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出身の有名なものについて

私はフィリピンのイロコス・ノルテ州のバタックで生まれました。バタックは小さくて、五万人ごろの人が住んでいる町だけど、フィリピンで本当に特別で有名な所です。そこでフィリピン歴史の大事なヒーローがたくさん生まれましたから、フィリピン人はバタックに「傑士の出身」と呼びます。たとえばフィリピン・インディペンデント・チャーチのグレゴリオ・アグリパイ師やフィリピン軍隊の父のアーテミオ・リカート大将はバタックから来ました。

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First UVA Anime Club Showing This Semester

After canceling last week’s showing due to football, I have finally done the job I was elected to do; take several hours out of my weekend to show club members anime. This will be my second year doing this job even though this has only been my second year attending college. Actually I sort of …

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Permanent link to this article: https://honya-ch.com/2008/09/07/first-uva-anime-club-showing-this-semester/

Starting Intermediate Japanese

For those who have been reading Lyrical Spark! for a while now, you know that it originally started as my blog for elementary Japanese. This year however I decided to keep my class blog separate but at the end of the year, Lyrical Spark will probably end up cannibalizing it so that I don’t have …

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Permanent link to this article: https://honya-ch.com/2008/08/31/starting-intermediate-japanese/

Happy Birthday Miku!

YAY! It’s been a whole year since our virtual singing idol made her debut and started one of the coolest otaku crazes in recent memory. I’ve tried playing with the Vocaloid 2 software but my lack of musical composition training means I can’t participate in the fun of making new songs for Miku. Still I …

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日本語を勉強している理由

子供の時日本に住んでいたので、昔から日本文化にきょうみがあって、日本語を学びたかったです。でもアメリカ人のアパートに住んでいましたから、日本語をぜんぜんならいませんでした。あまり分からなかったけど、あそこで子供のアニメを見たり、日本のおんがくを聞いたりしましたから、日本文化が大好きになりました。

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Permanent link to this article: https://honya-ch.com/2008/08/30/nihongo-wo-benkyoushiteiru-riyuu/

Touhou Subterranean Animism Fanart

After playing TH11, I’ve decided that it features some of the weirdest-looking characters in Touhou yet, so I had to draw my own versions.

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iDOLM@STER Fraulein Revoltechs

Time for my first real figure post ever! Today i will be presenting my three Snow Strawberry iDOLM@STER Frauleins. Everyone seems to be familiar with Max Factory’s line of articulate Figmas yet I rarely hear about Kaiyodo’s posable alternatives. Since I own three Fraulein‘s and have had experience with Figmas, I’ll be making comparison’s between …

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Lyrics: I Want to Shout Out “I Love Yuri” Yamai ver.

[Nico Nico Link][DDL] Since I’m still on my yuri high after watching Marimite, I felt like romanizing the lyrics to the very relevant song Yuri ga Suki da to Sakebitai. Unfortunately my rusty Japanese sucks so I can’t provide a decent translation for the song at this time. Enjoy this wonderful song anyways:

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Maria-sama ga Miteru: 3 Series, 3 Days

Gokigenyou~ After four and a half years I have finally jumped onto the Marimite bandwagon and watched the entire anime within the span of a few days. My conclusion: Pure Awesome. Marimite is quite possibly my favorite shoujo series ever; it is heavily character-based and lacks the sexual aspects that many seinen yuri series tend …

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Beginner’s CG Tutorial

This tutorial assumes that you have already drawn something so let’s do that first. I prefer to draw on paper and redraw the lines in my computer but you can just draw directly in PhotoShop. In general, you want the size of your image to be at least twice as large as the size you …

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