Hola todas las personitas!

Hola a todos,

Este es mi primer post en español,  XD (ya lo han de saber, CLARAMENTE)

Espero que estén todos bien, que ojalá ustedes si hayan descansado en sus “vacaciones” de semana santa, no los hayan desmadrugado, ni desvelado, ni hayan tenido que quedarse haciendo tareas -_- .

Aunque sé que simplemente no tiene nada que ver con lo que se trata el blog: comics asiáticos.

Y ahorita mismo debería estar haciendo tarea que no hice porque me quedé dormida dos horas :S ,

Lo que hace desvelarse el día anterior haciendo tareas….

Anyway! (Como sea!)

BLOOD  C

También la vez pasada quería hacer una entrada en español sobre otras páginas que igual tratan comics asiáticos, pero más que recomendaciones, son sponsors y releasers de los comics, es decir son grupos que compran (y lo escanean o consiguen el raw) el comic, para posteriormente editar, traducir, publicar, y permitir que lleguen a nuestras tan “preciadas” computadoras personales o de escritorio frente a nosotros para que podamos leer tan bellas o geniales historias creadas por personas en otra parte del mundo (en la cual la mayoría de nosotros no tenemos los recursos para ir, lo que es ser pobre TT_TT).

América Latina estilo Hetalia

Este blog me gustaría también hacerlo algo personal, pues creo ya había explicado, que este blog fue originalmente creado con el simple propósito escolar de cumplir con un proyecto semestral de mi clase de  High Level IB English. Para nosotros en México (algunas regiones) sólo le decimos las clase de Inglés Avanzado BI, punto, no la llamamos Superior, a como mate o física en BI: Mate Nivel Medio, Mate Nivel Superior;  a muchos compañeros les dio miedo saber que llevábamos inglés en nivel superior igual que lengua y literatura de lengua hispana, xD . Para aquellas criaturas que no sepan bien que es BI o IB, estas son Bachillerato Internacional o International Baccalaureate en inglés; soy actualmente una IB student, pero pienso regresar a Bachillerato Bicultural, y estoy haciendo mi EE(Extended Essay) o Monografía en Física :D , aunque llevo Ambientales ¬_¬ .
El proyecto consistió en crear un blog de tema libre y crear publicaciones semanales si era posible, y una vez al mes debíamos hacer una investigación de ese tema más profunda, de un cierto rango de palabras, con citas MLA, y todo ese mugrerío. Ejemplo de estos son los posts de CLAMP y el de la SHOUNEN JUMP. Aunque ya igual, al final, el último parcial el profe ya ni checaba las entradas, le valieron e igual nos ponía 100, xD , que triste. (nota extra: en Facebook existe una página de IB memes, están geniales, más los de historia ns, mate ns, TOK, y física ns.)

esto me pasó con H.P.

Más ahora, como ya hace meses que terminó el semestre pasado, y este semestre ya está casi en su término, pues empezé a publicar otras cosas tales como Cómo llegué a conocer los Comics Asiáticos (en inglés). Repito para mí, debería estar haciendo tarea, no he terminado ESCUCHA ni OP, la tarea #5 de mate, el proyecto de Info, y me faltan 400 palabras de Mono -_- .  Oh, y al fin empecé a leer Harry Potter, nunca había visto una película completa y nunca había leído un solo libro; los empecé hace un mes, leo un libro por semana, pero creo que estos últimos me tomarán dos, porque eso me ha llevado la Orden del Fénix, y voy a comenzar el capítulo 22.

Regulus, Severus, Lupin, James, Sirius, Peter, Lily, Lucius.

Aunque viéndolo de otro lado, leo los libros alternos en inglés y español, así que practico mi lectura y comprensión en ambos idiomas. Y si bien, obvio me puse a buscar cómo eran los personajes en la película (no he visto las película aún), y pues encontré fotos de los personajes en estilo anime, obvio ahí va el fanatismo Otaku, :B , y nunca puede faltar alguna chica yaoísta o chico yurísta que sube una foto estilo yaoi-hentai o yuri-hentai de los personajes.

Ahora creo que debería irme a dormir, pero igual aquí anda mi hermano escuchando musica felizmente, xD . Sé que vos no os incumben mis propios problemas y pensamientos, aunque de igual manera los pongo :P .

Pero bueno, aún sigo sin laptop (se volvió a ‘fregar’, el disco duro, y la tarjeta del internet inalámbrico).

Muchas gracias a aquellos que leen este blog medio abandonado, medio sin-sentido, x3 .

Que tengan una bonita semana, espero que les vaya muy bien, terminen sus deberes a tiempo, puedan tener tiempo de esparcimiento, pues Dios les bendiga (si creen en Dios, sino ignoren el comentario), y yo me despido. :3 nyaaa~!

PD/PS : les dejo unas bonitas fotos photoshopeadas de One Piece y Star Wars. (Now I leave you here some photoshoped pictures of One Piece and Star Wars.)

More Japanese Terminology (found on FB)

Hello everyone,

How are you?

I'm sure you are somehow happy because it’s already December. 

That means that Christmas is coming! yeah!!!!(obviously if you're going to attend to parties, or you are going to travel, or receive gifts)

          Anyway, leaving that aside. Yesterday I found in a Facebook group called OCGM,NL(Otakus, Cosplayers y Gamers de Monterrey, Nuevo León/Otakus, Cosplayers, and Gamers of Monterrey, Nuevo Leon) an interesting picture explaining more terms people who doesn't know about Japanese culture critic or misjudge sometimes(at least here in Mexico). the picture is in Spanish, but I'm going to explain in English what it says below.

Ok, here I go...

"This is not just comic, is 'Manga' Ò_Ó

This is not a cartoon, is 'Anime' Ò_Ó

This is not a costume, is 'Cosplay' Ò_Ó

This is not fetishism, is 'Moe' Ò_Ó

This is not lesbianism, is 'Yuri' Ò_Ó

This is not perverted, is 'Hentai' Ò_Ó

This is not erotic, is 'Ecchi' Ò_Ó

This is not pedophile, is 'Lolicon' Ò_Ó

This is not incest, is 'Kinshinsoukan' Ò_Ó

This is not gay, is 'Yaoi' Ò_Ó

This is not bloody, is 'Gore' Ò_Ó

This is not a bipolar girl, is 'Tsundere' Ò_Ó

This is not robot, is 'Mecha' Ò_Ó

This is not drawing, is 'Doujinshi' Ò_Ó

This is not schizophrenic girl, is 'Yandere' Ò_Ó

This is not sexual aberration, is 'Eroguro' Ò_Ó

This is not a sexual videogame, is 'Eroge' Ò_Ó

This is not Chinese, is 'Japanese' Ò_Ó

And the most important: I'm not a freak; I'm an 'Otaku'.

If you're proud of being an otaku click 'Like'. "

         Well, as you had seen, the term bloody and gore in English is really related, if not, the same. The only diffenrence would be the pronunciation. But in Spanish those are really different things, so it was written like that, XD

         Another thing,  the terms tsundere and yandere, which are very common in mangas, i didn't explained them in my first post. as it is mentioned at the picture, Tsundere is a term for mention a bipolar girl, and Yandere is used for call 'schizophrenic girl'. Tsundere is just used in that way, but Yandere is more refered to milti-facetious girls instead of schizophrenic girls.
        The term Moe is used to refer to girl, to 'the ideal type of girl', kawaii girls. It is usually used on cute and a little bit weak, clumsy girls; with a hot body, and a nice voice.(At least this is my perception.) That's why it is somehow a fetichism.(check this to know more about this word).
         Kinshisoukan is another common terms, specielly for those who like ecchi and hentai, but as I don't like incest I usually don't use it. :P
         Lolicon is used as we use the term Lolita Complex in the western world, to refer to ecchi/hentai of young girls and pedophile of those who like those genres.

         The rest os the terms that can be read upward, had been explicated in my first post of all, so if you have any question you can read it clicking here or you may ask leaving a comment.

Thanks for reading, Arigatougozaimashita!

GBU, have a nice week.

Sayounara Minna!

PS: right now in this computer I'm not able to write in Japanese. -_-

How did I got to know Asian comics...

Hello bloggers!

And everyone, how are you?,

as every single time before I wish you are well and healthy, XD

right now I'm somehow happy because yesterday was the last day of classes, but that doesn't mean that is my last day of the semester, which is really sad T_T

I do also watch anime when I should be doing something else

Anyway! Today I'm not really going to introduce another Asian comic, because all the pictures and information I've been collecting is on the stupid mac, right now I'm using my brother's and father's computer ¬,¬

and on Saturday I was checking how many words my computer could write in one minute, and oh! surprise! it wrote approximately from 5 to 8 words per minute, I checked that while trying to leave a message in Facebook at a FB group wall(to do so, it took me 26 minutes :S).

I need to change my computer, and the guarantee is from the US, but it could also be possible to change it here in Mexico as a Best Buy was opened on the past weekend :D

      In this post I'm going to still talk about Asian comics, but not like in the past in which I make a recommendation, xD

instead today I'll talk about myself and how I got fascinated by Asian comics, obviously of how much I like them and how did i got to know they existed :P.

      First of all(before talk about myself), the way most of the people in the Western world get to know the Asian comics is by Anime and Manga(Japanese cartoons and comics). Japanese culture is really advertised by American and European TV channels. Here in Latin America the Japanese stuff come from the US(and maybe from Canada), if in the US something results being popular, it does come to Mexico or Colombia(countries in which TV stations make the translations/dubbed) and then to the rest of Latin America. (I don't know the situation in Europe.)

Shugo Kyara!(guardian character). Amu and Ikuto

      Obviously that's the way I got to know Asian comics. In my life, when I was younger(12 years), I usually spent time in the internet chatting on MSN or watching videos on YouTube. Once I was watching a video of Winx Club there(I was a huge fan on winx), and in the video it have scenes of Sailor Moon, Tokyo Mew Mew(Mew Mew Power), Mermaid Melody(PichiPichiPitch), Winx Club, and Shugo Chara! *o*

I had already known of all those animes and I didn't care for anything except Winx Club, but Shugo Chara! caught my attention and I started to search for more videos of shugo chara on YouTube and tried to watch the anime. When I found the first episode subtitled, I watched it, and I loved it. From there I started to watch anime, knowing it was Japanese Cartoon and not a "Chinese cartoon" as everybody would call it in Mexico(here anybody or anything that have Asiatic features or characteristics is called "Chinese"). :B

Death Note manga

      A year passed until I started to watch another anime, which is really popular, but I actually think it sucks, NARUTO. I started to watch it on summer when I was 13 when my brother was watching TV, I was passing by and found it interesting. Some months passed until I started to watch more anime, it was when I was finishing my first year of middle or secondary school and I discovered I had a cousin which was otaku, but with whom I never talked with. She introduced me to this world by recommending me more animes to watch: CLANNAD, Rosario+Vampire, Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles(which two years later she told me to never read :/ ), and many others.

As time passed I watched those animes she recommended me, and obviously I started to watch more by my own way. I got somehow caught and becoming more interested in those, as Japanese anime stories weren't as repetitive as Mexican stories, not even in love, and those didn't always have a happy ending(some were more realist). ^_^

      I didn't started to read manga until the next year, in which by May(I think so), I was watching NARUTO Shippuden, and I found most of the anime was a filler, so I started for search for the original story in the manga, and that's how I just started to read to know more about NARUTO, and also because the manga had more episodes than the anime.

The Sexy Simpleton Manhwa

Sometime later I found some manga webpages(which some are listed at the very bottom of this blog) and started to read some mangas of the animes I watched first, as Rosario+Vampire(I usually call it by its original name, Rosario to Banpaia). From there I started to read more and more mangas, until it came the moment in which I didn't like to watch animes anymore, in the same way I preferred to read many books instead of watching movies or TV. :D

It was when I was 15 I found the existence of Korean comics, in which I did also got fascinated, the first story I read was Love in the Mask, it was in the HOT section of most manga webpages and the picture and summary make it looks interesting. As in manga, I started to read manhwas in that way until I discovered more and more. Some mangas and manhwas were recommended to me by school friends whom I didn't knew they liked to read Asian comics, and watch anime. :X

      The first time I read a manhua was briefly described in Knight Princess post, because it was the first time I read a manhua because I thought it was from a Japanese mangaka whose stories I liked, and I discovered it was really Chinese until I read the name of the author. This happened when I was in second semester of High School.

      Right now, I'd read many stories, still reading some ongoing series, and have in waiting list many others. All this began four years ago, and I wonder why I feel like it happens way much time. I started with Shugo Chara! when it was October in my first Middle School year, now I'm almost 17 and finishing my 3rd High School semester. :)

3:00 am Danger Zone Manga

      But anyway, that's how life is. I wish you had liked to read my story. Maybe other time I'll publish some social conflicts most of the fanatics to Asian culture face with society, the most problematic is Parents and Friends(in which you discover who really is and who really is not your friend, and who does easily accept it, and who not).

Thanks for reading. have a nice weekend, I wish you had liked the post, GBU, goodbye.

(Sorry if something that's written in the post doesn't make sense in English, I'm still learning, xD).

PS: People, don't stop eating or making your chores for reading. It is not good for your health. I'm saying this because I'd done this while reading some really interesting mangas and manhwas. .-.

Terminology and Introduction

Hi everybody,
this is the first post of all, xD
here I’m just going to introduce myself and give you some important terminologies for read Asian comics, specially Japanese(that are the most popular) and Korean(also popular); Chinese, Thai, and Vietnamese comics are not often seen so there's no exactly terminology for those.

I'm Berenice Milán, Mexican,
I am not otaku, but I like it, and I understand the otaku obsession for 2D.
I have been called otaku by some friends, but I think I am not, that I still have long way to go :)
I don't usually watch anime because I don't really like TV, but I love to read, so I am a manga, manhwa, and manhua fan.
I don't like hentai, yaoi and yuri, I think my mind could become scum. I usually read Shounen, Shoujo, Gore(I’m a sadist), and Koma, I think those are cool(specially gore :B ).
I’m a Lolita fan, but I’m not Lolita, I think it doesn't fit me, also I’m not that feminine.

However, I wish you could like my blog, and the things I’m going to post on it. :3

Have a nice day everybody, and good-bye. :D GBU !!!

if there was something you didn’t understand here is the terminology:

Japanese Terminology:

Otaku: a person obsessed with something, but we use it to refer just to Anime and Manga fans

Anime: from animation, we use it to refer to Japanese animations(cartoons)

Manga: Literally Comic, but we use it to refer to Japanese comics

Mangaka: a person who works in drawing manga

Shoujo: young girl(also referring to the genre)

Shounen: young boy(also referring to the genre)
Josei: a sub-genre of Shoujo, targeted to the young female adult readers/audience.
Seinen: a sub-genre of Shounen, targeted to the young male adult readers/audience.

Mecha: the mechanical genre

Koma: is the humorist genre(there's also the 4-Koma)

Kodomo: Kids(also referring to the genre)

Mahou-Shoujo: Magical girl(also referring to the genre)

Gore/Guro: bloody(also referring to the genre)

Nakama: Mates, Friends, Comrade.

Tomodachi: Friend

Bishounen: pretty boy

Bishoujo: pretty girl

Ecchi: Erotic(also referring to the genre), in mangas or anime it can be used also Ero.

Hentai: Pervert(also referring to the genre)

Yaoi: love between man-man, Gay(also referring to the genre)

Yuri: Lilium, love between woman-woman, Lesbian(also referring to the genre)

Nihon/Nippon: Japan

Sayounara: Good Bye

Konnichiwa: Good Evening/Hello

Ohayou: Good Morning

Konbanwa: Good Night/Late Evening

Baka: stupid/idiot

Akuma: Devil
Doijinshi: is the Japanese term for self-published works, usually magazines, manga or novels; they are often works of amateurs. 

(name)-san: it could be Mrs., Mr., or miss

(name)-chan: it is used to refer to a person you're familiar with, it is more used referring to children and girls(it could also be (name)-chi)

(name)-kun: it is used to refer a person whom you know, but not very close to you, it is more used on boys.

(name)-sensei: sensei is teacher

(name)-senpai/sempai: someone older than you or with more experienced in something than you, whom you respect.

(name)-dono: an authority with whom you're subjected or that you just simply respect and is not married.

(name)-sama: is an authority like a chief, a president, gods. also fans call their idol -sama.

onee-san: older sister

onii-san: older brother

imouto: younger sister

itouto: younger brother

Kawaii: pretty, cute, adorable, or dear.

Ganbaru: A word of encouragement: Hang in There!, Go! (it may also be in other verb tense: ganbatte, ganbatta, ganbare)

Gomen/gomenasai: sorry/I’m sorry

Etto: is like saying "mmmm…." in a conversation when you think or are in blank.

Sake: rice wine

Hime: Princess

Ojou: young master

Onegai: Please

Youkai: Monster or demon(reffering to supernatural like vampires, werewolves, sirens, etc.)

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Artículo original: The 100 most essential words in anime.

Korean Terminology:

Oppa: Older Brother, Used only by girls

Hyung: Older brother, Used only by boys

Unnie: Older Sister, used only by girls

Noona: Older Sister, used only by boys
(name)-ssi: is like using -san in japanese

Hyungnim: Gang members use it to refer to their Gang leader

Sunbae: used in both genders as a term of respect for upperclassmen

Sunsengnim: teacher
Ahjussi: Old Man 
Ahjuma: Old Woman

http://www.mangahere.com/manga/love_in_the_mask/v14/c103/