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Originally Posted by Koir
Maybe I would just shrug my shoulders. It's hard to explain, but as I grow older, I see actions as they occur in the present. They are separate from what others describe in the future.
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Shrugging your shoulders. That’s one of the best ways to confuse Japanese.
You may see people shrug their shoulders in some manga, but they tend to shrug when they don’t like or approve of something.
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Perhaps to make it clearer, I recall how I felt when I wrote stories in the past (mainly fan fictions based on the Diablo computer game or later stories based in Dungeons & Dragons). I would write these stories concerned mainly on keeping the sentences readable and the visual imagery uncomplicated. People would read these stories and tell me how much they appreciated them, but to me they were just stories I told that I would like to read. Years later when I would read these stories, it was hard to believe that I wrote them and not someone else.
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Sorry, I don’t understand.
If I read your story and say it’s wonderful, what would you say?
Would you shrug your shoulders? How would you express it?
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Not in the slightest, Yuri. I brought it up mainly as a example of a well-known manga/anime in the Western world. It was my intention to say that a large amount of teens who would read this manga have an incorrect idea of Japanese culture. They would take this fantasy setting and believe it to be reality, which is untrue.
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Really!? I didn’t know Naruto was that popular or they still believed there were ninja in Japan. It’s too shocking.
I have seen some signs of Ninja Schools, but they are never like Naruto.
Is it because of Sho Kosugi?