficult to translate in English, especially "やばい" (yabai), since in the context of the phrase doesn't necessarily mean "dangerous" but rather "amazing" or "wicked", English speaking people cite the English subtitled version of the anime. マジやばくね actually literally means "Isn't that pretty wicked?".

Origin

The anime Miss Kobayashi's Maid Dragon, which is currently airing on Tokyo MX, TVA, ABC, BS11 and Aniplus Asia since January 2017, is produced by the Japanese animation studio Kyoto Animation and has been an originally added joke to the series by the studio staff themselves.

The phrase originated from a background character in episode 2. In the story, Tohru shows Kanna around the city and explains certain things Kanna sees. As they saw the background character talking on the phone and hearing the phrase, Tohru explained her, that it's a magical word "everyone" would use. Kanna also tried to use it for conversations in her school and strangely affected her classmates. What is this? Isn't that wicked?