*yawn*

[zimon66]

Want winter to be over and done with!!! I feel like doing nothing but hibernating which is odd because it's been a warm winter here in Reno. Not much snow or coldness for most of it and it's currently raining (at this time of year???!!!!).

Meanwhile, got 3 more *Hellsing doujinshis off of eBay (this includes the one was REALLY wanting) - VERY MUCH looking forward to these coming in the mail because the Valentine Brothers are in them!!! Even better, none are hentai - not that I mind sex-comics but seeing Seras getting banged by a variety of characters in a number of ways gets old fast.

Still haven't sat down and worked on translating. Did do a little "figuring out of Hiragana" but nothing worth reporting on - LOL!!! From what I already know, the Japanese language is going to be loads of "fun" to deal with. Just getting the words into English is only maybe half the battle - there then is sounding out of English mish-mash into actual words and working them into understandable order in a sentence. Think - backwords Dr. Suess with a mouth full of marbles and tripping on acid - LOL!!!

Must go eat now or may start chewing on the keyboard - LOL!!!


*The titles of the 3 Hellsing doujinshis -

1)"Nightmare Garden 1&2" - this is the one I wanted so damn bad!!! It's one of the more popular titles and has been reprinted a few times. Going to do a future post with a link to the artist/author's (Omega 2-D) site.

2)"Green-Eyed Monster" - from what I could tell from the page scan and cover/title, Seras's is jealous of Alucard and she (dressed in her Master's get-up) fights with Luke Valentine (I hope for his sake it ends differently and instead of becoming dogfood get's maybe a smooch from Seras instead).

3)"Kill Two Birds With One Stone" - the page scan had the Valentine Brothers in what looks like some sort of "Odd Couple" set-up.

Comments

[of-salfarro.livejournal.com]

hiragana and katakana are pretty easy to figure out if you use flash cards to memorize and practice reading and writing from some children's exercise book or something. Should take a week to get each down. As for kanji though.. that'll be a little more difficult.

[zimon66]

I found a online site to print-out Hiragana so no problem there. The Kanji however..........well, got a beginner's dictionary that has the SKIP method so MAYBE that'll make things a little easier (HAHAHA, can't believe I actually have a little itty bitty hope on that since it supposedly takes the average Japanese student 9 years to learn Kanji).

Sticking with those two - from what I'm able to tell, the doujinshis are Hiragana and Kanji. My plan is to try and translate any word balloons that have Hiragana only in them.

*Zimon 2 weeks later has a MAJOR breakthru* So Seras's is saying "What?" in this panel - I KNOW WHAT "WHAT" IS IN HIRAGANA!!!!! (LOL).

[of-salfarro.livejournal.com]

well with kanji, the most important thing is to practice reading a writing the basic stuff PROPERLY (proper stroke order and all that).. because once you write properly it makes searching for the kanji in the dictionary a buttload easier and faster.. don't expect to be able to read kanji fluently.. just enough for the basics and lookup... and in many anime/manga the same kanji are used over and over again.

[zimon66]

That's kinda what the SKIP method is - it groups the characters by their particular pattern. There's four groupings - Left-Right, Up-Down, Enclosure, and Solid.

It then goes from there into the number of strokes - wish I had a scanner be so much easier to explain this with visuals. Amazon might have a few pages to review online, the book is "The Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary" by Jack Halpern.

Looking thru the doujinshis, although they're done by different people, the comics appear to use the same characters.

[of-salfarro.livejournal.com]

Don't forget proper stroke order as well!

I believe I have kodansha's dictionary..but thats the one that is still waiting for me to go get it from my Japanese advisor person I believe. I still have to get ahold of that guy...