Anime Discussion Thread - Page 333

On June 29 2010 07:05 red_b wrote:
Kyo-ani plus key = amazing
Kyo-ani plus anyone else = garbage
Kyo-ani plus themselves = slightly better garbage (the only original IP they have is munto which isnt good but it's not quite lucky star)

On June 29 2010 07:05 red_b wrote:
Kyo-ani plus key = amazing
Kyo-ani plus anyone else = garbage
Kyo-ani plus themselves = slightly better garbage (the only original IP they have is munto which isnt good but it's not quite lucky star)

On June 29 2010 07:55 Ecael wrote:
I didn't bother watching since I'll be getting my bluray at some point, but I can probably answer the question provided I understood what you meant. + Show Spoiler +

On June 28 2010 12:58 Ecael wrote:
Honestly, I don't know, it is nice to be able to laugh at kanji and just move along, but not really. The Chinese definitions and pronunciation is usually completely different from the Japanese. In the end, to figure out what a word means, I found myself using dictionary or context much more than I did my ability to read kanji. The ability to look at characters and just know roughly what it might mean is nice, so is the fact that there is no effort spent on recognizing kanji, but I don't know if it is such a decisive factor.

In my experience, my Korean-speaking classmates often did the best and looked like they put in the least effort, followed by Chinese-speaking ones, followed by those with no other language backgrounds, with the gaps being pretty small. We did notice some distinctions on the tests, where the Koreans would own up grammar and most vocabs and all of the Chinese speakers but me do great on kanji writing (that reads sad tale of someone who hated writing Chinese and so moved to US), but if we look at kanji reading and definition there is very little difference. With Hangul's use of Chinese characters being pretty rare, I don't really think that Chinese was that big of a dealbreaker. Though I did enjoy a significant edge when it comes to seeing kanjis for the first time in class, but that was purely due to reading more material than others.

On June 29 2010 07:05 red_b wrote:
Kyo-ani plus key = amazing
Kyo-ani plus anyone else = garbage
Kyo-ani plus themselves = slightly better garbage (the only original IP they have is munto which isnt good but it's not quite lucky star)

On June 29 2010 13:17 PH wrote:

Going from an Asian language to another Asian language is going to be easier than going from English to an east Asian language. I know of a study (didn't really read it, though) done that apparently pointed to the learning of English by a native Korean speaker to be one of the more difficult second languages to learn. I imagine it's similar the other way around, and I imagine it's also similar for Chinese and Japanese speakers as well. I don't know for sure, but this is just my guess.

I can definitely understand that your Korean-speaking classmates did the best...the languages are so damn similar it surprises me all the time lol.


It's already been said, but FMP, Haruhi (sans Endless Eight) and Lucky Star was pretty good too... :O!

On June 29 2010 13:49 Ecael wrote:
Every day I don't get bungaku shoujo OVA 1 I shed a lake's worth of tears, some uploader please pity me.

On June 29 2010 14:52 Yukidasu wrote:


I'm looking forward to that too, particularly the movie.

On June 29 2010 13:49 Ecael wrote:

I've heard people say that, though it never quite made sense to me given how both Korean and Japanese have a writing system that's more or less alphabet based and construct their words more similar to the Western languages. There is the issue of grammar though, which does pretty much work the opposite way across East and West, so maybe that alone is enough to make it easier for us.

Well, umm...have faith folks, some of the most fluent speakers of Chinese and Japanese that I know are white, tis effort I tell you!

Every day I don't get bungaku shoujo OVA 1 I shed a lake's worth of tears, some uploader please pity me.

On June 30 2010 00:19 Spazer wrote:
I can't see Angel Beats getting a second season. Like you said, the plot is all wrapped up, and unless something stupid like "they all died again" comes into play, how are they even supposed to get together? Even some sort of Angel Beats After would be difficult to do considering the ending. I'd rather see Key work on some other production, personally. I mean, there's still one unanimated VN...

New chart just got uploaded:
+ Show Spoiler +

On June 30 2010 04:58 fevax wrote:
Hi everybody, I have been recently reading this topic and decided to try "haibane renmei" because of some of the comments here. I watched it and liked it, not the way I usually like anime's but it had a different feel to it. Anyways I decided to ask you for more reccomendations since I'm having a really hard time finding animes worth to watch. I made a list here which took like 1 hour for me to do, there may be few I forgot to add but most of the anime's I watched are here:
http://myanimelist.net/animelist/fevax&show=0&order=4
I'm open to any reccomendations you have, thanks!

On June 30 2010 05:01 SwEEt[TearS] wrote:

School Days