2008年2月21日木曜日

はじめまして

今週のトピックはインツロヅクッシオンですから、はじめまして。でも、私は友だちに書きました。

本屋ちゃんは一しょに二セメスターの日本語のクラスをとっている友だちです。本屋ちゃんのブログはリリカルスパークですから、そのブログに行ってください。私は本屋ちゃんの高校生の時に日本語をとりませんでしたが、日本語をはなすのが上手だと思います。私は本屋ちゃんはたくさんアニメを見るからと思います。私は本屋ちゃんの一ばんすきな事はコンピューターをつかうと思います。それから、本屋ちゃんは「Art」を作るのが上手だと思います。


バスクさんも一しょに日本語のクラスをてっている友だちです。バスクさんのブログはここです。私はバスクさんはたくさん「Gundam」を見て、よく「Gundam」を話ますから、バスクさんの一ばんすきなアニメは「Gundam」だと思います。しゅうまつにバスクさんは「Go」のクラブに行きます。「Go」はボルど「Board」ゲームです。ここに見てください。

2 件のコメント:

匿名 さんのコメント...

カッパさん、ぼくは日本語もえをかくのも上手だと本とうに思う?ありがとう。

Kappa さんのコメント...

いいえ、本とうよ。

A Kappa Explanation

I'm sure by now some people are confused as to the images I've chosen and the video clip below. The clip below, in case you can't read the rather blurred kanji, is from the anime Gensomaden Saiyuki by Kazuya Minekura. The opening isn't as full of pretty fluorishes and whatnot like the actual episodes are.

Why am I explaining this, you may ask. Well, it all has to do with the kappa nickname that I tend to use - in case you didn't figure the kappa part out by now from the signature on the left. Kappa was the term incorrectly assigned to the Saiyuki character in the original Journey to the West series, Sha Gojyo. Gojyo was a sand demon in the original Buddhist myth about a Sanzo priest traveling to India to meet the Buddha. A kappa, however, is a water demon whose favorite food is cucmbers and who carry water dishes on their heads. This is not Minekura's Gojyo, either.

Still lost? That's good - I'm not there yet. In Kazuya Minekura's version, which is far more of an action and personal discovery piece where the four main characters (five if you count Hakuryuu the dragon who can turn into a Jeep) are trying to prevent Gyumaoh, the Demon King, from being reborn, than a religious treatise (though there are a lot of philosophical aspects and debates buried within it), Sha Gojyo is actually half kappa. You can tell he's not human or demon from his red hair and red eyes. I bet now you know who he is in the clip below.

I got the nickname Kappa from Minekura-san's Gensomaden Saiyuki series, prescribed by a group of friends that seems to perpetuate it regardless of who I'm around - it's actually migrated with me past highschool. Gojyo's personality has some rugged edges, though he's really a big brother type beyond that. He's also the fair bit of a romantic, once you get past the playboy aspect. While there are plenty of differences between myself and Gojyo (mainly the whole he's a guy and I'm not aspect), the name persists.

So, longer than anyone cares, this is your kappa signing off.

Gensomaden Saiyuki