How do you say "My respects." in Japanese?


I was watching "Garo - Vanishing Line" and the main character says "My
respects." but his romanization it sounded similar to him saying "gosumpai" or
something close to that. Nothing remotely close to "Watashi no sonkei".




If this is what you heard around 0:09 (even in another episode), the answer is
clear.

<https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cv8NWiHJ6t0>

The line is 「ご参拝{さんぱい}」, which means " ** _worshipping_** ", " ** _a visit to
a shrine_** ", etc. In the video above, he pronounces it like 「ごさんぱ～～い」.

The subtitles there surely read "Mt respects.", but no one in real life would
say 「ご参拝」 to greet a girl in Japanese (nor "My respect" in English).

Not being familiar with this anime, I just could not tell why the guy would
use such an unusual phrase as a greeting, but I guess that is observed a lot
in manga/anime. The characters tend to use weird phrases, sentence-endings,
etc. as a kind of **_role language_**.

It is perfectly fine to be an anime/manga fan, but you should know that real
native speakers do not speak like anime characters.

