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You're welcome and I almost thought that you were a single mom like my shoujo loving friend from Washington state. She told me that her daughter is six years old. That single mom also has the same birthday as my awesome Ontarian girlfriend.

I don't plan on being Amish, but I do plan on being a homesteader one day. As soon as I get my steam generator (similar principle as a bicycle generator I often hear about; I don't think steam locomotives needed that much maintenance), lithium ion batteries, inverter and AC panel. One thing Holly and I still have in common is that we appreciate older technology that we often heard about in history class.

Yes, Black Friday may not be your thing, but I'm happy that I got a Maped Visio pack for my left hand. As you can see, I have great appreciation for analog technology.

Other than that, I got hundreds more jōyō kanji left to cover which is sixth grade vocabulary stuff in China. Those Chinese kids are in luck, being able to know all 1,945/3,000 of those characters throughout all those years in Mandarin class.

Only Yamato and Asuka period Japanese kids know how exhausting it was to memorize 60,000 Chinese characters.

I didn't know that you were a mother as of late and congratulations!

I think that said early Aquarius girl from Ohio or my first girlfriend is a mother by now. That Holly went from being a jolly, hospitable tomboy to an Amish. Pretty much a mom at this point and raising a kid in Amish land makes perfect sense.

She would be an average American woman possibly going through a tough life if she hadn't turned Amish. Being a grown up can be tough. I do kind of miss the tomboyish Holly I used to spend time with. We used to respect each other equally when we were very young until it was time to say goodbye.

Sounds like your child may have a similar birthday to my Italian friend that I haven't seen in ages. We used to talk about anime we both liked until stuff happened in her home Italy. I remember Kare Kano and Ghost in the Shell being some of her favorite manga. She would have loved Dominion Tank Police because her beloved Masamune Shirow wrote that manga.

She would be 34 tomorrow, but other than that, I hope that you had an amazing Black Friday.

So how are you doing this November?

Aside from reading Silent Möbius QD, I also intend to play Wild Arms 2 in its original language because Sony didn't translate it right.

Wild Arms 4 sucks by the way. Instead of being true to the western genre like Trigun, Outlaw Star, Twilight Venom and Cowboy Bebop, it ended up being another pseudo sci-fi RPG.

I know nothing about Wild Arms 2 yet, but I know that its true to the western genre and so did part 3.

Happy Halloween!

As you can see, sakana means fish in Japanese.

After years of watching Samurai Jack, it took me ages to figure out that aku means evil. Akumabarai, on the other hand, means exorcism.

By the way, what do you love most about Cardcaptor Sakura? I haven't seen it in years, but the story kind of reminds me of Jackie Chan Adventures. Both of them were practically next door schedule-wise on a Saturday morning cartoon block.

OK, this has little to do with anime or manga, but you can definitely download Instant Japanese or said awesome proxy teacher from epdf.mx.

I love the fact that Houko Kuwashima did the voice of Isara Gunther. Said semitomboy (or Jasmine) knows that Isara, Irene and Rosie have the same voices as some Gundam SEED characters she knows. Pokémon fans see Megumi Toyoguchi as Dawn, but I usually see her as Paine or Revy.

I just remembered that Atsuko Tanaka did the voice of that lady captain Eleanor Varrot. Yes, Atsuko-sama (old enough to be my mom) or Motoko Kusanagi. I used to watch Ghost in the Shell every other night.

Every other night besides Evangelion reruns, S-Cry-Ed, Fullmetal Alchemist (2003), Samurai Champloo, Paranoia Agent and Inuyasha.

Yes, everyone knows Houko-chan as Sango.

As for Silent Möbius, I've been reading it all over again, but this time, I'll be able to understand the story better. It's basically about futuristic exorcists or a special police unit made up of women fighting demons from another universe called lucifer hawks. Yuki Saiko is my favorite character by the way.

With that said, what do you like most about Houko Kuwashima? I agree with some Canadian lady saying that her voice is like super kawaii or very cute.

Hi, Thanks for Accepting my FR!
Nice to meet you. (･ω･)

I forgot that its manga was the adaptation, but I might watch it some time.

Some reasons why I'm learning Japanese is because I want to re-read the rare Silent Möbius (sequels that never got adapted included) which is mostly Japanese only with messy overall furigana. Also because I'm studying for a PhD and knowing as much kanji as Japanese schoolkids is the least amount required to earning it plus hiragana is much easier to read.

Mr. Boyé's (I think he was an old French guy; old enough to be my granddad) Instant Japanese book said that modern Japan uses as much as 1,945 Chinese characters. 60,000 is what Yamato-Asuka period Japan used. 20x more Chinese characters than what modern China uses so far. His book exclusively covers kanas and everyday Japanese grammar by the way, but it's great overall proxy teaching.

Looking at your birthday reminds me of Kia Asamiya's (Silent Möbius' author) being practically next door to yours. A jolly girl from Ohio I once knew is having a birthday very close to yours next January. Usually around Chinese New Year.

Where's there's fireworks, there's loud celebration.

By the way, a friend of mine Melissa's age (Supergirl, that is) loves Rose of Versailles and she's kind of excited about the future Gundam SEED movie that some half-Asian tomboy told me about. Probably thinking of watching that new Pluto adaptation also.

With that said, I need to master enough kanji for Silent Möbius so that I'll be able to understand the story better. Definitely the hardest manga to get into besides Lindbergh (should have taken German, but I wasn't qualified to be honors student material like said Rose of Versailles fan or Jasmine).

Hello miss! So what do you love most about Darker Than Black?

This big tomboy that I know is a huge fan of that manga series.

By the way, I've been studying Japanese arduously all summer long and have started learning jōyō kanji. Gotta memorize at least 1,006 Chinese characters.

Thanks for accepting!
Nice to meet you Sakana-san :)