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Episode 1 Hello, hello & hello

Good morning.      OHAYOO GOZAIMASU.
Good afternoon.    KONNICHI WA.
Good evening.       KOMBAN WA.*

*(In de facto modified Hepburn romanization, used in the visual and searchable dictionaries of this site, “Good evening” is spelled KONBAN WA.)

                     
Using HIRAGANA alphabet, the expressions are written

Good morning.      おはようございます。
Good afternoon.    こんにちは。
Good evening.       こんばんは。

Including common KANJI characters, the expressions are written

Good morning.      おはようございます。**
Good afternoon.    今日は。
Good evening.       今晩は。

**(In some expressions such as in “Good morning”, KANJI characters are not usually used.)