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Yare Yare Daze (やれやれだぜ) is the catchphrase of the character Jotaro Kujo from the popular, long-running Shonen manga series JoJo's Bizarre Adventure. The phrase is a Japanese term that expresses boredom or exasperation which literally translates as "Well Well." Due to this, official translations of the catchphrase vary with the most notable ones being "Give me a !@$&*# break…" (Shonen Jump Advance), "What a Pain" (The official english dub of the 1993 and 2001 Stardust Crusaders OVA), and "Good Grief" (Crunchyroll's official subtitle for the 2014 animated adaptation).

Origin

The term "Yare Yare Daze" became the catchphrase associated with Jotaro Kujo who is the main character of the 3rd story arc of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure titled Stardust Crusaders which ran from 1989 to 1992. The story was later fully adapted into an animated show by David Productions in 2014 with the catchphrase making its first appearance in the second episode which first aired on April 11th, 2014.

Spread

On the 4chan archiving site Desustorage, typing the keyword "Yare Yare Daze" yields more than 800 results.^[3] On August 28th, 2009, Urban Dictionary user Jotaro Kujo submitted an entry regarding the catchphrase, which was shortened to YYD.^[1] Another entry regarding the catchphrase was submitted by user JotaroKujo on November 20th, 2013.^[2] On February 27th, 2016, Youtube user José Fino uploaded a compilation video of the times Jotaro Kujo uses his catchphrase throughout the events of Stardust Crusaders which gathered over 194.000 views as of June 2nd, 2016. The video was later deleted, but on January 4th, 2017, the user uploaded a second compilation that gained over 5.5 million views (shown below).

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