If you are a gaijin or at least have non-Japanese ancestry in you and want to buy some land in Japan, beware as you might not get what you want. In Japan a person buys land and not a house, if there is a house on the land its tradition that you remove/destroy the old home and build a new one lol, crazy for us in America. Well apparently a Japanese speaking and “third generation” Brazilian Japanese man wished to buy land in the Fukuroi, Shizuoka Prefecture but was “denied” by the community due to his Brazilian ancestry. The community feared it would bring “crime” in the neighborhood lol. This guy is a “third generation” that has probably lived in Japan his whole life but due to “stereotypes” of crime ridden Brazilians he had to buy land somewhere else. I thought pre-judging was pretty bad with blood-types, but this takes it to a new level that should not happen. I live in a place full of diversity which also comes with stereotypes of different cultures, funny to see when it actually happens ^-^. But I do not judge a person until I know them, I don’t think I should be judging though lol. The article is from Asahi.com.
Archive for June, 2007
Looking at an article on Mainichi News, I found out that schools in Japan are having problems with smelly children. Due to the changing economy, the once life-long contract promoting companies are now hiring short-term so the people are now barely able to make ends meet. So adults are working countless hours that probably allow them to be home only a couple hours a day which leads kids without parents to tell them to bathe. So the children on the poor side that “stink up” the class are now being bullied due to their current living condition…quite sad. When I was in high school I too had a habit of not showering before I slept due to “random attacks of sleep”, but I always showered right before school. I still have the attacks but less often than before. But I feel bad that kids are being bullied just because they smell funny, it shouldn’t happen but it does.
I loved this anime, it is at the top of my list as one of best animes I have ever seen. It follows a boy, Naota, who lived an everyday normal life with his brothers girlfriend, Mamimi, constantly bugging him. Everything is normal until a mysterious girl appears out of no where riding a yellow vespa (a scooter) and knocks Naota out with an electric guitar. Total randomness lol. The mystery girl is glad she didn’t kill him and gives him cpr which revives Naota that results in the mystery girl knocking him down with her guitar again. Not satisfied the mystery girl leaves, later that night Naota finds a strange “bump” sticking out of the middle of his forehead, luckily he can put it down with a bandage, incredible. Later we find the mystery girl eating at his house and has become the housekeeper due to her running Naota’s dad over ^o^. She introduces herself as Haruko and the antics ensue. Later Naota goes to find Mamimi where she eventually “overflows” (I never understood what that “truly” meant). All of a sudden the “bump” grows bigger on Naota’s head and eventually out pops a red robot and a gigantic robotic arm. The robot, with Naota caught on it, fights with arm and eventually beats the arm. Afterwards Haruko comes and knocks the robot out with her guitar which lead to the robot becoming docile and blue. The robot then starts to work as a housekeeper rather than Haruko at Naota’s home/bakery.
Demons called Devil’s roam Earth’s plane and go around killing humans and eating them. The only way to stop them is to hire Devil Hunters. We find a devil hunter named Dante sitting at his desk and listening to his next job which is to guard an orphan child called Patty and transport her to an estate where she would inherit a fortune. As Dante travels by car and train, demons seem to pop out and target Patty but Dante quickly disposes of them through his skilled marksmanship with his pistol. Dante’s chooses an inn to rest for the night but turns out the innkeeper is a demon hired to kill Patty as well but Patty ditched Dante to go see her “mother” perform. Her “mother” turns out to be a demon who is about to kill Patty when Dante shoots her full of bullet holes. Demon’s pop out of everywhere and Dante drop kicks a couple before killing them all with his pistol and sword. Later at the estate we find the clock clicking 6:30 pm which is supposed to be the deadline for Patty to reach the estate to inherit the fortune, but a young woman is there as the clock rings and tells those in the estate that she is the real Patty and has come to claim the fortune. Unfortunately for her one of the men there bursts and reveals himself as a demon and is about to kill her but Dante busts in and cuts its arm off. Afterwards is an intense battle where Dante blasts holes in the demon and cuts him up with a final thrust up the demons body killing it. The “real” Patty says she will take care of the orphan who now goes to Dante’s hq called Devil May Cry.
Here is the School Rumble review I promised. School Rumble is a high school love and comedy anime that follows mainly Harima Kenji and Tenma Tsukamoto who both have fallen in love although Tenma loves a completely poker faced guy named Karasuma while Haraima has fallen for Tenma. O it gets better lol, for as the story develops we also have more love interests including Tenma’s younger sister showing feelings for Harima as well as Tenma’s friend, Eri, also falling for Harima. Then you have a guy named Hanai falling for Yakumo and constantly tries to do as much as he can with her which is slightly hard due to all his “imagination” spilling out which Yakumo can see as well other people as well except for Harima. A bunch of love everywhere and comedy abundant.
I decided to talk about School Rumble as the next anime review, but due to time constraints I will have to do it tomorrow so I looked up the openings of the anime and found the actual music video of the second seasons opening theme song which I thought was kind of interesting. It kind of reflects the anime with Harima being the guy that beats up everyone but for some reason some otaku take him down…that was just sad. Plus the girl, who is Ami Tokito, picks up the yakisoba bread (I tried it and its not bad actually ^-^) and goes away with it which was pretty messed up.
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