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1) It depends,at the moment I prefer animes because they are more complex and interesting than most of movies nowadays.

2) Yes that helped me liking Japan because it introduced me to japanese culture aspects I liked.

3) I guess usually the characters represents different kinds of people,and the only one I ever identified myself with was Hiei.

4) many things,there is usually lessons to learn in animes,even in Gantz or Sakura Card Captors.

5) Unfortunatelly i never spoke to any japanese people.