I'm a Jananophile (or should I say Nipponophie) right here! I know lots of things about Japan from its history to its Mythology. Heck, I don't just KNOW Japan, I've BEEN there!
...Okay, enough egotistic bragging. Its a very interesting subject to study indeed.
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.
Yojimbo uses zanmoto/Zantetsuken free for me...(guess it's my fangirl charm...) but all i got from penance was some stupid sword for auron that had break damage limit (not bad except it had i think only 1 free customise slot nyaa..)
i have a heretic yojimbo figure it's so cool cause i've always liked dark yojimbo from ffX. he was a good source of ribbon armour.
Boku no otaku. I am an obsessed fan of anime, manga and all related things.
I also love japanese culture, music and especially food (sushi!). So much that i'm taking a trip there (15days!) this summer. I'm also in my third year japanese language study.
Current fav: Loveless (see my sexy/cute avatar^-^)
I dare say that anime/manga/fiction rules and sustains my life.
haven't seen neko no ongaeshi. what's it about? cat people? i love cat people (loveless). i hope it's cat people.... (lol)
What about old Japanese culture? I just read Chuushingura (a puppet play, I guess its supposed to be the classic version of the Forty-Seven Roonin) and I liked it a lot.
I have always loved Japan! Not just anime and manga but the whole entire culture! The food, the music, the clothing, the books, the art, even the people! I sometimes wish I was born Japanese.
Wow 0_0 I'm so late in replying. gomen nasai~
@Kazuto: My high school offers classes so I've been taking them since my sophmore year. I hope to continue in college in the fall too.
@Nyanchan: Escaflowne has a cat chara?! I'd heard of the anime but never got around to checking it out. Thanks!
@Athlynne: I love Gackt! His voice is so expressive. and deep! *sigh* great!
I lived in Japan for 3 months when I was 21. Extremely fascinating place. I'm not really into anime/manga or the like though. It is just like some kind of technological/imaginative wonderland.
Athlynee, I love your avvy! Where did you get it and how did you get it up there?
Anyways, I haven't seen any Japanese horror movies but I heard they are a million times better than our horror movies!
I'm quite fond of the corporatism in that country too :]
yes - corporatism with lots of imagination is OK ;P
Would be interesting to work there, if only for a while. (I hear it gets boring ;p)
Well, you probably know this already but it's VERY traditional. And it might be hard for an Aspie to work there (well, this aspie would find it hard, even if she were a man lol) because of how group-oriented the culture is.
I was the caregiver for my mother and father. I set up respite and meals on wheels and took a vacation to Hawaii. On August 13 I called and called and no one answered. My friend called the police and we started a 3 week search. We found their bodies in Harbison Canyon on Sept 4, 2006.
I think it was, in their minds, an honorable way to die.(sepuko, harakiri??) My mom felt like she was a burden, my dad got accepted in the VA home but she wasn't allowed to go with him. I also lost my dog to this tragedity.
I wanted to know what you call this in Japanese. Does anyone know???? In my mind it wasn't really suicide.
Either seppuku or hara-kiri is acceptable. Both are terms for ritualistic suicide.
Weird... I got an SQL error when I tried to write the above terms in Japanese kanji rather than romanji.
Wow is good to know here are so many Japanese culture lovers
, yeah it's one of my favorite interests, i wish to live in Japan, i like everything, their Food, Anime, Gardens, Technology, Music, Life Stile, i also think the Japanese culture have a lot of AS characteristics, Perfectionism, Discipline, Liking for the Technology, (I’m not saying the Japanese are aspies, just the culture is like an Eden for AS
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I was the caregiver for my mother and father. I set up respite and meals on wheels and took a vacation to Hawaii. On August 13 I called and called and no one answered. My friend called the police and we started a 3 week search. We found their bodies in Harbison Canyon on Sept 4, 2006.
I think it was, in their minds, an honorable way to die.(sepuko, harakiri??) My mom felt like she was a burden, my dad got accepted in the VA home but she wasn't allowed to go with him. I also lost my dog to this tragedity.
I wanted to know what you call this in Japanese. Does anyone know???? In my mind it wasn't really suicide.
Either seppuku or hara-kiri is acceptable. Both are terms for ritualistic suicide.
Weird... I got an SQL error when I tried to write the above terms in Japanese kanji rather than romanji.
Let me add that I'm sorry for your loss.
The Japanese word for suicide is "jisatsu".
"Jisatsu" basically means the same in etymological terms as the word "suicide"
-Satsu / -Cide = killing
Ji- / Sui- = self
Some computers need special programs to accept kanji, or else it just appears as a series of squares -- which is annoying!!!
You mean a IME? i don't know much about that but maybe is just that some computers have it built-in when you buy it
You mean a IME? i don't know much about that but maybe is just that some computers have it built-in when you buy it
Not sure. I know they can be downloaded but after my computer broke and I was trying to download one that had succeeded before, and it wouldn't again.
If you run Windows, you can load any available IME if you have the install CD. I have English, Japanese, and Korean on my PC.