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Ignoring the knowledge I have about otaku culture. The article could show a brilliant display of showing multiples sides of this topic. The only structure I saw here was. Japan porn bad -> Japan need to change, this is bad -> needs to change, how can they do this? -> japan bad. "I want to make it disappear," she says. "By 2020, when the Summer Olympics will take place in Japan, we have to turn Japan into a country which people don't call a perverted culture." Good luck with the next 6 years. Japan being liberal with sex is totally new haha. Blatantly this title and article bating just to get people to click their articles hardly improves the quality. There is no need or incentive to look at the different side of this subject. Just negatives from them really. Not liking the "Junior Idol" DVDs they mentioned. That's new to me. I am against stuff that exploit children. In my mind there is a distinction between imaginary works and thoughts compared to reality. As I see it people who are more mentally unstable are easily affected by games, literature, brain washing, society so on. Doesn't really matter too much exactly what they absorbed by. If some guy spends a lot of time chopping wood with a axe. He might find the exercise and practice of mental focus and technique relaxing. Another guy could be delving into imagining chopping people up.

Haha. Quickly summed up. It's part of our cultural heritage. As we have been occupied by both the Danish and Swedes our language have been affected by theirs. So Nynorsk is a effort to make a original Norwegian language. It's based by our lord as savior Ivar Aasen work, who went to around the country and recorded the dialect word uses there. As for how many uses it... It's quite heavily used in a few of our county's. Around 10% overall in the country. Honestly some of these dialects are so strong I have problems knowing what they are saying. Practically some of the jobs out there you might need to be able to write to someone in Nynorsk. Some of the words that are adapted to nynorsk is so extreme you could say no one really uses them. We also got the reverse were standard Norwegian words get inserted into nynorsk. If I had a choice back then, I'd choose not learning it maybe. Or I might actually chosen it, because it might have been useful in the future. The way we learn the language is basically memorizing the grammar rules and some of the most used vocab. When we do our exams we use what we have memorized and add our dialect words we know prbly works. Afterwards we check the words with a text editor we are unsure about. Or if we don't have a computer we use a normal book dictionary... Most of the time spent will be checking your writing rather than the actual content, ha ha ha.. This is similar to the approach we use to talk to Swedes and Danes btw. Here is a rather funny sketch on the hilarity of Scandinavians trying to guess each others words. Kinda going back to the topic of learning languages. Even for us Scandinavians. It's actually somewhat fun to read Swedish and Danish books as well. Similarly to reading Japanese and English. You get into another culture another language. It's a new nice experience and you learn new stuff. It's definitively worth it. Honestly I love that I started to learn Japanese. I can enjoy new sides anime, manga, vn's, LN's, songs etc etc. I don't regret it a single day seriously.

Indeed! What is these side routes you speak of? *Lalala* doesn't exist.

mugen kairou 1 + 2 perhaps? I read this review which somewhat piqued my interest. Albeit it might fit within the "BDSM-and-similar titles" you don't want to read. -_- Tho, it doesn't seem to have high amount of sexual content. Anyway, read the review. Oh you~~

This might very well happen if you want it or not xD Albeit in my case with Norwegian, Nynorsk, English, and Japanese. I don't naturally say the words. I just can't come up with a more fitting one. *Creates awkward pauses*

That does sound rather bizarre. As long as you don't completely die while reading and can enjoy it. It's good stuff, that's how I think about the stuff anyway Light has created some really hard shit. Are you going to try Dies Irae next maybe? Maybe you need to brush up on your religious studies. I at least don't know jack about Buddhism really xD

"Life's a Bitch and Then You Die" Foreordained fate of us all. “Sometimes we strive so hard for perfection that we forget that imperfection is happiness.”

Yeah! This looks awesome. *Looks at the post date* Posted 14 December 2013 - 04:35 AM Dammit....

Nice you can manage to read that stuff. I remember reading the first title and damn the prologue had so much weird words in it. With all the furigana and so on haha. Honestly that's overboard for me. I'll read it later maybe though. Thumps up from me bro! Currently still reading Soukoku no Arterial. Still liking this. I feel at times that the gameplay is a bit too much. But overall It's fine really. I am currently in chapter 6 of the angel route. As I see it now. I might actually complete all of the routes. Even if it will take like ~100 hours.

As others have said before. It depends on the opening if it's bad or not. But they ain't really naturally bad or good haha. I prefer it to be at the boot up of the game. Then I come more into the mood as I start the vn. Ahhh, that's the feeling. That's the experience I get from a good vn op. Otherwise I just skip it lol.

I think something in the lines of having a protag that is not completely healthy in the head. Plus having focus on the heroines is what you'd want then. Katakawa is a bit special because it has the funky setting and the protag that find meaning in his new disease and new life. Grisaia no kajitsu comes to mind, Yume miru kuritsu as well. You also got Sharin no Kuni and G-senjou. But those latter two are more focused on the story imo. Rather than the life of the protag and the people in the story. Don't get me wrong though. They got plenty of slice of life like stuff.

Sharin no kuni is one of my favorite vn's. The biggest flaw imo was that it feels like it gets more stale and the progression feels slow after a while. The characters are still interesting, the environment and stuff hasn't really changed. It just kind starts to feel same'ish. The vn is helped by having such a damn awesome protag such as Kenichi. He is a beast. The theme with how obligations is that way they current criminals was interesting. It does bring the interesting parallel with real life. Giving power to the special high class individuals creates corruption and overly powerful individuals as in all societies that is governed by people of high power. The way how many of the heroines were really just normal people inside. They were all warped in some way like normal people. Difference in this story is that they served obligations because of that. They had to fix it or get deemed criminals of the state. Because they didn't do as hard as they could. Or because they couldn't think for themselves. These are all faults we all have to some degree. They might cause some to do harm to others or crime.. In sharin those people get obligations to correct their behavior. But the system is broken indeed...

Honestly for me it depends on the personality more. If that fits with the hair style and so on. I will like it. Doesn't really matter what kind of art the character has. Most important is that I like the character. Albeit.. When I think about it, long hair is one of my favs. It's hawt. Yui Yuigahama hairstyle is so weird man haha... I love that anime. But it looks like she got a Pokemon on curled up there.

Good luck with your project man. I hope you will find it interesting to translate that much text.

The way you practice is a good idea. Can practice writing new words and learning new vocab. If you can put the effort into it, I'd say it's totally worth it. Hmm. As I said earlier I don't know for sure. But I suppose they won't only teach you the language but also some history and culture stuff. Which you might not necessarily come to contact with otherwise. I if someone has any recommendations for Japan introductions to history, Culture, and so on please give us some links~~ I personally would like textbooks. No idea if it should be in english or jp... Honestly jp would be ideal, but it will be a lot harder. I think it's important to be knowledgeable in these areas as well. Because some stuff you will come in contact with will have context in that. For example some anime with history in their setting. Might mention some old heroes or clans back in that old era. Culture is ofc necessary to know a lot about. Not only stuff that you might get contact with by reading our lovely anime, vn's, LN's ofc.

Then you should go for learning the writing as well ofc ^^ You can use writing to learn the kanji's more efficient as well. Because most kanji's are built up with a "few" other kanji's. These are usually written the same way and is called radicals. If you want tot turn your language skills into a profession. I suppose collage is the best as well. I suppose fan translators have become official translators by doing it for free at first. No idea how this process happens and how often though.

You don't really need to learn how to write. If you want to take practical tests and need to write it for hand. Then you have to. Besides the practical value of remembering the kanji radicals and how the kanji's are built up. It's optional imo. Honestly if someone is just going to read vn's and watch anime. Then writing is a waste of time to learn. That's how I see it. But people learn best in their own ways of course.

If you are motivated and have a reason to learn it. You decide what the best way for you to learn is. Then just get to it and learn jp. You need to start somewhere so don't worry too much about that.

I don't feel 6 is really accurate. It jumps between 3-7. It's has some hard infodumps and wierd stuff about the sc-fi in the baldr universe (6-7). Has a much easy stuff friends and such (3-4) and mostly moderate stuff story stuff (4-5). The most daunting about the series is the length really.

Nice post man. Pointing out people who do work, but not might necessarily not be noticed for it. I glad for all the content you guys bring.

Read one of the books that comes up in SubaHibi. Specifically a play. "Cyrano De Bergerac". I fell in love with this play. It was so good, the wit the comedy, the romance, characters, the panache. I did not expect the play to be this good. I expect others to enjoy it as well if they try it out. It's a good old play that brought tears to my eyes in the end.

For yuri, Sono hanabira, and also katahana

Wow; well okay.. Honestly I don't mind them getting a anime but I seriously doubt they will be any good representation of the vn at all. Honestly it's going to be more of a fandisc for people who have already read the vn. We can go like ooohhh yuji in animation! Yay! I honestly had to ignore a lot of the stuff that happened in the current anime. Because it was so damn ridiculous how they made 12 ep's out of a 50+ hour vn. Still I can enjoy the anime, so I don't mind.

Yup; I'll add that you should have use the orginal jp name, not the romaji. Just get the name from vndb. Orginal jp name + 攻略