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Not dead... I've been working, though, which kills all my energy so that I can't use my free time as well as I'd like, and I've had more than my share of work-related trouble anyway to occupy whatever time/energy is left. >.<
That, and I haven't been watching much anime or following new manga, so there's nothing much for me to post in my anime/manga blog. The bare minimum I can do is to keep up with my usual stable of mostly shonen series (Bleach, Naruto, Reborn, Claymore, Bakuman, Fairy Tail, and Vampire Knight, with smatterings of Until Death Do Us Part). Maybe it's a sign that I've moved on to obsess over other things, but I haven't started a new series worth blogging about in a while.
I'm somewhat worried about not watching anime, because I'm sure if I decide to continue on to Japanese Third-Year, my sensei-tachi are going to be upset at me for the utter deterioration of my skills over the summer. The problem with reading scanlated manga versus watching subbed anime is that at least with subs, you get the benefit of hearing the original language, so you can learn a lot of vocabulary that way. But if you're reading scans, most of the time the only original language that remains are the sound effects they couldn't white out. You'll be good at interpreting Japanese onomatopoeia, I guess, but there's no other practical benefits.
Every so often, though, a scanlation translator will bungle the translation in a really weird way, and that's when it helps to know the original language so you can unravel what might've happened. But those are pretty subtle errors, usually, and unless you cross-reference with the raw Japanese, it's sometimes hard to figure out what might've gone wrong.
That, and I haven't been watching much anime or following new manga, so there's nothing much for me to post in my anime/manga blog. The bare minimum I can do is to keep up with my usual stable of mostly shonen series (Bleach, Naruto, Reborn, Claymore, Bakuman, Fairy Tail, and Vampire Knight, with smatterings of Until Death Do Us Part). Maybe it's a sign that I've moved on to obsess over other things, but I haven't started a new series worth blogging about in a while.
I'm somewhat worried about not watching anime, because I'm sure if I decide to continue on to Japanese Third-Year, my sensei-tachi are going to be upset at me for the utter deterioration of my skills over the summer. The problem with reading scanlated manga versus watching subbed anime is that at least with subs, you get the benefit of hearing the original language, so you can learn a lot of vocabulary that way. But if you're reading scans, most of the time the only original language that remains are the sound effects they couldn't white out. You'll be good at interpreting Japanese onomatopoeia, I guess, but there's no other practical benefits.
Every so often, though, a scanlation translator will bungle the translation in a really weird way, and that's when it helps to know the original language so you can unravel what might've happened. But those are pretty subtle errors, usually, and unless you cross-reference with the raw Japanese, it's sometimes hard to figure out what might've gone wrong.