RyouBakura

Just finished the forth seasons of both My Hero Academia, and Seven Deadly Sins. Academia was pretty good. The first arc was pretty well done, the second arc felt like a filler, but I have no gripes with it. Seven Deadly Sins was a mess. People are complaining about the drop in art and animation, but I don't mind that. What annoys me is that the entire pacing just feels off. Like they keep throwing new shit at us and trying to finish up everything as fast as they can.

I've watched the first one from beginning to end when I was a kid, and loved the living shit out of it. But I'm not into these kinds of shows anymore.

I see even the news has become copyrighted.

I'm in the same boat. I remember 9anime being decent, but I want a site that let's me download episodes in addition to streaming them, and to have them at multiple resolutions. I prefer 720p, but due to constraints I go for 480p a lot of times. Yeah, I know what you mean. Ghibli does it well though. Personally, I find Japan to still be weak in 3D animation as a whole.

いや、ご心配なく。お元気でね～ オススメありがとう！今はチェックしている。 突っ込む所が多い...。でも当たり前な感じをしている。 この質問は難しすぎる！当然いるだけど…たくさんいるから、それを書いたら長いリストになる。でもたびたびに思い出すキャラはダンガンロンパの七海千秋。あの子は可愛かった。

最近、進みの速さは段々下がっている。会話に強くなる方法は探している。読書だけで、進歩を感じている。でも、三ヶ月ほど前、「吾輩は猫である」という小説は読みみましたけど、全くなにもわからなかった。笑 超面白い！どんな空気がある、あの塾？ あ、「CLANNAD」をやっている。二つのエンディングができてきた。風子のエンディングに思わず泣いた。君は？やっているゲームがある？

まあ、普通の夏の日だった。日本語の勉強をしたり、少し翻訳したり、ゲームしたりしました。 I like your idea, I almost never practice writing. 誰かが、自分の経験を是非教えてください。

We here are very direct. If and only if it's a cartoon made in Japan, it's an anime.

I'm just gonna be the know-it-all asshole to say this: Akame ga Kill came first! (manga) Though Kill La Kill IS better.

Welp, somehow I ended up spending a lot less time on anime than I thought. The only anime I'm currently avidly watching is Boku no Hero Academia. Last anime I've finished was Doreiku. I used to read the manga 3 years ago, so my interest peeked when I found out about the anime. But I guess my tastes might have changed over the years, because I didn't enjoy it as much as I thought I would. (It's not about BDSM, just to be clear) In short, it's about a device that when worn in the mouth, will either make you a master or a slave, depending on whether you win or lose the challenge. The story talks about of a handful of characters that have been succumbed to that device. The show was entertaining all in all, and the ending was satisfying to me, I'll give it that. It seems from the amount of comments I've read that people hate this only because of the NTR that happens in the first half of the show. Like what did they expect? It's a show about enslaving people.

Nah, I say go with the game. The movie is probably just fan service to those who enjoyed the game anyways.

I didn't really pay much attention to gaming news the past week, until yesterday. But I know Sega wouldn't be dumb enough to miss out on this opporunity. It looks like Sega is advertising Kiwami 2 as much as it should. It would be hypocritical if it didn't since they also announced remakes of 3 to 5 to be released periodically in the next 6 months. There was a booth with demo of the game at E3, and they've also released live gameplay footage less than a day ago: Though I'd still be excited if I saw another trailer. I've seen this a few days ago, and it was fire:

Yeah, thought the photo was a good reaction~

So Sega announced they will bringing a bunch of games to the PC. Starting with Yakuza 0, followed by Kiwami and Valkyria Chronicles 4. Yakuza 0 will be hitting Steam This first of August, with 4K resolution (which I don't care about). With a price tag of $20, hopefully this move will help them succeed in exposing the series to a wider player-base.

Maybe in some cases, but mostly no. Kimochi literally just means "emotion" or "feeling", like how you might hear "kimochi warui" (feeling sick/bad/disgusted) a lot in shows, which literally means "bad feeling". However, you might here it with a stretch on the last i, usually said by females. This one isn't the same word, since a the end there is the "ii" which means good. This word means feeling good, or to describe oneself feeling good. Therefore, if you were to type this word in Romaji it'd be Kimochiii, hence the stretch.

Those are some great resources. Yotsubato seems to always be the top recommended manga for learners. Anki is great, but I still prefer Memrise because of the interface and easy access to other people's courses. Also an advice: If you ever get discouraged, or feel like you're not making any progress, try to remember at what level you were about half a year ago. As in how was your reading speed and comprehension were. I feel like this mentality helped me a lot in picturing how much I've advanced, and served as means to stay motivated.

I sadly haven't. Downloaded the first episode, but haven't watched it yet. I've finished One Outs. Great show. And I'm currently not watching anything. I finish my tests on Thursday, and will be planning to try it along with another anime that I won't mention its name until I start with it.

@Okonomiyaki-Chan That's quite the splendid goal. My purpose seems kind of cynical, it's just to be good at something that other people aren't. I take pride in knowing more Kanji than anybody in a 200 mile radius. No need to worry, you should learn to care less about these things. But I agree, fan-translation would be more forgiving. You wouldn't care about any mistypes or about how to deal with honorifics and dialects.

HOLY SHIT THIS GOT A REMAKE?!?! I've always been interested in the series, guess I'll start with this after finishing One Outs.

I'm seeing a 10 year-old anime currently, called One Outs. It's a baseball anime, so a lot of the conversations and actions seem beyond understandable to me. The show is about a gambler in the baseball world, and how he wins solely through mind games and strategy. It's good so far, though a little repetitive at times.

"Avoid distraction during study time". I don't get why that's an issue for only a specific type of learner.

I know what you mean about distraction, the hardest part about learning anything is to remain focused. What's most ironic is that I didn't get this productive at learning Japanese until it itself became a distraction for something else. Like sometimes I'm writing a report for school, but I'd suddenly open a different tab and waste my time on trying to learn new words.

Okay, so I thought it would be useful to talk about the most efficient (for me) way I've found to learn Japanese. So like any other language learner, I've had a very hard time trying to find a method that not only suits my interests, but also gives me the feeling of constant advancement. I personally learned to read the Kanas without much effort. It all started when I was watching a children's anime on TV on my Spring break, it was Les Miserables. When the break was over and I had to back to school, I looked up the show on Kissanime and continued it there in Japanese. The opening was really slow and the lyrics seemed simple. Little by little and after 30 episodes, I got 4 Hiragana syllables and the concept of the Handakuten memorized. As time went on, I kept learning Hiragana little by little and writing them when I had nothing better to do. But I didn't feel like I was interested in learning Japanese, or maybe I just wasn't subconscious of it. But about 2 years ago, I decided to take the leap. For 6 months, I tried audiobook, looking up words on specific subjects, checking NHK's Easy Japanese... But nothing sticks. Then I came across a certain topic on Kanji Koohi forums made by a guy who quit Japanese a long time ago and decided to start again from zero, and helping other people using his method. The guide is referred to as SGJL, and starts off with utilizing Memrise, a flashcard site similar to Anki, but with easier interaction with the userbase, and more open. I skipped the first 2 courses, since they covered the Kanas, which I've already taken care of, and jumped to Kanji, which was utilized using the RTK method established by Heisig. RTK is the most efficient way to learn kanji, which makes the learner divide the Kanji into radicals, giving each radical a specific meaning (which might differ from its actual meaning) and make up a story in his mind combining the radicals and the Kanji's meaning. Before, I was reluctant on learning Kanji and thought it was unneeded. Oh holy Garfield's lasagna was I wrong. Kanji opened up a whole new world, and made Tae Kim's guide a whole lot easier. Which is IMO the best basic grammar guide for Japanese. Also, while on Memrise, I found A LOT of high-quality courses focusing on Vocab. So I started doing the ones based off of Genki, and some that are specific to a certain anime (like Fairy Tail and Dagashi Kashi) As of late, my current study pattern contains the following: About 2 hours on the courses I've mentioned on Memrise. Reading 2-3 children's story using this Android app (I'm only allowed a maximum of 3 books per day as a free user) I also try to fit -when I have the chance- watching an anime that I've watched before, but without the subs. I pick an anime with a modern-feel, that doesn't have obscure words or unused dialects like the popular Shounen anime. The one I'm currently re-watching is AnoHana. Things I do irregularly: Watch videos posted by Nihongo no Mori Using Jisho to translate songs that I like. If there exists an English translation on the net, I compare it to the one I made. And that's pretty much it. Thought I'd share my experience for the small chance of it being beneficial to someone else.

I got "Auditory Learner". But, I don't know... I don't feel like this is correct. I feel like reading things aloud is the least effective method I've ever tried. I'm more into reading and spaced repetition. If I would've rigged your quiz results, I'd make it pat on the head.