Monthly Archives: December, 2009
Nyan Koi
Plot
Junpei Kōsaka is a second-year high school student who despises cats and has an allergy to them. It just so happens that his high school crush is Kaede Mizuno, a girl who adores cats. One day, while walking home from school, Junpei kicks an empty can and unfortunately breaks the local neko-jizō-sama (guardian deity of [...]
The Technology Matsuri
Here are the entries for this December Blog Matsuri. This was a lot of fun and I learned a lot. I definitely think you should check each of them out.
Joshua Zimmerman
Entry: Robot School Girl Horror
Description: This one creeped me out and got me excited, not that way, at the same time. I love robots and [...]
Project A-ko
I have recently been splitting my anime watching time up between classic anime and new anime. Generally doing a horrible job of keeping up with both I am trying to watch so much at one time. However, I finally got a chance to watch Project A-ko movie.
Plot
Sixteen years have passed since a mysterious alien ship [...]
Rangaku Learning About the West
Rangaku is the term used for “Dutch Learning” and started the Japaneses curiosity about the west from finding an anatomy book. From there it moved to all sorts of subjects some examples are: Political Science, Astronomy, Medicine, Physical Science and Cooking, and many more.
The Dutch were the first westerners to find Japan and they had [...]
Why my JLPT Fail was Still a Win
Yesterday was JLPT day and I did fail it. Whether it is graded that way or not I am not sure. However, I failed it in my opinion. That being said I would not trade the experience for anything in the world. I am going to include some picture of the trip too so not [...]
The JLPT CAN be Used to Measure Proficiency
It is JLPT season and emotions are running high as people cram at the last minute and trolls come out in droves to tell JLPT takers how pointless it is. I have seen no less than 15 tweets on how pointless the JLPT is to measure Japanese ability.
As noted in the comments of “What is [...]
Technology December 2009 Blog Matsuri
It is that time again for the Blog Masturi. The last one was hosted by Sleepy Tako over Hamburgers in Japan.
For more detailed information on the blog Matsuri visit the Matsuri FAQ on the JapanSoc website.
Theme
Technology!!!
Rules/Guidelines
There are a couple of rules to follow:
No Cellphones (lets face it you could to a Matsuri on this alone)
No [...]
