Etymology

nekketsu

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Today it means: shounen media with great focus on fighting and friendship; battle shonen Full definition →

Japanese 熱血
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The story

  1. Japanese · borrowed from熱血“hot-blooded”
  2. English todaynekketsu

From Japanese 熱血 (“hot-blooded”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.