Friday, August 26, 2005

Jaa ....
(well....)

Okay, everyone. I really don't know what to talk about. I'd rather not talk about what happened in the beginning of the day... It's kind of like Kana-chan said. But if you're really curious, then I can tell you if you private message me. I already ranted about it somewhere else, so I'm not holding it in.^^

Well, we went to the river again today. It was really nice. This time when we went it was getting dark, and it was really peaceful. We really needed it.

I can't really think of what to say... nothing really happened. Hmm. I guess that my life is pretty boring. ^^;

Sorry! I didn't draw yesterday, by the way, but I might try and do something productive tomorrow, since I'll probably get more bad news tomorrow also. (the stuff that I'm talking about has to do with the divorce, just so that you're not completely in the dark about what's going on.)

So, yeah. I'm trying to be as positive as I can, but....

So I'll try and get something done tomorrow. That'll be my goal.

Thanks for reading, and I know it's short.^^; I guess it's because I'm not feeling the best, that I can't do my usual long posts. Well, hopefully I'll be able to again.


~Kanau
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Thursday, August 25, 2005

O-ha-yo~!^^
(good-mor-ning~!)

Okay, I'm glad that no one seemed to be offended by my rant. Gomen nasai ::bows::

Well, I know it doesn't seem like a big deal, but this is the first time it's happened so I'll say something about it.

Yesterday I got 8 comments!~~~ Thank you everyone! =^^=

Anyway... Nothing has really been happening. I've watched up to episode 14 of BLEACH. Good series. And I've read up to chapter 48 of Death Note. Good series also.

Anyone know of anyother good series? I'm looking for more. ^^

And today I also have 150 visits! Thank you guys so much!

Hmm... what else, what else... Only 4 more days left before classes start! No~~! I want my freedom! ^^;; Okay, I'm done.

Oh, today I went to the university and met my Japanese teacher. I was supposed to meet the department head (because Japanese is going to be my major), but she wasn't there, but the other Japanese instructor was, so I introduced myself to her. I think it went okay.^^ (I'm still not that confident in my ability to speak Japanese...^^;;

I really can't think of anything else to say. My life has been pretty boring lately.

I think I'll try and do something besides be on the computer and download things... I think I might try and draw. Does anyone know some good webistes for Japanese fanart?

I should probably get off soon, because my mom is getting worried that I'm not sleeping enough... (I've been staying up all night for a week or more now...)But I want to read more Death Note!

I'm thinking of changing my layout. I wonder what I should do... Hmm... oh well. I'll keep thinking.

Ack! My posts are usually much longer than this. Oh well. You guys are probably relieved... *laughs* Okay then, I should probably go, so that my mom doesn't worry.

Thank you to all who read and comment~!!^^


~Kanau
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Wednesday, August 24, 2005

Hontou ni gomen nasai.
(I'm really sorry.)

I wanted to say one thing first. I wasn’t directing my last post at anyone. I’m really sorry if anyone took it that way… ;_;

And Shizuka-san, I know that most people who don’t watch the Japanese versions because they can’t. I think that I even said it in my post and if not, then: I couldn’t watch the Japanese versions for a long time. I watched only english versions for a long time. So, I know what you mean about that. And I also understand what you mean about getting used to the different voices. I completely understand how that could happen. ^^ Don’t worry, I’m not mad at anyone.

I just wanted everyone to understand that I wasn’t actually meaning for this to be directed at anyone. I was just ranting. That’s all. I had experience with people that completely refused to even consider watching the Japanese, original, version. That’s where the rant came from in the first place. And I also completely understand that people have different opinions of what sounds best to them.

Sorry if this was misunderstood as a personal attack on anyone who watches english versions. I used to watch english versions, a lot. I also respect the opinions of other people.

I apologize for any misunderstanding… Sorry guys.

Otherwise, nothing has really happened.^^



~Kanau

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Tuesday, August 23, 2005

anou.... un!
(Umm... yeah!)


Hello, everyone. I have come to the conclusion that no matter how hard I try, I can't make the posts shorter. So... bear with the rambling.

I have all my school books in my book bag (Hagaren!) and that is where they are staying. I am not touching them until I'm forced to. XD I tried to look through them, and realized that I only have 6 full days until classes start, and suddenly got a bad case of 'I'm-not-doing-anything-until-I-have-to' syndrome. So... no school for me until the 29th.

I have discovered Death Note manga scans. Very good. I would be reading more of it, but since it is now 3 a.m. I may have to quit soon... Darn.

Does anyone know any other good/mostly unlicensed series, that I could download research on the computer besides BLEACH and Death Note. Preferably something that's currently popular. I appreciate any feedback. ^^

I am now turning into a downloading maniac. XD I downloaded eps 4-6 of BLEACH, and 15 chapters of Spiral manga. And have the Death Note manga translation site on my favorites. All from just today. I of course have no way of saving the episodes to my computer. The site won’t let me… And I want to know more series!!

*completely forgets about the Hagaren obsession that she should be having in order to arrange all the ideas in her scrambled mind*

Oh well, that problem should be solved when my manga comes in… September. Grr at September. Why must everything I order be backordered?

Also, anyone know of any good doujinshi? Or good sites with Japanese fanart sites? I don’t care what series it’s of. Can you tell I plan on going on an internet rampage? ^^;; heh, heh….

Alright, I feel another, “I-think-that-I-may-know-too-much-Japanese-for-me-to-be-able-to-stand-english-version” rantish type thing beginning. If you don’t wanna read, just go to the end of the post…. ^^;;

Okay, I really think that it my mostly be my knowledge of the Japanese language (which really isn’t that much, by the way) that makes english versions all the tougher for me to stand. I mean there’s different speech patterns for male and female speech, and then there’s the almost infinite levels of politeness. And there is no way to translate those subtleties into english. And it doesn’t help when they add american slang into it either.

It seems to me, that when the Japanese present/make anime, they do it as an art form. It may very well be the intention of the english versions also, but I have yet to see an english version that actually does so. Except for Cowboy Bebop. Best. Dub. Ever. I (of all people) could actually switch back and forth between the original Japanese and the dub, for this series.

But anyway, I’m getting myself totally and completely off topic… what topic? What I meant to say, is that knowing all those little details about how the language works, makes it frustrating for me to watch the english version, where those details are either changed into some awkward sounding american slang, or left out all together.

Another thing is with the difference between male and female speech. For example, if there’s a girl that uses mostly or exclusively male speech patterns, there’s quite an effect in Japanese. Speech patterns say a lot about the personality of a character. But, when translated into english, that entire aspect of the character’s personality would be lost.

And then there’s the problem of literally translating everything…

For example, in Hagaren, in the Japanese, Aru rarely uses Edo’s actual name, he instead uses “Niisan”, a polite way of referring to one’s older brother. But when they translate it into english, having Aru say “brother” when talking to Edo seems a little… unnatural. (at least it did to me) In my opinion they may have been better off with just having Aru refer to Edo like everyone else, as Edo. But then, there most likely would have been complaints that they weren’t translating it accurately… *sigh* I know that having the translation as accurate as possible is important, but it’s just as important for the dialogue coming out of the characters mouths to sound natural in whatever language they’re speaking.

But, I do find it nice to have very thorough, almost word for word translations for subtitles. It makes it easier to learn/study Japanese, among other things. And there have been too many episodes that I have been watching, and a character yells out “Omae!”=”You!” and the subtitle reads, “Damn” or something of the like. I mean, what do they think? That americans would rather read the word “Damn” across the bottom of their screen, than what the character was actually saying?

I know that some people like and even prefer english versions,(it iseasier to understand, to hear the characters speak in the language you can understand, and it may be more enjoyable for some, I can even see the point that some may have and I’m fine with that. As long as they’re open to hearing the Japanese version. (I knew someone, and she wouldn’t even listen to the character’s Japanese voices.) I mean, anime did come from Japan, and it was originally created/intended to be watched/read in Japanese, so I think that people should at least give the Japanese version that much credit. (I give the english versions credit for introducing me to the series.) I have no problem with people liking/preferring english versions. And if the only version is available to you is the dub…. that’s how it was for me for quite a long while. I’m only asking people to at least watch the original version and then make up their mind about which version they like better.

Okay that’s the end of my long rant of nothingness #2245674 XD

Sorry you guys, I’ll try and stop that. I just started typing my post and suddenly felt the need to rant. It wasn’t directed at anyone of you guys. Don’t worry. ^^ I really hope that no one thinks that I was using this to yell at anyone…

Sorry the post was so long. I should try and make them shorter. But as I’ve said, that’s not gonna happen. XD

Thanks to all who read and comment.



~Kanau


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Monday, August 22, 2005

Kyou wa...... taitoru ga nashi
(Today..... no title)

Hello, this post will be more intersting than my last one. And probabaly longer too. I can't do short posts... ^^;; Sorry... I know it's probably a pain for you guys to read, but... I ramble, what can I say? ^^

Well, I can now say that I have seen 3 episodes of BLEACH. ^^ I like it. It's good. And I want to watch more. ( and it's popular in Japan, which is also a plus. Makes it easier to get stuff.^^ ) And as I watched the opening song, I realized that on my last day of school in Japan, when I went to a anime goods store with my friends, it was that opening that we stood and watched on our way out.^^ Somehow that made me feel special. Don't know why. I didn't know what it was when I saw it. We were kinda just like "ooh, anime, song, let's watch..." (We didn't actually say that, but... you get the idea.)

I think that I have just discovered that I have a special ability. I can listen to a song an infinate number of times and never get tired of it. I had a song on repeat on the computer for the whole time that I was downloading two episodes, which happened to be around 4 hours. It wouldn't have been as long, if the internet didn't decide to have internal problems for itself... but anyway... I listend to the same song. And I'm not tired of it... I am strange I know. XD

What else? Hmm... well, if you can believe it, I am actually studying now. A little, and seemingly only a little, but it's better than what I was doing earlier what I was doing earlier = nothing Kanji don't seem to agree with my brain for some reason. It seems that my brain doesn't realize how much I want to use kanji. kanji are the best! For some reason I have this affinity for kanji. They are one character, but they mean a whole word/idea/thought. I love 'em. ^-^

I think I have found a new favorite hobby. Downloading the first episodes of series. Besides the first 3 episodes of BLEACH, I also watched the first episode of Hunter x Hunter. I spent all day on the computer... heh

I believe that in my last post, my comment about the english version of One Piece being disturbing, was slightly misunderstood. I like One Piece. A lot. It's the english version that could create fear in the souls of young children is messed up. I watched it on TV when I was in Japan. Funniest. Thing. Ever. That show is so funny in Japanese (even more so when you can barely understand what they're talking about), I love it. So, I'm not against One Piece, at all. It's the messed up dub.

Thanks to all that read/comment. You're great.


~Kanau
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Sunday, August 21, 2005

Kyou wa, ..... nanimo
(Today, ... nothing)

Well... nothing that interesting happened, even though it was SakuraYume's birthday.... our birthdays really haven't been that much celebration-wise, because of the fact that we just moved... but it was fun. We kinda went on a manga reading marathon, type thing. I read Ayashi no Ceres.

But now I want to read Spiral manga...

I should go and finish up studying the set of kanji I was working on. I actually studied today. Isn't it amazing? =^^= Anyway. I also need to start writing down the batch of ideas that have been living in my head for quite some time now. They've been cooking in there for almost too long. Should get them out soon.

One Piece in english is one of the more disturbing things that I have seen...

I really don't have that much to say today... maybe I'll be more interesting tommorrow... ^^;; heh.

Thank you to everyone who reads and comments.


~Kanau
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Saturday, August 20, 2005

Yo, musuko.
(Yo, son. = quote from Raizen from the YuuHaku manga)

Hello, everyone. I’ve noticed that I keep starting my posts with that. Maybe I’ll keep doing it. I really can’t think of anything else to say to start off with, so I suppose that’ll do. By the way, it is SakuraYume’s birthday today, so please visit her site!

I now know why my mom so kindly purchased a Saiyuuki CD for me for my birthday. I live on music. I admit that I am completely addicted to music. There usually isn’t a day that goes by without me having a song stuck in my head. I listen to music constantly… And knowing this, my mom gave me a Saiyuuki CD, knowing that I would be listening to it a lot, and therefore inducing an involuntary Saiyuuki obsession. (a small one, but I still know that it’s there) Grr at Mom. I was supposed to be obsessing about Hagaren exclusively, but no, I have to now have little mini-obsessions popping up relating to Saiyuuki, Fruits Basket, and Other Random Series. -_- That irritates me slightly.

But I love seiyuu-sama. They are so wonderful. =^^=

I also love the Japanese language. I am serious. You can do anything with it. You can make words and names mean two things at once. I love it. Kanji are wonderful. even though I should be studying more of them… There are so many… one must know around 2,000 just to read a newspaper. I think they’re infinite And the ending particles that add emphasis to a sentence when you say them at the end… You can express one’s personality through speech patterns alone. I love it. (This isn’t something that I’ve just learned. Just the first time that I’ve felt the need to rant about it.) And then there’s polite speech, and plain speech, and impolite speech. It’s all very wonderful. I think that maybe that’s part of seeing how different the english and Japanese versions are. There’s no way to show those little subtleties of Japanese in english, and when it gets translated, that little bit of the character’s personality gets lost.

Okay, end of Kanau’s rants of nothingness.

I think I’ll wander on LJ for the rest of the night… and, er, morning.

Thanks to all who comment and read.



~Kanau

I said that I was going to do shorter posts, but… I’m not very good at it… Sorry, it may be some kind of disorder.

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Friday, August 19, 2005

Arigatou!
(Thank you!)

Hello, everyone. Thank you for wishing me a happy birthday. ^^ It meant a lot.

I wasn't expecting to get anything really...(from my family) I had already picked out some drawing supplies earlier, and then our mom bought Kana-chan and I Hagaran t-shirts and sweatshirts, so I wasn't expecting to get anything. But I did.

Kanau now humbly owns the song file of Alphonse Elric-san. She also owns a Saiyuuki image album, which she suspects was purchased for her from influence from her mom's Saiyuuki obsession. ^^;; (my mom's the best)

And I just got back about an hour ago from a wonderful Japanese meal. =^^= The miso tasted better than Okaasan's... I can't wait to go to that restraunt again...

Sorry, I'm rambling about the stuff I got and did... I am bragging aren't I ... I'm sorry guys... Anyway, that's all that happened... and I shall now fall asleep to Aru's song file. (not right now, I mean later tonight. I was up until 4 a.m. on the computer. (darn thing sucks my soul in...) so I woke up around 10, so I shouldn't be tired again for quite sometime. Something tells me that I'm going to be on the computer. Again. But at least Kana-chan will be up with me this time. So I don't have to make rice at 2 a.m. by myself. That was interesting...

I was asked what BBI is. BBI is a Hagaren fangame created by Chinese college students. it should be worshiped But is now almost completely unavailable.... especially outside of China. (correct my info if it is wrong. Please.)

I'm stopping now. Thanks to everyone who offered to help with the shop name. I (and my mom) appreciate it. ^^

Thanks to all who read and comment.


~Kanau ( who is in heaven with Aru-san no('s) song file and her rice cooker. )
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Thursday, August 18, 2005

Mata, mata....
(again, again)

Well, again, I did not study. I don't think that my brain likes kanji very much, although I happen to like them a lot. *curses brain* I think that I will make sure that Kana-chan makes sure that I study... If that would work... hmm... I'll think about it..


Apparently when they say that they have ' wireless internet access' at Barnes & Noble, they actually mean, ' give us your money if you want to go on the internet, even though you are already paying money to msn, and you bought the wireless card for your laptop, you still need to pay us to go online.' Grr at them. The laptop isn't mine personally, it's our family's... so yeah we're not rich. We needed a computer and that's the kind we picked to get.

I have a question, and I need your help. My family (my mom, sisters and myself) are starting a shop. We are trying to think of a name. I was wondering if you guys have any good ideas... The shop will sell only manga and anime related things. (by this, I mean, nothing created in America, and no Korean stuff...just Japanese stuff. Not because we hate it or anything, we just want it to be that way.) We want to sell things like manga in english and Japanese (new and used), cds, dvds, and goods. But we need a name so we can actually start filling out business loan applications and stuff... So any suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Also, the language of Melnics is actually an english code, I learned today. SakuraYume and I spent a good part of an afternoon translating Meredy's speech throughout the beginning of the game. (Tales of Eternia) She really doesn't say very interesting things, but it's fun to know what she says, when the other characters don't. ^^

I did that when I should have been studying and posting the third chapter of Tsuitachi for you to read. Sorry. Forgive my laziness... My posts seems to be getting a lot stranger lately, what do you think?

I think it'd be cool if there was a school for everyone on MyOtaku.^^ The teachers would go insane, I think...


My post was utterly boring, and I'm sorry. My family is informing me that they hate my Hagaren obsession. Yay for me. I should make my posts shorter and not so boring… gomen.


Thanks to everyone who reads and comments.


~Kanau

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Wednesday, August 17, 2005

Mata...
(Again...)

Most importantly, I have changed my layout. It is now BBI. May you all see worship the goodness that is BBI.


Listening to: Moments - Hamasaki Ayumi ( I finally have the cd single to this song, so I don't have to completely overwork the cd that my friend from Japan gave me... and it has three versions of the song... ^^ Kanau is content. ) And for all of you who don't know, 'Moments' the the BBI THEME! So... yes.


Ahem. Hello, everyone. I think that I did it again today... Nothing. I studied some kanji....but not enough to make my brain melt as planned... and I didn't touch my school books. I suppose my subconscious is trying to hold on to what is left of summer... But my subconscious needs to inform itself that in order to read the wonderful Hagaren manga, I need to know kanji. *curses subconscious*


Now that that's out of the way.... What actually happened yesterday?... Well... I woke up when I was supposed to. (6:30) Then I went for a walk. It's fun when there aren't many people out doing stuff. Then I came back, studied, and then... went on the computer with Kana-chan. Then... I watched SakuraYume play Tales of Eternia, and I started feeling funny... I felt weak, and tired and my insides felt like they shaking, after I fell asleep on the couch ('cause there was nothing else I could do, I wasn't feeling well at all.) for an hour, Kana informs me that I should eat. XD Apparently I was hungry. It would have helped to know that before I fell asleep. And again, just now, as I was updating, I was complaining to Kana-chan of a headache that I am currently dealing with, and she asks me when the last time I ate was. I am hungry again grr... why can't myself tell me this?!?! *sigh* I think that I need Kana-chan to live with me even after I move to Japan... So she can remind me to take care of myself... ( I am pathetic I know... so involved in making a new layout that I forget to eat... I wonder what will happen when I start drawing manga.... ) Anyway, after that, I started looking for stuff to change my layout. And then we went on a walk. And almost died, 'cause we walked too far, with no water, and we didn't know how hot it was outside before we left. We were all wearing pants. Then went on computer more... talked to my friend. (you know who you are^^) and then... now I'm typing this post. Boring day. And nothing accoplished... except for my wonderful layout. ^^ That's actually not very good... Hey, I did the best I could with Paint and Windows Picture Manager...

I shall join LJ today. At the suggestion of -JL-san, I shall join livejournal today... We shall see how it goes.

Oh, tommorrow's my birthday? I haven't even noticed! ^^;; heh. Oh, well.


That's my boring day. I shall try to do something tommorrow. Umm. Sorry that I am so boring, and ramble on about nothingness. I will also try to post chapter 3 of Tsuitachi soon.


Thanks you guys for reading. You're the best.
Thanks to all who read and comment.



~Kanau
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