It was a dark and stormy nigh-- eh, day

[thistlechaser]

It's raining out, a rare-as-heck event around here. It's dark and cold and very un-California-y.

I spent a number of hours today dumping stuff onto CDs to free up some harddrive space. The whole DNAngel series plus three full-length movies (American Beauty, The Cat Returns, and Spirited Away), which made almost no difference. Sucks to be me! I need to buy more CDs so I can move more stuff off the hard drive.

For those who care, I believe I was incorrect on my earlier reporting of DNAngel: The light/golden angel was not named Light, I must have assumed that because the dark angel was named Dark. In the last two eps, the light angel got a "real" name. Though it had an interesting ending, I'm sad that series is over...

Anime is very different than American TV shows in a number of ways, but the only bad difference (in my opinion) is that series end just way too soon. DNAngel had only 24 eps in its whole run -- enough to tell the story, but I want more more more! I'm not ready to leave that world behind yet!

I'm vaguely pondering taking Japanese classes. This is *not* so I can understand anime without reading the subtitles, just because it's such a beautiful sounding language. I hadn't realized it before I really started watching a lot of anime, but Japanese is easily the most beautiful of all languages I've ever heard. It's soft and so pretty and complex... and probably hard as hell to learn.

Comments

[loneguardian.livejournal.com]

Yes. It's very difficult. >.< *frets over Japanese Final Exams in two weeks*

[loneguardian.livejournal.com]

Oh yesh. ^^ If you want me to ever scan and post the worksheets and stuff from my class, lemme know. They're very clear and easy to learn on your own. ^_^ Now, granted, it's business-oriented and formal, not the social, informal you often hear in anime, but it's still fun. ^^ If anything, memorizing the hiragana/katakana is worth doing just to be able to 'hear' what they're saying, rather than just a jumble of meaningless characters. It's amazing how much I can read and half understand now that I know those 'alphabets'! ^_^/

[thistle-chaser.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the offer! However, I've found some great online sites, so I'm poking around them -- no need to go through the work of scanning.

And good luck on your exam! :)

Thanks!