Shadow Zero Posted January 1, 2010 Report Share Posted January 1, 2010 yeah, but there is no guarantee that that will work, and it it does not work, then i need to know that i have someone who will be able to help me out with, okay? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
賢狼ホロ Posted January 1, 2010 Report Share Posted January 1, 2010 Hey Holo. Do you recommend getting Spice and Wolf? Of course! Getting as the manga' date=' the books or the anime... or downloading?Whatever it is, I recommend getting it! : DI love Spice & Wolf! hey holo, you can translate japanese kanji into english, right? i mean, you can read the language and all that right?Yeah, I speak it fluently. :3I took the Japanese Language Profficency Test and cleared level 2. For that level you are supposed to know 1000 Kanji and around 6000 words. Kanji is confusing... the only japanease I can even remotely translate is hiragi or what ever it is (You know' date=' jappenease but with letters not symbols)[/quote']Yeah, quite! Apart from being unable to read a Kanji you do not know, 99% of all kanji has two pronunciations as well (on'yomi and kun'yomi). can't you just use google translator?That is so inaccurate that you will not understand the English itself. Just try translating my signature with Google. >_> Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Zero Posted January 1, 2010 Report Share Posted January 1, 2010 well holo, would you mind translating some kanji for me? if so, i'll send it to you through pm and you can send the translation back ot me once you have gotten to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skuldur Posted January 1, 2010 Report Share Posted January 1, 2010 @Holo: I meant the anime, I saw it on sale on Amazon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Zero Posted January 1, 2010 Report Share Posted January 1, 2010 that so? well i think i am going to try and remember to look up the manga before the day is out. xD Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
賢狼ホロ Posted January 1, 2010 Report Share Posted January 1, 2010 well holo' date=' would you mind translating some kanji for me? if so, i'll send it to you through pm and you can send the translation back ot me once you have gotten to it.[/quote']Go ahead. : 3 @Holo: I meant the anime' date=' I saw it on sale on Amazon.[/quote']Well, Spice & Wolf is the best anime I have ever seen. I do not own those DVDs myself, but I think I am buying those in April.If you have not seen Spice & Wolf, you should perhaps check it out first, as it is not a major series. Some of my friends who watched it found it extremely boring, at least the first few episodes. I on the other hand, like the laid-back style. It feels very realistic. Pattern-breaking, least to say. that so? well i think i am going to try and remember to look up the manga before the day is out. xDI think there is only two (perhaps three) volumes of the manga in Japan. So I doubt you will have any luck. (But I might be underestimating the internet o.o) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Zero Posted January 1, 2010 Report Share Posted January 1, 2010 you might.and you mean it only just recently started? =/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otaku-sama Posted January 1, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 1, 2010 I have a rather accurate explaination for the two different versions of Japanese writing. The first writing system the Japanese had was given to them by their Chinese neighbours. Chinese has a symbol for every word and object, making it have thousands of symbols, sometimes multiple symbols for the same subject. Early Japanese was the same story. The complexity of the writing made learning how to read and write reserved for the upper class. The wives of upperclass nobles were also restricted from learning to read and write kanji, but they wouldn't have it that way. They carefully watched their husbands write and learned that each symbol had a syllable associated with it. What they did is simplify the kanji into easier to write symbols and spoke it not for the meaning of the symbol, but for the syllable. This made writing much easier and accessible to all. This style of writing is called hiragana. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Zero Posted January 1, 2010 Report Share Posted January 1, 2010 and that about covers the history of japanese hand writing. xDnew topic! who here has ever heard of/watched/read gurren laggan? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skuldur Posted January 1, 2010 Report Share Posted January 1, 2010 Gurren Lagann is made of win. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Zero Posted January 1, 2010 Report Share Posted January 1, 2010 yes it is! lol i only ever seen the first 2 episodes thus far, (or was it 3) but it is very epic. i like how that one girl just busts through the ground in the first episode and fights against the gunman. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
賢狼ホロ Posted January 1, 2010 Report Share Posted January 1, 2010 I have a rather accurate explaination for the two different versions of Japanese writing.[...] The katakana was however developed by Buddhist monks, who needed to know how to pronounce the Sanskrit. Classical Japanese is the hardest and most boring subject in the Japanese School. You learn how to read very old Japanese, before the usage of hiragana and katakana. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Zero Posted January 1, 2010 Report Share Posted January 1, 2010 and with katakana, the history is complete! :mrgreen:continue discussing gurren laggan. :D Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Negimalevolent Posted January 1, 2010 Report Share Posted January 1, 2010 I have a rather accurate explaination for the two different versions of Japanese writing.[...] The katakana was however developed by Buddhist monks' date=' who needed to know how to pronounce the Sanskrit. Classical Japanese is the hardest and most boring subject in the Japanese School. You learn how to read very old Japanese, before the usage of hiragana and katakana.[/quote'] If I remember correctly, katakana is just like kanji... only the symbols are much more jagged than in kanji... is that right...? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Zero Posted January 1, 2010 Report Share Posted January 1, 2010 the one main difference between katakana and kanji is that katakana was made so that you take a string of characters to form a word. this was done mainly to facilitate the self assimilation into the net. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Berserker- Posted January 1, 2010 Report Share Posted January 1, 2010 I haven't watched Gurren... Other thing: Mainstream? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Zero Posted January 1, 2010 Report Share Posted January 1, 2010 i would not know. xD does anyone know if the anime that that pic is from is mainstream or not? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great Unclean One: VK Posted January 1, 2010 Report Share Posted January 1, 2010 Zodiac Knights? That ain't mainstream.... It use to be, but not anymoar. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Zero Posted January 1, 2010 Report Share Posted January 1, 2010 well lucky for you, huh saikano? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Otaku-sama Posted January 1, 2010 Author Report Share Posted January 1, 2010 Zodiac Knights is an antique anime. If you look at the art, you can tell that the style and colouring and is unique to the older animes. Antique animes are definately otaku now even if they were mainstream in their golden age. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shadow Zero Posted January 1, 2010 Report Share Posted January 1, 2010 yeah, i guess so.does that mean that the slayers would be antique? :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-Berserker- Posted January 1, 2010 Report Share Posted January 1, 2010 Does that mean than Mazinger Z is otaku? (I know it is). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Shradow Posted January 1, 2010 Report Share Posted January 1, 2010 Oh noez! Saikano, not you too... Those avatars are wierd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marisa Kirisame-ze Posted January 1, 2010 Report Share Posted January 1, 2010 There's so many people with that type of avatar... It's a flood of weirdos x] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Skuldur Posted January 1, 2010 Report Share Posted January 1, 2010 They're called fsjals and they suck. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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