Kirino & Haruhi Now Teaching English
- Categories: Manga, News
- Date: Mar 7, 2013 08:51 JST
- Tags: Haruhi, Light Novels, Lucky Star, Marketing, Moe, Ore no Imouto, Otaku, Translation
The girls of Haruhi and Ore no Imouto have been drafted in to make the learning of English more moe in the form of English annotated versions of the novels, whilst top seiyuu have been “helping” with pronunciation guides in what seems to have become a mini-industry of late.
The latest books take the form of the original Japanese light novels with annotations detailing the tortuous intricacies of English grammar as they apply to the text, in the hopes that the presence of such literary masterpieces and cute girls the student will find things slightly less tedious.
Exclusive illustrations also cunningly ensure they have some value even for collectors.
Both the Haruhi and Ore no Imouto tomes are available now.
Other similar efforts to appeal to the otaku English learning demographic have seen such top seiyuu as Hisako Kanemoto lending their voice to “very beautiful English” accent improvement guides and English textbooks – although given the quality of English typically seen in anime this sounds a rather risky proposition.
In other news, the girls of Lucky Star have also been teaching chemistry of all things:
Rather more appropriately, the more scientifically minded cast of Nichijou is doing the same thing with both chemistry and physics:
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So the only ones who willl speak any English in the end will be the okakus. Their rise to power begins.
Everybody, fear the okaku, the new master race.
Surely you didn't mean "otaku", did you? I'd think the average specimen would be too busy fapping to the moe chicks to even bother reading.
I wonder if there are guide that teach otaku japanese also,I can't seem to find any...It will be awesome if artefact would write a article on said guide.I mean,learning japanese would be more of a joy.
You would be exceedingly surprised.
TL: Otaku means house
@Chen-04
Depends on the context (and in written for also on writing which is of course lost in romanization), like many words in many languages, particularly Japanese.
What about the library otaku?
Considering the horrifying level of obsession otaku are capable of, I have no doubt highly literate Haruhi and OreImo fans are soon to come.
Sadly, I have doubts as to the quality of the instructional material. The average seiyuu tends to have accented English on par with a grade-school ESL student; not really their fault, as it IS a second-language to them.
Depends on otaku. Be prepared for the rise of well-educated and very literate anime otaku.
Bzzzt. Wrong language to learn. Should've learned Mandarin.
Lol the Otaku = Eden of the East :)
Actually, English classes are a required part of the curriculum in Japanese schools.
Just saiyan.
inb4 "I want you to come to my house and FUCK my sister"
That's wrong. It's..
"I like you. Come over to my house and fuck my sister."
That's also wrong, it's:
"Hell, I like you, you can come over to my house and fuck my sister."
Hell, I, like you, can come over to my house and fuck my sister.
The original quote was "Hell, I like you, you can come over to my house and fuck my sister" from the Stanley Kubrick movie Full Metal Jacket but what you posted is probably quoting that english teaching aid on the page about "Fuck"
Moetan seal of approval :)
I don't want to learn English, I want to learn Japanese..
Eden of the East, now THAT had good English voice acting.
I do not want to learn either, I'm fine with just being able to speak/write/understand both.
I'd let Kirino teach me ANYTHING.
Up to and including the specifics of the Imouto Moe fandom?
I wish something like this existed for learning Japanese ;-;
They do, its the vocaloids.
If only RosettaStone could get on board with this.
You beat me to it.
"top seiyuu have been “helping” with pronunciation"
In the land of the blind, the one-eyed man is king.
Out of all the seiyuus, only two are truly worthy of helping with English: Nakata Jouji and Asakawa Yuu...
Thats good isn't it?
More people are learning other languages now.
Is Kirino wearing Beats by Dr. Dre?
no it's just headphones, now that a nigger made headphones you people think every headset you see is made by dr.dre.
"Herro! Imu spekingu engrish! Goo morningu evwery nyan!"
Yeah, anime english is great to teach out.
O mai gaaa D:
Hello master! So coooool. Sonuvabitch!!
-Mad Scientist level native English.
" wan miwwian chwoops ! danse mastewers ! taking dansing to fuu new wewel ! bery bery excite ! "
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVMephYgEOM&list=FL8hC-M37dJ4u-QsMBF3q4Aw&index=87 [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IVMephYgEOM&list=FL8hC-M37dJ4u-QsMBF3q4Aw&index=87]
still best ill-advised engrish onstage in the history of mankind :)
You will be sucked - Guaranteed by NNN games.
Teach me ENGRISSHU my lovely imouto !
I never had to learn English I just remembered new words as I heard them.
Only good English voicing performance by a Japanese voice actor that I can remember was Junichi Suwabe's UBW chant from Fate/stay night...
One thing I really liked about the K-ON! movie was that they hired real native British people to perform the voices of the British inhabitants of London. ;-) That was awesome.
I know right? I remember in the game Sleeping Dogs, the main character would seamlessly switch from speaking American English and Chinese, done with different voice actors. It worked really well so why can't they do that in anime more often?
i hope it gets translated into English form....oh,wait...
Sergeant Maritan always the best...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQgGUEnMZrg
Damn, can you imagine Bugs Bunny, Mickey Mouse, Asterix, etc. in school texts? Or has that already happened?
Asterix is pretty popular for learning latin.
Another job for seiyuu Hirano.
I wish I have had textbooks like these when I was in middle school. Damn it, I was born a bit too soon
Okay, now who is in charge of Sex education?
Aya Hirano. No one else is experienced enough.
u mean pretending to be not experienced enough
Chemistry!! Woot! Woot!
Go Lucky Star~! Go Nichijou~!
They know what's important =3