http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Obb_DOT6EzQ

What’s this about giving away life savings? Give them to me, and it will go to a good cause, guaranteed

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http://lang-8.com/229484

Just copied and pasted. This is the one without the bells and whistles so to speak, so if you want all that, go here: http://www.textfugu.com/bb/topic/the-study-thread/page/36/#post-29657

It all started on November 2009, during the beginning semester of my junior year in high school. At that time, I was slowing getting lax in my work, and at that time started watching lots of anime to pass the time. Those anime consisted of largely of mainstream stuff like Code Geass, Naruto (though I still do watch it), Lucky Star , TMOSH, Ouran High School Host Club etc. By the way, this does not mean I was obsessed with anime – just like how many people like to leisurely watch anime, or dramas, it was a pretty awesome way to pass time. One fateful night (yes I choose to use such words because it seems like fate to me), I opened up Youtube and typed in the search bar “seifuku”, because if y’all have ever watched Lucky Star, you know the opening theme for that anime.. I expected to see search results about Lucky Star, but there it was, the video that was first on the search results, and the video that lured my curiosity that morphed into the missingno15 you all know today.

This is that same video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_1ObyG2-1Y

My curiosity got the best of me so I decided to have a watch. The song is subbed so I clearly can tell what this song is about. Rather than freaking out like the average person, I thought it was pretty interesting given the topic it was about or seemed to portray, not to mention the song was really good. I mean REALLY good. The more I listened to it, the more I started to love it – it was nothing like anything that I’ve listened to before. I mean, it was Japanese music, but it wasn’t clearly anime music and it definitely was not Western music. The fact that there was so many girls in one group didn’t faze me either. It got me more excited knowing just how much novelty there was in the idea of it. Just about everything a “normal” person would do, I did the opposite lol.

Then here comes the part that most people expect to come first. After the nth time watching and listening to the video, there was a girl that caught my eye. It was the girl who was shown for a second at 2:38. She was mad cute and I JUST HAD TO KNOW WHO SHE WAS. Looking back at it now, I can probably name just about every single member in that video and I know who she is now, but at the time, there was just too many to properly fit a name to a face. It also didn’t help that they got seconds of screen time. I knew that if I just watched more of their songs and videos, helpful Youtube comments would help point me the direction to who was who. Through this process, I became more exposed to their videos and songs, liking pretty much every song that came my way.

(Btw, if you want to know what those songs were, they were 会いたかった、軽蔑していた愛情, スカートひらり、Baby!Baby!Baby!, 夕日を見ているか, 大声ダイヤモンド, 涙サプライズ！, １０年桜, 言い訳Maybe, RIVER….you get the idea, basically every single until November 2009 when I discovered them).

It’s probably also important to note that this all happened in one night and over the course of a few days so naturally, I didn’t know who anyone was so the main thing that really pulled me was their songs. It really pisses me off sometimes when people assume that the reason why I got into AKB is because I’m just some male teenager with hormones on MAX. Reasonable assumption though, I’m not gonna lie, some are cute, some are sexy, but not what pulled me into this fandom. Hell, my Japanese 先生 used me as an example on her powerpoint slide to review the grammar point 「んじゃないかと思う」 assuming the same thing. →　ケンさんはＡＫＢのコンサートに行ったので、女の子が好きなんじゃないかと思います　Here we can obviously see it was in jest, but I’ve met some people who just couldn’t fathom the fact that it was music first, then girls.

After what seemed like an exhaustive comparison between videos, I finally discovered who the girl was. Her name was Itano Tomomi.

“Wait a minute, that doesn’t seem like the girl at 2:38″

Thats because she isn’t lol. The camera work was so fast and the members had seconds of screen time so in the process, yes, I confused Minegishi Minami for Itano Tomomi and this is why she is my oshimen. Sorry Miichan lol. This discovery led me to wanting to know more about her so I did google searches on her which led me to one of the AKB48 forums – Stage48. There I found a 62 page thread discussing her, and I was determined to find out who she was. So naturally, I did what anyone with no life would do: read around 60+ pages of a thread in 1 night lol. As of now, 4/18/2012, her thread has over 200+ so if you have no life and are willing to read through all of that, then by all means, go ahead lol.

After finding out who she was, I lurked around that forum for a month until my registration on 07 Jan 2010, 23:08, according to Stage48 (my username is honeysenpai btw, only on idol forums though). I read more into who these people are for that entire duration and one thing that caught my eye was people experiences meeting them. They known as “Idols you can meet”, and there were a couple of Stage48 members who shared their experiences seeing them in the AKB48 Theater in Don Quixote building at Akihabara. I read stories about having 2-shots with your favorite member (2shot just means having a picture with another person in which in the picture are 2 people. This isn’t only used in AKB, this is actually a Japanese term), paying money to have time to talk to your favorite member etc. I loved the idea of it, it made me want to go see them so much because I thought of Western celebrities and understood how you will never interact with them in the way that AKB allows fans with its members. These guys obviously were 外人、so they warned how it was a good idea to know some Japanese when you want to talk with them because as I remember it, “it would become an awkward smiling and staring contest”.

As you can imagine what you just read, wanting to go to meet these idols, it would probably be a good idea to know some Japanese. It was an idea at the time, but what solidified my resolve to do it seriously was this video right here. I realized that they were never going to learn English, so instead of waiting for them to magically learn English, I would learn Japanese instead.

Thank you Kobayashi Kana for being so horrible at English. If it wasn’t for you, I would have never began learning Japanese.

It was around this time too, when I found Koichi/Tofugu. Koichi seemed like a really chill guy and he was offering his newly created, Textfugu which he promised to make Japanese much much easier while providing constant updates being that it was an electronic textbook. I know why MisterM is always so angry all the time, it was because he wrote this on his manifesto and its what he proclaimed which probably what brought in many people. I was one of them and one of the first ones too lol. Its all g though, I learned to move on from Textfugu. Because I understood from the beginning that I have no idea when AKB will break up so for me, becoming fluent in Japanese is something that I just want needed to happen NOW and Koichi seemed to promise me these things so I bought Textfugu membership at around February 2010. Thus beginning my journey and never-ending quest to become fluent in Japanese.

What do I think of all this now? Well, that most of this nonsense started with AKB and I enjoy every minute of it. It also isn’t far to say that my life completely changed because of AKB. AKBは一生の恩人だ。Through AKB, I discovered my passion, what I really want to do in with my life、just like how Danny Choo discovered his passion when he saw Japanese video games and anime. It’s also pretty funny to me that my relationship with AKB has grown to this point, it’s a hell of a lot deeper than what people think at a superficial level, it’s been an awesome rollercoaster ride so far with so many new experiences and ways of thought. It’s what really exposed me to Japanese culture as opposed to anime which is the popular media item which gets people interested in Japan. My goal of meeting them one day hasn’t changed, though meeting any member now is near impossible now because they are the nation’s most popular idol group (at the time of this post). Now, not only do I want to meet them in person, I want to tell these members with my newly acquired ability that I toiled so hard for everyday, a thank you of a lifetime.

Thus concludes how I met AKB. Hopefully, you enjoyed reading this and wasn’t a waste of time for you. I have an irregular sleeping pattern now so the time I finished typing this all up is at around 5:30am lol.

Proper way to end this….IS WITH MORE AKB STUFFS BALHHHHHHHH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV2po8XZWJs

Alright I guess I’ll do it. Unlike like Dae however, it won’t probably be just as well written.

It all started on November 2009, during the beginning semester of my junior year in high school. At that time, I was slowing getting lax in my work, and at that time started watching lots of anime to pass the time. Those anime consisted of largely of mainstream stuff like Code Geass, Naruto (though I still do watch it), Lucky Star , TMOSH, Ouran High School Host Club etc. By the way, this does not mean I was obsessed with anime – just like how many people like to leisurely watch anime, or dramas, it was a pretty awesome way to pass time. One fateful night (yes I choose to use such words because it seems like fate to me), I opened up Youtube and typed in the search bar “seifuku”, because if y’all have ever watched Lucky Star, you know the opening theme for that anime.. I expected to see search results about Lucky Star, but there it was, the video that was first on the search results, and the video that lured my curiosity that morphed into the missingno15 you all know today.

This is that same video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e_1ObyG2-1Y

My curiosity got the best of me so I decided to have a watch. The song is subbed so I clearly can tell what this song is about. Rather than freaking out like the average person, I thought it was pretty interesting given the topic it was about or seemed to portray, not to mention the song was really good. I mean REALLY good. The more I listened to it, the more I started to love it – it was nothing like anything that I’ve listened to before. I mean, it was Japanese music, but it wasn’t clearly anime music and it definitely was not Western music. The fact that there was so many girls in one group didn’t faze me either. It got me more excited knowing just how much novelty there was in the idea of it. Just about everything a “normal” person would do, I did the opposite lol.

Then here comes the part that most people expect to come first. After the nth time watching and listening to the video, there was a girl that caught my eye. It was the girl who was shown for a second at 2:38. She was mad cute and I JUST HAD TO KNOW WHO SHE WAS. Looking back at it now, I can probably name just about every single member in that video and I know who she is now, but at the time, there was just too many to properly fit a name to a face. It also didn’t help that they got seconds of screen time. I knew that if I just watched more of their songs and videos, helpful Youtube comments would help point me the direction to who was who. Through this process, I became more exposed to their videos and songs, liking pretty much every song that came my way.

(Btw, if you want to know what those songs were, they were 会いたかった、軽蔑していた愛情, スカートひらり、Baby!Baby!Baby!, 夕日を見ているか, 大声ダイヤモンド, 涙サプライズ！, １０年桜, 言い訳Maybe, RIVER….you get the idea, basically every single until November 2009 when I discovered them).

It’s probably also important to note that this all happened in one night and over the course of a few days so naturally, I didn’t know who anyone was so the main thing that really pulled me was their songs. It really pisses me off sometimes when people assume that the reason why I got into AKB is because I’m just some male teenager with hormones on MAX. Reasonable assumption though, I’m not gonna lie, some are cute, some are sexy, but not what pulled me into this fandom. Hell, my Japanese 先生 used me as an example on her powerpoint slide to review the grammar point 「んじゃないかと思う」 assuming the same thing. →　ケンさんはＡＫＢのコンサートに行ったので、女の子が好きなんじゃないかと思います　Here we can obviously see it was in jest, but I’ve met some people who just couldn’t fathom the fact that it was music first, then girls.

After what seemed like an exhaustive comparison between videos, I finally discovered who the girl was. Her name was Itano Tomomi.

“Wait a minute, that doesn’t seem like the girl at 2:38″

Thats because she isn’t lol. The camera work was so fast and the members had seconds of screen time so in the process, yes, I confused Minegishi Minami for Itano Tomomi and this is why she is my oshimen. Sorry Miichan lol. This discovery led me to wanting to know more about her so I did google searches on her which led me to one of the AKB48 forums – Stage48. There I found a 62 page thread discussing her, and I was determined to find out who she was. So naturally, I did what anyone with no life would do: read around 60+ pages of a thread in 1 night lol. As of now, 4/18/2012, her thread has over 200+ so if you have no life and are willing to read through all of that, then by all means, go ahead lol.

After finding out who she was, I lurked around that forum for a month until my registration on 07 Jan 2010, 23:08, according to Stage48 (my username is honeysenpai btw, only on idol forums though). I read more into who these people are for that entire duration and one thing that caught my eye was people experiences meeting them. They known as “Idols you can meet”, and there were a couple of Stage48 members who shared their experiences seeing them in the AKB48 Theater in Don Quixote building at Akihabara. I read stories about having 2-shots with your favorite member (2shot just means having a picture with another person in which in the picture are 2 people. This isn’t only used in AKB, this is actually a Japanese term), paying money to have time to talk to your favorite member etc. I loved the idea of it, it made me want to go see them so much because I thought of Western celebrities and understood how you will never interact with them in the way that AKB allows fans with its members. These guys obviously were 外人、so they warned how it was a good idea to know some Japanese when you want to talk with them because as I remember it, “it would become an awkward smiling and staring contest”.

As you can imagine what you just read, wanting to go to meet these idols, it would probably be a good idea to know some Japanese. It was an idea at the time, but what solidified my resolve to do it seriously was this video right here. I realized that they were never going to learn English, so instead of waiting for them to magically learn English, I would learn Japanese instead.

Thank you Kobayashi Kana for being so horrible at English. If it wasn’t for you, I would have never began learning Japanese.

It was around this time too, when I found Koichi/Tofugu. Koichi seemed like a really chill guy and he was offering his newly created, Textfugu which he promised to make Japanese much much easier while providing constant updates being that it was an electronic textbook. I know why MisterM is always so angry all the time, it was because he wrote this on his manifesto and its what he proclaimed which probably what brought in many people. I was one of them and one of the first ones too lol. Its all g though, I learned to move on from Textfugu. Because I understood from the beginning that I have no idea when AKB will break up so for me, becoming fluent in Japanese is something that I just want needed to happen NOW and Koichi seemed to promise me these things so I bought Textfugu membership at around February 2010. Thus beginning my journey and never-ending quest to become fluent in Japanese.

What do I think of all this now? Well, that most of this nonsense started with AKB and I enjoy every minute of it. It also isn’t far to say that my life completely changed because of AKB. AKBは一生の恩人だ。Through AKB, I discovered my passion, what I really want to do in with my life、just like how Danny Choo discovered his passion when he saw Japanese video games and anime. It’s also pretty funny to me that my relationship with AKB has grown to this point, it’s a hell of a lot deeper than what people think at a superficial level, it’s been an awesome rollercoaster ride so far with so many new experiences and ways of thought. It’s what really exposed me to Japanese culture as opposed to anime which is the popular media item which gets people interested in Japan. My goal of meeting them one day hasn’t changed, though meeting any member now is near impossible now because they are the nation’s most popular idol group (at the time of this post). Now, not only do I want to meet them in person, I want to tell these members with my newly acquired ability that I toiled so hard for everyday, a thank you of a lifetime.

Thus concludes how I met AKB. Hopefully, you enjoyed reading this and wasn’t a waste of time for you. I have an irregular sleeping pattern now so the time I finished typing this all up is at around 5:30am lol.

Proper way to end this….IS WITH MORE AKB STUFFS BALHHHHHHHH
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bV2po8XZWJs

Is that Wasamin?

I have decided to give up on Japanese to learn English. I let you down guys, I’m very sorry.

Btw, the only downside of Japanese Sentence Patterns for Effective Communication is that it uses romaji and kanji, but it’s not really that huge of a reason to CRY LIKE A PANSY and throw it away.