OK, long-time/. reader, first time poster.. be gentle CowboyNeal!:-P
In the early-to-mid 1980's, for some reason, the Australian commercial-free public TV station (the ABC) broadcast a number of Japanese shows - anime shows Astroboy, Kimba the White Lion, and live-action show Monkey.
Both of those anime are from the
god of manga, Osamu Tezuka
These shows got me interested in Japan - at age 8, I wanted to be a ninja..
I studied Japanese at high school and ended up doing it at university too. Now I'm pretty fluent - and guess what, I learned quite a bit from reading manga,watching anime and Japanese movies..
Some people here have mentioned Engrish/Japlish T-shirts in Japan - well, I've seen plenty of Australians wearing shirts with Japanese characters that say, for example, "strange foreigner", "winter", "fire" and "water"..
Why do people wear shirts (and get tattoos) with languages they don't understand? Because they think they look cool!
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OK, long-time /. reader, first time poster .. be gentle CowboyNeal! :-P
In the early-to-mid 1980's, for some reason, the Australian commercial-free public TV station (the ABC) broadcast a number of Japanese shows - anime shows Astroboy, Kimba the White Lion, and live-action show Monkey.
Both of those anime are from the god of manga, Osamu Tezuka
These shows got me interested in Japan - at age 8, I wanted to be a ninja..
I studied Japanese at high school and ended up doing it at university too. Now I'm pretty fluent - and guess what, I learned quite a bit from reading manga,watching anime and Japanese movies..
Some people here have mentioned Engrish/Japlish T-shirts in Japan - well, I've seen plenty of Australians wearing shirts with Japanese characters that say, for example, "strange foreigner", "winter", "fire" and "water"..
Why do people wear shirts (and get tattoos) with languages they don't understand? Because they think they look cool!