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It's basically the closest thing to Japanese Demystified. It is also based on the Pareto Principle. Suggesting that in any endeavor, 80% of results come from 20% input.

This software called DeepL is very useful for copying and pasting from screenshots that I took from manga, turning Japanese characters to text. You could then copy and paste kanji to Nihongodera. DeepL and screenshots also make Wordreference.com even more useful, making some word for word translation worthwhile. I really gotta check out the Wordreference forums in case I got any doubts.

I think that DeepL is open-source which would be incredible.

As you can see, they are my two favorite online dictionaries. Wordreference was completely useful for my high school Spanish courses, helping me get a B+.

For me, the most confusing thing about Japanese are those particles (can be as confusing as preterites and Spanish DOPs, direct object pronouns). Overall, I'm glad that the language is growing on me. It just takes longer to master than skills on a dressphere in FFX-2, but people with the right approach can achieve such mastery like more conveniently.

Having learned some advanced math before Japanese, I realized that there is no useless knowledge. Like that bibliophile said in Avatar: TLAB, "knowledge is priceless". If only everyone could see the same and I like hoarding a lot of eBooks, PDFs, etc. Uploading them onto cloud services.

I also like to hoard screenshots, especially of manga.

I had no idea that you had a boyfriend. Who could blame him? Smart is still the new sexy. You're about as semitomboyish as that one lady I once knew with a Chinese husband who learned Japanese decades ago. That same semitomboy told me that she watched Gundam, space westerns, etc with who is currently her husband some time before they got married.

Other than that, I'm loving this new 80/20 Japanese book. With this book, my RAW manga reading experience will be even more worthwhile. I put a lot of things over whatever currently trending anime, manga or light novel.

More better manga for me than those normies because my Japanese is close to 8th grade level.

Other than that, how are you doing Miu?

Sousou no Frieren is definitely another anime subject to seasonal hype. Something that MAL is susceptible to, Anime Planet as well.

I doubt that I could watch that anime seven times like I did with Twilight Venom recently. I also prefer steampunk (like my beloved Valkyria Chronicles) to fantasy anime as of late which are mostly isekai; clearly based on light novels.

The Japanese cast according to ANN doesn't even sound that interesting. Simply because I don't recognize or relate to any of them.

Not sure what my fantasy loving friend in her late 30s thinks of Sousou no Frieren, but I think that Slayers, Magic Knight Rayearth, Kiki's Delivery Service, Princess Mononoke, Cardcaptor Sakura, Suikoden 3, Record of Lodoss War, Sorcerer Hunters and Sailor Moon are more of her style anyway. She's not that crazy about newer manga as well.

She definitely has better taste than most of MAL. Nobody on this social media site seems to have taste similar or that close to yours either.

I'm about to add more manga to my PTR list that I just found on ANN.

Other than that, Míriam must be the closest thing to Wild Arms as far as manga goes. I just found it on that original anime encyclopedia site and yes, I grew up with ANN. Used it everyday before MAL was even a thing.

With that said, I finally finished replaying Wild Arms 2 in Japanese. Brad and Kanon (having a very prosthetic body like Motoko Kusanagi; also a favorite character of my semitomboyish friend from Maryland) have the most interesting backstories in my opinion. An ex-soldier and a bounty hunter to be more specific. Also the only real grown-ups or real adults in my party. Kanon had strong dislike for demons as Blade had strong dislike for vampires (Mirabelle Graceland is one of my favorite vampiric characters; old but adorable). So yeah, she hunted demons after what they did to her body as a kid (she was half eaten and her promiscuous mom was killed; karma for ruining her daughter's bloodline).

That rich boy Irving Vold Valeria was a bigger bastard in Wild Arms 2 than in Twilight Venom; found out about his tricks later in Wild Arms 2. Dave Wittenberg is definitely the perfect actor for that character. His long, white hair might look similar to a character you already know. That is, Maximilian Pegasus.

Apart from that, I really need to catch up with QD.

That and the 1000 Ways To Die episode called Sex-Ray are reasons for me to stay away from hospitals. I also don't approve of generally negligent medical workers or doctors.

I think that acupuncture could have helped your family a lot better and I think that eastern medicine is better. Spiritually, therapeutically, in any way you slice it.

Yes, Wild Arms 2 is actually pretty long. Unlike most big name JRPGs, like FFX, it lacks extreme linearity. Definitely one of the least linear JRPGs or games ever made.

I think that FF7 should be rated really low on the linearity scale if rating based on its respective franchise.

Other than that milady, I can't wait for Armed Fantasia to come out, the true Wild Arms 4. That 2005 JRPG isn't even a Wild Arms game which is nowhere nearly as western as space westerns in anime. Just generic, pseudo sci-fi garbage which that and its successor that got their thunder stolen by Mass Effect not that long later.

Armed Fantasia being western and steampunk makes me want to get it even more when it drops. The only problem with Armed Fantasia are those character designs, but at least it'll stay true to the western genre. More Wild West than anything coming out of Japan so far. Space westerns prove that the western genre doesn't have to be limited to American media or North America.

I just hope that people won't pre-order it and pre-orders affect quality which may also include bugs.

*hugs*

Sorry that Year of the Dragon has been tough on you so far. I wish that my acupuncture could have been of some use to her. Especially for therapeutic relief.

83 years old? She's about the same age as some vegetarian that I heard about who greatly exceeded the average American life expectancy before she passed away. Most people die by the time they reach 70 because of substance abuse, car accidents and workplace accidents (like working in an oil rig or a mine) being all over the place.

In continental Asia, many people died young because of king cobras. People there need luck to survive. Everywhere else in the world, there are canines, freshwater snails, kissing bugs and mosquitoes that are also very deadly.

With that said, I hope you and your grandmother will get well soon. I also think that your grandmother wants you to be very happy, be very proud and she most certainly knows that you are future. Maybe you're not a pioneer yet, but you could become one.

I haven't played Honkai Star Rail, but I know a middle-aged lady that does who is also playing the P3 remake. Not everyone can afford the P3 remake and my little sister prefers P3P which along with P4G are more affordable. Yes, my baby sister is into otome or reverse harem. That's why she loves Friends of Mineral Town, playing as the blonde farm girl.

One day, I'll get into sewing one so that I could sell out overalls with over 10 pockets. I would also make one made specially for you and your Jill of all trades training. Enough room for everyday tools and self-defense weapons. Like a mix between battle armor and Batman's utility belt. Make one out of high performance PET too for extreme self-defense and everyone knows that PET is bulletproof. Same material used for cut, bite (able to stop most of a dog attack) and stab resistance that is easy to customize.

I'm almost to Wild Arms 2 disc two while keeping an eye on any unfamiliar kanji among familiar Chinese characters. I also got a Terabox full of screenshots while I was emulating ready to be GIMPed or photoshopped so I could achieve jōyō kanji. Nihongodera, as usual, is way ahead of me.

Ah yes! Springtime, the season of honeysuckles which represents devoted affection in my old home Georgia and across Asia.

With that said, I finished Grandia and have moved on to Wild Arms 2, picked up extra Japanese along the way.

I can't wait to convert many of those screenshots to text so I can copy and paste additional kanji to Nihongodera.

Yes, I do my best to pick up unfamiliar kanji from NPCs, books and dialogue in the Japanese version. Those characters Liz and Ard would hurt people's heads in the American copy with that bad translation. My least favorite character in that game as usual is definitely Scott.

I hate preteens in JRPGs and while Anri from Sakura Taisen V isn't considered a preteen, she still gets on my nerves for being a little bitch. Hating on Shinjiro Taiga for no reason and that protagonist went through a lot of trouble to make New York his home at the beginning. Like how old is Anri supposed to be actually? 12? Can't even hold the candle to cute little Iris from the awesome Flower Division. The youngest exorcist in that group, saving Japan from a demonic uprising and being absolutely adorable.

Probably the only girl I would ever send sky high with a slap. She should be flying high while flipping like an acrobat.

That girl is a thousand times more irritating than anime characters. Easily more annoying than the most irritating Ah! My Goddess characters. She makes me appreciate the Paris Combat Revue girls in other Sakura Taisen games a lot more.

In layman terms, child-like NPCs really get on my nerves. Getting the shortest end of a stick in character development.

Palworld was surprisingly interesting and it wasn't all proxy battles. Jade Cocoon wasn't all proxy battles either, especially at the beginning where I had to slash with a 🗡 monsters before capturing them with that magic flute.

Yes, that late 90s JRPG that looks like a mix between Princess Mononoke and Pokémon. That music was way ahead of its time and I actually love it more than that of Mamoru Fujisawa.

Welcome back milady! :)

Ah yes! Palworld, the game my brother played recently some time it got advertised online. I don't pay attention to YouTube ads, but that of Palworld got my attention and thought it was a bloody, more mature Pokémon.

Anime-wise, I'm not as easy to impress as those Gen Z or teenage normies. One of the reasons why I love MSG: The Origin is because it's based on a manga written by a more experienced mangaka that eventually got hired by Sunrise. Venus Wars' artstyle also aged very well.

Around the same time, DB Super got announced and I was like "No way I'm watching that much future anime if it's going to be kids stuff galore".

Maybe Urusei Yatsura isn't 100% kids stuff, but it's too comedic for me and its as goofy as a Saturday morning cartoon. Too much comedy for me that I won't bother watching the remake.

An old manga that should have gotten a remake is Silent Möbius with a QD adaptation included that should be super canon, but I just could just read both manga glued together.

What does impress me so far is endgame stuff in Grandia. Which unlike anime as of late, its main villain is as realistic as he is intimidating. Anime studios definitely ran out of antagonists over the years.

That Baal definitely puts FF3's Cloud of Darkness to shame. Just a basic and cheesy villain with zero character development. Not even the FF3 remake for DS was able to give that oh so intimidating Cloud of Darkness more soul or fix the monster. Laziest villain ever designed besides Exdeath (basically an evil tree with the personality of generic shounen villains) and that's why Hironobu Sakaguchi is overrated.

I don't know what Wild Arm 2's antagonist is like yet because of lazy translating by Sony, but at least the story is deep. Its counterpart from 1997 or Wild Arms one definitely has a deep story with more effort put into antagonists. I really loved that scene when Cecilia rescued Rudy from a demon that devoured dreams like that tapir-like, Chinese chimera in myths.

I'm more into manga these days and the newest anime that I'm watching is Little Witch From Mercury because a friend gave me a link to episode one on Youtube before it got registered MAL.

Truth be told, I keep up with very few new anime so not exactly.

On the other hand, I'm still waiting for that Tsukihime reboot and ANN said that there would be a cinematic sequel to Space Battleship Yamato as of late.

I might watch some future anime, but at the same time, I won't get my hopes up. That's kind of what I've been saying in my head since 2014. Animation is just too expensive for a full Hyper Police adaptation or for Trigun Maximum movies possible (cel or CGI, I loved Badlands Rumble's animation a lot; that animation should definitely used if the industry makes up their mind).

I've also been told that a lot of new manga haven't been adapted, fan translated or even registered on the internet yet (not yet on this site or ANN). Even more obscure than Silent Möbius QD which is at least registered online.

Ah yes! I'm still thinking of getting into Pluto. Been thinking about it for years and my long time, xennial friend told me that she loved that manga.

I'm more familiar with plain old Astro Boy by the way and I loved the GBA adaptation.

You seem to be enjoying Scarlet and Violet.

To be quite honest, I haven't played any Switch era Pokémon games. Walmart charged me 590 dollars (or more) for a Switch and then I ended up buying parts to assemble my PC.

As for my seven year-old old Lenovo tablet, I'm thinking of installing Fedora or a BSD system soon. I also prefer Lenovo to Apple and where do those millennial couples get the money to buy iPads for their kids? I don't recommend giving kids Apple products at all. Apple also copied a lot of things from BSD and I see no reason to choose Apple software over FOSS.

I remember my classmates having iPods which aged poorly like the DS. Everyone knows that both gizmos have old imported junk others call hardware.

I think that it's better to spend ~590 dollars on a Switch than some iPad. I also don't think that 590 dollars is worth throwing away anymore. Too much to spend on one child unless it's a necessity.

Kids should just borrow PCs until they get older. Back in my day, I borrowed a PC everyday, like when I was in a school computer lab learning how to type basic documents, using floppy drives, etc.

I didn't get my own computer until I was about 17 by the way.

With that said, Grandia is a pretty big world and Silent Möbius QD is some of the most underrated stuff I've ever read.

I'll have to read Ghost in the Shell some time for sci-fi also (Stand Alone Complex is what got me into the franchise since freshman year). What said Italian tomboy exactly your age used to cherish before her mysterious disappearance and long absence. She should also be reading Dominion, aka Tank Police in the west.

Hello again Miu! So how are you doing this winter?

I got to the best part of Grandia and it feels so climatic. Justin and some friends have to save Feena. Break her out of some large aircraft that looks like a flying fortress (at least ten times the size of a jumbo jet). Yes, I just saw her get abducted by some warmongering criminal gang.

As for jōyō kanji, I'll still use Nihongodera and Word Reference even after knowing all those 1,945 Chinese characters.

Wuaaaaah O////O

They are both romance type of anime! Is that your favourite genre?

Mostly im excited about Kono Subarashii s3, MHA S7 (i still have to watch the season 6) and Demon Slayer Kimetsu no Yaiba: Hashira Geiko-hen! What about u?

I was just passing by from Tokyo Revengers discussion and i stumbled on your profile~ ~ It's really great!