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Report | 10/06/2013 6:59 pm

`E c h e v e r i a

Hey, just poking around to see if anybody I recognize is still active. sweatdrop Not sure if you'd remember me on this account, my older one was MalfoyKoibito.
Anyways hi~ (p.s. your profile is very pink)

Report | 08/17/2012 2:55 am

AvalonIII

You know I happened to come across your profile. lovely set of words you wrote. Not worry whether I have a purpose is something I need to work on.

Report | 01/07/2012 10:33 am

Mokoni

Happy Birthday!!

Report | 05/23/2011 3:48 pm

Bokusenou

Sorry for the late reply. College has kept me busy lately.

Wow, your blog looks really detailed! Parts are sort of technical, but it's well laid out.

I guess I always found that using media as a trigger for looking up words/grammar (or just randomly looking through dictionaries/grammar references) worked for me, but then again,
I found out the hard way that language classes weren't my thing (then I found All Japanese All The Time and found that immersion worked for me). I guess the great part about languages is the diversity of ways to learn them, isn't it... ^^

Report | 03/08/2011 4:22 pm

Pintendo64

not bad thanks! it has been a while!
i've graduated from university, got my honours in english lit which is great (: hasnt helped me much with a job, ha, as i'm doing freelance illustrating now razz
how about you?

Report | 11/10/2010 5:46 pm

Bokusenou

Yeah, I gained an enormous respect for teachers after I was a tutor.
I wish I could be half as patient as good teachers are.

I'd love to see your blogs! I bet you're a great teacher.
Teaching a language from scratch is hard...There are so many possible things to focus on...Survival, business,specialist jargon, casual conversations,
understanding movies/TV/games/media, etc.

Good point, I guess Japanese people think if you go to America you'll get robbed,
come to think of it, almost every anime I've seen where they go to NYC has someone get robbed, and I've seen Japanese TV shows telling you to watch out for robbers when talking about NYC.
I've been to NYC, and while there is a chance of getting robbed, and maybe Japanese people need more warning since they come from such a safe country, but I don't think the whole "the world is dangerous and you should stay in Japan" attitude those things have is good.
But I also think media can have a positive affect on getting people interested in a language.
Look at anime/samurai movies for Japan, or Hollywood movies for America.
If it weren't for media, a lot of people wouldn't have wanted to learn a second language in the first place I bet.
Of course, media shouldn't be the only way to learn about a country, but it has both good and bad points.

Report | 11/08/2010 7:59 pm

Bokusenou

You're planning on teaching Japanese?
凄いじゃないか。
It takes a lot of patience to be a teacher. (I know, I was an English tutor for a while. It was rewarding, but I don't think I could ever be a teacher)

I agree that there's way too much focus on badly butchered and dubbed shounen anime on American TV (Is there no American audience for shoujo, josei, seinen, or other non-shounen anime/manga?) but I guess that's what sells with 12 year old boys, or whoever the main audience for those dubbed shows are.
I find all that is a lot better than the "crazy Japanese game show" type shows though.
That's why I part of why I stopped watching TV in English...
Of course, Japanese TV has it's own issues with other countries.
(See: Mr. James)
So I guess it's a problem everywhere.

Hmm, I didn't know that the American Shounen Jump was still around. I stopped buying it after they started censoring the manga years ago and switched to Japanese manga.
I think they stopped publishing their shoujo magazine, but I guess shounen manga has a bigger audience since it's the only type most Americans know.

Report | 11/05/2010 8:40 pm

Bokusenou

I think only one volume was published in English, but there were changes, and the English publisher and the Japanese one couldn't agree on things,
so the Japanese publisher pulled the rights and the English version went out of print...
I don't have the English version, but I saw a site where a Japanese fan compared the Japanese and English versions,
and the amount of changes were startling.

As for differences between the novels and the anime, I like the novels better (and I LOVED the anime) so this might be a little biased.
First of all, the anime was very faithful to the novels, but managed to have a style all it's own.
Action scenes like in the Coliseum episodes were generally better in the anime, but I felt the novels had a bit more "atmosphere".
The Land of Adults chapter was 80 times better in the novels because Kino was narrating (or more like reminiscing) and that just made it more personal.
Kino and Hermes seem to banter more in the novels, which I liked.
But the most obvious reason is, of course, that the novels are longer and more detailed, and include a lot of things the anime never got to.
(Like remember the old woman who trained Kino? We get to see some of her past in the novels. XD )
All in all, the anime is brilliantly thought provoking on it's own, but it's only a taste of what's in the novel. The novel just pulls you in.
It's too bad it's not really available in English. I didn't think some of the changes were necessary, but I'd rather I'd be published in English with changes then not at all.
I'd really like my English speaking friends to be able to read it too...

Have you seen some of the novel illustrations?
The anime's drawing style is really simple compared to the novel's style.

It's OK. I agree about moe/hentai anime being awful. I think it's the same for most media.
Movie studios make those big Summer action blockbusters with lots of explosions because they'll rake in so much profit, they'll be able to take the losses on a few "thinking movies" which will never sell as well, and which most people will never see, but the directors' put a lot of thought into.
Which is why most movies I hear about sound like the script was made from an "action movie Mad Lib" or something.
Anime's probably the same way. They make moe/hentai anime because it sells more than any good "thinking anime" (and then they can make and sell character pillows & other pervy otaku merchandise) , and then they make the thinking anime, which the directors' want to do,
but which likely won't sell enough to make a profit.

Which is why moe anime is a necessary evil, unfortunately.

Report | 11/03/2010 6:16 pm

Bokusenou

Uh...Ok. There are a lot of intellectually stimulating anime out there, as long as one stays away from the moe stuff...
Anyways, I'm glad you're a fan of the anime, it's a shame it's not more popular.
Have you seen the movies?^-^
I'm a huge fan of the series and movies and I'm currently enjoying the Japanese novels (which go on longer than the anime, so I'm happy about that).<3

Report | 11/02/2010 10:00 pm

Bokusenou

*looks at profile quote*
You're also a Kino no Tabi fan, I'm guessing? ^^

Report | 10/20/2010 7:41 pm

The Real Raijin

Totally understandable y'know? thanks for your time and good luck in your classes.

Report | 10/17/2010 9:45 am

The Real Raijin

Got 2 very interesting questions for you.

Would you cosplay(avatar) Hitomi or Kasumi form DOA?
Would you be able to attend an Event Friday or Saturday before Halloween?(in gaia towns)

Report | 09/25/2010 8:16 am

LuisSoulReaper27

hi nice avi and profile kind cool ^^

Report | 09/24/2010 5:36 pm

NareNight

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Report | 07/21/2010 7:27 pm

The Esper Terra

**smiles** Meh, all that took me a bit away from the main point...lol
I try to sit, talk and listen to people as much as I can, too...but like you mention, I think that is simply part of being a human being...yet too many people seems to forget it...

Report | 07/21/2010 7:25 pm

The Esper Terra

Yes, tho we do need the psy who are detached from what they do. WAY LESS than the stereotype says. (Seriously, I travel the world meeting psychologists and psychiatrists since I began my studies and this is really more and more a stereotype...people are passionate about what they do)
The detached kind are good for research material that can be used as data on a specific individual...Many psychologists are doing the mistake lately to want to move too far away from psychology...Almost as if they thought that using psychology is the same as not being a human being...
Sometime, it is good to be able to put a diagnosis and to know what to work on when someone fits a case we saw 200 times. We can move to what helps the person faster...
On my side, I'm part of anti organized crime unit...So I have to remain detached...Came with that the field training but that is anothe rstory. lol
So the "human" side sadly isn't there much...It helps a lot to negociate, or when it comes to someone who was a witness to something....there I go ver yhuman, almost too human some would say...

It is very far from the "Helping people trough understanding them and talking with them" psychologists...
But I really feel useful that way, too, and also feels like I'm changing the mentality in the police forces...
I do spend time doing free work at the psychiatric E.R. too...that is very important to me...

U mention your "readers"...You wrote a book or do you mean online?
(Meh, sorry, lotsa typing eh? lol Reading in french and typing in english is not a good thing...lol)

Report | 07/21/2010 6:23 pm

The Esper Terra

**smiles*
A good observation...
But I do apply all I know as a psychologist in my work as a cop.
I really love my work actually, it was offered to me while I had many other paths still open.
I was put in charge of forming a very efficient unit, specialized, and I did it well.
We do mighty good work, and it allows me to do both field and "office" work, so...
It is a passion still, the day I will not be full of passion for my work I think I will drop it...
My C.V. is impressive enough so I would not fear for finding another job...
It simply is not what I had first foreseen as my work...lol
Understanding the criminal mind is something very challenging...and interesting
You? What exactly do you wish to do with psychology?
Which school(s) of toughts interests you the most?

Report | 07/19/2010 8:13 pm

Lilim Valkyrie

Everything just comes naturally to me I guess.

Report | 07/16/2010 5:20 am

The Esper Terra

Sorry if I wrote OMI before, if I did, was a bad translation from me. (I'm from quebec, so french is my first language)
Impact therapy, used with EMI, is very interesting, very well used for taking care of trauma...
It is mostly associated with eyes movement and could be associated to hypnosis in a way...
It is a very nice vocation indeed for those with a passion to be a psychologist...
Since I spend my work time more as a cop than anything else, I try to do some free work using the knowledge in another way...
A psychiatric E.r. is a very special place indeed....lol

Report | 07/16/2010 12:06 am

Lilim Valkyrie

Not really, it comes natural. My om use to teach me.

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