Sagira

THANK YOU guys! I have it now! It's on gendou.com right now if you want it. You have to sign up to download their stuff but membership is free. My name on there is MAB.

-Sagira

See, here's the other problem. Aqua Timez also released a theme for the Bleach movie, which is causing a mix up between the OP6 title and that. I hope this is resolved once the full length opening is released. Not even Wikipedia had an article on the band Aqua Timez.

The movie theme is called Sen no Yoru O Koete, or "Overcome the Thousands of Nights" in English. I am of course looking for OP6 Alones. Thank you for the feedback!

1) Great food 2) People are more attractive (although I HAVE seen ugly Chinese people no offense) 3) Stricter morals 4) Less crime? (could be wrong on this) 5) Better, harder schools 6) Huge amount of technology 7) There's water everywhere! Go to the beach or head to an onsen, if you BLINK you'll see water. 8) Asian women are generally discouraged from being slut-ish UNLESS they work specifically for the sex industry, and then they're merely doing their JOB. I never heard a case of an Asian highschool girl over here or over in Japan becoming pregnant at 16. 9) Meditation. VERY GOOD IDEA. VERRRRRRY good idea. Especially if you want complete uninhibited control over your emotions and your mind. 10) I of course find their media entertaining, not just anime but also the rest of their television programs and music. 11) I find kancho hysterical.

And last but not least, the reason you should move to Japan:

BATTLE ROYALE.

Anime endings that REALLY bother me are the ones that really "don't" end because some Japanese producer decided to chop up the original storyline derived from the manga and abruptly end it. Example:

Ending to Fruitsbasket Ending to Berserk

(I don't know if a movie counts)

You want sad, watch GRAVE OF THE FIREFLIES. My brother and I were bawling like small children.

While watching anime, you have to have some kind of a grip on the Japanese social culture. While America boasts equality between the sexes, Japan generally does not. The idealistic Japanese woman is a simple receptacle, docile and submissive.

This is the reason behind why every Asian person with the same last name is related by blood or bonds of marriage; there is no 'coincidence'. Marriages were arranged for the woman by her relatives. A woman in an ancient Japanese family first obeyed her father, then after he died, her eldest brother. Upon marriage and leaving her birth family home, she was to obey her husband, then after he died, her firstborn son. To note here, a good Japanese wife provides her husband with a male baby.

Concerning other parts of Asia, such as China: this is the reason you can STILL find ancestors of Ghenghis Khan.

This kind of conservative and male dominant/women subordination bleeds into the anime and manga they produce. Leading female characters oftentimes have large breasts and long hair. There are often decidedly 'ditzy' or one-dimensional female characters. Generally, they are beautiful, funny or talented.

I'd like to note here that although she appeared it at first, Melphina from Outlaw Star was not one-dimensional or stupid at all. Her character developed as she learned of human emotions and purpose, growing from a hapless tool involved in circumstance to a person anyone could recall as their best friend.

When I was about four, I saw the Japanese anime rendition of The Little Mermaid. This rendition followed a slightly different yet parallel storyline to the original children's story. It also ended fairly unhappily, with the mermaid princess choosing to commit suicide rather than harm her prince to break the mute spell cast upon her by a much more frightening and intimidating sea witch than Ursula. It also came with an illustrated story book which I read several times; I've no idea where it is now. As I remember, my mother was rather upset about her impressionable child watching such an unhappy cartoon show.

After that, of course, it went in this order: Speed Racer, Sailor Moon, Dragonball Z

With the type of animes I've watched and manga I've read, the endings I've seen are rather mixed. There's never truly a happy ending and most anime-makers won't let their series end completely sad.

The series itself is groundbreaking. This is the first series I've been into in a very long time which is watertight for any plotholes. The ending of the manga left me exhausted and wide-eyed. It's been interesting watching the franchise explode while I was into it before it reached popularity, as if it blossomed overnight. I predicted (and hoped for) the ending it presented to me. My problem with the manga were a few loose strings:

1) What happens to Light's family? 2) What about Misa?

I supposed after it's purpose was served, DeathNote need not say much more -

"THIS DEATHNOTE IS AT END."

I wonder what the author of this manga is tackling next; I anticipate it greatly.

I'd say 30-40 episodes to be to the point but also allow a person to breathe. I'm sure everybody's getting tired of sitting through fillers. I'm looking at you Naruto.

Best thing to do is not bother with American-dubbed ****anime. Try the REAL Trinity Blood (which I saw all of) in Japanese. Hmm.

There are lots of things that annoy me but for simplicity I'll list my number one pet peeves.

-People who refuse to control their children, then blame someone else when the kid becomes a fuckup and does something like A) bring a gun to school B) hurt another child C) do drugs, etc. -People who blame videogames for all violence in children (see above) -People who blame TV for all violence in children (see above) -Screaming children in restaurants -People driving around on their cellphone (people HAVE been killed because the person on the cellphone was not *******paying attention), as if because you're on the cellphone you have the right to drive like an idiot. -People who hate something and refuse to let you tell them why they really SHOULDN'T hate it, such as Anime. -People who go through other people's belongings or even steal something that is NOT theirs. This is my absolute number one peeve. Sifting through and/or taking something that doesn't belong to you makes me absolutely livid. -People talking or on a cellphone in a movie theatre

-Sagira

The kind of attention I got in the early years was very negative. The other children were afraid of me (I'll let you decide why). My family was fantastic at ignoring me or "talking over" me. Interestingly, now that I've moved out my mom calls me at least 5 times a day with "I miss you" syndrome, wanting to talk to me and give me attention.

Normally when I do want attention, I don't recieve it or even expect to. I've evolved myself into a 'lone wolf' for this reason - unless I need something, I have no use for casual social custom. Sometimes it gets lonely and I do want 'attention' - but that would be romantic attention. I haven't had a boyfriend in six years, so romantic attention was also something I never recieved unless of course it was intended to be some kind of a joke, never serious.

I was always ignored, so now I've learned to do most things on my own. But it does get very lonely.

-Sagira

I don't agree with what you said about Ren and Stimpy because I grew up watching it. The 90s are NOT THE 2000s, and you can see the difference, because now you have to be politically correct with almost every aspect of life. I grew up watching great American cartoons, and that was one of them. Moving aside from that, children around the world can learn value from watching ANY Anime. Some of them have MULTIPLE value.

Slayers - "BELIEVE IN YOURSELF" "FRIENDSHIP" "NEVER, EVER GIVE UP" Tonari no Totoro - "THE JOY OF BEING A CHILD" "LOVE AND FAMILY" "IMAGINATION IS GREATER THAN KNOWLEDGE" Grave of the Fireflies - "APATHY IS A SIN AGAINST GOD" "NEVER FORGET WORLD WAR II" "DON'T FORGET THE CHILDREN" Sailor Moon - "NEVER, EVER GIVE UP" "THE POWER OF THE TEAM" Ayashi no Ceres - "THE POWER OF LOVE" "NEVER, EVER GIVE UP" "DEATH, DYING AND HUMAN GRIEF" Fullmetal Alchemist - "BROTHERHOOD" "NEVER GIVE UP ON YOUR DREAM" "DETERMINATION" "TEAMWORK" (there are THOUSANDS of values for FMA, I'm only listing a few) Vampire Hunter D: BLOODLUST - "LOVE CONQUERS ALL" Wolf's Rain - "LOYALTY" "THE DOWNFALL OF MANKIND"

Of course I can't list them all here, but did you notice the repetition of common values within each one? Maybe the fact that those messages are pounded into the heads of Asians causes them to work harder to achieve their highest potential! Did you think?!

Statisitical fact - There's so few Asians that commit suicide the statistical percentage can't even stand on it's OWN Every Asian student is a B student or higher All Asian students make an ATTEMPT to enroll in college, they are not known to drop out of highschool (with the exception of illness). Tokyo University is one of the most difficult schools ever to get into just because their grading standards for the Highschool College Exams is so terribly high. There are people from Okinawa who claim to be 112-126 years old - they've lived extremely long lives in great health in part because they're HAPPY. Life is too short to feel depressed and think you can't make it in this world. Pessimists do NOT live very long - and they experience health issues. Worriers do NOT live very long - and they also experience health issues. Negative people generally make less friends because nobody wants to hear their emo horseshit.

My conclusion for this topic is maybe if we forced all emo kids to watch some anime, THE EMOS WOULD BE GONE! Ding ding ding!!

-Sagira

Also been hearing rumors, but I won't keep my hopes up to have them crash.

I was told that the fillers would end October 2006 - and that was a year ago.

However, Bleach is crowding for more fans now that Naruto has lost its spark - and I find the Bleach fillers absolutely hysterical.

T-shirts that I own (and wear with absolutely no discretion for other people's stares and remarks)

"INVADE CANADA!" "DO NOT START WITH ME, YOU WILL NOT WIN" "THE FLYING HAMSTER OF DOOM RAINS COCONUTS ON YOUR PITIFUL CITY" "YOUR POWERS ARE USELESS, THE CLOWNS ARE ON MY SIDE" "LALALA, I CAN'T HEAR YOU, LALALA" "I SEE DUMB PEOPLE" 3 Princess Ai T-shirts, usually when I wear them nobody has any idea what it is 1 Kakashi hoody, read above 1 Nightmare Before Christmas hoody with neon pink Jack skulls all over it (wearing this results in many stares) "Bush's America - Takin it in the Gas" and the t-shirt sports a little man with a gas nozzle shoved up his butt 1 Inuyasha t-shirt "DAMN IT TO THE BOWELS OF BLOODY HELL!!" and the t-shirt sports Stewie from Family Guy "NINJA MONKIES ARE MEETING AS WE SPEAK PLOTTING MY DEMISE" 2 Harry Potter t-shirts (with zero regard for Potter bashers)

T-shirts I've seen other people wear

"I SCARE MY OWN FAMILY" "I'M NOT WEARING A MASK, YOU BASTARD!" (2 days before Halloween) "TELL YOUR MOM TO STOP TEXTING ME" "I BLOGGED YOUR MOM" "YOUR MOM UPSIDE DOWN IS WOW"

One Piece, FruitsBasket, Trinity Blood, GetBackers (very fun anime), Wolf's Rain, Cowboy Bebop and many more.

Yes I have and I can't say I enjoy being mocked. Dad still gripes about WWII and those events were done transpiring over 60 years ago and several years before Dad himself was ever born. The point is that the older generation won't stop bitching about it until every last one of them is dead. I don't ever, EVER mention that I like Anime unless someone else brings up the conversation. If the conversation turns out to be them voicing their negative, prejudiced opinion on Anime, I often don't bother to respond or feel that the conversation is worth continuing.

I would prefer to be at school simply because I've come to hate the house I live in now (until I move in August). I have no real life friends (they're all on the internet and they all live in different states) so the idea of going to school for friends does not concern me. I prefer to be at school because I feel as if I can finally accomplish something without being overridden, snapped at or ignored by adults who believe they know more than I do.

At home I never get a break, the house is always filthy, I'm expected to clean it, everyone shouts and bickers, I'm generally ignored or snubbed. The free time I have is spent doing homework or being alone because that's the only time I can acquire a small measure of peace - when I appear too busy to be cleaning the damnable 3-story house. At home, wild demands are made of me and when I can't measure up to them I'm thrown to the wolves. This never happens to my younger brother, who sleeps all day, believes he's God, and does no chores. My mother is a ratpack and cannot clean up after herself so she arrogantly put me in charge of cleaning her mess. Last time I checked I wasn't in charge of cleaning up my brother's rathole of a room, so why can't she at least clean hers? The arguments she puts up with me generally are repetitive, make very little sense and end in my brother never having any responsibility no matter how much I request that he should have some, the man is turning *******19 this fall.

-Sagira

In order to understand the difference between Anime and Walt Disney Pictures, you have to understand the difference in the American and Japanese mentality. I will start by describing the general idea behind Walt Disney Pictures and what their goal is, then I will move onto Kingdom Hearts I and II to generally describe how they have attempted to unify each culture.

Walt Disney will always be an American staple. Although ever since theatres opened The Lion King, the industry's popularity and idea-base has waned considerably (too many terrible sequels to classic movies, poor animation quality, the sentimentality factor that suddenly reared its ugly head from where it almost never existed until the 1980s). Their goal is to entertain _ American _ children, whose idea of a great time are lheavily influenced by things like Sesame Street, Teletubbies and soft things of that nature. American children are generally treated very differently from Japanese children - American parents judge their children on how well they behave and the quality of their individual personality. Japanese parents judge their children on how smart they are, what they can produce and how high their GPA is. Exposing a child to violence in a movie is considered horrendous and somehow behavior-influencing in this country. Disney's overall goal therefore is to provide cute, cuddly, nauseatingly happy and childish entertainment to make sure children somehow "don't get the wrong idea and then go copying it, we want you to copy your favorite Disney character if you must copy something! It'll make you a responsible adult!!"

Japanese Anime was never intended for an American child to watch. The Japanese live in an extremely conservative society in which their inner suppressed animal only drains out within an ink and paper world. The Japanese are exposed to much harder pornography (cartoon and live-action) and much, much harder-cored violence and themes on television and music. But in a survey conducted within a 10 year period spanning from the late 80s to the early 90s, it was discovered there were only around 800 murders ever committed during that time, and the Japanese islands contain at least 3 million people! Why is this? Because the Japanese are conservative, decent and they all work extremely hard. Also, their prison systems are two steps away from walking into a pit located in Hell. As an example, in the 90s Dragonball Z was on during the daytime so that Japanese children could return from school and watch it. If it's true that Japanese children rendered no behavior problems from watching it (and it probably is), then violent TV is NOT the answer to an American child's behavior problem either, something else is!

With the Kingdom Hearts games they attempted to bridge the gap between two very different societies, but Disney still demanded "cartoonishness" and "play-violence, no blood". The Japanese don't really have a habit of making demands on anything, so it was Disney really doing the talking. Kingdom Hearts was very lucky it didn't fail to just entertaining a small children-situated game audience.

-Sagira

The only 80s artists that have survived the music industry's sudden hairpin turn are the ones that have adapted to the times. Madonna and many others were the ones who did realize that in order to continue one's career as an artist, one must adapt to changing tastes. Most music of today next to the adapted 80s age pales in comparison - no one wants to listen to hardcore rap music, see Britney Spears in concert or listen to Jessica Simpson and her sister's horrible tonedeaf singing. People flock to see U2, Queen and Madonna.

In light of this the industry does realize that the 80s was the best time for music, and that it could never be completely repeated. What they've done is pulled up all these great artists with wonderful (sometimes one-shot) hits, gathered their bands back together (if not deceased) and had them play their hits to ecstatic audiences. Hard to believe, but people like Cyndi Lauper (53 years old this month), Madonna (also close to 50), Haddaway (quite old, don't know his age and I know he's from the 90s), Flock of Seagulls, Rod Stewart, Sir John bonJovi, The Cure, Paula Abdul, etc. have retained their talent from a time of more than 20 years ago, and they can still please the crowds.

There has also been an effort to mimic such things as classic 80s lovesongs and also, new bands are getting together trying to mimic the 80s big-hair bands.

DDR music inspires me to energetically finish any distasteful chores I'm stuck doing! LOL If I were looking for inspirational music, I'd listen to the lyrics of any English song very carefully, and gather the meaning behind what the artist may have been thinking when he or she wrote the song. Most people don't like Good Charlotte anymore, but they wrote one song called "Hold On". The music video had me in tears.

When I was a child, I'd become inspired by listening to Whitney Houston or Mariah Carey because they both sing from the bottom of their souls and with all their hearts. Times weren't where all the music stations we get are full of angry rap music no one wants to listen to. So different from today...

I also enjoy 80's retro very much, it doesn't have to be from a particular band. I listen to music even older than that, such as spirituals I'm certain my ancestors could have been seen singing.

"Amazing Grace" "May the Circle be Unbroken" and other Christian hymns such as this

I also listen to 1920s music, when times were truly the happiest in the world.

I loved the anime although they cut out lots of the original storyline and removed several key characters (Rin, Ren and Kureno). For some reason or other I've become a raving Kagura/Kyo fan, I think their relationship is hysterical.

-Tohru cannot uphold a relationship with Kyo because he is cursed. A romantic affair cannot survive without a moderate amount of physical affection and love. -Kisu is FAR too young. Besides that, she calls Kyo and the rest of the older adults "Big Brother/Sister". She has also attached herself to Hiro, who protects her. -Rin is in love with Hatsuharu. Her personality wouldn't really mix well with Kyo's since she's the dark, quiet and emotional type. -Akito having an affair with Kyo....................

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHA. No.

Also within the series Kagura's curse was never released, which leaves her several men to choose from. Shigure is too old and is in love with Akito, he also has a happy and inappropriate obsession with young highschool girls just like Kagura. -Ayame is too old and flamboyantly gay is probably not Kagura's type. -Hatori is also at least 10 years her senior, perhaps her type but he's also very hardened and embittered, it would be difficult to open him up, plus I hear he's dating the friend of the woman he wanted to marry. -Hiro is FAR too young. Beyond that his personality is grating and obnoxious. He also appears to like Kisu although kids can't really date ;D. -Yuki is closer in age and personality balance, but he appears to lean toward friendship with Kagura. He also appears very attached to Tohru, although his love for her may not be romantic. -Hatsuharu is closer to her age but suffers from dual-personality schitzophrenia developed in early childhood (that is, unless he ENJOYS his personality disorder). This can hamper any relationship, not just one with Kagura. If he doesn't seek help or learn to control his psychotically violent episodes, he runs the risk of hurting Kagura. Although they are not in a relationship anymore, Hatsuharu still watches Rin while she doesn't notice he's there. It's very obvious he loves her and wants to be with her. -Kureno is extremely naive and sheltered, he needs to become more worldly before trying out a romantic relationship with anyone. (His first trip to a convenience store was at age 26 due to Akito's needy smothering). He's also dating Uotani, who's helping to show him around the world. -Ritsu also has problems with his identity as a man, he needs to deal with his personal insecurity issues first before trying any romantic relationship. His personality is meek, feeble, and he has very low self-esteem. He feels he is at fault for everything. Kagura's more confident views against Ritsu's timidity may drive her up the wall after a few months. He also appears to be dating Shigure's editor. Note: His English dubbed voiceover sounds exactly like Mr. Bill. No, seriously. -Momiji I'm not quite sure about. They could perhaps begin dating, although if Momiji wanted to date any woman he'd have to stop wearing a dress. He's very sweet but also behaves like a child; he may have to mature a bit before entering the dating world. Momiji looks like he's very happy being single. Although he's closer in age to Kagura, he doesn't really appear interested in girls (except Tohru, and it looks like he wants to be her friend).

It really leaves Kagura and Kyo all alone unless they have each other. They both have the exact same personality type (loud, violent, although why Kyo doesn't see this is hilarious). Kagura could help herself get over the violent clingyness she has to Kyo so she can give him a chance to open up to her. Kyo could give Kagura a chance if he wasn't frightened of being "loved" to death - Kagura is beautiful and has a bubbly, fun personality.

(I'm the Year of the Tiger, mrawrr!)

Manga on my coastline is very expensive. Although some of the prices have been lowered to 7.95$, some manga is 9.99$. I have a lot of original first edition manga that was priced at 15.99$ (closer to 20$ in Canada). I don't really like buying it anymore (the prices are discouraging, you can get 2 or 3 novels for the price they ask in Borders and Waldenbooks).