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 Posted: Tue Jan 20, 2009 2:10 pm
I honestly have no idea...
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Posted: Wed Jan 21, 2009 6:43 pm
the old japanese warrior movies got me into japanese stuff
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Posted: Fri Jan 23, 2009 9:31 am
Well....
I love things that has got to do with honor, loyalty, love, clean movies (no sex) and something new. I happened to see this Samurai movie when I was about eight years old and ever since then I was interested in every Japanese thing or one, even their football team, I was cheering for it in the world cup, unfortunately they've lost again again WAAAAAAA.
that's was it ever since then
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Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 4:01 pm
I'd have to say it was the anime.
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Posted: Tue Mar 24, 2009 9:41 am
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Posted: Fri Apr 03, 2009 3:01 pm
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Posted: Sat Apr 04, 2009 8:22 pm
Taking Aikido for 8 years, for a SHORT while anime and manga and I thought I could learn from that but I'm not a weaboo anymore and thank god i grew outta that, now it's just i love the language, still taking aikido, i'm interested in the culture (though i don't think it's as great as everyone else, japanese included, thinks it is. It's a culture, interesting yes, and just as good as any other). They have good music, movies, etc.
I just like it.
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Posted: Sun Apr 05, 2009 9:42 pm
Sarafu41188 I remember being interested in things that were Japanese long before I knew they were from Japan. But, the thing that made me fully aware of Japan was Pokemon. I was about ten or eleven when it first came out. Like a lot of kids at the time I became obsessed with it. Once I found out Pokemon was from Japan I looked into magazines and books and found out that a lot of things I already loved were originally from Japan. Ninjas, ramen, green tea, Sailor Moon, Megaman, Dragon Ball Z, kimonos, Nintendo, and much more. I became curious, just that. However, my curiousity brought me to other anime other than Pokemon, DBZ, and Sailor Moon. Toonami and Yugioh caught my attention and then my interest exploded. Soon I was begging my mom to let me buy books on Japan and the Japanese language. I began studying as well. Sure, I was the cliche kid that found Japan through anime and manga, but I would never, ever call myself an otaku (for those of you that do, please don't assume it's cute. The real meaning of the word is kin to an insult). As for now, my interests have gone into Japanese culture in general, Japanese popculture, fashion, Japanese rock music, and mythology among other things. I think my story is pretty similar to that. I already sort of knew that cool stuff like samurais and katanas were Japanese, but at the same time it didn't really connect in my head... I saw those same anime series when I was young (with some added Ranma 1/2), I already liked some other Japanese things, etc. Pokemon got me interested in trying to draw anime style, so I tried to imitate it. I always just thought the writing looked cool and the language sounded cool. With anime being less censored in modern times, and with subbed anime being easy to find online, I heard some Jpop and not the typical dub songs that follow the American trend of telling the story through the opening theme song. Simply put, I liked the Jpop I heard in InuYasha and later Naruto. I really liked the 5th Naruto opening song, so I looked into the band a bit more, and I thusly became a pretty big Sambomaster fan. It's been years since I started listening to Sambomaster, and I still like them, but today I just can't get enough of the Ulfuls. American music is overkilled by the radio, MTV, peers, etc. If you like certain American music after it's out of style or if it's the "wrong genre", people will make fun of you. But there's no overkill with Japanese music because most Americans are pretty much unaware of it and because it's in another language! Finally, something I can just like and listen to without other people butting in or turning it into a new fad to be tossed away later. That and I just like the way Japanese music sounds better. Some bands like FLOW a cool disco-esque sound to them... Ulfuls and Sambomaster sound so lively/passionate... Of course, there are plenty of Japanese bands I dislike; I'm not some biased weeaboo who literally loves everything about Japan solely because it's Japanese. In short, I pretty much liked everything about Japan. Sometime last year, I decided I wanted to learn Japanese, even if just to watch raw anime or whatever other trivial reasons. I learned the kana, some other bare basics, and today I continue learning at a halfassed pace.
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Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 6:10 pm
My grandfather used to listen to this one Japanese song on his old radio, back in the Philippines. When I moved to Cali I remembered and wanted it, but I didn't know the name of it, and he didn't even know what I was talking about when I asked him. So I started looking for it everywhere, and eventually all the things I found along the way, like anime and especially the cultures, got to me.
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Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 7:25 pm
ガンダム ← 'nough said. sweatdrop
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Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 7:37 pm
l3IackOut ガンダム ← 'nough said. sweatdrop If you like the big bots you should pay a visit to the Bandai museum. There they have a life sized replica of a Gundam head
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Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 7:40 pm
Koiyuki l3IackOut ガンダム ← 'nough said. sweatdrop If you like the big bots you should pay a visit to the Bandai museum. There they have a life sized replica of a Gundam head I know over at the Tokyos' Bandai visual theme park, they have gundam heads that you get into, and play an arcade game. Similar to a Pilot Simulator, which was awesome.
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Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 7:46 pm
l3IackOut Koiyuki l3IackOut ガンダム ← 'nough said. sweatdrop If you like the big bots you should pay a visit to the Bandai museum. There they have a life sized replica of a Gundam head I know over at the Tokyos' Bandai visual theme park, they have gundam heads that you get into, and play an arcade game. Similar to a Pilot Simulator, which was awesome. Be careful in arcades. They eat money like no one's business. Also don't expect to beat anyone in a fighting game. The average skill set is much higher than here in in the states.
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Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 8:02 pm
Koiyuki l3IackOut Koiyuki l3IackOut ガンダム ← 'nough said. sweatdrop If you like the big bots you should pay a visit to the Bandai museum. There they have a life sized replica of a Gundam head I know over at the Tokyos' Bandai visual theme park, they have gundam heads that you get into, and play an arcade game. Similar to a Pilot Simulator, which was awesome. Be careful in arcades. They eat money like no one's business. Also don't expect to beat anyone in a fighting game. The average skill set is much higher than here in in the states. Lol, well if you put it that way. But what happened if I said, I won in an international Tekken Tag tournament. It wasn't big really, but I had to go to Barcelona for that. True that japs are good, but that doesn't make them god at the games. (even if they make it sweatdrop )
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Posted: Thu Apr 09, 2009 9:43 pm
l3IackOut Koiyuki l3IackOut Koiyuki l3IackOut ガンダム ← 'nough said. sweatdrop If you like the big bots you should pay a visit to the Bandai museum. There they have a life sized replica of a Gundam head I know over at the Tokyos' Bandai visual theme park, they have gundam heads that you get into, and play an arcade game. Similar to a Pilot Simulator, which was awesome. Be careful in arcades. They eat money like no one's business. Also don't expect to beat anyone in a fighting game. The average skill set is much higher than here in in the states. Lol, well if you put it that way. But what happened if I said, I won in an international Tekken Tag tournament. It wasn't big really, but I had to go to Barcelona for that. True that japs are good, but that doesn't make them god at the games. (even if they make it sweatdrop ) What. I demand to see a match of you in action. And while that is true I majority of Japanese arcade players tend to be more proficient on a routine basis. Also the term Jap is a well known insulting way American WWII soldiers used to refer to the Japanese. I advice you use it extremely sparingly with extreme caution in Japanese-centric communities
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