Has it really been a month since my last entry? Huh.
My "vacation" so far has been moving stuff around and out of the house to prepare for the installation of hardwood flooring. And now that that's done (4 days of noise and dust), the rest of my vacation will probably be moving stuff back to my room... after my parents get done repainting the walls. Not quite the vacation I had in mind. I miss being in my room, but must say that it's awfully convenient having my computer and the TiVo in the same room.
I recently got my test results from the two kanji tests I took in June (９級 and ８級) and I passed both of them! I've been studying kanji for years but I only studied for these particular tests for about 10 minutes total. ９級 was a piece of cake, and although ８級 was quite a bit harder, it was still doable. I just feel a little bad for a guy I know (he introduced me to the tests) because he missed passing the ８級 three times (by 5 or 10 points)!
So with those tests under my belt, I've decided to really dedicate myself to studying Japanese... even more. Which, in this case, means anime. Even before I got the test results I started watching Bleach because of a certain someone and caught up to episode 46 from the very beginning in three or four days. (I was a bit of an idiot here, though... I downloaded the ANBU / Anime Keep batch and after fully seeding that, I saw the better batch by Lunar Anime and downloaded and seeded that batch!) I've made it a habit of putting the more interesting or useful phrases into a Word document, like this gem from 石田雨竜: 「勝負しないか、一護？君と僕と、どっちが優れているのか分からせたい。」
There's other anime, too. I've been downloading Tsubasa Chronicle alongside Naruto but I haven't even seen a single episode until a "DVD quality" version of episode 1 was available a few days ago. I decided to finally check out the episode 1 I already downloaded and I was pleasantly surprised... such a beautiful, beautiful series.
I also decided to check out Daddy Long Legs because it had the same title as a Korean movie I downloaded. Not quite the same, but I'd challenge anyone to view the first few episodes and not cry.
Episode 1 of Shuffle! was released ago and I gave it a try. Seems like a nice contrast to all the other series I'm watching. Reminds me of Tenchi Muyo... (bah, I just checked animesuki and I downloaded episode 1 from Anime Source like an idiot when I could have been downloading up to episode 8 from Froth-Bite!)
And then there's the whole j-drama scene. I have a dozen or so downloaded/seeded/burned dramas of which I haven't seen a single episode, and that includes Densha Otoko. It was recommended by a fellow drama addict, the series was always surpisingly well seeded at d-addicts, and subtitles were coming out mere days after the release of each raw episode. But when there was a topic about it on afighting game forum, I figured it had to be good. I think I'll start watching it... (too...)
And... aaaand... a friend dropped by and handed me FF7 Advent Children. I'll admit that I haven't exactly been keeping tabs on that, even though I beat the game three times. It seems to be all the rage now (and a certain someone is just raving about it), so I'll watch it... eventually.
My "vacation" so far has been moving stuff around and out of the house to prepare for the installation of hardwood flooring. And now that that's done (4 days of noise and dust), the rest of my vacation will probably be moving stuff back to my room... after my parents get done repainting the walls. Not quite the vacation I had in mind. I miss being in my room, but must say that it's awfully convenient having my computer and the TiVo in the same room.
I recently got my test results from the two kanji tests I took in June (９級 and ８級) and I passed both of them! I've been studying kanji for years but I only studied for these particular tests for about 10 minutes total. ９級 was a piece of cake, and although ８級 was quite a bit harder, it was still doable. I just feel a little bad for a guy I know (he introduced me to the tests) because he missed passing the ８級 three times (by 5 or 10 points)!
So with those tests under my belt, I've decided to really dedicate myself to studying Japanese... even more. Which, in this case, means anime. Even before I got the test results I started watching Bleach because of a certain someone and caught up to episode 46 from the very beginning in three or four days. (I was a bit of an idiot here, though... I downloaded the ANBU / Anime Keep batch and after fully seeding that, I saw the better batch by Lunar Anime and downloaded and seeded that batch!) I've made it a habit of putting the more interesting or useful phrases into a Word document, like this gem from 石田雨竜: 「勝負しないか、一護？君と僕と、どっちが優れているのか分からせたい。」
There's other anime, too. I've been downloading Tsubasa Chronicle alongside Naruto but I haven't even seen a single episode until a "DVD quality" version of episode 1 was available a few days ago. I decided to finally check out the episode 1 I already downloaded and I was pleasantly surprised... such a beautiful, beautiful series.
I also decided to check out Daddy Long Legs because it had the same title as a Korean movie I downloaded. Not quite the same, but I'd challenge anyone to view the first few episodes and not cry.
Episode 1 of Shuffle! was released ago and I gave it a try. Seems like a nice contrast to all the other series I'm watching. Reminds me of Tenchi Muyo... (bah, I just checked animesuki and I downloaded episode 1 from Anime Source like an idiot when I could have been downloading up to episode 8 from Froth-Bite!)
And then there's the whole j-drama scene. I have a dozen or so downloaded/seeded/burned dramas of which I haven't seen a single episode, and that includes Densha Otoko. It was recommended by a fellow drama addict, the series was always surpisingly well seeded at d-addicts, and subtitles were coming out mere days after the release of each raw episode. But when there was a topic about it on afighting game forum, I figured it had to be good. I think I'll start watching it... (too...)
And... aaaand... a friend dropped by and handed me FF7 Advent Children. I'll admit that I haven't exactly been keeping tabs on that, even though I beat the game three times. It seems to be all the rage now (and a certain someone is just raving about it), so I'll watch it... eventually.
