You might have known about the Korean movie, I’m a Cyborg But That’s OK. Well, this isn’t a mere remake cause it has a different plot, if not totally different, from the Korean movie. Cyborg She revolves around the story of how (and why) a cyborg girl enters the life of a nearly anti-social and loner college student.

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After stumbling upon this blog with very casual and personal posts on Japanese immersion, I decided to give what this post says a try: “Listen to 10,000 hours of Japanese over the next 18 months.” I wouldn’t want to have my J-Pop tunes on repeat as that would probably make me sick of them in the end so I resorted to Japanese internet radio.

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After watching Nodame Cantabile, I fell in love not only with the story, its antics, characters and the classical music but also with the actors behind the quirky musician roles. Tamaki Hiroshi plays the perfectionist, multi-talented, pianist slash violinist slash conductor, Chiaki Shinichi in Nodame Cantabile.

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