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Jul. 1st, 2005 01:36 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
tephraSo I'm watching Tsubasa Chronicle (![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
toshirodragon is like my anime and manga crack dealer or something) and I'm enjoying it immensely. I'm also geeking out on a few levels, I'm picking up the meaning of yet more Japanese (yay!) and picking out some Japanese accents (or rather, realizing that when I'm having "WTF, that doesn't sound like anything like what the sub says" moments it's because it's a very different dialect). But the niftiest part is noticing some folklore themes. *geekyfangirlysquees!*
On the first world the kudan of the three main characters take the forms of a dragon, phoenix, and what I think is a kirin (it's not a form of it that I'm familiar with, but a fox/wolf thing with a horn seems to fit the bill). On the second world you find a hijutsu master (mistress) that uses a fan to amplify her power and her daugther uses a mirror. This is niggling at me as some folklore I'm probably missing out on. Inuyasha fans will recall that Naraku's first two incarnations, Kagura and Kanna, use a fan and a mirror as well.
I so need to find a good, comprehensive, book on Japanese folklore and superstition! Not getting the references yet knowing, or strongly suspecting, they are there in several anime that I watch is driving me freaking NUTS!
toshirodragon is like my anime and manga crack dealer or something) and I'm enjoying it immensely. I'm also geeking out on a few levels, I'm picking up the meaning of yet more Japanese (yay!) and picking out some Japanese accents (or rather, realizing that when I'm having "WTF, that doesn't sound like anything like what the sub says" moments it's because it's a very different dialect). But the niftiest part is noticing some folklore themes. *geekyfangirlysquees!* On the first world the kudan of the three main characters take the forms of a dragon, phoenix, and what I think is a kirin (it's not a form of it that I'm familiar with, but a fox/wolf thing with a horn seems to fit the bill). On the second world you find a hijutsu master (mistress) that uses a fan to amplify her power and her daugther uses a mirror. This is niggling at me as some folklore I'm probably missing out on. Inuyasha fans will recall that Naraku's first two incarnations, Kagura and Kanna, use a fan and a mirror as well.
I so need to find a good, comprehensive, book on Japanese folklore and superstition! Not getting the references yet knowing, or strongly suspecting, they are there in several anime that I watch is driving me freaking NUTS!
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Date: 2005-07-01 08:36 pm (UTC)Jin the wind master makes me smile. Sometimes I have no idea what he's saying but I do like his accent (and since Yuusuke understands him about as well as I do I figure I'm doing okay.)
I have a fondness for several accents, Irish is one of them. :)
Kanji certainly does make for a whole new level of pun...ishment. ;> Japanese seems to have relatively simple grammar (based on my digging around the net) and from what I hear (and notice myself) isn't that hard to pick up as far as speaking it, it's learning to read it that will kill you.