중성마녀
TL;DR · Origin"Jungseong manyeo" (roughly, "the neuter witches") is the Korean dub's collective name for Macao and Jomar, the two villains of Crayon Shin-chan: The Great Adventure in Hende…
Origin
"Jungseong manyeo" (roughly, "the neuter witches") is the Korean dub's collective name for Macao and Jomar, the two villains of Crayon Shin-chan: The Great Adventure in Henderland (1996). In the Japanese original they are a pair written as okama characters; the Korean dub settled on 중성마녀 as what to call them. The film is also the first Shin-chan movie with two final bosses rather than one.
The pair roam space causing trouble before making the Henderland amusement park their base for taking over Earth. What sets them apart is how they fight: not with force but with what amounts to soft power — specifically, dancing. They are genuinely excellent dancers, yet they lose to Shin-chan's family in the very first round, outmatched on the reason for dancing and the passion behind it.
Spread
A 1996 film became a meme much later. As COVID-19 distancing dragged on, YouTube filled with videos revisiting memorable scenes and lines from childhood cartoons, and on that wave the neuter-witch scene resurfaced in Korean communities.
The line that stuck hardest is "the truth is, I've been waiting for a man like you for a long time." The confession is immediately followed by "just kidding," and then by rage — a three-beat structure that happens to be perfect meme material. What gets quoted now is less the line itself than that sequence: seduction, retraction, fury.
How it is used
- In the template "the truth is, I've been waiting for a ___ like you," swapping the blank. Used to open with mock flattery.
- As bait-and-switch, flipping straight from the compliment into "just kidding."
- When imitating exaggeratedly coquettish speech or gestures.
- As a touchstone for the distinctive translation register of 1990s Korean-dubbed anime.
Sources
- Namuwiki, "Macao & Jomar" — that 중성마녀 is the Korean dub's name for them, that they are the final bosses of the fourth film Henderland and the series' first two-person boss, and how COVID-era nostalgia videos revived them
- Namuwiki, "The truth is, I've been waiting for a XXX like you" — the line and the "just kidding → rage" structure
- Korean Wikipedia, "Crayon Shin-chan: The Great Adventure in Henderland" — 1996 film details
