Kano: My favorite cover singer

In Japan, there is a website which function is similar to Youtube called Niconico, and Japanese are tend to use that website to watch videos and listen to music. Most of works of Vocaloids are uploaded to Niconico, and a special song cover culture is formed there. Basically, those cover singers are some unknown guys. They could be a student or a thirty years old office worker, since they seldom reveal their true identity or face, just to keep the mystery.

One of those cover singer who use Kano(鹿乃) as her name on the internet uploaded one song and became very popular because her voice is very cute and soft, and the video below is Kano's cover.

And here is the original version:

 Actually, I prefer the original song to the covered one, but somehow her voice makes me very touched and gets me goose bumps all over, especially a song called Kokoronashi.(心做し)

After hearing this song, I started to look for more songs that she had covered, and I found that she sings very nice and can express the song well. 

Here is another reason why I like her so much. It is because that after she become famous, she sang her own songs but not just cover all the time, and even sang for animation's opening song and ending song.

Please feel free to share with me your favorite singer or your feeling about Kano.

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Light Novel: A special Japanese novel

When talking about novels, people often think of Harry Potter or Percy Jackson which are thick and full of words, but there is one type of novel called "light novel" that is different from the usual one. From the cover, light novel usually has a illustration of anime and manga art style.

As for content, light novel's words are bigger and fewer in one page compare to the translated fiction, so it is more easy for people to read.

And the atmosphere in the book vary from books to books, but they tend to add humorous elements in the story. Also, there are illustrations from time to time. Illustrator will pick about ten scenes and draw them.

Many animation are adopted from light novels, and I enjoyed them both when I was a junior high school student. This reading habit benefits me a lot, first is that I can focus on the words and read to the end. Second, I gain an ability of creative thinking since those stories are all fantasy.

I think it was light novel that took me into the ACG（Anime, Comic and Games)world, and it was because my best friend in junior high school brought light novels to school every day.

Have you ever seen a light novel before or ever caught a glimpse of them on the shelf of a book store? Please feel free to share with me about your feeling about light novel or even ACG.

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UTA Night

Many departments of the university and clubs have their own "night", which means a series of performance presented by departments or clubs. 4/14 was UTA( United Taipei Association) nigh, and UTA gathered students from north area of Taiwan. We have been practiced since February, and we almost go to Yunping building(雲平大樓) for discussing every night.

At the beginning, everyone was not close to each other, so we just sat there and stared at others. The atmosphere was really awkward, but after few days, we started to chat and we gradually became very close friend. 

We have five performance in total, opening dancing, hosting, warning drama, romantic drama, and sound effect drama. I am the member of sound effect drama, and our performance is that we have to cooperate with the sound effect and make our audience laugh.

Everyone in the UTA had a great time with the whole staff, and we always had midnight snack together after practicing. One of the best part of participating the activity is that I can make a lot of new friends.

On the day we were goning to go up stage, we spent entire day to rehearse, wanting to show our best to all audience. We truly did it. All of the shows were awesome, even myself felt very touched by the performance.

I know there were some classmates form FLLD came and watched our show. I were too glad to know that because more and more people left after one program, and my show's order was the last one. 

Did you come to our UTA night? How did you feel about our performance? Please feel free to leave the comment and let me know your feeling!

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Animal friends: An overnight sensation Japanese animation

When hearing Japanese animation, people expect to see some works that have delicate illustrations, like the pictures below.

But, one animation from last season called Animal Friends is very different from those beautiful works. Its quality was so low that many people didn't consider it as an animation. However, there were reasons in this circumstance. In general, every animation has a team to create it, and the most difficult part of making an animation is drawing. From line draft to coloring, each step has different group to operate. As for Animal Friends, it had only ten people in total to making the whole animation, and its funding was much lower than any other animation company.

A scene from Animal Friend

Surprisingly, everything changed after the fifth episode was broadcasted. Not only the plot had a massive turning and there are some foreshadowing that was very attractive, making audience wanted to know the ending. 

In my opinion, the animation is very cute and positive, and you can learn a lot of knowledge of rare animals. It basically just saying animals are personated and accompany the amnesia main character to find what animal she is. Though I haven't finished it yet, I really enjoying watching it and can't wait to find out the truth. 

One interesting thing that is even the producer didn't know it can be so popular, since he had failed once with the same theme on a mobile game. By the way, its ending song is pretty nice.

Have you ever watched a Japanese animation? Please feel free to share with me! Thanks for watching and see you next week!

I Am Tired Of This!

Since I enrolled in university, I have been in a miserable life. I was unable to make any friend because of my characteristics, first, I always blame my own fault on other people's head and say something offensive to provoke them. In addition, I tend to bother those who want to study by persuading them to play with me. Furthermore, I get mad easily. Due to those bad characteristics, I didn't have good relation with my classmates in the department. This made me have a hard time and now making me want to quit. And, finally, I have to tell you one thing, HAPPY FOOLS' DAY!

All of above are just kidding, everyone I met since I got into the university is amazing person, and they helped me a lot no matter in academic or any problem I encountered. The most meaningful decision I have made in my life is studying in FLLD, since I meet a lot of good friends and finally can choose what I want but not what my parents' want.

Here is another interesting thing that will happen today, that is, people like to pretend they have a girlfriend or boyfriend for joking thier friends, because people think it is difficult to make a boyfriend or girlfriend and often ridicule others.

Have you experienced anything special today? A fake confession from your close friend? Or a little trick you have been played? Please feel free to share with me!

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