xanithofdragons: (junsmile)
I feel like everything I post about is something I've been meaning to post about for a while and then finally do. ^^; Anyway, this is old news now, but with the stuff going on and worry about LJ, I finally made a dreamwidth account. This post is the first time I'm trying to post directly on DW and cross-posting on LJ. I'm not really sure things are going to actually change that much on LJ, but better safe than sorry, I guess and it's nice to have a back-up. I transferred all my LJ posts already, and I guess I'll work to make everything go up on both for the time being, which I guess is easiest to do by posting directly on DW and crossposting to LJ? IDK

I have the same username on DW as on LJ, but I'll post a link to make it easiest. Feel free to add me over there, but let me know first by commenting or messaging me or something if you are. I haven't done much with it yet, but it'd be nice if I can find people and communities and stuff.

This is even older news, but I have an AO3 account now too. I think I probably first set it up when I was on a Star Trek fic-reading binge or something and thought it would be nice to be able to comment and kudos under a username and bookmark stuff? I don't remember. But I finally got around to reposting all the fic I had posted on LJ back in April. I say that like it's a lot and not a relatively small number. I also posted this old-ass fic I wrote when I was still in high school that I had maybe never posted publicly on the internet before. It's over 9 years old, but it's somehow the longest fic I have up orz

I also found some practically finished fic I had just sitting around never posted in my hard drive, mostly back from when I was still into Kisumai, and went and posted that on AO3 too. For the record, receiving kudos on AO3 is about as nice and affirming as I was expecting it to be xD There's some more unfinished stuff back from my Kisumai days that it's highly unlikely I'll ever get back to, and I'm still unsure about maybe just throwing that up online too. Well, all of this happened because April saw me getting back into a fic-writing mood for the first time in maybe over a year? So I've been working on a few different Ebi fics (because apparently I'm all over the place) that I'll hopefully be able to post in the near future. Don't know yet whether I'll mainly just post new fic on AO3 or keep posting it on LJ (and DW now) first.

So that's two more places on the internet to find me. I've updated my profile with them too so hopefully people can find that info about me whenever.
xanithofdragons: (Yokoo nekomimi)
Since we're about half-way through the year now, I thought I'd take a look back at the list of fandom Johnny's-related things I hoped would happen this year (see here) and see how things have turned out at the half-way mark.

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Speaking of A.B.C-Z no Ienai yo, that reminds me of an interesting list I found in the July issue of Popolo. There was a whole big section about Johnny's variety shows, including reader rankings, and one of the rankings was "Variety shows you want to see again". The rank was as follows (I'm not familiar with all of these shows, so sorry if I romanize something weird):
1. You Konto Shichainayo
2. Kiss My Fake
3. Gakkou e Ikou
4. Kanpani
5. Arashi no Shukudai-kun
6. Yanyan JUMP
7. Himitsu no Arashi-chan
8. A.B.C-Z no Ienai yo
9. 8ji da J
10. Soukon

I am pretty glad other fans liked A.B.C-Z no Ienai yo enough to list it here. I am also not at all surprised at You Konto Shichainayo making it. I really hope they make it a yearly or semiannual thing! There's a lot of really popular older Johnny's shows on the list too. ♥ The only one I don't get is Kiss My Fake being on there, especially in the #2 spot, since I found that show so boring I stopped watching after a few episodes, but there are a lot of Kisumai fans, and a lot of Kisumai fans would be regular Popolo readers, so *shrugs*.
xanithofdragons: (Yokoo nekomimi)
I made an account at goodreads.com! I'm always wanting to read more, so a place where I can keep track of books I've read and books I want to read AND get book recommendations sounds pretty sweet. So if you're using it and want to share book recs or something or just be friends there, please comment or message me! And I feel like I should let you know that I decided to make an account while looking up lesbian mystery novels because this information is so important. xD

In fandom news... *sigh* I was already strongly leaning towards not buying it, although some kind of miracle in the track-list could have changed my mind. But alas, a miracle did not happen. Kisumai's management seems set on changing absolutely nothing and making absolutely zero progress ever, so I don't even want to support it all anymore. And since, with the debut of Johnny's WEST, I was feeling like I might need to hold back somewhere else anyway, well, Kisumai, if you're going to disappoint me every time anyway... I'll spend my money on groups that don't make me sad. Ugh, sometimes I feel like WataTai is the only part of Kisumai I really like anymore. >_<

Ah well, I do have Ebi releases to look forward to this summer. ♥ I did ultimately decide to buy the Johnny's Densetsu digest DVD since I do want to watch more Johnny's musicals. And I actually ordered two versions of Legend Story. ^^;
xanithofdragons: (Yokoo nekomimi)
That thing where I get packages two days in a row even though they were shipped a week apart? It happened again! lolololol international shipping!

Package #1:
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Fudanjuku's new album and some idol magazines! I wish I could afford to buy idol magazines more often than I do. >_<
I really like Fudanjuku's new album. I like all of the single songs. I really dig the direction they've been going in with songs like Dansou Revolution and Chenmen Paradise, and Shita wo Muite Kaerou and Jinsei Wahaha! have such nice lyrics. ♥ And I hadn't noticed how cool the lyrics for Shita wo Muite Kaerou were until I listened to it on the album while reading the lyric booklet. Oh yeah! That's my only complaint about it! The pink text is really hard to read against the gray-scale backgrounds! xD I really like the album songs too, especially EYE OF THE TYPHOON and Karafuru Purantan. Karafuru Purantan is more the kind of song you'd expect from female idol groups and it's super cute. ♥ (But it's also a sub-unit song).

I am such a sucker for idol music. xD

Package #2:
Expand神! COME ON! 神! COMING! )
Kisumai's single collection...
IDK. The graphics are kind of cute? Their outfits are pretty nice too... But when I put it into my computer to listen, I skipped straight to Kis-My-Calling and didn't even bother listening to anything else. I mean, I've heard all those songs... I bought those singles. All of them. Ugh, it's still a total mystery to me why they released this. AVEX!!! *Waves fist* But there is Kis-My-Calling and that is all that matters to me. The part where they each say their letters and their names sounds a little awkward, but I guess that's to be expected when they're each doing what's supposed to be a call-and-response alone. Some of Tama's lines sounded a bit weird too but I think like half of Tama's solo lines sound weird recently, SO... but I think it's because before he was always kind of... yell-singing his lines so to speak, and in this he doesn't put enough force behind it and it sounds more like him just straight singing it. I had seen a comment or two on twitter commenting on the CD version being different from previous live performances of it, but really, it's no more different than I'd expect a studio version and a live version to be. Though, somehow the intro for Kis-My-Calling and the intro to the Kansai Jr. song Ume Gouin On sound similar to me. Does anyone else hear it?

And that finishes the March releases I bought. At least one every week... some of which I enjoyed more than others. >_> April brings with it only two new releases for me: Johnny's WEST's debut single Ee Ja Nai Ka and Arashi's new single GUTS! I wonder when Arashi will release new live DVDs...
xanithofdragons: (nino smirk)
Last weekend I bought an (imitation) leather jacket!

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I got TWO very exciting packages today!
#1: My Kisumai and Ebi calendars!
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#2 Kisumai single and androp album!
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All in all, today was a pretty exciting day. ^_^
xanithofdragons: (Yokoo nekomimi)
I finally watched the main part of the SNOW DOME no Yakusoku DVD yesterday. After having it for over a month. orz There's the fact that I've been busier with work lately recently giving me less time to watch it, but there's also my general disappointment with a lot of Kisumai's recent releases that made me not very motivated to watch it. I had watched the Good Iku ze digest first after getting it in the mail, but it was a bit harder to get in the proper live DVD watching mode since it was a digest and jumped around a lot. I had also felt like the Forza performance was a disappointment when Forza's a song I liked a lot from the Good Iku ze album. :/

But moving onto the SNOW DOME live... It took me about until FIRE BEAT, the third song in, to start enjoying it much, but when they got to Everybody Go and they were on roller skates, it was like everything was right and I could get fully into live DVD watching mode! (Probably part of my disappointment in recent Kisumai releases is related to the lack of roller skates and cool roller skate dancing.) Because if you're going to have a gimmick, you gotta use that fully to your advantage. ^^ And Unmei Girl with mini-my-ft2 was really cute. ^^

I had been kind of worried when I had heard that Tama had a solo for this concert since I feel like I've heard several recent Kisumai songs where Tama's voice... doesn't really fit? Like they use his voice in places where it doesn't really work well or have him sing in a way that doesn't suit his voice in my opinion and it sounds off. The solo he did sing for this live worked really well for him, though. But what I'm describing is a part of what I see as a problem for Kisumai as a whole. It's like Mitsu and Gaya are the only members they know how to utilize really well and the rest of the members they haven't really figured out all their strengths AND how to play to those strengths. And so most of the group ends up under-utilized and/or poorly utilized. :/ So they might be working more towards a point where they have can bring out all the best from all the members, but it's still taking a while.

They sang a lot of songs I really like, especially the section where they sang Tabidachi no Uta, Catch Love, and keep on smile and in the encore. In an earlier post after the SNOW DOME/Luv Sick single came out, I wondered if Luv Sick or Motetai ze Tonight might become my favorite Kisumai song, but it's still Tabidachi no Uta. There's a certain feel to it that's different from a lot of Kisumai songs in a way I really like and it's such a hopeful-sounding song that it makes me happy to listen to it. But if there're songs that could maybe actually beat it, Catch Love is one of them. ^^ It's like both of these come from a specific category of Kisumai songs whose commonality I can't quite describe right now, but they can only be found in B-sides and album songs and I might compile a list of them.

Also, wow there was a lot of WataTai.
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Like a lot a lot. ♥ (Click for full-size images)

Sometimes I feel like my feelings about Kisumai can be described by "WataTai makes most everything better" ^^;
xanithofdragons: (nino smirk)
I really like having mail to look forward to. ^^

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I also got my certificate for passing the N1 of the JLPT last week! I don't think I mentioned passing it before on LJ, but I did, somehow. Even after looking at the results online, I half-wondered if it was some kind of mistake and I didn't actual pass, but I have the certificate now and the official paper report.

Another big thing this week is, with the release of the Johnny's calendars, getting contact from CDJapan that they need to upgrade shipping for my order of Kisumai and Ebi's calendars (presumably because Kisumai's calendar is HUGE). >_< The shipping was just way more than I was willing to pay, so I decided to let the order be canceled and order through YesAsia instead, because even with YA's high-ish prices for the calendars, it's still less than paying for EMS shipping. But I'm a little worried because YA listed the availability for Ebi's calendar as "ships within 21 days" and I now have experience of YA's availability being... weird... sometimes. Let's just hope this all goes well and I can get both the calendars I want.
xanithofdragons: (Yokoo nekomimi)
There are just some months that have more Jpop releases than others, or at least some months that have more releases from groups I follow. March is one of those months:
March 5th: Kisumai's new single Hikari no Signal and androp's new album period
March 12th: Ebi's new album From ABC to Z
March 19th: Fudanjuku's new album Power of Wind
March 26th: Avex's sudden attempt to make lots of money fast Kisumai's single collection

That's right, every single week. What's more, an album, every single week. And the Johnny's calendars come out this month, too... So look forward to a lot of posts about new releases from me this month (and going into next month). ^^; This is why I'm so bad at saving money. orz
xanithofdragons: (nino smirk)
I had my JET interview on Friday, and I feel like I did really poorly. >_< I tend to get pretty nervous at interviews, and I got really nervous for the JET interview. I feel like most of my answers sounded pretty convoluted, and I blanked on what to say for some questions. T_T I probably ended up sounding like I didn't really know what I wanted to do.

Ah well, I won't know anything for certain until April.

Also on Friday, I got my copies of Arashi's new single! But because I felt tired and had to work over the weekend (feeling even more tired), I didn't get around to listening to it until today. ^^; ExpandCut for review and screencaps )

And last, but most WTF? Kisumai has announced a new album! But it's a single collection album... -_- Why? Why would they do this now?

To think of a few reasons why a musical group would release a single collection/compilation album: 1)To celebrate/commemorate big anniversaries (5 years, 10 years, etc.) 2)To close an era when changing labels 3)To signal an end when members are leaving or the group's disbanding 4)To signal the end of an era when they're about to shift musical direction/image or some other big shift 5)The record company wants more money with minimal effort.

It hasn't even been three years since their debut, and there's no word of Kisumai changing labels, so 1 and 2 are pretty much out. With their current activity levels, 3 seems highly unlikely, and if it was 3, they would've thrown Hikari no Signal on too. If we consider 4, the best possible scenario would be them using this as a turning point to shift to more equal focus amongst the members, but that brings up the same question as 3. Why isn't Hikari no Signal on there too when it doesn't seem like they're doing anything any differently from their previous singles? Knowing Avex and their sales strategies, 5 is the most likely reason. -_-

On the bright side, though, we do get Kis-My-Calling on the CD-only regular edition because why else would fans buy it.
xanithofdragons: (Yokoo nekomimi)
I thought I'd celebrate Valentine's Day with my favorite pair, WataTai, so have their talk from last year's June issue of Duet. In this issue, they split Kisumai up by their usual hotel room assignments for three talks. I haven't decided if I'll translate either of the other two Kisumai talks from this issue yet.

In this talk, Yokoo and Fujigaya mainly talk about their relationship, past events, recent times they've hung out together, that sort of thing.

ExpandThe mutual love? pair )


Please credit and link back to this post if reposting. Questions and comments are welcome.
xanithofdragons: (Yokoo nekomimi)
This is a pretty short translation. I was originally planning on posting this after another, longer translation that mentioned one of the same anecdotes in this, but it's been a while since I've posted a translation.

This was the first "Kisumai Research" and has a very different format from subsequent ones. They ask Fujigaya which members he's hung out with recently, which members he talks on the phone with often, and what would happen if he joined A.B.C-Z.


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Please credit and link back to this post if reposting. Questions and comments are welcome.
xanithofdragons: (Perfume party)
As in, I've been so busy over the holidays that I haven't posted much. orz So happy holidays and happy New Year and all that, although it's late. xD

Working retail, ugh, if I didn't already have reasons I wanted to be in a different job by holiday time this year, the Christmas rush would've sealed it. Ah well, I've worked Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve, and I've heard that means I can handle the worst of it. I was scheduled 5 days in a row up to Christmas Eve, and before knowing that I agreed to come in the day before and ended up working 6 days in a row. And that was the second time I accidentally worked 6 days in a row because of agreeing to pick up an extra shift.

The Christmas present I got this year that I'm most excited about is a Nintendo 2DS. I bought Professor Layton and the Miracle Mask, although I haven't played it much yet because there are some DS games I never got around to playing that I'm working on. I'm going to lock this post, so I'll put up my friend code if anyone wants it: 4441-9908-0553. It'll help if you comment or pm me when you add me so I can know who you are. ^^

I also got to visit my brother's house the weekend after Christmas. That was a lot of fun although I ended up calling off from work for the first time because of it. Oh well.

I guess my biggest New Year's excitement was Johnny's WEST 4's debut announcement. \(^_^)/ I've been waiting for it, a Kansai group debut. After that rumor last year that there'd be a Kansai group debuting with 7-8 members, a four member group wasn't at all what I was expecting. And it's sad about 7 WEST, but honestly, I haven't been a Kansai Jr. fan for very long and I'm probably not as attached to them as other fans might be. I was kind of expecting them to throw together BAD and 7 WEST (all of them) and maybe add an older Kansai Jr. or two, but I was also half expecting them to pass over BAD too and throw together 7 WEST and Kin Kan or something. So I'm mostly glad that with BAD, most of my favorites from the Kansai Jrs. are there and that there actually will be a Kansai debut this year.

Watching You Conte Shichaina yo was also really fun. I laughed so much and the BL Gakuen thing was so hilarious. I also really loved the Hanseizawa Naoki konto and the Barter konto. xD Miyacchi really does look so much like Sakai Masato. I'd be really happy if they could work together in something someday. The only segment I didn't really get was the idol tryout one. :/ But the rest of it was really good. I hope they do it again. I also watched Johnny's Countdown. I thought it was really good this year, even though they had fewer groups there. I liked that they still sung a lot of senpai songs. Overall it seemed a lot smoother than last year's. Last year, it seemed that there were some people who blamed the vtrs and relays, but I thought the biggest problem was them not knowing how to film last year's set in a way that looked good on tv. The set this year was a lot simpler.
xanithofdragons: (not looking (up))
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I got my copies of TanaBota last week. I was really happy that even though I ordered the shop version through a different site from the one I ordered the other two, they came on the same day. \(^_^)/ I hadn't posted about it yet because I've been busy with work. Dang holiday season. >_< For the single overall... I dont' know. The song is still cute. The PV was... okay? There were cute parts and cool parts, but also, I don't know, boring parts? Parts I thought could have been done better or in a more interesting way? I think they did something interesting with the little "drama" scenes before and after the song part. The making wasn't as exciting as I expected although I really loved the part where the little girl was like, "But they're not ugly" and the director or whoever was like, "lol we all know". That was cute.

Ah well, I'm glad to have my Yokoo poster and the CD and the RE photo booklet. The pictures in that are really cool. ^_^ And I'm happy to be able to clearly hear Yokoo singing even if he's not very good at it. ^^

And there's one more thing I got that day:
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I got Twinkle Twinkle A.B.C-Z, and with that, I have all five of A.B.C-Z's DVD singles. ^^ At least until they release more. I've been in a pretty big Ebi mood lately. Even though following multiple Johnny's groups means spending a lot of money on releases, one good thing about it is how easily I can go through different moods of focusing on each group more. It's useful when I want to take a break from other groups.

And even though I'd already seen all the stuff on the Twinkle Twinkle DVD, rewatching it gave me drabble inspiration. At the weirdest of places. So look forward to that in the probably distant future. It's been a while since I've posted fic. It's also been a while since I've posted any translations. orz When I have time again after Christmas, I want to clean up/finish some WataTai drabbles I have sitting around and post them. I could also work on finishing some translations I have sitting around.

And speaking of fic, I haven't bothered with it before since I mostly write drabbles and because I'm pretty good at grammar, but maybe I should look for people who are willing to beta for me. People who'd tell me if my characterization is off or if I'm being to vague or too wordy. Also people who'd tell me what warnings I need on my fic and can help me figure out ratings (g, pg, pg-13 etc.) because I always worry about that stuff.
xanithofdragons: (Perfume party)
I got a couple DVDs and a CD in on Friday.

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I'd been thinking for a while that I wanted to buy one of A.B.C-Z's live DVDs and it was great! I haven't watched the tour documentary yet, but I was really impressed with their production. Also, I wasn't expecting all of them to do solos, so I was really happy to see all of them do solo performances too. Their communication with the fans also seemed so good!

I've also been thinking a while about getting Kisumai's earlier DVDs, too. The MINT DVD was the first Kisumai DVD I bought, so I'd been wondering about getting the Aeru de Show and debut concert DVDs too. I decided to get Aeru de Show first because it's pre-debut and it has Kis-My-Calling. It has Kis-My-Calling three times and everytime is beautiful. Live DVDs really are the best, though. They just all looked so so happy to be there and performing. I came really close to crying while they sang "Smile". It's such a pretty song, and they all looked so happy and were out amongst the fans. And, it's somehow amazing that the moment Kisumai found out they were going to debut is recorded on DVD like that. As a side note, I feel like I've gotten to a point where I'm at peace with Kisumai for now. ^_^

And the Eito best album... I don't know, I wanted to buy something else and I wanted this? I really like Kuruton. Even though I bought a limited edition, I haven't started watching the DVD yet at all. ^^; Next I should buy a NEWS album when I want to add something to an order and feel like buying something else I've been wanting for a while. xD I really like a lot of NEWS' songs.
xanithofdragons: (P4summer)
Ugh, Kisumai, why are you putting my emotions on a roller-coaster ride?! Or, rambling about my Kisumai feelings Part 2. (For part one, see here.) Wow, it's been two months already. It doesn't seem that long ago.

The past couple of days I had a long comment thread going with [livejournal.com profile] faded_lace because she mentioned "Kisumai depression" in one of her posts, and I felt like that sounded similar to what I had been experiencing. ^^; I guess what it boils down to is that something doesn't feel quite right with the way Kisumai is now, so I can't just enjoy them. I've been thinking a while about pulling back from Kisumai at least some, but a lot of things are making me waver.

ExpandOnce I start, I can't stop )

There's still a good chance I'll buy fewer of their releases or at least fewer versions of each release for until things improve. I have been dissatisfied with some of their recent releases. But it depends on where things go from here. For now, the conclusion of all the wavering and back and forth can only be wait and see. :
xanithofdragons: (Perfume party)
Kisumai meme! A couple of my friends did it, and I sort of wanted to answer it, but it is a rough time to be a Kisumai fan. Kisumai's the only group I follow closely that really frustrates me. >_<

First is first, who's your favorite? Yokoo!
Who's sexiest? Fujigaya? At least he's the one who tries hardest to do "sexy" xD
Cutest? Probably Nika-chan.
Funniest? Miyacchi? IDK They're kind of funniest interacting as a group. But I do really want fans to know more about all of Yokoo's silly moments xD
Best smile? Uh... I can't think of anyone whose smiles stand out. Maybe Yokoo's smiles when he's too happy to hold back and shows off his lovely long canines. Or Gaya's natural super-happy smiles when he's with Yokoo...
Best dancer? Senga
Best voice? If it's singing voices, I can't decide due to... lack of evidence. But speaking voices... Gaya's is pleasant to listen to, especially on their radio show.
Favourite song (group)? It was Tabidachi no Uta for a while, but I might be leaning towards Luv Sick or Motetai ze Tonight.
Favourite performance? Maybe that time when they performed Shake It Up on ShoKura and were being all cool and sexy on chairs and sofas.
Favourite non-perf moment? Probably when they all cross-dressed for the Watering Kiss Mint CM. xD I really like cross-dressing, okay?
Favourite costumes? Uh, the first thing I think of is their member color outfits from the MINT tour.
Favourite solo? Maria
Who should be the next one to get a solo? I know Senga's performed solo songs before, but I really want him to have an album solo. Senga's so under-utilized in terms of singing and dancing. If I can't pick Senga, I think a Miyacchi solo would be cool.
If you had to choose one, who would you want to meet? I'd love to meet Gaya and we could talk about how much we like Yokoo. xD
Who would you have most fun with? Gaya, as we talk about how much we love Yokoo Miyacchi seems like he'd be easy to get along with.
Who would you choose to go on a date with? For better or worse, I'd probably choose Yokoo. xD
Who wouldn't you want to be stuck on a desert island with? Tama
Where would you take your favourite on a date? Dog-walking? That's not a place, but it seems like something he'd like. For an actual place, the Ghibli Museum? xD
Hardest one, rate the boys (favourite - least favourite):
1. Yokoo 2. Fujigaya 3. Nika 4. Miyacchi 5. Mitsu 6. Senga 7. Tama
From 3rd place on, it changes around a lot, though.
Have something else you want to write? Oops, I only mentioned Mitsu in the ranking. xD Then I'll say here that I thought he was the hottest when they cross-dressed for Watering Kiss Mint. I would've liked a "favorite pair" question, but it's probably already pretty obvious with some of my other answers... This'd be fun to do with other groups too, although some questions wouldn't work as well with other groups.
xanithofdragons: (guy with fruit & veggies)
I got these in the mail the other day. ^_^

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xanithofdragons: (Nocchi blue)
Hello new friends from the Johnny's friending meme! It's nice to meet you all. ^_^ I never really know what to write for intro posts, so I'll try to cover some information that I think is important about me, do something I've been thinking about doing for a little while, and then open the floor to questions.

I recently graduated from college with a BA in Japanese Language and Culture and am currently working part-time as a bakery clerk in a grocery store. The kind of job I want to do in the future is pretty much anything where I can use Japanese in my work, maybe as a translator or an interpreter or just someone who works in a company that does business in both Japan and America or other English speaking countries and occasionally has reason to use her bilingual skills.

I studied abroad in Japan my junior year of college and left my heart in Japan, in that I fell even more in love with Japan. I want more than anything to have a reason to go back in Japan and live there at least another year. I'm applying to the JET program and maybe to one or two similar programs. As for my Japanese fluency, I passed the N2 of the JLPT and am going to take the N1 this year and haven't studied nearly enough yet.

I think that's pretty good as an introduction of where I am right now in my life. The other thing I want to do in this post is a list of how many Johnnys singles, albums, and DVDs I have, by group and then total. ^^ When I have multiple versions I'll include a count not including multiple versions of the same release.

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And that's just for Johnny's groups... And just the current count... xD I have other Jpop CDs, too, but not quite as many. ^^;

And lastly, I'll open the floor for questions. My introduction may have left out a lot of things you'd like to know, so ask me about what you want to hear about. Ask me any questions and as many questions as you like. New friends, friends who've been here longer. If I get enough questions, I'll make another post answering them. If I don't get many, I might just answer them in comments. Possible topics include (but are not limited to) my favorite x, how I got into x hobby or activity, what other hobbies I have, personal questions, stories from Japan (do not expect me to be a good story-teller), whatever you can think of. If it's something really personal, I might post about it in a locked post, but I definitely want to know what you all want to know about me.
xanithofdragons: (P4summer)
If you're Kisumai fans, I don't know how many of you have already heard the news, but apparently when Nakai guested on the KisuBusa SP, he announced that he'd produce a song (single?) for Senga, Miyata, Yokoo, and Nikaido. The news is pretty unclear right now, and I haven't watched the SP yet to know exactly what was said (I'm way behind in KisuBusa), but there's already been quite the commotion about it on Twitter.

ExpandLong, rambling post about Kisumai )
xanithofdragons: (P4summer)
Today I had an interview for an receptionist/administrative assistant job. I've never driven on the high-way much, and it was in the Chicago area, so my brother drove me. >_< The interview was pretty early, so we left really early and arrived like 40 minutes before the scheduled time. ^^; I can't really tell how the interview went. I feel like I answered all the questions adequately, but I couldn't figure out what they were trying to figure out about me with the questions. Ah well, I got business cards this time though! Two guys interviewed me and they both gave me their business cards.

So my brother and I had decided to go to Mitsuwa afterwards since it was close to the company I was interviewing at. I bought a few magazines.
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I keep forgetting to set my camera back to a lower picture quality, and then I end up uploading larger image files than I meant to. xD But I set it back after realizing while writing this post.

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