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I'm doing very well, fortunately. I hope the same for you.

You're welcome Katherine! :)

As for Wild Arms 2, there's this bounty huntress called Kanon and her name simply reminds me of your pseudonym.

A bounty huntress that hunts demons like Blade hunts vampires. Vampires in Wild Arms are actually very friendly and in this Wild Arms, they made a pact with humans centuries ago to declare war on demons. Demons led by their dark lord Blazer.

Like Motoko Kusanagi, Kanon has a prosthetic body and a very tomboyish personality. Kanon also grew up with a strong hatred for demons that killed her family and made her life miserable. Her tragic past also caused her to lose her womanhood.

Unfortunately for Blazer, he was imprisoned inside the main blue-haired boy Ashley when he was born rather than killed. Kind of sounds like Naruto right there, doesn't it?

Ashley eventually transformed into Blazer which looks like something out of super sentai (of course, it's also Japanese) and rescued his friends from being killed by some monster on behalf of a criminal gang called Odessa. Tied up and about to be killed in an abandoned prison.

Yes, Wild Arms 2 is like the least linear JRPG, but it got marred by Sony's lazy translation. Definitely better than its generic, pseudo sci-fi successors. Wild Arms needs to stay western, neo-western or Wild West. Steampunk elements can still fit in with the franchise.

There are plenty of alternatives to Discord, but some instant messengers require sharing of e-mail and I'm trying my best to respect confidentiality.

Other than that, my Japanese vocabulary is improving after eight months. My kanji comprehension is about the same as fourth grade level Mandarin. Japanese people need sixth grade level Mandarin before completing kanji or entering college.

Happy Birthday, my dear friend!

Happy birthday! I hope it is fruitful (:

With that said, Happy Birthday!

Not sure if Discord is your thing, but you can contact me there anytime.

Other than that, I can't wait to get high school level Japanese via Wild Arms 2. I've been taking snapshots of unfamiliar kanji while reading the dialogue. Came out before voice acting was a thing.

Hello again Katherine!

Ah yes! German, that's the language my semitomboyish girlfriend knows. She told me that this Lindbergh manga is difficult to get into because it requires that language or Japanese. We definitely have better chances of discussing Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin than Lindbergh. Older manga that many people know also.

Speaking of Japanese, I'm on a roll thanks to Pokémon Database (letting me borrow its plethora of traditional Chinese characters so I could translate them on Nihongodera). So yes, I'll definitely enjoy Silent Möbius QD even more and I thought about finishing it after playing Grandia HD.

Most dubs in the 90s were mediocre, I agree. Like 4Kids lazily giving synonyms of some Japanese food instead of respecting the cuisine (or terminology) plus the ADR company being unable to pronounce common Japanese names like Sakura (everyone knows that it's pronounced sah-koo-rah; it's the basics of the basics). Good thing they went defunct after getting sued so many times and then outclassed by better dubbers. Like the ones that dubbed Twilight Venom (I don't think that I'll hear another voice like that of Mirabelle again).

As for the Tsukihime reboot, I'm still waiting for it. Hopefully it'll get another announcement after I finish playing Grandia (good thing the HD version lets me hear Japanese voices like Valkyria Chronicles; I love Atsuko Tanaka).

Anyway milady, I hope that your German will be 200% fluent. My girlfriend who was an honors student mastered it and didn't have to take any remedial classes after graduation.

I don't really agree with some European saying that German is that hard and good amounts of critical thinking helps reduce the chances of taking remedial classes.

No prob kanon-chan. I'm glad to hear that! I hope the best awaits for you in 2024. So far, the holiday season was nice and it was a GREAT improvement from last year. Any plans?

Hey kanon-chan! I sincerely hope that you had a good happy new years and an awesome 2024! How are you doing?

I am really glad. In fact, I'm glad to know that even after a decade, we are talking once again.

I can't blame you. MAL has changed over the last few years and I find myself doing the same thing. It's still useful for wanting to talk to people and create a social sphere, but it's a far cry from its old, glorious days. Nice! Aside from Tumblr, what else are you on?

For me, well… It's been a decade and a HUGE chunk of my life has changed. In fact, so much that it resembles nothing from the past whatsoever. Simply put, adult life for me over the past 7 years.

Hey Kanon-chan! First, I want to say this to you. It's COMPLETELY okay if you don't even know who I am. It's been 11 years since we have last spoken to each other. I used to go by the name of EXSphere, and we used to talk for a little in 2012. So much time has passed, and, well, the truth is, It's a pleasure to talk to you again. Otherwise, it's nice to meet you, and as usual, your favorites list is still rocking. How has it been?

Thanks for responding Kanon-san!

I'm re-reading Silent Möbius chapter 17 or volume 9 as while picking up more Japanese vocabulary. Volume 9 is pretty much where the late 90s adaptation stopped.

The anime lied to me about Lum Chang's debut appearance, but that's a minor problem I have with said adaptation.

With that said, only three more volumes to go before reading the sequel QD. Came out 10 years ago and nobody told me.

As for Japanese, I'll definitely use it to import anime, manga or Japanese media directly from Japan. Everyone knows that Crummyroll could never support the anime industry on behalf of customers. They copied fansubs and stole money from studios. Their parent company Sony doesn't even care about Japanese media.

On the bright side, I thank Instant Japanese for helping me learn the language on behalf of a real sensei or Boyé Lafayette de Mente. Yes, he passed away, but that book will carry on his teaching spirit.

Happy Halloween!

You came back sooner than expected, but yes, I'm still trying to improve my penmanship for both kanji and hiragana. Learning how to write either set of characters beautifully as arduously as possible. At least writing kanji on flash cards is easier than on notebook.

Once I learn enough jōyō kanji, then I'll re-read Silent Möbius which I could only find in Japanese. I also want to master Japanese for Sakura Wars 1-4.

The other day, someone mentioned that Pluto having an adaptation in the near future. Then I found out that it's to be adapted by Netflix and so I decided to read that source material instead after having read Suikoden III (I don't trust Hollywood, nor do I trust big tech and I won't pay for streaming anymore).

Speaking of Suikoden, it's the most underrated game franchise ever. Like Chinese folklore that the franchise was loosely based on, it tells stories about war. Implying that those with power seek to abuse it.

With that said milady, I've been studying Japanese arduously all summer long. Mr. Boyé de Mente's Instant Japanese book is very convincing. Even after all these years.

Now I'm practicing jōyō kanji. Trying to memorize around 1,006 Chinese characters after learning kanas and everyday Japanese grammar.

Yes and I'm thinking of drawing one of those very colorful pages from Mobile Suit Gundam: The Origin.

My main girl told me that she loved Yoshikazu Yasuhiko's character designs. In both that 2001 manga and Venus Wars.

Ah yes!! Venus Wars, a sci-fi world where Earth's evil twin sister is terraformed, but living in Trappist 1E would make more sense where it won't ever get consumed by a red giant. Superearths may be habitatable, but are bad for birds because of strong Jupiter-like gravity and people would have to be in constant tip-top shape to endure that powerful gravitational pull.

I'm also thinking of reading Banana Fish and I heard that the anime's setting is weird. Banana Fish is supposed to take place in the 80s where flip phones and smartphones didn't exist.

As for FF7R, I'm glad that Maaya Sakamoto and her husband are still into acting together. No way would I want Maaya Sakamoto's old roles to be taken over by someone else.

I'm still waiting for the new Space Battleship Yamato movie following that Xebec remake that I heard about from ANN. Might as well watch the old ones for now.