This Is Zack.

[amarissia]

And, uh, sorry for the whispering, but if one of you guys could maybe alert the authorities that Amarissia will not stop video-stalking my voice, that would be awesome and I will reward you with

MY journal, Zack! Mine! And stop acting like I'm torturing you. I am learning. Language study, etc.

Zack: "Are not. You have no idea what he's saying."

I do! Thus far, in the space of one video, I have learned that your voice does Godzilla impressions, likes bread, something about an amusement park, then there was a long discourse on how dogs like to be walked? HEE HEE HEE, I guess you'd know.

Zack: *pout*

Hmm, it seems to be from that odd Choujin Tights show that documents your voice's short attention span and hobby of flailing about like a lunatic in public. The best part is that no one thinks this is odd. People walk by and don't even double-take. If Suzuken came here and re-enacted his epic battle against an insect in public, he would really alarm passersby. And the Choir would alarm him. It would be a vicious cycle, Genesis would get Gackt in trouble, blah blah blah. Moving on.

Zack: "Can we not move on?"

These are important tidbits of information, Zacky. Yike, Suzuken talks sooo fast. I love the sound of his voice and he's my favorite for testing my translation skills, but he makes it difficult.

Zack: "You hear me talk all the time, don't we sound the same?"

He laughs more. He is auditory Prozac. Also, Suzuken is apparently concerned about giants, he thinks potatoes are awesome, and he has strong feelings about butter, although I can't say with certainty whether they're positive or negative. Huh. See, this is good, by comparison it makes kanji look less brain-breaking. Onward!

Zack: "Angeeeeeal, make her stoooop!"
Angeal: *smiling at screen*
Zack: "Gah, you're no help."

Comments

[tofusama.livejournal.com]

Potatoes ARE awesome. Point for Suzuken~

[amarissia.livejournal.com]

They are...but he was REALLY going on about them, and that led into the butter thing. *giggle* He is so incredibly Zack that it kills me, especially when he laughs...

[tofusama.livejournal.com]

He is rather adorable, isn't he :3

[amarissia.livejournal.com]

The sight of him makes me smile no matter how down I am. :)

[ravensilver.livejournal.com]

Zack, give the journal back!

Drama CDs and videos are perfectly acceptable methods for learning Japanese. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the contents. Nothing. It's the words, we're listening for... Right, Amarissia?

*eyes shelf full of yaoi Drama CDs*

Potatoes are the best there are... ;)

[amarissia.livejournal.com]

Precisely! I am testing my acquisition of vocabulary!

Zack: "You can do that without stalking my voice." *cringes away from magickal shelf of BL goodness*

BTW, has Cloud been causing you any trouble? I know he's been sneaking away every so often to "say hello to the butterflies", as he explains it. :)

[ravensilver.livejournal.com]

Zack, you just don't understand. We need *special* voices to help us learn the language. It makes it *sooo* much easier to listen to. *waves CDs in Zack's direction*

No, Cloud's been good. Really sweet, actually. He just sits and watches. I bring him a soda occasionally, but he's so caught up in the butterflies that he doesn't really notice. :)

[amarissia.livejournal.com]

Zack: *is slightly mollified* "It's all weird, though. My voice is either bouncing around like a - "
Angeal: "Puppy?" *smile* "They do seem to be very alike."
Zack: " - or making...noises." *blush*

:) That sounds like Cloud...it's hard to get his attention away from butterflies. Thank you for looking after him...and if you ever find him asleep, just signal Sephy, who will probably be watching anyway, and he'll come get him.

[robonun.livejournal.com]

You need kanji to know where you are? Does it look like this? 女性用の刑務所

>.> Ah, Google Translate, where have you been all my life. Now I can be annoying in more languages than just three or four.

[amarissia.livejournal.com]

Kanji! *brain shuts down* ...Zack?

Zack: "Nope."

Cloudy?

Cloud: *squint* "Um, what's it called? A locked-up place, with bars. For girls, though, so I couldn't come along if you went there."

A prison? LOL, yes, but the prison is in my own mind and it's made up of characters that start off deceptively simple and then progress to dear Gaia that one has 20 strokes! *twitch*

*pout* Google translate is MEAN, it totally fails when I try to read Russian Mirage of Blaze translations! *kicks it*

:) I was on a Japanese video site, so I had no idea what anything said. Hold on...I'm still there. Send an intervention team.

[robonun.livejournal.com]

Yeah, for short phrases GT is okay IF you're careful about double-checking meanings. Full sentences give hilarious results. Okay for browsing blogs, not so good for more complex stuff.

Take pity on Zack and practice with anime or NHK, will you? Once in a while? I don't want to find him shivering on my doorstep one morning crying "save me from the stalker lady." Especially since I know Angeal won't be far behind with a huge-ass sword.

[amarissia.livejournal.com]

Zack: "But then she makes us watch Tenchijin, or Mirage of Blaze. So many...gay samurai." *twitches*
Angeal: *hugs*

[robonun.livejournal.com]

Here lies the real reason why Commodore Perry could open Japan to the West. It wasn't because of superior technology, it was because the leadership were all busy banging each other like screen doors in hurricanes.

[amarissia.livejournal.com]

And the real reason for wanting Japan opened up - "Come out with your hands up and hand over your superior pornings!" :)

[chalkbutterfly.livejournal.com]

Sorry, Zack, but which authorities should we alert? Besides, if we turn her in, they might come after us! *hides*
I agree with you on the kanji count. Furigana are lifesavers. I find breaking them up into chunks helps, but they really do suck.

[amarissia.livejournal.com]

Zack: "Alert anyone! Tell my voice to watch out for her! AND GENESIS!"
Angeal: "Calm down, Puppy."

I heart furigana. If only it was everywhere...*sigh*

[chalkbutterfly.livejournal.com]

But for me to get close enough to your voice to warn him would defeat the purpose, as I would then start with the fangirling. So really, you're stuck with the lesser of two evils!
All manga should have furigana. And all books. Hell, they should just write everything in hiragana with small kanji above it. And then include the english translation for the foreigners.

[amarissia.livejournal.com]

YES! Exactly! That way the Japanese could have their precious foreigner-scaring kanji, but we could communicate more easily. THIS IS BRILLIANT, WHY HAS NO ONE MADE IT SO?!

Zack: "Genesis and Amarissia are always the greater evil, no matter what fangirls you compare them to."
Genesis: "Why are you so meeeeeean? It's not like I'm planning to hurt anyone, the handcuffs are padded, see?"

[chalkbutterfly.livejournal.com]

We could hold Suzumura Kennichi hostage until the Japanese give in to our demands! That way, everyone wins! Well, except for poor SuzuKen, but as Gen said, the handcuffs will be padded!

[amarissia.livejournal.com]

Genesis: "EXCELLENT IDEA." *cackles, twirls silk rope*
Zack: "No! I don't want to hear you doing dirty things to my voice!"
Angeal: "I wouldn't let anything bad happen to your voice, Puppy."

We could nab Sakurai Takahiro while we're at it, so Suzuken won't be lonely. Cloud's been wanting to meet his voice, anyway.

Cloud: "We could have a tea party, and we can tell each other all about all our cousins that we've met! And he can meet Patrick and Silverstream!"
Sephy: *smile*

[chalkbutterfly.livejournal.com]

He said he didn't want to hear, not that we couldn't. If we gag him, Zack won't hear a thing!
Oh, we must nab him too! And Kazuhiko Inoue, and Gackt! All the Japanese voice actors!
And we can get Vic Mignona while we're at it! ^-^

[amarissia.livejournal.com]

Genesis: "Aw, but if we gag him, we don't get to hear him make naughty sounds, and he's so good at it."

HEE, now we just need a place big enough to comfortably accomodate all these people. A few translators too, since the Choir will probably refuse to help. YAY! Suzuken and Sakurai can do their radio show live from our prison location! Squee, and if we have Inoue Kazuhiko, we can make him and Suzuken do naughty Zangeal voices! The possibilities are endless!

(Gackt will probably take it all in stride. Genesis will convince him to join us, then stick him with the blame when the SWAT team arrives.)

Poor Vic, he'd be traumatized in two seconds. Genesis said something about getting a Roy Mustang costume... :)

[chalkbutterfly.livejournal.com]

We should also kidna*cough*borrow the staff who amde Crisis Core and make them rewrite it so it's full of yaoi hotness and fluff, with a bit of Hojo-killing on the side!

[amarissia.livejournal.com]

YES! But Hojo's voice wouldn't last long with Sephy around...he'd have to do his recording in hiding...

[chalkbutterfly.livejournal.com]

But we could make Hojo's voice actor say loads of lines! Like "Sephiroth, what are you doing with theat test tube? No, wait, put that *gurgle*" And the like.