I've always wanted to go. I'd really love to see the parade and go to every food stalls. I hope I can save enough so my girlfriend and I could go probably next year. Do you still wear those yukatas, and are foreigners allowed to wear them during the festival?
Maybe it's requested for remittance, but not by him. Do you suggest that we surrender it back to the office, or wait til someone claim it from him?
He said that he knows Toshishiro, but by the name of Tamari? I guess you really don't translate name.
He also said there's a high cost of living in Japan, so earning that amount is not much? I don't know, but if you convert the money into USD, it sure can do a lot.
Hi!, there is a new Kanji game for Android. It's called "Kanji Writing Game" and, as the name suggest, you have to draw the correct kanji to pass the rounds.
The kanji list is divided by grades and it contains the complete 1945 Jouyou kanji. It's also in Spanish.
This is a free game with an Ad banner. The author ask for donations in order to make an iPhone version of this game.
More info at: http://kwg.sourceforge.net/ http://www.cyrket.com/p/android/com.amp_21004.kwg/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZYSIHuzTfk
Looks like Kuwata Kesuke's (leader of the Southern-All-Stars Jpop group) disclosure that he has cancer has sparked an overwhelming flood of sympathy and well-wishes from fans. In addition, sales for his newest single 「本当は怖い愛とロマンス」Honto Wa Kowai Ai To Romance/"The Fear of True Romance and Love" has gone up especially at online retailer Amazon.co.jp
I definitely share everyone's sentiment and say 「頑張って」Ganbatte! --Good Luck for a speedy recovery.
Thanks for making the couple of Forum threads for those stories, James. I got out of the habit of doing that, though I used to do it for every story so people could comment and follow up just as you've done.
Kuroki Meisa would be far more my cup of tea than Angie Jolie. But one is an up-and-coming starlet and the other is a global/Hollywood icon.
Thanks Tenno H. for posting the article on 山本真純アナ/Yamamoto Masumi's suicide. Very sad and tragic news indeed and the tabloids are starting to say that it was related to postpartum depression which many women undergo after child birth.
Hmmm, yeah, not much consistency as writers go. The only one on that list I'm familiar with (granted it's an anime I know very well) is Cowboy Bebop, which never had a proper manga (it's manga was similar to that of NGE, which came out after the anime ended and didn't do much justice to the show). Cowboy Bebop rather than being by any particular writer was a project by Sunrise Studios (again, similar to NGE, which was a project of Gainax).
Most Japanese arn't christian which makes them demonic right?
I believe thats a perfect display of a non sequitur or failed/missing logic. Its like saying that we know the moon was painted white by the Marsian aliens because it shines so brightly. The statement and its supposed evidence or reason has no connection what so ever, and the claimed connection doesnt even make sense.
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But seriously perhaps this is why they say that . And I have never heard this saying before.
Thats probably because anyone who used it in the last couple of hundred years would either be seen as ignorant(assuming without any logical or historical support that the spread of christianity is a good thing), stupid(unable to learn Japanese) or a religious zealot(religion takes precedence over everything else).
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The quote is meant to spark a "flame war" and should be ignored as such.
Nitpick, "senkan" means battleship. I think cruiser is jun'youkan.
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The director is 山崎 貴/Yamazaki Takashi who made quite an impression with his past movies like "Returner"
Well thats nice at least, as i quite liked "The Returner". Im yet to find a live action version of an anime that i liked though. Otoh, i found the anime space battleship Yamato just way too odd so maybe a live action will actually improve it? (goes so far out towards bad that i comes back from the other side and suddenly is good)
Maybe its just because i know how battered the Yamato got before sinking that i find the idea too outrageous for my suspension of disbelief, hehe. Otoh, anyone coming up with a way to get a 60Kt payload into space, that person i want to meet, and then i want to get into business with them!
Most certainly want to have a look at it when it comes out.
While not really a Japanese movie, Zack Snyder's "Sucker Punch" looks at least heavily influenced by Japanese Anime and Pop-Culture. I guess he must have got a lot of input from co-writer Steve Shibuya who has been an assistant on films such as "Killer Klowns form Outer Space".
The film describes itself as "Alice In Wonderland with Machine Guns" but perhaps a more apt comparison would be to companion piece to the Anime サクラ大戦 AKA "Sakura Wars".
While the plot for "Sucker Punch" is a dream vs reality story, it's interesting how they seem to mirror Sakura War's steampunk alternate reality theme.
Really looking forward to this as I loved both "300" and "Watchmen". The Official website doesn't have much now but hopefully as 2011 approaches we will see more of the world of "Sucker Punch".
Like Spica said. Ringu is the bomb. I mean I was sweating during the whole movie. I kept having to grab my t-shirt and try to get air in there. It is a horror movie.
But My all time favorite movie was "hansamu sutsu" It was a laugh.
There was another one that I liked but can't remember the name. Maybe some body can help out.
It was about a Law in Japan where every one had to get a chip and everyone out of 10,000 people would be killed by a poison in the chip when they turned 21 years old. It forced people to enjoy their lives and to make their lives worth something. Pretty trippy stuff.
Another one that wasn't all that awesome but kind of fun and we had alot of fun making fun of it it "Umizaru"
Another favorite is Pixar or disney movies that have been made in to japanese speach. It is the real deal japanese and great to study and learn from.
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It's sort of ironic that today girls in Japan are dying their hair varying shades of light brown to blonde, getting "kuroi" tans or putting on colored Lens in order to standout. I guess anime/manga do influence people more than we know.
I wouldnt be so sure its the anime/manga influencing. Or at least not being a primary reason. With a population that is alot more stratified than in many countries, especially USA/Europe that seems to be common to compare with, and at the same time now having easily affordable means to stand out, i wouldnt be surprised if the anime and manga did more of noticing and reinforcing a trend rather than creating it.
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I guess blonde hair gives girls a more angelic appearance or characterization. Red hair seems to give girls a more temperamental personality (Majokko Megu-chan comes to mind).
