Is "Airman ga Taosenai" grammatical? I've been listening to this memetic song for quite a bit, but recently I was thinking perhaps the title could be inaccurate. Shouldn't it be "Airman wo Taoserarenai"? There are 2 points I have to make here: One, means "to not beat/defeat" when the song clearly sings about not being **able** to defeat Airman, which would be expressed by the negative potential form of : . Two, the object is , not the player, so needs a instead of a , right? Am I on the mark on these two counts? < More on the song: <

'Not defeat' is , not . means 'not be able to defeat'. As for vs , the potential form ('be able to', 'can') is traditionally used with , I think in either of the following manners: , or , but it's becoming more and more frequent to use it with like this: .