Time to Study Japanese!!

In case you don't realize this by the end of this blog post: I am a huge otaku.



Okay, now that that's out of the way, I have one goal after this class: to gain the Japanese skill necessary to understand the first 45 seconds of the Tatami Galaxy.







Ok, probably not. But, it would not be a lie to say that the initial reason I became interested in studying Japanese was to be able to understand Anime, Manga, and J-pop with no translation.



I first became aware of Anime through Cartoon Network's broadcast of Dragon Ball and Naruto while I was in middle school. Upset at the weekly schedule, I searched for more online and found out that, in Japan, Naruto was over one hundred episodes ahead of the American dub.



Since then, I have broadened my horizons. I started reading manga, learning about Japanese culture (Thanks to professor Bowen-Struyk's Cool Japan class - which I would highly recommend), and listening to J-pop (currently digging ORESKABAND). Being able to understand Japanese would greatly increase my immersion in almost every form of Japanese media.



So, that's pretty much it for this post. Feel free to talk to me if you want to discuss anything about Anime or Japan in general.



Here is a link to my MyAnimeList page so you can see the list of Anime I have watched over the past ~6 years: http://myanimelist.net/profile/MFTerminator