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And finally, by starting writing something in the body of the blog, the process of Anglicization finishes. I was Anglicizing this blog. And, O yes, we can now celebrate the rebirth of Liber Violaceus! After a long rest time, this blog gets back!

As you can see on the sidebar, the main aim of this blog will be to let me write something interesting -- in English. Writing in English will truly be a challenge, because no one would not deny that it is a foreign language. This blog started as a training field of writing in Japanese, and I felt I mastered the language -- it must seem something too natural, but, you (you know) know, any language has its own details after all. As much as it is obviously important to be exposed to a language, it at the same time is important to try to use it. I, for example, don't know how to make jokes using funny facts/connotations. You know? Saying `you know' frequently and unnecessarily many times is terribly funny. But it needs a context explained. Well, I didn't need to explain contexts when I was writing in Japanese, because I was arrogant thinking `you can search contexts behind, right?'. Well, you can say I was dependent, or was not really trying to make real jokes. Yeah, I was content with the try then. Yeah, writing is writing and writing is good by itself, because it will anyhow sophisticate one's style. OK. I don't know English so much that I will get sophisticated automatically by writing, or by trying writing. Reading Sherlock Holmes seems good.

I was a blogger, and I still am a blogger, you can say so. I can write an entry without any specific topics as you can view with this entry. Hey this is an entry first written in English, you know? But many of the audience of this blog, if any, from the ancient time would not read, or haha, they must have stopped coming and reading this blog. Losing audience might be a sad thing to experience for a blogger. Then I might not be a blogger, because I am not that sad. But I might be a blogger because I can write an entry like this just believing some audience -- some! -- might be able to enjoy, since this is written in English which is the most common language in the world, although this blog is located in the Japanese blogosphere, if `blogosphere' is not a dead word, thanks to Twitter. Well, being a blogger and not being a blogger at the same time, huh? Ah no, no, no. Potentially being a blogger and potentially not being a blogger must be more accurate. Well, but who cares, because it is just happening in a narrow corner in the shrinking blogosphere?

Let's talk about yakuza manga. Yes, a topic of blogs can change so easily, Watson? And actually I wanna talk a little bit about yakuza manga. It is safe because this is in a foreign language. Don't you think so? Well, the potential range of audience must be bigger than before, though. Anyway, yakuza manga. Why do I like the genre? I've recently started reading the series of

. This is actually similar to Don he no michi (The Road to Godfather) *1. The protagonists are ambitious and have their own justice, not bent to cunning strategies. They start as relatively younger yakuza members but thanks to their physical and mental strengths, they become bigger. Through appearances of new sidekicks and passing aways of old ones, they conduct their pride... Well, although they are basically criminals, their stories are interesting. Is it just me to feel they are mature versions of One Piece...? Wow, I haven't read One Piece so much. I cannot compare, of course. I was just kidding. Hey, don't get angry.

Another interesting comparison is with the samurai genre. Hmm. What will be the works that will fall into this genre? Gintama may be a good example, and Rurouni Kenshin will be. But I must say that the samurai genre is just considered to be fantasy, especially when you talk about works from Jump. Heroes will shoot some critical techniques (ah, we must exclude Gintoki, then), while yakuzas would not do that (but yakuzas shooting amazing techniques are funny, aren't they? It might become like Sakigake Otoko Juku). Yakuza stories are dark in taste. I might be attracted by the darkness of the stories. As sorry as I am to fans of Bleach and/or One Piece, but works need some darkness... `Friendship, Effort, and Victory' is the motto of Jump, right? But we need, well, I need, violence, cunningness, strategy, mental manipulation, and betrayal..., to mention a few. I like Gintoki's random attitudes towards many things and resolute pride behind them. And the plots are so well crafted that I was defeated by author's tear-jerking tricks... I give victory to Gintama. And the latest season of anime will start on the 8th of this month, they say... I will definitely check it, but since I know a bit of the stories with which the animation will start, I am not that much excited. Gintama will be successfully Gintama. Real time watching Gintama, I think, will be epic, though.

Well, what were we talking about? Ah yes, this blog is reborn right now, was it? I hope you can enjoy it.

I've noticed. I must add something more. If you (kindly!) wanna add comments, click on the button, `コメントを書く' (`write a comment') and `投稿' (`post') next. Sorry, but this blog service is in Japanese and I cannot change it. I could do if this were in another mode though...

*1:Well, I must make notification rules later.