huh?

[Vi Sparklemist]

I agree.
How come you guys learned hieroglyphs of everything by the way?  

[Shura Yukihime]

Sai-kun

Im from the good 'ol US of A...hahaa...feel free to laugh at that.
I just have to apologize on part of half the country who didn't vote for Bush.
We tried, but in the end it wasn't enough to keep the asshat from getting back into office, thus we have loosed the monster back onto the globe. Mea culpa...

Anyway, enough politik.
Im a Northeasterner (note the entire Northeast was pro-Kerry...shutting up) and a tri-stater (NJ, NY, PA, guess you could count CT as a part of it too, but quad-state doesnt sound as cool).
I speak some Mandarin and Cantonese. Im teaching myself Japanese and trying to learn the Taiwanese dialect, Hoklo off my mother.

Oh, you can speak Cantonese? I can't... Can barely say a sentence in any dialects...

Personally, I want to learn Japanese too... would make reading SOME mangas much easier, since Chinese versions ALWAYS screw up the names by translating the Kanji characters into Chinese without thought for the pronounciation... stressed  

[Cain_Hargreaves]

Vi Sparklemist

I agree.
How come you guys learned hieroglyphs of everything by the way?

I've always been able to pick up other languages fairly easily. >.> With egyptian hieroglyphs, it wasn't so much that I knew the language, I just knew the meanings behind the 'letters'. I could figure out what it was saying by the way they structured the pictographs. n_n; All thanks to hours and hours spent at the library, digging up books on ancient Egypt and copying down their graphs and tables about heiroglyphs.  

[Vi Sparklemist]

Cain_Hargreaves

I've always been able to pick up other languages fairly easily. >.> With egyptian hieroglyphs, it wasn't so much that I knew the language, I just knew the meanings behind the 'letters'. I could figure out what it was saying by the way they structured the pictographs. n_n; All thanks to hours and hours spent at the library, digging up books on ancient Egypt and copying down their graphs and tables about heiroglyphs.

Very well, seems like a nice hobby if nothing else 3nodding  

[Kamikaze Pedestrian]

Sonoshi

Vi Sparklemist

Ouch. Why didn't I read this before I edited my post in the 'Welcome to Gothic Fairyland'-topic? Oh well. *edits again*

I'm Swedish too. Seems to be alot of us for some reason.

yeah, I've thought 'bout that too... biggrin

it's strange... there are not that much manga in sweden, and still a lot of people know of Kaori Yuki. how come?  

[Rociel - Inorganic Angel]

Sanekazura

Sonoshi

Vi Sparklemist

Ouch. Why didn't I read this before I edited my post in the 'Welcome to Gothic Fairyland'-topic? Oh well. *edits again*

I'm Swedish too. Seems to be alot of us for some reason.

yeah, I've thought 'bout that too... biggrin

it's strange... there are not that much manga in sweden, and still a lot of people know of Kaori Yuki. how come?

Perhaps it's a cultural thing..

Like Japan is an extremely conservative place so you always have the opposite going against it, the minorities, the revolutionary or what not. So in contrast to this close minded business and ritualistic world there's this out burst of everything that could possibly go against it.

There are other reasons and such.. but perhaps this relates to Sweeden... is Sweeden feeling slightly under pressure at the moment? Or maybe it's like the whole first world that's mainly about psychology that's attracted to what's being held in the minorities of Asia.

It's true though... sometimes the sicker people can get is because of the more bored and depressed they are in life. Rich, luxury business men seem to be the most depressed in the world and find things like child pornography, sodomy, all sorts of things to entertain them. It says something about society... it says something along the lines of what we have now, all this consumer s**t (i.e this site) is not what we should be trying to achieve for happiness...

God i'm sorry -_- I rant a lot. No body has to read or take any of this seriously, they're just thoughts.  

[Kamikaze Pedestrian]

rociel_inorganicangel

Sanekazura

Sonoshi

Vi Sparklemist

Ouch. Why didn't I read this before I edited my post in the 'Welcome to Gothic Fairyland'-topic? Oh well. *edits again*

I'm Swedish too. Seems to be alot of us for some reason.

yeah, I've thought 'bout that too... biggrin

it's strange... there are not that much manga in sweden, and still a lot of people know of Kaori Yuki. how come?

Perhaps it's a cultural thing..

Like Japan is an extremely conservative place so you always have the opposite going against it, the minorities, the revolutionary or what not. So in contrast to this close minded business and ritualistic world there's this out burst of everything that could possibly go against it.

There are other reasons and such.. but perhaps this relates to Sweeden... is Sweeden feeling slightly under pressure at the moment? Or maybe it's like the whole first world that's mainly about psychology that's attracted to what's being held in the minorities of Asia.

It's true though... sometimes the sicker people can get is because of the more bored and depressed they are in life. Rich, luxury business men seem to be the most depressed in the world and find things like child pornography, sodomy, all sorts of things to entertain them. It says something about society... it says something along the lines of what we have now, all this consumer s**t (i.e this site) is not what we should be trying to achieve for happiness...

God i'm sorry -_- I rant a lot. No body has to read or take any of this seriously, they're just thoughts.

if sweden is under pressure... well, the foreign minister git murdered about a year ago, and there has been some terrible murders after that, but i don't know.
i don't know how that would affect the taste in manga. maybe it has something to do with a very violent and dark tradition when it comes to stories and myths. but then again, i haven't found many lighthearted myths from other countries either, so...  

[Vi Sparklemist]

People

Stuff about Sweden. Too much to quote..

I don't know of that 'dark' tradition, though I've heard that Swedes in general seem to like sad stories/movies/books/etc alot. At least when comparing to other contries, further south.

But who knows, everything's changing. sweatdrop  

[Cain_Hargreaves]

Isn't Sweden in the general area where the Nordic mythologies are from? o_O Some of those get pretty gruesome and violent.

But then again, it's very difficult to find a culture that doesn't have some very gruesome and disturbing things in their past belief system. It just kind of goes with human nature itself. There's always that tendancy to break away and do the unimaginable.  

[YaminoSadame]

Vi Sparklemist

I agree.
How come you guys learned hieroglyphs of everything by the way?

Like I said, I had a kit to learn them. It had the known meanings for each glyph, and the different ways to write them.

Every culture has its gruesome tale. When humans get bored, depresed or have extreme emotions they tend to do the unthinkable.  

[Kamikaze Pedestrian]

Cain_Hargreaves

Isn't Sweden in the general area where the Nordic mythologies are from? o_O Some of those get pretty gruesome and violent.

But then again, it's very difficult to find a culture that doesn't have some very gruesome and disturbing things in their past belief system. It just kind of goes with human nature itself. There's always that tendancy to break away and do the unimaginable.

i'm not sure about that. we know about those myths thanks to "eddan", and it's from iceland. and "eddan" and other tales that tells of stories from that time are very violent and gory, that's true.  

[Philomene]

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[Sabarian]

Wow so many people from Sweden. Unfortunatly I am from the US. (and Las Vegas too)  

[Sarielle]

YaminoSadame

I'm from a state in the US that most resedints of the US don't know is a state. xp

You said New Mexico? Lol, sorry, I know this is days and days late (had power failures here at school stressed ) but...how would anyone in the US NOT know New Mexico is a state? I mean...it's part of the Continental US, there with Arizona, lol.

Now granted, I do live in the U.S., and so have a better idea of the geography than someone who didn't live here...but honestly....  

[Momiji-Bunny]

I'm from California, unfortunatly the only Kaori Yuki Manga here is Angel Sanctuary, so I've had to find others online, and my computer is so slow it takes forever to download them! sigh....