Self-introductions with books
I was sitting there with my elbows on the desk, but I had nothing to do and was getting bored out of my mind.
When I imitate the writing style of my favorite authors, I feel good, as if I've become a literary master myself. By the way, does that phenomenon common in foreign literature where the first letter is bold and huge have a name?
Well then, good evening once again. I am Inuzame, just a book lover. My favorite genres are mystery and fantasy, and my favorite authors are Saki Murayama and Tatsumi Atsukawa. I love fast-paced writing, and I often enjoy poetry by Misuzu Kaneko and Natsuo Gin-iro. Oh, rakugo? When I was young, I used to read things like the '101 Selected Rakugo Stories.' You know, the one you can buy at the co-op. That one. By the way, my favorite performances are 'N-Mawashi' and 'Shinigami.' I'd love to see them performed live in front of me someday.
I'm quite good at wordplay, and it's just part of my charm that I can say dad jokes that make everyone cringe without batting an eye. Because of that, when misdirection, palindromes, or letter-omission puzzles appear in mysteries, it's an absolute party in my head the moment they show up. By the way, have you all read Sherlock Holmes' 'The Gloria Scott'? The cipher that appears in it can be solved using the exact same method in both the Japanese and English versions. It was translated specifically to work that way! Arthur Conan Doyle is amazing for coming up with the trick, but the translator who managed to translate it into Japanese while keeping the original text intact is also amazing.
On the other hand, there are definitely sensations that you can only understand when reading in English. I am also a huge Disney fan, and you can tell how intense that is by the fact that the very first foreign book I ever finished reading was a spin-off of the Disney movie 'Descendants.' Because the characters in that book are villains, all sorts of insults (lol) are thrown around, and while in Japanese you might just get by with 'idiot' for everything, the words used actually change subtly depending on the nuance. As I looked them up in the dictionary, I was moved by how English is a language that uses nuances so delicately. It might be quite different from Japan, where we finish everything off with 'yabai'.
Well, I've talked about this and that, and I'm almost at 1000 characters. From now on, I intend to write down whatever comes to mind about my favorite novels, Disney, movies, and so on. Keeping it compact, of course!
That is all, thank you for sticking with me this far.