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For katakana and hiragana, it's more like a different strokes for each "alphabet" (example, "あ" and "ア" are pretty much the same "a" sound, just that the former is the hiragana stroke while the latter is katakana. It's pretty much the case with every other sound) and, they're just used for specific words. Katakana is used for foreign words, so for example, the color orange in japanese is "orenji", which is pretty much orange, so it's written in katakana. On the other hand, hiragana is used for actual japanese words. As an example, purple in japanese is "murasaki", which is a word originated from Japan, so it's written in hiragana. Kanji is a bit more complicated in that it's actually chinese character. I still don't get it fully, or really know what the point of it is.

Considering I only started this year, not very. I can read and write Katakana and Hiragana perfectly (got every one of them memorized), and I also know a few kanji words. The problem is my vocabulary is very limited, and since there's little to no grammar in Japanese, it's the only thing holding me back. (Aside from kanji.)

Me too, me too. Until then though, I have a lot of training to do.
Hell, I'm still flying to New Bark town as we speak. It's gonna be a while.

It'll be a little while before our showdown. Unfortunately Charizard is going back home to take care of mom, and the siblings. Wait until I build my team up though, things are about to get rockin'.

Team Rocket is chips! I'll foil your plans, and leave you wondering why. Watch out for Graham Chandler.

Other than English, I can speak Arabic very fluently. I also know a bit of german, and I take japanese classes in school.

Yeah, but honestly they're just filler after all. You won't miss much from not watching them. here's a list of all the episodes, which details which episode is TV original or based off the manga. Truthfully, there's only one anime original case that I felt was pretty incredible.

You know spanish? That's pretty cool! What languages can you speak?

Did you watch the anime from the start or did you just picked up from where you left off in the manga? haha

Haha I just started watching DC again starting with episode 400 this time. The quality difference between episode 400 and 500 is kinda huge! It feels closer to the older episodes. (It also still uses the jazzy soundtrack.) Interested which episode starts the jump.

I'll check some of them out this weekend. :P

Hey Scyke! Thanks for stopping by, and saying what's up : ) I'm really excited about this RP, it's going to be a lot of fun.

You know, the cases that involves Heiji are always some of the best. Guy is also just likeable.

It gets gradually better with the early seasons. Dunno after that since the huge skip I did. Don't notice any big differences between the episodes in the 500's and the ones in the 600's for the quality.

I vaguely remember something like that, but I can't put my finger on it. It's one of the older episodes, right? Can't say I have watched much of the older episodes with her since she was introduced pretty far in to the series, like episode 129. I stopped watching the old episodes at 187.

She's my favorite female though, especially in cases that aren't important to the plot. Her cold, sarcastic and jaded personality and how she always acts bored and pretends not to care is actually pretty refreshing in a cast full of happy campers. Plus she's a great compliment to Conan's character, particularly for being in the same situation as him. I'm pretty fond of her character design too, young or old. Just looks unique.

That's pretty awesome! What weight class are you? I'm a flyweight in boxing, but I'm trying to gain weight to be a bantamweight. And yeah, my boxing club can go crazy with the training, too.

Gotta have the best character if I want to have a DC avatar. Ai's an acceptable substitute though, but only because she has the best expressions.

Actual amateur matches? Probably never. Sparring matches? Sure. But rarely. It's really all just shadow boxing, mitt training and exercises. I never really used my boxing skills outside of the club, now that I think about it. I did tae kwon do too, before! It was when I was a lazy bum and hated physical activities so my dad forced me to do it, but I hated it. My dad ended up thinking it was just a waste of money when I wasn't learning anything in the end, because I wasn't willing to do anything.

Summer break is coming up though, and there's not a better time then that for fitness. (Aside from Spring break, obviously) I haven't any exams this year so I'm mostly focusing on working out. Jogging every saturday, light work outs every day (push ups, pull ups, squats, etc) and going to the gym every wednesday. I'll probably start going to the gym every monday come june, as well. I actually stopped boxing for a bit to focus on getting healthier and fit.

It's pretty fun though. Probably the best thing about DC, if you ask me.

Oh, do you play in a local club or a team or something? I actually just play it for fun with friends. I'm always a defender, usually a CB, which is what I'm comfortable with. :P The only sport I play seriously is boxing, but it's more of a fitness and self defense thing.

I can't remember if I ever solved one but I usually get a good idea about the case but never the solution. I know when the Mystery Train case was on going I saw people on the DCTP forum go crazy and solve everything left and right. It was pretty ridiculous haha.

I'm actually from Europe but here in Ireland we call it soccer for some reason. Soccer is one sport that I'd rather play myself than watch, so I don't really support a team per se. (I don't mind watching it though.)

I generally like bigger cases (a reason why I prefer the newer episodes, because the older cases usually just come and go), so that's good to hear. The bigger the case, the more entertaining it is and also more fun trying to solve on your own. Speaking of which, I actually wonder if I'm the only one who does that, as ridiculous and unrealistic as the cases almost always are haha.

I'll probably watch one or two down the road, most likely the latest one since I like soccer.

Yeah it's fairly recent (last june), and it's actually a pretty important case so it'd be better if I don't go on details about it. Pretty sure it's the next manga case for the anime too.

I've been meaning to watch the crossover movie with Lupin III but I never got around it. I always forget about the movies haha. Are they any good, anyway?

I don't think it really matters how long you have been here.

I actually only got really into it last year. I wanted to watch all the episodes starting from the beginning but I got really bored around episode 187 so I stopped there and jumped on to episode 505 or so and ended up liking it a lot better. The new episodes are much better, but I do miss the jazz soundtrack. I followed the manga with the cases that still haven't got episodes but I stopped watching and reading after the train mystery case last june for some reason. I'm planning to get back to it now that I've got a lot of free time haha.