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Melanin 🍫 / Yellow Part 2 ☀️ 🌻

I know there isn’t alot of representation for dark WOC in anime, so here’s a few examples of some anime with brown or black women! (All of them are main characters, or at least in a good amount of the anime)

Revolutionary Girl Utena (Anthy)

Michiko to Hatchin (Michiko and Atsuko)

Oh! My goddess (Urd)

Deadman Wonderland (Karako Koshio)

Darker than black (April)

Book of Bantorra (Noloty)

Basquash (Sela and Miyuki)

.hack// (Mary and Mimiru)

 Magic Knight Rayearth (Caldina, Tarta and Tatra)

asphodel, hydrangea, lily of the valley, maiden’s hair fern

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These questions were put forth this week to readers of anime and manga ranking site Charapedia, who put together a list of anime and manga’s top 20 most shocking endings. And it looked a little like this:

20. Gintama

19. Guilty Crown

18. Shaman King

17. Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure: Stone Ocean

16. Space Runaway Ideon

15. Flowers of Evil

14. Magical Warfare

13. Uta no Prince-sama: Maji Love Revolution

12. Naruto

11. Neon Genesis Evangelion

10. Angel Beats!

9. Kuroko’s Basketball

8. Tokyo Ghoul

7. Love Live!

6. Death Note

And the top five…

5. Your Lie in April

4. Puella Magi Madoka Magica

3. Anohana: The Flower We Saw That Day

2. School Days

1. Code Geass

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Today I want to talk about Kanji Quizzer. My new favorite app!

I downloaded the app about 2 weeks ago and it has been invaluable to me ever since. The app is fairly straightforward. It separates flashcards into groups : Hiragana, Katakana, N5, N4, N3, N2, and N1.

When you select a group it takes you to a screen that displays a flashcard with one kanji character on it. Below there are 6 options for you to guess what the answer is.

Once you choose an answer the card will flip over to reveal whether you were right (highlighted in green) or wrong (highlighted in red). It will also give you both the on and kun readings for the kanji.

I love this app, it’s really helped me out, and it’s great for studying on the go. The kanji is displayed in a large enough size that it’s very easy to read. All in all, this is one of the most valuable Japanese learning apps I’ve ever had.

As one final note: Even though I myself struggle not to criticise myself too harshly, PLEASE remember that your hand writing doesn’t have to be as perfect as what’s on these sheets. If you’ve ever seen a native Japanese persons handwriting (and I have) you’d know that handwriting is the same in every language: different for everyone. Everyone has their own unique way of writing a kana, it’s always going to look a little different. However, as long as the general shape and stroke order is the same, it’ll be readable. Don’t worry about trying to achieve the robotic perfection that’s on these sheets.

Hiragana

Katakana