<entry id="2146226" stat="A" corpus="jmdict" type="jmdict">
<ent_corp type="jmdict">jmdict</ent_corp>
<ent_seq>2274640</ent_seq>
<r_ele>
<reb>モブ</reb>
</r_ele>
<r_ele>
<reb>モッブ</reb>
</r_ele>
<sense>
<pos>&n;</pos>
<gloss>mob</gloss>
<gloss>crowd of people</gloss>
</sense>
<sense>
<stagr>モブ</stagr>
<pos>&n;</pos>
<gloss>background character (in a manga, anime, etc.)</gloss>
<gloss>mob (in a video game)</gloss>
<gloss>non-player character</gloss>
<gloss>NPC</gloss>
</sense>
<info>
<audit time="2008-05-19 00:00:00" stat="A">
<upd_detl>Entry created</upd_detl>
</audit>
<audit time="2018-06-18 01:17:38" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>The refs say sense 1 is モッブ, but popular usage seems to be モブ.
Merging 1135120.</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>https://dic.pixiv.net/a/%E3%83%A2%E3%83%96#h3_1
Daijr, GG5, etc.</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -6,0 +7,3 @@
+&lt;r_ele&gt;
+&lt;reb&gt;モッブ&lt;/reb&gt;
+&lt;/r_ele&gt;
@@ -9,0 +13 @@
+&lt;gloss&gt;crowd of people&lt;/gloss&gt;
@@ -11,0 +16 @@
+&lt;stagr&gt;モブ&lt;/stagr&gt;
@@ -14 +19,2 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;minor character (in computer games, from mobile object)&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;lsource xml:lang="eng"&gt;mobile object&lt;/lsource&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;minor character (in computer games)&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2018-06-18 03:26:11" stat="A">
<upd_uid>rene</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Rene Malenfant</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
</audit>
<audit time="2018-06-18 03:26:51" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>rene</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Rene Malenfant</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>i think the language source for sense 2 needs to be fixed.  (should be something that sounds like "mob")</upd_detl>
</audit>
<audit time="2018-06-18 03:41:13" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Marcus Richert</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>The word mob/mobs is used similarly in English, with the distinction that "mob" usually means a monster/enemy walking around the game world, 
while in Japanese it's "minor character/background character".</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mob_(gaming)
https://minecraft.gamepedia.com/Mob
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%A2%E3%83%96%E3%82%AD%E3%83%A3%E3%83%A9%E3%82%AF%E3%82%BF%E3%83%BC</upd_refs>
</audit>
<audit time="2018-06-18 10:44:09" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_uid>robin1354</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Robin Scott</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>How's this?</upd_detl>
<upd_diff>@@ -18,3 +18,3 @@
-&lt;field&gt;&amp;comp;&lt;/field&gt;
-&lt;lsource xml:lang="eng"&gt;mobile object&lt;/lsource&gt;
-&lt;gloss&gt;minor character (in computer games)&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;background character (in a manga, anime, etc.)&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;mob (in a video game)&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;non-playable character&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2018-06-19 23:34:22" stat="A">
<upd_uid>jwb</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Jim Breen</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>Looks good.</upd_detl>
</audit>
<audit time="2021-09-09 12:24:31" stat="A">
<upd_uid>Marcus</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Marcus Richert</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_diff>@@ -20,0 +21 @@
+&lt;gloss&gt;NPC&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2021-09-09 13:12:33" stat="A" unap="true">
<upd_name>Marcus Richert</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>My bad, thought "non-playable" was the standard term, but "non-player" is way more common</upd_detl>
<upd_refs>ngrams</upd_refs>
<upd_diff>@@ -20 +20 @@
-&lt;gloss&gt;non-playable character&lt;/gloss&gt;
+&lt;gloss&gt;non-player character&lt;/gloss&gt;</upd_diff>
</audit>
<audit time="2021-09-09 23:19:26" stat="A">
<upd_uid>robin1354</upd_uid>
<upd_name>Robin Scott</upd_name>
<upd_email>...address hidden...</upd_email>
<upd_detl>I'd always thought it was "non-playable" as well. (I added that gloss.)</upd_detl>
</audit>
</info>
</entry>