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All the time. I love nostalgia.

I really enjoy Due le quartz. They have some poor quality music occasionally, but I generally enjoy the stuff they put forth. I didn't take the test but Kikasa is my favorite member so I'll just say I got him. Oh and TN, the Hakuei banner looks great. Especially the quote :) Heh heh.

My future. ...and spiders. Da[i][/i]mn them spiders >_<

He looks like hamasaki ayumi in that picture.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Utena_Tenjou [/i] [B]-Going My Way- Fruits Basket [/B][/QUOTE] Is that the "Going my Way" by Surface perhaps? If so I like that song too.

Strong points: 1) Extremely intelligent, I have an IQ of 624 2) Friendly and caring, everyone loves me 3) I'm perfect, even God envies me Weak points: 1) Always negative towards others 2) I use bad sarcasm too often 3) Perhaps a bit too egotistical Some of you give yourself too much credit.

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Juuthena [/i] [B][color=deeppink] [size=1]It was asking about how much you know.. so you should have said some.. cuz I really don't think 197 is all... or somewhat close either.[/color] [/size] [/B][/QUOTE] No, it isn't close. So, exactly how do you know only 197 words and yet speak Japanese fluently? Another technicality in my survey?

You know 197 words, and yet you know all kanji? [i]laughs[/i] I sense fibbing.

Since when did she start doing music? I thought she was only an actor.

"Driver's High", "hitori no yoru", and "Poison" from GTO "the Fourth Avenue Cafe" and "1/3 no junjou na kanjou" from rurouni kenshin "PRISM" and "WAKE UP!" from gokudo-kun manyuki "Endless Loop" from Legend of Basara or something And "ROMANCE" from whatever anime that was from... One Piece I think?

If anyone was interested, the Japanese name of his new movie is uç?Ɛçq?̐_?B?µv (sen to chihiro no kami kakushi).

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Aries [/i] [B]That doesn't seem to have much to do with anime, but, eh... [/B][/QUOTE] It has everything to do with anime >_<

Since this is a place for Japanese anime, I was just wondering about what you all know about the language. 1) Do you speak Japanese fluently? 2) Have you taken a class in Japanese? If so, how many? 3) Have you bought a book related to learning Japanese? If so, how many? 4) Can you count how many Japanese words you know? If so, how many? 5) Do you know hiragana and katakana? 6) About how many kanji do you know? 7) Do you have any friends or relatives that speak fluent Japanese? 8) Do you WANT to learn Japanese? OK, so I lied, it isn't super fun. BUT DO IT ANYWAY!

[QUOTE][i]Originally posted by Transtic Nerve [/i] [B] AHH! Why do I know what that is!?[/B][/QUOTE] You know what it is?

I don't think there's many things I'm addicted to... I mean, I do somethings a lot, but I think I could stop if I had a reason to. Like music... I love music, and everything about it, but I could stop if there was a reason to I think. There's definitely one addiction I have though that I can't stop... I'd rather it remain personal however.

I listen to ballads by X JAPAN (mainly "Unfinished", "Endless Rain", "Tears" and "Say Anything"). A few others are "flower" and "As if in a dream" by L'Arc~en~Ciel, "....song" by Janne Da Arc, "white out" by LUNA SEA, "silent white?" by move, and "saikai~story~" by Gackt. EDIT: Can't forget GLAY's "hitohira no jiyuu".

I never really saw that as a problem. I'll take LUNA SEA for example. After their debut album IMAGE, which had no singles, they released a single called "BELIEVE", which had a really catchy tune and everyone loves it basically. After that, they released a second single called "IN MY DREAM", which was another dark pop-rock type of track which can be catchy. Now, certainly these songs would grab many people's attention, so the anxiety for the album increases, more energy is stirred for LUNA SEA. Both singles ranked very high, especially for a rock band in the early nineties in Japan. So then EDEN is released. It contains 11 total tracks and the two singles previously released. However, they've been redone. "BELIEVE" had a different intro and a few instruments were reporformed, including the vocals. And IN MY DREAM had a completely different ending, which I really enjoyed. And now that the album had been released, everyone is going after it since they've been waiting for it so long (and usually there are several months between singles). You get 9 completely new tracks (many of which are so frickin' good, like JESUS, Providence, STAY, LASTLY etc..) and the two old songs which you always loved, and in a new form. Many bands in Japan do this - they make "album versions" of their singles so to make it a bit more enticing to buy the album, since there's something different. Now as I said this seems to be the way to do it - the album should be the main release that everyone waits for, because it's always more special than a single (and this method promotes selling singles a lot more, I think). The method you mentioned, however, promotes the selling of albums and not the singles. When you look at it there's no use in the release of singles at all, since the album is always available. Personally I haven't gotten tired of the singles, they never seemed like "tired old songs" by the time the album is released, because they're singles! They're the songs that are above and beyond the rest, the ones you don't get tired of. I recently had this experience - a band, Laputa, recently released a 6 track minialbum of completely new music. This got me into their new style that they've been doing lately. Then they release a single, with 2 songs that are both great... and now I'm really hyped for the album released and have my $30 saved away for it already. Then the album is released... and actually the single is completely missing, the album is 12 completely new tracks. I think - THIS SUCKS! OK, sure, we're getting more Laputa this way than if 2 of those tracks on the new album were from the previously released single. Now I have to buy the single as well. But the thing is, I was really hoping that both songs would be on the album, because I really enjoyed them and DIDN'T want to have to shell out another $15 for the single. Quite a good marketing ploy. Many underground Japanese bands do this. A band, kagerou, has released nothing but singles. They've released four - "Biological Slicer", "hakkyou sakadachi ONANISUTO", "jikasei FULL COURSE", and "yuugure no shazai". All of these contain three tracks, not found on any full album. What a way to milk the fans, eh? And recently, they released two singles on the same day. Each one had the same songs, except for one track. Three songs on each, and only one was different - and the killer was, they were just remakes of previously released songs! They're really stealing the fans here, and its aggravating but a smart way to grab money from your fans. I see how American singles work now, but I think for Japanese music perhaps this method works better, since I'd never buy singles if they were released after an album with them on (unless it had some great coupling tracks).

Well, in contrast, I like the font (though it seems a bit plain). My main qualm would be the lines and small text... that always gives it sort of a technical feel, while the rest seems to have more of a fantasy motif going for it (and I think that's what you're going for... though I could be wrong).

Well actually, the band is kuroyume (the name is the two symbols on the banner). "for dear" is a very classic song that they made (good for karaoke)... it's really good I think, kiyoharu sings it very nicely. I liked the hide "Pink Spider" banner too... seemed to really work well with me... but I think this one did too, even though I only like a few of kuroyume's songs...

Back in those years before I came to know Japanese music, I never realized that there were singles - those CDs with just a couple of songs centered upon one of the artists's better songs (there are typically about 3 per full album). But eventually I came to realize that they did indeed exist in America, but just in an odd way. When I first learned about the existance of these things, I always figured you released a series of singles to lead up to the release of the full album - and that's how it's done in Japan (seems like the logical way to do it). But then I learned, that in America and probably many other countries, a full album is released first, which is followed by the singles. To me this seems ridiculous - why release a single after an album? Nobody is going to buy a CD with only a few songs on it when they can get the song on a CD with a bunch of other music on it. But in Japan this wouldn't be an option, as the album wouldn't be out yet. And a question - was there ever a time when 3" CDs were used for singles? In Japan, that was the standard up until 1999, when maxi singles (the standard 6" disc) became typical, usually due to the huge amount of remixes of a song taking up so much room on a single.

You may remember this banner being in my sig awhile back, and while I was recently scanning through some old files I saw this one again, and really liked it. So I'm just wondering what you think of it. Click [url=http://64.26.57.193/banners/kuroyumefordear.jpg]here[/url].

I rarely remember my dreams, usually if I have one and remember it, it will be forgotten by the end of the day. I have never dreamt of anything really spectacular, though.

I dunno about that. I think most cartoons these days are really, really stupid.

I think the text is very well done... that's what stood out to me most of all. It works so well. And the border, though it only shows up against you, is also very neat. A shame there wasn't a background to the picture so you could see it all the way around.

Eh, I hate to say, but I don't really like it. Splitting the image apart to fit the banner just doesn't work for me, but I guess that's just a personal peeve. I like what you did with the text, though. That turned out nicely.