Ashley Browne

  Learning Japanese this semester has been super fun. I feel like I learned a lot of new concepts and I have way firmer grasps of the concepts I already learned from Duolingo (lol). Practicing hiragana, katakana, and kanji has all been really fun because I’ve always loved handwriting. It’s so awesome to be able to consumes Japanese media and understand it without translation as well. The classroom environment has been really fun and lively all semester and everyone’s been super nice. My knowledge of Japanese has greatly expanded in a short amount of time and I’m super pleased with my progress. ありがとうございます😊。

  So, I’ve been watching 今日から㋮王 (King From Now On) for like a year now. It’s pretty good but I just like watching it a handful of episodes at a time whenever I’m in the mood. It’s an early 2000s isekai about a young boy named Yuri who gets taken to an alternate magical world (through portals that open up whenever he’s near water), where he’s the all-powerful demon king and he has to learn about this land and how to prevent a war between the demons and the humans. It’s a pretty cute anime with pretty low stakes most of the time and the characters are cool. Since it came out in 2004, however, the animation is pretty bad, but I think that makes it charming. I feel I can understand the Japanese in this anime more easily than when I watch more modern animes (maybe because it’s for a younger audience and the script is pretty simple). I also earned the term 母上 from this anime from the character Wolfram, which is a super formal way of saying mother that I think sounds kinda cool. So yeah ?...