katakana - How would one emulate capitalized letters in Japanese?

Capitalized letters look like I'M SHOUTING AT YOU.

How would you reproduce this effect in Japanese?

I don't think any of the obvious choices,

• using カタカナ instead of 漢字 or ひらがな,


• using punctuation, e.g. brackets 「」『』etc.


• using bold face

quite make the mark.

Does that mean I CAN'T SHOUT AT YOU IN JAPANESE ??!!?!

Answer

Exclamation marks are one way (as in English), and often a っ before an exclamation mark can give the effect of increased volume. They can even be repeated or put into katakana for more emphasis.

黙れ！ vs 黙れっ！ vs 黙れッッ！！

Japanese writing also seems to have less rigor in its literature-writing rules than English, so you can probably get away with repeating letters (黙れェェェ！), using multiple exclamation points, etc., without being frowned upon too much by literati. At least that's true for light novels and games.

There are also emphasis dots as istrasci mentioned. I think these are probably enough tools to create a powerful effect if desired.