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   RanchanXRyoga93

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   10/17/09

   Hi just wondering what's your favorite Rumiko Takahashi Anime or Manga?Mine has to be Ranma 1/2..but Rinne's very close to it Lol :)
   

   10/17/09

   Reply from jalp:

   Hi -- and thanks for the message! My favorite Takahashi series in either medium is Maison Ikkoku. All the other series I've seen are great, and delightfully crazy in her own special way -- but MI adds a dash more realism to her magic for me. (OTOH, Rinne is just starting -- and off to a very good start, too . . . maybe it will catch MI. But it'll have to go a ways to beat it in my book!)
   

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   sleepyowl

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   08/06/09

   Thanks. :)
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   sleepyowl

   103 Kudos

   08/05/09

   Wow. That's definetly something else. Thanks for sharing! The main reason I was drawn here was because of was not only because I love her works. I was drawn here for a special family member who happens to be my god daughter who just turned nine recently. She became a big Inuyasha fan when I started showing her the anime so now I am here after all sorts of knowledge specifically of the Inuyasha variety so I may hopefully pass on this knowledge to her so when she is old enough to see the rest of the Takahashi works. I can help her out anyway I can for I love it myself as she is growing to love it with time. She is one of my main inspirations for me to pursue more of Takahashi's works. It's funny when she gets good grades at school. I started a reward program by giving her a different inuyasha manga for doing good in school. I mix it to give her a different perspective of the manga and anime. You can say it's passing on the torch to the next generation. It's really nice to be connected in that way especially with something as special as the Rumic works. I love it to no end. It also give me something bond with my god daughter. :)
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   08/06/09

   Reply from jalp:

   That sounds to me like a wonderful connection! Thank you for telling me about it. Good luck to you both!
   

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   sleepyowl

   103 Kudos

   08/02/09

   Ok. Now I have to ask this from reading your posts for a while I heard you taught in Japan...Did that have any influence in deciding to join this site. What bought you here? Did it have something to do with your time in Japan teaching at your school. I believe there is a story in it somewhere and their might be a connection between the two..............I am only curious. Please forgive me for prying. I know you do alot of good work here. I was only wondering about if there was any connections. I will respect you if you don't want to answer. Thanks.

   08/02/09

   Reply from jalp:

   Teaching in Japan and being here have at least a partial common root cause: Takahashi-sensei.
   
   I was interested in going to Japan the first time partly because my youngest sister had just been on a Sister City visit -- and the city where I was living then wasn't active with its Sister City program, so I had to do it myself. This was back in the mid-1980s(!) . . . when there wasn't much in the way of manga or anime around. But I'd been lucky enough to see, at a nearby SF convention, the first episodes of UY and MI . . . so I knew that, when I went to Japan, I'd have to try to visit Takahashi-sensei's home ground of Niigata. And when I got the idea of teaching English in Japan (from a Swedish woman I met on the sidewalks of Nagoya!), and I wrote to all the schools on the Japanese Embassy's list of schools, and got invited to two interviews, I was fairly sure that the place I wanted to work at was the school in . . . Niigata.
   
   And a bit more recently (fairly early this year) -- when I got to thinking about reviving my personal MI translation project -- and I started looking around for places where I might find answers occasionally to a few stray questions, this was one place I found. The people looked friendly and knowledgeable about many things (and curious about many others), so I checked in every once in a while. And then KnR started . . . and I got involved in trying to help figure out when the new chapters were coming, or had come . . . and I stopped just looking and started posting.
   
   Certainly having lived for two years in Japan helped me practice a lot of Japanese language and acquire some cultural knowledge (though I'd be curious to know how far out of date how much of that is by now). And I completed my 15-volume tankôbon set of MI, and bought some volumes of UY and Ranma for some fellow fans back home (though I read them first). And Niigata was a very fun and livable place to be for two years, even if I never did see Takahashi-sensei across a crowded train platform. But it really is true to say that she was one of the big reasons I was there -- and the biggest reason I'm here.
   

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   sleepyowl

   103 Kudos

   07/26/09

   No problem. Thank you kindly. Take care! :)
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