Soon there will be a lot of things coming my way. It's gonna be a huge transition for me. I'm heading off to the land of Anime Expo, Otakon and Crunchyroll. You probably knew it from my last post, I'm heading to the States for college. I'll probably post one about my new room and internet after I got there, now I just want to think about what has been going on the past month.
It has been relatively fruitless, no active work, no active study, no active visual novel. I took the JLPT N2 in July, and it was, well harder than the mock test I got. Still I hope I can pass it. The preparation course was certainly helpful, since I got to learn lots of grammar, which I would otherwise never touch.
After the test, I started reading light novels (raw) again, and I was able to read much, much more fluently than before. Studying really helps. I finished the left overs of my impulsive spending in Singapore: Vol 1 of Shinigami no Ballad and Hanbun Tsuki. They were both quite worth a read. That lead me to reading Shinigami no Ballad, and now I'm at Volume 4 (volume 2 is already translated). The story was quite simple, with lots of conversation and furigana, so it's very easy to understand. They are all quite tragedies (or should I say mini tragedies), since you'd probably guessed it from the name, but nevertheless I do enjoy the nakige genre. Another novel that I touched is Accel World, since I was mesmerized by the author's previous work, Sword Art Online. The concept of virtual reality still plays a prominent role in this novel as well, but there's much more interaction and interconnection between that and the real world. Too bad the protagonist is much less GAR, compared to Kirito of SAO. I finished the last parts of volume 1, after the manga and started on 2. This seems to be a promising read.
The last time I checked AnimeCalendar, I was surprised (shocked also) to discover I had been following 10 anime this season. I really had way too much free time. Now it has dropped to about 5 (I think), and hopefully when I got on campus it will stay around there.
Looking at the last post, well it is really quite prophetic. I started working as QC for a group since last week (to say it more accurately I failed the editor test). You can probably find out which group it is easily using google. It is interesting to look at subs in a whole new way, to criticize instead of enjoy. Still it was much more bearable than English A1.
So that's about it. Hope to post next time from the US.
