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Hi everyone, I’m a high school student from California that has already forsaken a wonderful native-speaking tutor, washed out a Japanese class, and given up on self-learning with Genki! However, it has been years since all of that (I wasn’t even into my teens the last time I made a go of it), and I feel I’ve matured as a student to the point where I can seriously learn Japanese. I’m hoping TextFugu and I can work together to achieve that end.
In case anyone’s interested I’m traveling to Japan for three weeks in July with an exchange program, so learning Japanese has become more of an imperative for me!
As far as why I’m interested in Japanese in the first place, my mom is from Tokyo and almost all of my family on that side live in the vicinity of Tokyo, so since I was a kid I’ve wanted to be able to get to know that side of my family. Beyond that I have two passions that drive me to learn Japanese; a love of Japanese literature (thank you Haikasoru and Baka-Tsuki) and a love of fighting games (think Street Fighter or Tekken) , which was oddly enough born out of my love of Japanese literature. I want to be able to read books that are behind the language barrier, and I want to be able to pick up a copy of Arcadia and understand something besides the numbers!
I hope my studies go well!
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Hi there, welcome to TextFugu! Out of curiosity, how did you become interested in fighting games because of Japanese literature? Seems like a really interesting connection!
Good luck with your studies :)
OK here’s a test.
What does Sophitia say when you use her ultimate finishing move?
Hashi,
There’s this great book called ‘Slum Online’ by Hiroshi Sakurazaka(or Sakurazaka Hiroshi if we’re going to be all Japanese) published in America by Haikasoru that really introduced me to fighting games. I honestly bought it because it had a more colorful cover–I’m a sucker for pretty colors–than anything else in the new Sci-Fi section at my local book store and it has, surprisingly, become one of my all time favorite novels. The whole book is about a pretty apathetic Japanese college student who drifts through life during the day and spends his nights working on his personal quest to become the best player of an mmo-fighting game. The whole book is centered around parallels and interactions between his life in the real world and his life in the game.I read the book at the end of my freshman year of high school (I’m a junior now) and it got me kind of curious about fighting games so I ended up buying Marvel vs. Capcom 2, only to have my butt handed to me by a couple friends who’d already been playing for a few years. Even if I sucked I just knew I wanted to play fighting games, to become a stronger player. So I spent that summer working to buy an arcade stick and a copy of Super Street Fighter 4. Now almost two years later I can safely say I’m far better than any of my friends, I’ve shaken hands with Daigo, I’ve made the pilgrimage to EVO, and I’ve made countless friends through the experience, all because of some book a Japanese guy wrote.
Andrew,
I’m not really a Soul Calibur man, the gameplay of that series just scares me! I can’t wrap my head around any of it haha. My main games right now are pretty much the Street Fighter series (I’m a pretty decent Juri in AE, and an okay Blanka in HDR) and SkullgirlsEDIT: Sorry, I apparently have this weird habit for making overly long posts!
Hello and welcome to TF :)
Lucky you… seriously, I’ve always wanted to do an exchange program but I’m in college now (for game design). Well maybe if all goes well I may one day get a job for game design in Japan… Fingers crossed… Good Luck to you too :D
That’s really awesome. I know next to nothing about fighting games, but every video of EVO looks absolutely awesome.
Tom,
I’m hoping it will be a good experience haha! I wish you luck on your quest to become a game designer in Japan!Hashi,
EVO is unbelievable, I don’t think you could see over 2,000 guys screaming in unison whenever someone drops a combo anywhere else in the world haha!
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