Japanemation

Do you know the word "Japanemation"?
Maybe all of you guys understand what this word meant.
The animation in this country has been achieved more than any other country.
However I didn't realize it since I watched one famous Japanese animation.
It was "Evangelion".

When I was a high school student, one of my friend told me that "Evangelion is great".
She wasn't the type of Otaku, and I was little bit surprised that she said so.
Because I thought that the Evangelion is just "Robot fighting animation", and maybe the story is easy to predict.
But, I was wrong.

Some years later, I started to watch Evangelion. And I was so impressed.
The story was so grand and constructive. There are some elements of religion. It showed one idea of how mankind was born and why we gonna die out.
All of characters shows their difficulty of living in their age. And we can have sympathy with them.

Then, why I think Evangelion is great "Japanemation"?
It is because that they aren't lose the elements of Japan . If you see the title, you can aware of some elements of Japan. For example, they use Japanese old letter such as "ヱ"and "ヲ". And the orders of movie are expressed by "序" and "破". They originally meant the ways of playing Japanese old music instrument and "Noh-play". All name of characters are Japanese, and they aren't living in shelter or spaceship but they living in small japanese style apartment. Actually, the place of this anime is based on Hakone in Kanagawa.

The animation of Evangelion began airing in 1995, and the movies are still continuing untill now. Newest movie "破" was screened in 2009, and the amount sales of this movie was over 5billion yen.
Sometimes people avoid to watch anime, because they think that anime=otaku.
But, "Seeing is believing". If you watched "anime" once, you can understand why Japanemation is such a big sensation.

Moldman the Bellringer in Dublin

I went to see a play "Moldman the Bellringer in Dublin " with my friend Erika.
It was played by Konan-Ichiza that is a drama club in Konan university.
They usually played in Konan university, but in this time, they played in Osaka because they participate in "Osaka Student Drama Festival". And the place was very big.

I think it was great! I know almost of all actor and actress who appeared in this stage, so I was able to understand how they improved. And the script is also good. They used the script that was writed by Hirohito Goto(Not original one), so the story line is clear and interesting.

Their stage in Osaka was finished today. But they gonna play in Novemver 26th and December 3rd in Konan university. If you want to know more about this show, please visit their HP.

JICA

Yesterday, I went to JICA in Osaka with my friend.
We participated  the lecture of Mr.Koji Nakamura(a teacher of Konan university)
I have been intersted in that kind of international organization, then, my friend asked me to go to his lecture.

He did a lecture about Japanese culture and history to 30 people who came from mainly Africa.
Before the lecture, we have to introduce myself in front of them, and actually I felt vey nervous.
But they listened very warmly so I became so relaxed.

The lecture was very interesting. Mr. Koji Nakamura is very funny, but he talked about Japanese war history very seriously. They listened his lecture very carefully.

The lecture in JICA was very good experience for me, and I'm very thankful for him to inviting me.


After the lecture finished, my friends and I went to JICA cafeteria to eat lunch.
It was a buffet day, so we can ate many kinds of foreign foods.

That was great! and it costs only 600yen!
But...we ate too much...haha...

Sweet Halloween!

Halloween day isn't special day for me.
But I'm glad to take chocolate, candy, and some other sweet things!
Here is my result of this halloween↓↓

My English teacher David gave me ： )

On the other day, I went to 31 with my friends, and ate Halloween special ice.

Eating sweets after dinner... it is my rule.


I hope everyone had a sweet day!