Talk:Ilia Amitola/@comment-2601:584:4400:1199:88AF:A1B8:8E66:5743-20171211023148/@comment-4010415-20171212035516

And the Japanese honorific for a lowerclassman or someone junior to you is kouhai.

The "Notice me, senpai" meme doesn't really take into consideration the actual meaning of senpai, though. It's a joke about anime that have a character who has a huge crush on their senpai and really wants their senpai to notice them/acknowledge their existence/approve of them.

It's like when you're in high school and have a crush on an older student, but they're more likely to pay attention to classmates their own age.