Started: July 24, 2026
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5 comments:
People around me always make it like opening a book in English must mean I'm learning English more than reading anything for entertainment or knowledge. As if the sheer act of reading Anglo characters must not mean anything but career prospect preparation. One laughed at my face for correcting him I was reading a Japanese novel game as he asked me if I was learning the language - must be pedantic to correct water isn't meant to be eaten.
But then again perhaps they have a point. I myself learned English through intensive exposure to Japanese media and the internet after all.
The very people who are very loud about how all educated professional working people all speak English barely bother to open a cover of something that has fewer than 6 diacritics themselves - while shutting me down whenever I chide the language as something bottom of the barrel only people from desperate lands try to acquire while advanced lands don't necessarily have to bother dirtying their hands. I don't mind them not having the experience of being smirked at the face by the main characters who think people learn English because rest of world worships them - but it's really something to make speaking the language akin to wearing a suit (while uttering very accented pronunciations).
to be more on topic (although not that it is) and less woe is me: i haven't read mister xi jinping's biography myself and, ironically (i have to use this word) everything about the book strikes me as something for adults while supposed to be intended for children. if a book was truly meant for children you would have 12 y.o.s roleplaying its characters and 18 y.o.s making pr0ns for its characters while 24 y.o.s insulting each other for misunderstanding the characters on some online forums. it feels like 80 percent of books meant for children are actually for people who are 20 years old away from resting at a grave. children's interests hardly differ from older ages people anyway. at 6 y.o a kid would just like to watch movies about heroes murdering people, at 24 y.o a grown-up would still like to watch the same thing but with the heroes bedding their lovers at the end (i'm looking at you japanese). i will spout a cliche here but separation of category of media for children and adults tend to be a false one.
one request for people who want to spread or marketize this sort of work is to convey what it is supposed about and why should people read it. one thing i have it in common with the children being that i am clueless about what good things i would get out of reading it at all.
i also had memory of having watched some pooh cartoon on maybe disney channel when it was broadcast for free during the span of national holiday (something called tet) where i live. and it was some of the most boring cartoon i had to watch through (all because relative was also watching the tv and your typical young asians are way too reserved to talk to each other let alone asking 'pooh sucks, no?'). although some of the fault could lay on the lack of any subtitle or dubbing
Yes, good point. These books do not seem to be aimed at the sensitivities of young boys. Perhaps it's more suitable for girls? I remember during my time in Japan, Disney's Winnie-the-Pooh characters were really popular with girls. Not that many of them watched the actual show, but they liked the characters as toys or accessories or decorations, or something. I think it fitted into the whole Japanese Kawaii culture.
IDK back 2 decades ago Pooh was on student school bag or notebook et cetera over here as well. Hence I myself got the impression Pooh is supposed to be iconic but got no clue what the work the character he came from was supposed to be like.
2 decades ago you say? 2 decades ago was when I lived in Japan. Maybe it wasn't so much a Japanese thing, then, as a "2 decades ago" thing.
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