Aspies For Freedom

I have a mild interest in japanese culture, and I enjoy watching films and anime and reading manga. Infact I generally only watch japanese films or films with a heavy japanese influence.

I think my interest in this stems from my special interest in japanese RPGs

I have not watched those films, but if they are good I hope to one day. I assume they are set about the time of the Edo period (1603- 1867) (I don't actually know much about it, I just have a game set in that era called Kessen).

I am intrigued by this Yojimbo, there is an Aeon named after him in Final Fantasy X, could you tell me more about him?

Most of the japanese movies I have watched have been fairly modern. I think Kagemusha is the oldest one I have seen.

Sorry, I meant Yojimbo in the film, I know almost everything about the aeon (it is part of my special interest). I didn't know yojimbo meant bodyguard though, so thanks for telling it me.I also hated how you have to pay him to get him to do anything, but he does have Zantetsuken the most powerful move in the game, capable of felling even Penance in one hit. Depending on how much he likes you he sometimes does stuff for free. I can only get him to use Wakizashi or Kozuka for free though.

Shogun sounds interesting I may watch it some day.

My favourite japanese movie (and so favourite movie) is Battle Royale. The basic premise is that a class of 15 year olds are stuck on an island and are forced to kill each other. The last boy/girl standing gets to go home. Each person trys a different approach to the problem facing them.
How I wished to do that to my class sometimes.

It is very exciting to watch, and for a week afterwards it was all I talked about to my two friends.

I have never seen Blade Runner, it has never been on tele as far as I have noticed, which is sad. Infact I hadn't noticed it at all until I watched it on AutTV, which is strange because it was meant to be a big movie.

I sure will! Unfortunatly I just spent all my money at HMV buying the Serial Experiments Lain boxset, so it will be a while before I can get it.

Really!? thats suprisingly cheap. Though I suppose it is a rather old film. But it costs me about £5 to get to the HMV store, so I only like to go if I have alot of money, since I am incredibly stingy with money and I really hate spending any at all, unless it is on an interest where I go a bit over the top and spend it all rather impulsivly. (btw in words like impulsivly, is there an e after the v, so it would be impulsively? none of them look right to me)

I do like japanese culture apart from anime and so on. I try to learn about it when I can, it allows you to understand what you are watching alot more, plus it is interesting.

Oh yeah it is Zanmato in FFX isn't it? You are much better at FFX than me, I can't beat Dark Ifrit on my best file, but I can beat Dark Ixion. I ruined my best save file though, I accidentally threw away an armour with Break HP limit on it that I got when I beat Omega. I have tried to start another great file but no matter how much I fight I can't find a Coerl on the Calm Plains, so I think that file may be cursed.

...Um. Don't know enough about downloading movies. It's Ghibli, so you could probably get a copy from a video library or store.

It's basically a fantasy spinoff of Whisper of the Heart (which is "Mimi o Sumaseba" in Japanese - the one where the girl sings "Country Roads" in Japanese.) A girl, Haru, discovers that she can talk to cats, and when she saves the life of the cat prince, the king of the cats (who is crazy) gets it into his head that he should send someone to bring Haru to "Neko no Kuni" -- Cat Country -- and there she will marry the prince. But she doesn't want to be married to a cat and Baron and Muta have to help her to avoid it.

(Watashi wa onna-otaku )

PS If you're interested in cat people, check out "Vision of Escaflowne" One of the major characters is a cat.

I do, I haven't watched too much lately though. I like Korean one's too.
My favourite is 'Tale of Two Sisters' It has quite a complex plot and some really scary moments.
I also liked Ring, I haven't seen Another Heaven yet.

Japanese is actually the ONLY language class my school offers- before this year, they didn't offer language classes at all.  They were told they were "too small" to hire a language teacher.  There's only about 120-150 students there.
I'd love to take an ASL class.  Maybe sometime in college......

I know baka and daijobu, but I don't know the other two words.  What do they mean?
I learned a new one recently:  がんばれ (Ganbare).

It's really fun watching movies and things now, knowing more of the language....  I can catch at least one word in most sentences, and sometimes the whole sentence, if it's short.  I was watching the reality show "I survived a Japanese game show", and before each commercial break the host says the same thing- "Minna isshoni!  Majide!"  Majide is the name of the show, and I got so excited, because I understood what he was saying!  "Minna" is "everyone", "isshoni" means "together"- he was asking the audience to say the show's name with him, "Everyone together!"
It's this kind of thing that makes me love learning new languages so much.    That moment where you realize you can understand something that was unintelligible to you before.

Here's an important phrase, Digimodify:  "Oterai wa doko desu ka?"  Where's the bathroom?
  And also "Nihongo wo amari hanashimasen."  I don't speak much Japanese.
In case you ever end up there and have no clue how to speak the language.  Those, I think, are the most handy phrases for a tourist.

Then again, if you're in Harajuku:  "Shashin wo totte mo iidesuka?"  May I take your picture?

No, I hadn't seen that one.  But I did see this one:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WcMqdIWNyWo  And here's another video of it:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbFFs4DHW...re=related