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[JimmyxxCindy4EVER]

This topic is for all things Japanese, or related to the country in some way or another! Hello Kitty, the language, the culture, the fashion, the food, gab about it here!!!

[Kaz]

I want to go to Japan to live some day....except it'll most likely cause severe anxiety attacks since it'll be a giant change lol.

But seriously, I'd love to see Kyoto since it's traditional, but I always want to visit the district of Harajuku in Tokyo for the fashion.

[JimmyxxCindy4EVER]

EEEEP!!! You KNOW it!!!

[JimmyxxCindy4EVER]

Reviving!!!!  Japan RULES!!!  Been listening to a CRAPLOAD of excellent Japanese music lately, my faves being Freeze by SOSOSO(Tsukui Kazuhito) and Melissa by Porno Graffiti(Fullmetal Alchemist sountrack)!  And who DOESN'T love Hello Kitty?!  I love how it's associated so much with Japan!  Man, I could go on and on about this whole thing!!

[Elraine]

One word: MANGA.

Oh my word, I've read so many! Speak of the devil, I'm currently reading through Rurouni Kenshin... Some of my favorites include Fullmetal Alchemist, InuYasha, Fruits Basket, Full Moon o Sagashite, Skip Beat! Gakuen Alice.... okay, I'll stop before I go on and on... xD

I used to really enjoy Naruto[Shippuden], Bleach, and D-Grey Man, but I got a little bored of each of those after a couple hundred chapters of repetitiveness and excessively long battle scenes... =\

[JimmyxxCindy4EVER]

I prefer shojo, and the only one I read is Dengeki Daisy, since I don't know of any that are relatively clean like that one as far as content goes, meaning little suggestiveness, little violence/blood, VERY little bad language, no WAY OFF-THE-WALL "love(more like LUST)" scenes, you get the idea...  I've got ten volumes so far, and I want Volumes Eleven and Twelve SO badly!!  It's addictive for me!

 

What do you think of Japanese music, by the way??  Or have you even listened to it?  Cuz, if not, you have NO idea what you're missing!!

[Elraine]

I'm actually not a huge fan of Japanese music... I like -some-, since I do like some upbeat pop and such, but I'm much more into the K-Pop than J-Pop... I'll give them props for creating a more unique sound (K-Pop sounds pretty much just like American music, 90s - present), I just don't particularly like that sound... That being said, I have enjoyed dozens of select Japanese songs (Many of them written for anime, haha)... I'm just not an avid fan

Not sure if this technically counts, since the main singer is actually Korean, but I've always enjoyed BoA's "Possibility"


Fun fact: I really loved her haircut in this music video, and had mine cut the same way. I had never gone that short before (had only gone down to shoulder length)! I've pretty much kept my hair short ever since! I'm addicted to Korean - style short haircuts! (If I keep this up, I'll make this into a Koreanophile topic)

[JimmyxxCindy4EVER]

After Japanese, the second language I'd wanna learn is Korean.  There's just something about the East Asian languages and cultures that fascinate me to no end!

 

You like this one from Fullmetal Alchemist?  I know I do, after hearing it on my "Japanimation" Pandora station!!

 

[Elraine]

Nah, not a fan of that one... I am a huge fan of the ready steady go theme for fma though.

[JimmyxxCindy4EVER]

I love that one, too!! It's just so dang catchy!!

[Mara=^.^=]

I would like to go to Japan one of these days, but I try my best not to be a weeaboo

 

~*Mara*~ = ^.^ =

[Thore]

I have an aunt that  worked as a teacher in Japan for a while and another aunt that simply travels everywhere and they both have some amusing tales of their time in Japan. It's practically two different countries at this point, the country still has that classic Japanese feel to it while the cites..... they are something else entirely. But what do you expect from the country that though this up. http://youtu.be/v9T5J7UWMm8?t=5m50s

[JimmyxxCindy4EVER]

Reviving!! C'mon, you know you wanna gab about it some more!