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^ Kinda funny considoring that most JRock is an imitation of American stuff. Just a little something for you to chew on... Btw, Vulgar is a good album.

The video for "one more time" is TOTTALLY an homage to 80's anime with the funky hair, sexy-slender females with long twisty hair and Voltron style boxy space-ships!!! I MUST go see this now...

Some other great choices are Fanatic Crisis, Shazna, Pierrot, Lastier, Lareine, Janne da Arc, Kagrra and Baroque!

Yes, go figure. Still, real bad song.

I've always been a fan of spoof movies. Airplane, Naked Gun, and Hot shots are among the best in my opinion. The first scary movie was pretty funny but the second was awful as far as spoofs go. It was only like an hour long and didn't have a plot at all. The third looks so much better though probably because the Wayans Brothers arent doing it this time; which might be a good thing. Btw, did anyone get the joke between Pamela Anderson and Jenny Mcarthy besides me?

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Inuluvr1 [/i] [B]Hm, my favorite character would have to be Sailor Jupiter. I think she was the tough one...*it's been so long I cannot remember!* [/B][/QUOTE] I think it's arguable that Sailor Uranus is the "tough" one. Anyway, you can't really appreciate Sailor Moon untill you've seen the original Japanese version. What DIC and Toonami did to it is unforgivable...But Sailor Moon set the precedent for all Mahou Shoujo anime/manga forever.

I'd have to say my favorites are: Gouhou Drug: because CLAMP bishounen manga rules. Chojin Locke: you can't deny the classics. One of the first psychic power/space manga. Tenshi Kinryoku: so angsty. and such memorable charectors and art. I dont think there is a "best" manga though.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Justin [/i] [B]I wouldn't call humnas monsters. I'd call them sheep. [/B][/QUOTE] Baaaaahhhhh, amen brother.

^^ I think it depends on what your looking for. But to deny that lyrics and singing ability dont add to the overal quality of a song is rediculouse (assuming that its a genre that has lyrics).

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by scrmngfangrl [/i] [B]yeah, from what ive heard plastic tree is really awesome. ..ive only listened to two songs, but hey. [/B][/QUOTE] They are awsome. You should listen to more of them.

=( I'm sorry to hear that.

This movie is a masterpiece. Everything about it was amazing. Eventhough it was so incredible bloody, the choreography behind it all was unbelivable. I thought they captured the sick and sadistic nature of Japanese culture pretty well in the anime sequence and in GoGo's charector. I think my favorite part was definetly the opening; it was just so "different" that it set the tone for the movie. Two inthusiastic thumbs cut off and shooting blood into the air!

^^ They may be all you care about is what you mean. Dir en Grey is by far one of my favorite bands, but they are hardly the only band I care about.

I'm pretty sure I said the best way to learn the language would be to go there. People seem to assume that I meant just go there blindly. However, I think it still can happen.

^^ Thank you. I'm gad that we all can at least agree on something.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Ares [/i] [B]If I come up to you and say moshimoshi seihaku baka, and you are from America nad know no Japanese you aren't gonna know what I said, and how are you supposed to start learning? [/B][/QUOTE] I'm glad that you realize that but your still not understanding what I'm saying. Of course you aren't going to become fluent in Japanese the second u step foot in the country. But through interaction with the people you will. Watch the movie shogun. The charector Pilot learns speaking the language the same way. Wrist cutter, if you know people who have lived in Japan and dont know as much as you do, then don't be offended when I say that they either aren't too intellegent or lived on an American military base. Nor do I understand how you could say "Just being there doesn't raise your fluency," because from my experience, it's the exact opposite. Going to the country is an important part of learning any language. There is no way you can become fluent in a language simply by studying books.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by wrist cutter [/i] [B] But that is significantly different than Japan. I've been to Japan for two weeks and let me tell you, I did not make any significant advances. Yeah, I picked up a few words. But that's about it. [/B][/QUOTE] Thats funny. I know a lot of people who have gone there as exchange students and they said they learned more Japanese than they had in all their years of studying it. A funny thing indeed.

I'd like to point out then when your born, you don't use a book to learn how to speak. Nor do you use a book to learn how to eat or run or anything else. No, you learn by doing it. Same thing goes here. If your acctually studying japanese, you'll understand what I mean. And just to correct myself and genkai, its HARAJUKU.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Baron Samedi [/i] [B]UUh. With some languages you can pick up the gist of it. Now, English and Japanese are totally incompatible. So therefore, you go there and wonder around stupidly, wandering what the **** the people are saying. So, it is a terrible idea to go there with no idea at all. [/B][/QUOTE] I dissagree with you 100% If we are talking about the best way to learn the language, then I stand by what I said. You can study all the books in the world, but when you dont have experience using the language you can only do so much. And in fact, most of what they teach you in textbooks or school is not how they speak over there anyway. Even going there with no knowledge of the language at all, you will still learn faster and more accuretly than if you went to school.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by wrist cutter [/i] [B]I think that's a little too much like trying to learn how to ride a bike... in a swimming pool. You should at least have a decent foundation of knowledge before you go there. Because, yes, necessity is a great way to learn a lot and quickly. However unless you kind of know what you're doing, you're going to be in way over your head, especially considering that Japanese people speak in English to you. Honestly... while in Japan EVERYONE spoke to me in English. Granted it was poorly pronounced and broken, and generally just not that great, but they are more than willing to cater to you in the field of language. I don't know why teachers even bother teaching kids greetings like "konnichiwa" or "ohayou gozaimasu" or anything of that sort. Everyone just says "haro" to you if you're white. [/B][/QUOTE] I still think that the best way to learn a language is when you NEED to. By going to Japan, you'll have to learn it to survive. And Japanese people's english can only go so far. Eventhough it's required in school, that doesn't mean any of them are good at it.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Ares [/i] [B]I am going to try and move to Japan when I'm 19 or 20, so I'm glad I found this forum. There's a lot of good advice in here. I am going to have tea with the geisha for sure. Does anyone know a way I can learn Japanese besides in school? I have no Japanese language class, which sucks. If anyone on here will give me Japanese lessons, PM me. Here's some advice though satan665: You should go to see Mt. Fuji. It is really beutiful. [/B][/QUOTE] Um, its not so much that they forgot them, its that someone might have taken them... Anyway, Ares, the best way to learn Japanese is through experience. You just gotta plant yourself in Japan and learn it outta neccesity. If you cant do that, then find a school that will teach you. Its too hard to have someone just teach you over PMs or something.

Its common for Japanese Bands to have English names that dont make sence. However, right now it seems like its cooler to have a French name I.E. "Duel la Quartz", "L'arc en Ciel", "La'cryma Christ", "Psycho le Chemu" and so on. And btw, the Pillows sound is far from a "typical" japanese style of music. The majority of bands there sound nothing like them. I encourage everyone to not limit themselves to whats popular. There of other great japanese bands besides the Pillows.

They are two funny. I remember the song "SciFi Wasabi" Thats great! They've played here in Seattle a couple of times.

^^ That is partly untrue. They different laws regarding live and drawn movies. As for print media, they can get away with it in manga but probably not the MaiNichi Shinbun. Point of interest though, it is against the law to say the Japanese word for "retarded babies" in both movies and media. If your going to Japan you MUST visit Shinjuku on a sunday! Jrockers paradise! Also, Ginza street is cool, you should go to a live house and see a concert. Tea with a Geisha is probably out of the question unless you want a Mediocre one, but who wants that! Gah, there's so much you could do. If I were you, I'd be going nutz... As for the "baka" topic, you wont get as strong a reaction as you would if you said "Aho" which is a really really mean way of essentially saying stupid.

I've been a fan for a couple of years now. I like them a lot. In fact, they came here to WA to play at the local University and me and a friend managed to James Bond our way in and we got to meet every member of the band when the building caught on fire (no fault of our own) and then met them again after the show for pictures and autographs. William Tell is one fine mofo. They also recorded their second album right here in Seattle too, I just hope it lives up to their older stuff.