Peter's Japan blog

Last time we talked about the basic sentence structure in Japanese. Two important things about the Japanese sentence structure is that the subject comes first, and the verb comes last. Now we will talk a bit more about a few particles which have a direct impact on our sentence structure.

1. '-wa': the subject particle: は　(note that -wa is written with the hiragana of 'ha', not 'wa')
- used to indicate the subject of a sentence. It is used to put emphasis on the thing we are talking about when it might not be clear or there is a change in subject.

2. '-ga': the subject particle: が
- subject being talked about without putting special emphasis.
- also a weak condition between two sentences.

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Kamikaze Girls (or Shimotsuma Monogatari in the original title) tells the story of 2 girls who are at the total opposite of the fashion universe & lifestyle. Momoko is a normal girl who lives on the country side, well, normal in her eyes. She is a girls who dresses in lolita fashion and swears by it, only eats sweet stuff (even for lunch) and does not have any friends (not that she has a problem with that). Then there's Ichiko, a "yankee" biker gang chick, who is tough (and spits, which annoys Momoko a lot). They both go on a journey to find what to do with their future and start an unlikely friendship.

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Well, quite an update on Aya-chan. She's really becoming quite an idol ;p She will be releasing her first dvd on November 21st. Not much is known about it yet.

Also a new pic on her home page:

Hirano Aya will release her second photo book "1/19 Bpm" on September 20th (which was actually yesterday ^^;). Here are some pictures:

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They actually did it. Just watched the last Lucky Star episode 24 :'(. They did the full version of the cheerleader dance in the OP, and I must say it's quite good and rather smooth animation. It's sad that it has ended, but I'm feeling that there might come a second season (fingers crossed). Now wait for the dvds ;p

I'll put some screenshots up tomorrow or so :)
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Hahaha, just watched the subtitles version. It's really great. My favorite moment really has to be when Patty tries to convinces Konata to join the cheerleading. Patty convinces Konata by promising her a ticket to a handshake session with the seiyuu of Haruhi: Hirano Aya. Which gets Konata all fired up like a fanboy who wants to meet the major kawaii Aya-chan ;D (like me). The funniest thing about this thing is, that Konata is voiced by Hirano Aya herself ;p (which has been used a few times before in Lucky Star, by having Konata cosplay Haruhi at the cosplay cafe where she works ^^).

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The basic sentence structure of the Japanese language is of the form: SOV. Meaning, Subject Object Verb.
(note that I will use spaces between words for readability, spaces are normally omitted)
Example:
私は　ペテル　です。
Watashi-wa Peter desu.
I am Peter.
Litt: I Peter be.

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Seems like they are finally going to appear. After a long series of Suzumiya Haruhi figures, the Lucky Star anime is next, which I recon will be along list as well.
Lucky Star starts off with 2 nendoroid figures (Konata Izumi & Hiiragi Kagami), and 2 more as unpainted preview (Akira-sama & Shiraishi Minoru). There also seem to be special Chara Ani versions of the first two. The release date for the first 2 figures is somewhere in January 2008, other info is unknown. Will definitely buy them! Nendoroids are so cute, but of course I also want a full size 1/8 figure of Konata ;p

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Here's my drawing of Konata Izumi from Lucky Star. It's not finished yet, but since I haven't touched this in 2 months, I thought I'd give a teaser ;p (well, not much of a teaser as it is practically finished, just need to do the clothing and maybe some background).

Maybe I'll finish it one of these days. But for now, have a look: