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ごきげんよう、貴婦人!

Happy birthday!

So I finished replaying Wild Arms 2 in Japanese and it was the epitome of underrated. The story is just as deep or more than FF7, being all the rage because of all that Rebirth stuff that I don't care much about. Wild Arms 2 is forgotten because Sony sucks at interpreting Japanese. Had to translate Kanon and Brad's backstories by myself (Anastasia is also my favorite character; similar dress as Saber, but with a better personality than that blondie; very beautiful ancient princess warrior also, having red eyes like Rem Saverem).

After replaying Wild Arms 2, I decided to rewatch Twilight Venom and now I'm taking Silent Möbius QD more seriously.

By the way, it's been ages since I last watched the Red Jacket Lupin show which I believe is closer to its respective source material.

Green Jacket like Wild Arms 2 is alternate universe stuff.

Anyway, I finished Grandia and have moved on to Wild Arms 2 picking up Japanese along the way.

I hope that you're having a rocking Year of the Dragon.

ご挨拶貴婦人!

With that said, are you ready for the holidays too? I also look forward to seeing how Year of the Dragon will turn out.

I don't expect too much from Christmas, but I think that it'll be kind of exciting. What I would like for Christmas is a lot of denim so I could sew overalls out of them featuring extra pockets and sell them at a great price. They are expensive everywhere.

I wonder where I could get pink denim so that I could make a similar one to what Rei Hino wears. My big Pisces friend or a semitomboy loves Sailor Moon by the way. She also loves to watch retro anime with her boyfriend.

I would definitely make her pink overalls for Christmas if I was her boyfriend. They are very difficult to find indeed. More pockets would give more Jack (or Jill) of all trades potential aside from ambidexterity.

Like Agent Scully once said, "Smart is sexy". War of the Coprophages to be exact which was humorous as it was interesting.

Ah yes! Akira Ishida and said semitomboy from North Carolina told me that she knows him as Athrun. I bet she's excited about the upcoming Gundam SEED movie some big half-Asian told me about. I totally forgot about him in your favorite people list.

Speaking of ambidexterity, I got Maped Visios on Black Friday as of late. Now my left hand is writing Japanese and complex mathematical symbols.

Happy Halloween!

With that said, I'm finally rereading Silent Möbius and I really want to get into the sequel QD.

Out of all those characters, Yuki Saiko is my favorite. Kiddy Phenil is very cool also and she reminds me of how tomboyish my big Virgo friend is.

Kiddy, Bulma, Reiko Mikami and Meryl Strife were all voiced by the late Hiromi-sama (her last name means crane in Japanese).

May that lady rest in peace. Best seiyuu since the 80s.

So yeah! I'm finally able or prepared to read past those unadapted chapters. I have to for QD where the AMP unit ladies would be middle-aged or old after 17 years.

To be quite honest, I think that Silent Möbius is as cyberpunk as Batman Beyond which is more futuristic than Ghost in the Shell. In a cyberpunk world, you get a metropolis full of flying vehicles. A technophobe's worst nightmare.

Yu Yevon from FFX is the biggest technophobe in pop culture history. His creation Sin is literally the product of technophobia.

You're welcome! :D

I did study some Japanese history with the help of Mr. Boyé Lafayette de Mente who is still a very convincing author. Even after he passed away. He even wrote a page dedicated to the history of romaji and how Hepburn became an influencial part of Japanese.

Silent Möbius is as cyberpunk alright, but at the same time, it's a whole different manga story. Simply different than conventional manga. Hopefully later this fall, I'll be able to know all kanji so that I'll be able to read that underrated manga more comfortably. At least I managed to memorize ~660 Chinese characters so far.

Instant Japanese said that Japanese schoolkids usually learn around 1,006 Chinese characters by the time they get to junior high. 1,006 would definitely be enough for me to get a PhD. 1,006 Chinese characters IMO is the stepping stone mastering all 3,000 for Cantonese and Mandarin (as you can see, Yamato period Japan used way more Chinese characters than modern China).

I also can't wait for Pluto to get an adaptation too. Speaking of which, I've been thinking of reading that manga too. Especially after Suikoden 3 which Aki Shimizu did a great job adapting to manga which has very detailed plot.

Glad you like that recent graphite drawing of Misato by the way. I'll definitely show that to my Ontarian penpal on Christmas Day.

Happy birthday! :)

Happy birthday! Here it is:

With that said milady, I'll be reading more Suikoden 3 until my Japanese is good enough for Silent Möbius.

You could say that Suikoden 3 is a very good manga.

My hiragana and katakana are doing fine thanks to Instant Japanese. Kanji or Chinese 101 is a topic for another day. Kanji or some set of Chinese characters are underused in modern-day Japan. Japan went from using 60,000 Chinese characters to only 1,945 as of 1982. So seven years before I was born have they discarded a lot of kanji.

Japanese itself is like the Esperanto of oriental languages and Esperanto is several times easier than Spanish. What makes Japanese potentially easier than Romance family languages is the lack of direct object pronouns, the preterites and those annoying accent marks on every vowel.

As for Silent Möbius, it's about a team of female detectives specialized in fighting demons from another universe called lucifer hawks in the distant future. Similar to what exorcists would do so think futuristic exorcists.

The only place that has every Silent Möbius volume is Limetorrents. The adaptation could have had season two, but it was either canceled or the dead studio Radix was too broke.

Sunrise should have adapted it instead since sci-fi is their forté, specialty, etc. I'm glad that I found Instant Japanese.

With that said, I hope that you had a happy 4th of July.

Hello again miss! I hope that you are doing well this spring.

I've been taking some hiragana lessons and I look forward to see how well my Japanese will turn out. Could be very useful in helping me understand the whole story of Silent Möbius. The Kia Asamiya manga, that is.

Might as well learn Japanese because chances of Silent Möbius getting a proper remake is very unlikely to happen. Imagine Silent Möbius taking centuries to get a complete adaptation like Frankenstein (with the 90s Sony movie being that good, there's no need to watch the Toei adaptation). Even the sequels Mr. Asamiya made much later deserve representation.

That language can also help me understand what the lyrics of Akiko Seko's Middle of Eternity mean which I think is a very underrated song.