The keyword of contest for 2016 in Japan

The keywords of the year contest for 2016 was held recently in Japan, and the winner have been announced.

Every year, the keywords of the year contest is held end of the year in Japan.

This years winner keyword is 「神ってる」 kamitteru

Kamitteru means being prossessed by superhuman behabior or suppernatural spirit. In short, it means "awesome like god"

Why kamitteru is popular in this year?

The reason is

This year, one baseball team in Japan had heroic victory. One player(Seiya Suzuki) hit a home run for the second straight day in June and manager called his outstanding perfomance "kamitteru"


If you speak Japanese , Example is

「あなた、頭いいね！！神ってるよ！！」=「You are so smart!!  You are kamitteru!!」

Other nominated words are

Pokemon Go

PPAP          etc・・・・

Let's use this word Lol