Blog Reflection....post #12

When this Unit first started i didn't like it very much. Everytime i chose a topic , i ended up not liking it and changing it. I think i changed my topic about 5 times :P.

I wasn't sure if people were going to like my work.

I was really confused and and was really behind on my blogging, untill one of my friends suggested that i blogged about anime or manga , which im know alot about. So i finally did pick my topic and i was really good at writing about it. Blogging about something that i really liked helped me understand what i should have been doing from the start of this unit.

The thing i liked about blogging was that is that i found it really fun to research about my topic.

I really like looking up things about anime and manga because i learned things about that i didn't know before. The thing that sometimes annoys me about blogging , is that sometimes i get the blogs messed up and i write something or put a picture in the wrong post and i have to do it over again on the right post.

I learn a lot of things while i was blogging. If i wasn't learning something about my topic, i was learning something new about posting things on my blog. Like putting Hyper-links and pictures to give examples of my work. I also learned how to write better summary's of my work , which helped alot. :D

I'm glad that this unit finished , but i'm also kinda sad that it did because now i can't look at anime and manga without getting introuble during class :p. Even though i was nervous at the beginning of the unit i ended up liking it and with the positive comments people gave me , i was able to write more ^_^ .

(NARUTO ANIME!!!)

(NARUTO COLORED MANGA!!!)

Post # 11......Bowling Trip

My class and other 8th grade classes went to a bowling alley ,It was really fun . Everybody had a lane and two teams to play.
The people on my team were Julyanna , Jacqueline and Reneida.
The people on the other team were Destiny, Jahomi ,Yanera and Francy.
We played 2 rounds and in both rounds the other team had more points then us :(.
But that didn't matter , as long as we were having fun we didn't care who won :D.
When we left the bowling alley , we all went to Mc Donalds and ordered a bunch of food!
We were all hungry after playing and taking pictures and all the crazy stuff we did ! :D
Almost all the people that came on the trip had to walk back to the school, it was hot and our feet hurt . I got hungry again even after i ate 3 snackraps , mediam fries and a small soda.
Well other than all that stuff, the trip was really fun :D
I would really like to have more trips like that :)

Post # 10 Math Test Reflection

Today was the state math test. When i woke up today i didn't really want to get out of bed, i was so nervous. Math isn't really my best subject so i was wasn't sure if i was going to well on the test.

Summary: When i walked into my class room, my teachers were giving out breakfast to my classmates. It's really nice of them to do that for us when we have a state test :) . I took the test in room 237 , with my math teacher Ms.heiser. She's a great teacher and she taught us verything that we needed to know for the test but i wasn't sure if i was going to remember everything.

Book 1 was the easiest form all 3 books. It was Multiple choise questions and i think that i did really good on that.

I was extra nervous on day 2 because i knew that the questions were going to be harder and we needed to show our work for the problems that we had to answer.

I was SO glad when the test were over and so was everybody else. Thank you Ms.heiser for teaching my class even though sometimes we can be a bunch of knuckle heads :p

Point of view

Summary: In an artical i found about anime it shows you the different types of anime genres and what they mean . In the Article it explains what the different genres are and the different styles in anime.

(Link: http://www.tapanime.com/General-Info/genres.php )

Opinion- I like all the different genres of anime and all of the different styles that they have.

Though there are some genres that i like more than others because one may be more intersting than the other or one could just be more entertaining , while the other one is kind of boring. I always try to watch as many different types animes as i can to see which ones i like more and which ones don't intrest me.

Prompt-How can we tell the authors point of view when reading an online media source?

In the article the authors point of view was good because the author tells what all the genres are and what they all mean.

(A Romance Anime)..................................^

(A Horror Anime)..............................^

Questioning the Text

Article:

Why do people like Anime?

Summary: All people that watch Anime usually have one thing in common :a desire for a fantasy world different from their own. People like Anime because it is different from normal cartoons.
Instead of watching a idiot boy , a cold heartless girl and a grim riper take mindless adventures, people would rather watch a boy on an adventure trying to reach his dream , a magical girl trying to save the world and a group of teenagers tying to make it through life.

Opinion: I think people like anime because its entertaining , fun to watch, and anime fans like it because anime is very dramatic and you never know whats going to happen next. I've been watching anime since I was a little kid. So I think that Its really fun to watch and very Entertaining . Sometimes an anime can be very boring and Sometimes it can be very funny . I like watching the funny ones because the boring ones put me to sleep.

Prompt:What questions came to my mind when i was reading the text?
1. Why do people like to watch anime?
2.What do others think about anime?
3.Do a lot of people like to watch anime?
4.What do people like about anime?

Author's Purpose

Today while i was reading some of my favorite mangas' , i was thinking to myself : Why is it that people draw Manga?

I found this web site where people say why they like to draw manga and how they got into drawing it

http://www.otakuboards.com/archive/index.php/t-42936.html

It isn't exactly an article and its kinda old but it has great information. ^_^

summary: While i was reading, i found out that the reason most artist start drawing Manga is because they like reading manga. The artists find that drawing very enjoyable and that it keeps their imagination from exploding :p . They get their ideas from reading other mangas but they always make up their own characters , plots , they all have different styles.

Opinion- I wish i was able to draw manga , but sadly i can't :'( .

But still every time i read a new manga i see all the different ways that people draw their comics.

Every manga is different. Even if it comes from the same person, there are always things that are different and unique about every Manga that others don't have.

Prompt-what was the writers purpose for Explaining why they like to draw Manga?

In the "article" i read , the writers purpose was to inform people why they like to draw Manga and what they like about it.

Language/Image

Article: The Face of the Other

I was looking at random stuff about manga and while i was looking ,one particular article caught my interest. The name of the article is "The Face of the Other" by:Matt Thorn. It was written to answer a question that many people were asking about Manga. The question was :“Why do all the characters look Caucasian?”

(The article: http://www.matt-thorn.com/mangagaku/faceoftheother.html )

Summary:In the article it said that people were asking why do all manga characters look Caucasian. The writer of this article had asked people if they really thought that the characters really do look caucasia, and their only answer was that they look more caucasian then asian. Matt Thorn was trying to explain to people that even if the manga character has straight hair or round eyes they're not actually caucasian. Matt Thorn also said that japanese people aren't actually trying to make the characters' look caucasian, its just how the characters look. AND if they were making a character caucasin, the manga artist would make their clothing different, their names and their customs.

Opinion: I don't really know why some people think that Manga characters' look caucasian , i mean,i know when i see a caucasan character in a Manga because they look different than the regular japanese characters' .But maybe i only think that because im just use to seeing japanese characters and not caucasian characters in mangas'.Just because a character has different colored hair from everybody else doesn't really mean that are from a different place or nationality. The japanese character could have dyed their hair or they could have a japanese parent and a parent from another country , or the artist just wanted to make that character unique.

Prompt:How does the author of this article use language to evoke images and feelings in the reader?

I think that the author tries to evoke images in your mind by writing what he really thinks about the issue. He explains how a character would look if they came from a different country in the Manga or if they just looked different from everybody else. While i was reading i could really see what he was explaining in his article.

Inferences

( An Anime and Manga Article)

http://www.mit.edu/people/rei/Expl.html

It says:Actions have consequences. If the protagonist screws up, he or she has to deal with those results ... and, if the person is smart, he or she will remember not to make that mistake again! The characters grow and change, learn new skills, get better at old skills, mature and gain wisdom

I say: You should learn from your mistakes so that they don't happen again so that you don't have to face the same consequences again.

And so: Even though everybody makes mistakes you should learn from them so that they don't happen again.

(I know this picture is kinda lame but it shows narutos mistake and the

consequences of it. So i guess he shouldn't be having knifes in his mouth if he doesn't want this to happen again :p )

Compare and contrast: Japanese comics and American comics

I went to two different sites and asked the same question : How are Japanese comic books and American comic books different?

The first site i went to was the one about the Japanese comic book

http://www.wayland.k12.mi.us/wms/staff/wissnera/studentwork/quickreport/r4bm31manga.htm

The second site i went to was about American comic books.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_comic_book

Contrast:

Japanese comic books are read from right to left , which is unusual but it depends on what tpye of comic it is because some of them can also be read from left to right. Like a normal book.

Japanese comics are almost always black and white but it depends on how the artist wants the manga to be: black and white or colored. Sometimes its hard for people to understand how to read manga because of the way that you have to read but the comic usually has a page where it tells you how to read it and why the comic is different from regular comic books.

American comic books : I know this may sound weird but i think that American comic books are more difficult to read than Japanese comic books, or maybe its cuz i dont know what to write right now about american comic books even though i did read an article about it :p . Well American comic books have adverisments , they're colored and you always read them from left to right. While American comic books have names that almost always give you the exact idea of what it is about , Japanese comic books leave you wanting to know more about them and wanting to know why the creater gave it such a name. Some examples of that are : D.N.Angel , Boys over Flowers, Death note, Bleach, Fairy cube ...etc.

Compare:

Both are comic books of course, People enjoy reading them, they're entertaining and sometimes Tv series are made that are based off the comic books.

A Japanese comic ( Manga) : D.N.Angel

An American comic book:Super Man and Spider Man

Manga or Anime?

I was looking on the internet today trying to find out which people liked best: Anime or Manga.
Prediction: I think that people will like both Anime and Manga because they are both very intresting and alot of people like to watch anime and read manga.


When people liked Anime they said that they liked it because its animated and colored , you can hear the characters voices and they just really like it, also some of them said that they prefer to watch the Anime than read the Manga.

For Manga, people said that they liked it because some mangas are more in depth than animes.


Opinion: I personally like them both because if there wasn't any Manga then there wouldn't be any Anime bacause Anime is usually based of Manga and i've been watching anime and reading manga since i was a little kid, so i like them both equally.

My prediction was almost right, alot of people like either anime or manga or both.

My Blog Topic

In my blog i'm going to be writing about Anime and Manga.

Anime: Is the Japanese word animation , it originated from Manga. Anime is usually hand draw but over the years people have started to draw Anime with computer assistance.
^....... (Anime version)

Manga: Is the Japanese word for comics and print cartoons. There are different types of manga, including action-adventure, romance, sports and games, historical drama, comedy, science fiction and fantasy, mystery, horror, sexuality, business, commerce, and alot more.

<......(Manga version)