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Saved by Charles-A. Rovira
on March 6, 2010 at 1:55:23 pm
 

コニチワ (konichiwa in katakana) or  こにちわ (konichiwa in hiragana)

 

This contains my exploration of Japan (日本 [Nihon]) and of the Japanese people (日本の人々 [Nihonjin]) and language (日本語言語 [Nihongo])

 

I have been watching w-a-y to much animé [ あにめ ] and reading too much manga [ まんが ] :-)

 

See all of the manga I read and animé I follow.

 

I am currently trying to learn Japanese.

 

Of course, I bought:

  • Kana (hiragana and katakana) syllabary flashcards and
  • Kanji flashcards 1 & 2 from White Rabit Press™,
  • the Random House™ Japanese-English, English-Japanese Dictionary,
  • Japanese for Dummies©,
  • Japanese Phrases for Dummies©; because English is not my mother tongue I knew the importance of knowing how to curse like a native if you want to make your life much, much easier,
  • D!rty Japanese©; for further research
  • Japanese Step by Step©, and a whole mess of
  • Japanese in Mangaland© 1, 2, & 3,
  • Kanji in Mangaland© 1 & 2, and
  • Japanese for Busy People©.

 

Of course I know I am not Japanese, could never be Japanese, don't think like a Japanese person with the web of interrelationships and obligation [ giri  ぎり ] that being Japanese implies.

 

The Japanese are not perfect. Far from it. But that doesn't mean that the Japanese have nothing to teach me.

 

In that respect, I, uh, respect them.

 

Why?

 

Good question with an even better answer.

 

I come from a French background where the illustrated novel and animation are respected as viable alternatives to writing, radio, film and television production. The French term for an illustrated novel is La BD, short for bande dessinée. It is a valid and recognized form of entertainment.

 

English, and more specifically American, has never respected the illustrated novel and movie. Because of certain accidents of history, the first comic Mutt and Jeff was a strip drawn to carry, camouflaged in the text, race track results for some of the more notorious race tracks around the United States. As such the comic, from its very name on out, was always frowned upon from the very beginning.

 

The kerfluffle over MAD Magazine and the rise of the comics code further reduced the chances for the graphic novel to take hold in the English speaking world.

 


 

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