Ni no Kuni will be the first JRPG I buy. I am certain to be disappoint -- but in awe of the visuals.
You live in Japan and have never bought an RPG before? Like ever? Wow...
Yeah, I've mentioned it a couple times here, but playing a game in Japanese feels a lot like homework. I bought
Zelda: Kaze no Takuto to try and change that, but despite the game's charm, and the helpful furigana on all the text, it was just a draaaaaag. RPGs in Japanese would be the double-ding-dong drag.
Another weird thing is, I used to be into anime a lot, like in elementary and jr high school, thanks to KWHY TV-22 in Los Angeles. Sometime in high school, it kind of got popular;
Dirty Pair, Bubble Gum Crisis and stuff were making the rounds. We'd trade 2nd and 3rd gen dubs of VHS tapes made off laserdisc.
I have to admit to falling away from it in college, though I assumed I'd get into it heavily again when I made my plans to move here in 1993.
But since moving to Japan, I've found out that almost all anime is crap (just as 90% of anything is crap), and for a long time, the west was simply benefiting from getting the cream of the crop at bargain basement prices. I remember when
Warriors of the Wind (
Nausicaä) was released in the USA, and even sported a boy on the cover because the distributors thought a girl couldn't be a marketable main character. But with dozens of TV shows being broadcast all week long, I actually rent anime maybe three or four times a year, and frequently end up taking the discs back unwatched.
