Sunday, September 20, 2015

Still Waiting on the End

Kingdom Hearts is an action role-playing-game series that I have loved since the first installment came out back in 2002. It is a very unique game because it is essentially the product of a crossover between the Final Fantasy series and various Disney characters and stories. The only problem that I find with this series is that since the second main installment came out in 2006, the third main installment still has not received a release date! Granted the series has lived on through various mini installments on various handheld consoles (PSP, Nintendo DS and 3DS), no information on the next main installment was released until E3 2013. Although short the teaser trailer got me incredibly excited.
 I have always loved this game but as I got older I grew to appreciate its unique nature. It has many similar features to the Japanese RPG series Final Fantasy as it is made by the same company yet it's Japanese influences never overshadow the Disney stories that it retells throughout the various games. On top of that, the story is also unique and convoluted which is another thing that makes it great. It is not simply the main character invading Disney stories, it has its own plot and new characters that work in harmony with both Disney and Final Fantasy characters. The finale to the story that has been building up for over a decade now is only a couple years away at this point and I cannot wait to get my hands on the final game.

Tuesday, September 15, 2015

My routine

これわわたしのroutineです。
ぼくはくらすにいきます。あさごはんをたべます。ごごにじにほんごのくらすをいきます。にほんごのじゅくだいをします。ごごごじはんばんごはん。ごごしちじべんじょします。ごぜんじゅいちじしょわあをあびます。ごぜにちぼくわねます。

Sunday, September 6, 2015

First Try at Typing Hiragana

はじめまして。わたしわMartinezです。あめりかじんです、 にねんせいでう。わたしの せんこわ いがくです。


Most of the Japanese media that I consume comes in the form of anime or video games so it is not very surprising that a song I really like I first heard in an anime.
I heard that song from Naruto and its one of the only songs that I liked as its own thing rather than it being associated with Naruto. The only aspect of the song that I do not like is that I understand absolutely none of it. It could be saying the sappiest or most vulgar things but I have no idea nor do I really care. I enjoy the song despite not knowing what it says. As much as I like this song, the thing I want to introduce is the anime that first exposed me to anything Japanese and that is Dragon Ball Z.

Dragon Ball Z continues the story of Goku from Dragon Ball as he starts his family and discovers his true origins. He is revealed to be a Saiyan, a now extinct warrior race, and throughout the course of his new adventures he faces fearsome villains that threaten to destroy everything that he holds dear. He is determined to not only protect those he cares about but also to be the strongest that he can possibly be. This anime was a large part of my childhood and was one of the main reasons why I became so interested in Japanese culture. Dragon Ball Z ended quite some time ago but Goku's story has recently been continued through the release of Dragon Ball Super which I am very excited to see as it releases.