Hello Thar!

Hello! I'm an otaku, interested in manga and animation. Also, on the way to learning Japanese and German, already know English and French, and I'm looking forward to learning Chienese and Russian someday. It's my dream to become an animator/cartoonist.

Fav. Book: A Necessary Evil - Alex Kava
Fav. Band (at the moment) - Scooter (I reccomend What Is The Question)

Fav. Genres of Music: Aggrotech, Terrorcore, Trance, Hardcore Dance, Classical, Retro, Bouncy Pop, Anti-Serious Music, Drinking Songs, Barbershop Quartets... etc.

If you would like to know anything else, just ask.


P.S: I'm in the process of creating 6 characters for the RP forums. They consist of: Male German Monsignor (basically a specially entitled Catholic Priest), Male Scottish Butcher, Male Japanese Doctor, Female French Librarian, Male Italian Teacher, and a Female Brittish... person... I don't know what the Brittish girl should be yet. If anyone would like to shoot out some ideas for the Brit, shoot away. Also, am interested in any open or private RPs... wheather they be controversial romances, horror themed, or other.

Good day!

Heya Twizzle! Welcome!

Wow, that is sure a lot of languages to learn!! My brain would probably collapse. It'd be amazing to be able to speak that many though, even just to a certain degree.

How about this - what's your favorite animal? :3

Sounds like you have a lot of characters lined up!

::whistles:: Quite a line up there.

Your Scottish butcher would probably have the most interesting conversations with my Scottish cryptozoologist. They could swap stories about the various strange and bizarre creatures they've cut into.

Hello there!
I used to be like that at one point. I've thrown away my interest in anime/manga however, though I still love languages and would be intrigued to be able to speak Japanese. As is, I'm an American immigrant in NL (trying to get sucked in, you see). I speak English only as a fluent language, but I'm learning Dutch (and a wee bit of German).

I'm practically a germanophile.
But really, I love all of Germanic Europe. So full of win.
I still like the manga Trigun Maximum btw, and I used to like Hellsing.

I take interest in the very gritty and dark minded. What I call "Schwarzes Glas Dysfunction." :3

Uhh... I live ten to fifteen minutes away from Germany and, uh, sorta know a bit of the local dialect as well. Sorta. They have a tendency to use tons of vulgar figurative phrases that really confuse me XD

Soooo yeh. My top three bands are Oomph!, Rammstein, and And One. :3 I like a TON of others.

Syren Song wrote:Wow, that is sure a lot of languages to learn!! My brain would probably collapse. It'd be amazing to be able to speak that many though, even just to a certain degree.

On average, every Dutch person speaks four languages at least. English, Dutch, French, and German. The Swiss speak averagely five at least. Swiss-German, German, Italian, French, and English.

RikuDrak wrote:On average, every Dutch person speaks four languages at least. English, Dutch, French, and German. The Swiss speak averagely five at least. Swiss-German, German, Italian, French, and English.

No kidding!? Jeez! And our English schooling fails yet again! You must start learning at a young age though, right? I think that's really good for a person to be able to speak 2 or more languages. Being able to communicate in more than just one and learning that growing up really helps kick your brain into gear!

Indeed, they all start from a very young age. Not just in school but also from simple exposure. NL, for instance, only dubs very young children's shows. Everything else is subtitled. Germany, by contrast, dubs everything. Hence why there aren't a majority of well-English-spoken Germans on the internets.

I personally think it's ridiculous that, in my school system anyway, you couldn't start a foreign language class until 7th/8th grade.

Oh hey, I didn't realize you were new too. I thought you were around awhile. X3 I guess that's a dual-welcome for both of us, yes?

And here I think Spanish is on its way to becoming mandatory teaching in schools. Gaaaaay. I hate Spanish. >o<

RikuDrak wrote:Indeed, they all start from a very young age. Not just in school but also from simple exposure. NL, for instance, only dubs very young children's shows. Everything else is subtitled. Germany, by contrast, dubs everything. Hence why there aren't a majority of well-English-spoken Germans on the internets.

I personally think it's ridiculous that, in my school system anyway, you couldn't start a foreign language class until 7th/8th grade.

Ohhh, I understand. That's dumb that Germany automatically has everything dubbed, and that your school started languages so late. Those were about the years I think when it was offered to us too. It really doesn't make sense to offer it then.

Calix wrote:And here I think Spanish is on its way to becoming mandatory teaching in schools. Gaaaaay. I hate Spanish. >o<

Yeah! I heard that. I don't like it either. I had to take a year of it (after German - I was planning on taking just 2 years of German, but our crazy teacher left us for a different school). I sucked at learning Spanish. :<

Syren Song wrote:

RikuDrak wrote:Indeed, they all start from a very young age. Not just in school but also from simple exposure. NL, for instance, only dubs very young children's shows. Everything else is subtitled. Germany, by contrast, dubs everything. Hence why there aren't a majority of well-English-spoken Germans on the internets.

I personally think it's ridiculous that, in my school system anyway, you couldn't start a foreign language class until 7th/8th grade.

Ohhh, I understand. That's dumb that Germany automatically has everything dubbed, and that your school started languages so late. Those were about the years I think when it was offered to us too. It really doesn't make sense to offer it then.

The United States dubs everything too. They just happen to speak the language that's used also as the international one.

RikuDrak wrote:The United States dubs everything too. They just happen to speak the language that's used also as the international one.

True. I think it's just a given that America sucks at languages haha.

Twizzle wrote:You might like Deadman Wonderland though, Riku, since it quite bloody and twisted overall.

Maybe. It has to have something that promotes thought, though. Senseless blood and twistedness is boring.

Twizzle wrote:Schwarzes glas = A Rammstein song. <3 English lyrics are below so that others may understand.

Ahahaha I have been a Rammstein fan for five to six years and a HARDCORE one at that. I'm aware it's a Rammstein song, but not everything called 'Schwarzes Glas' is the song by Rammstein 'Schwarzes glas' simply means 'black glass.'

RikuDrak wrote:Maybe. It has to have something that promotes thought, though. Senseless blood and twistedness is boring.

Ahahaha I have been a Rammstein fan for five to six years and a HARDCORE one at that. I'm aware it's a Rammstein song, but not everything called 'Schwarzes Glas' is the song by Rammstein 'Schwarzes glas' simply means 'black glass.'

Deadman Wonderland itself would be a what-if situation, where they explore the possibility of having a entertainment facility run by prisoners of a city the size of Tokyo. The city itself being the prison... It's an interesting idea, although I'm more pro-death penalty.

The main character was imprisoned for a monstrous crime he didn't commit. So, now he's looking for a way to escape.

Spoiler:

By legal means or not. Which pretty much includes oining a freedom fighting resistance.

Many of them state their dreams, what their motivations are for leaving. So, the second point would be achieving one's dream. Third would be 'justice' --- defining it. "The law is the law, even when the rules change. But justice will always be justice."

Finally, there's much of it dealing with human experimentation. How far are we allowed to go with it? Is it right to experiment on prisoners, although they are human? What use will this be put to: For the betterment of mankind or to make war more neat and tidy? What about all the prisoners experimented on who were all along innocent? What's right? Many questions...

Lastly, from what I've read, there's also a message of rising in power. There's three ways I think it can be done: hard work, stepping on others, or by killing those who oppose you.

Spoiler:

In DW, there's a tyrant on the rise, who's working to make his own paradise, his own fantasy land. He keeps a clean operation, so toppling him would be hard to do. (I swear he's a pedophile... no adult can act the way he does and not be one) I think I'd compare him to Hitler, with his prisoners/experiments as Jewish, because he has great charisma (looks quite friendly on the surface), an army to back him (SS officers)... and I'd say his mental health is questionable.

I've only read up to Chapter 14. I think Ch. 15 is out by now. I only care for two of the many characters... otherwise, it's the plot (and violence) that draws me in.

Most of the German I know, I learned first from Rammstein lyrics. Then I studied my numbers and colors. And then my verbs. Now, I just learn by reading my German books (Lotte soll nicht sterben - Siegfried Lenz, a children's book.... and Ein Vermächtnis - Anselm Feuerbach, an original vintage from 1929)

Can I help it if my mind immediately jumps to a song title of the band that first introduced me to the German language? It's like looking into a mirror of long forgotten family memories, a little treasure trove. (I honestly thought you were just be clever, making a metaphor while at the same time using the title of a song by a band one holds in high regards )