I wonder how long 「ドラえもんの歌」 will be stuck in my head

[xanithofdragons]

Just now, I watched the first episode of Sengoku Basara Two. Less than a minute in, I was totally engrossed. They pretty much put everything wonderful about Sengoku Basara into this episode. The music was spot on and enhanced the overall experience, the animation was beautiful, and the manliness was set to the max. I could tell that they were pulling out all the stops. (And for good reasons.) The only thing that disappointed me was that it seemed to me slightly less ho-yay filled than the previous season. Who knows, maybe they're trying to be more subtle this season. (HA, like subtle is in Sengoku Basara's vocabulary.) I know that part of why it was so awesome is because it was the first episode, but I still really hope they can keep this great momentum going throughout the season.

NOOOOOOO, NOT KOJUURO! T_T What would Masamune do without him?

Over the weekend, I watched the first episode of Shiki, and it seems to be going well so far. Considering the source material, the developers would have to seriously mess up for me to dislike it. I'll see as the story gets a chance to move on to the characters who aren't annoying. Although she might have actually been more annoying in the manga, I don't remember well.

My mom let me know that the Arashi Anniversary 5x10 Tour DVDs arrived today. <3 Lol, it's kinda weird, I asked her to email me, but she posted on my wall on FB instead. Whatever, she let me know. And in slightly less than 4 weeks, I will actually be able to watch them.

Speaking of which, I am over halfway done with this language program I'm doing. Still a long way to go, and we're starting to learn keigo. Learning verb forms isn't really a scary thing for me, but I'm mostly afraid of messing up when to use what form. T_T I may never understand how textbook writers decide what order to teach things in. If keigo's so important, why is it that it takes so long for us to get to learning it? And I'm still upset about not knowing Japanese grammatical terms. I don't even know how to speak properly about what I'm learning!

Comments

[whydeevee.livejournal.com]

Because Keigo is hard. :(

It's important but they want you to at least know about basic things before you learn it so you don't butcher it horribly and make a fool out of yourself. lol

So what else have you learned? :O /interest

[xanithofdragons.livejournal.com]

Well, I guess I don't really know how hard it'll actually be. We're learning some honorific verbs/verb forms this chapter and then some modest and humble verb forms next chapter. It's just that I feel like I already knew enough of the basics for most of what we're learning this chapter by the end of first year. Although I can understand wanting to teach about くれる　and あげる　before this.

I suppose I could list everything we've learned up till now, but I guess you're asking about this chapter. The honorific verbs and stuff I don't know how to say well without just telling you the forms. お + verb stem + ください; てform + くれてありがとう, which I was kind of expecting after learning てform + すみません; てform + よかったです, and はずです. So aside from honorific forms, mostly pretty straightforward stuff, which makes sense since they'd want to pound honorific forms in as much as possible and not worry too much about other things.

[whydeevee.livejournal.com]

Ah, cool!

Yeah, I've heard it's kinda difficult.

I recognize most of that but none of it we learned in class. :/ I'm not even sure if we'll get to it next semester. :/ :/ :/

[xanithofdragons.livejournal.com]

Well, what I'm learning now is equivalent to what the start of 2nd year 2nd semester would be at my college, so, I'm not sure what level exactly you're at, but I think this is kinda far in.

[hakurei.livejournal.com]

I hope you don't think I'm a total creeper for suddenly popping up like this but someone else who watches Shiki! *AA* I'm surprised at how many people are watching it this season since it seems like something that would be unpopular.

[xanithofdragons.livejournal.com]

No, it's fine. Don't feel like a creeper.

Yeah, I don't really know where the interest comes from either, even though I like it. I'm just glad another one of Ono Fuyumi's works is getting an anime.

[violettango.livejournal.com]

Egads, what is keigo? It just sounds hard by the name. I guess I'll be learning that next year.

[xanithofdragons.livejournal.com]

From what I can gather so far, keigo is learning a bunch more forms and words for the purpose of being polite. Mostly involves raising the status of other people you're talking to/about and lowering your own status. BUT WHAT DO I KNOW ABOUT JAPANESE?

[violettango.livejournal.com]

Oh right, I know that Ogino-sensei briefly mentioned keigo. Oh goody, now I have to learn it this year.