Today we invited the club to meet with Kenta, our Japanese friend. This is because many of them are interested in Japanese mangas and Linh is going to do the presentation on mangas for our club meeting.
It was funny seeing Vietnamese translated versions of Japanese manga, and they were excited trying to ask each other if they have watched this and that. I am glad that Kenta is here, for most of them, that is their first Japanese friends. Trouble is Kenta's English isnt really good either, but I think they slowly understand each other thought the process takes quite long.
I do not understand why so many people are crazy over manga in SIngapore. And I am really surprised that even in Vietnam, some of them are crazy over it. And turned out that there is going to be a cosplay tomorrow near our place, so we might go together to see a cosplay ( where people dressed up as characters from different manga). I was surprised to hear from Linh that she herslef had participated in a cosplay before.
It was funny hearing them said that the first time there was a cosplay in a park in Hanoi, many older Vietnamese were very shocked. They thought that they were foreigners from another country. However, after hearing speak in Vietnamese, the usual comments were that "they were crazy bunch of people". I dont think that they are really crazy but I must agree they must have look weird and shocking to the elders.
And how did Linh get her costume? she made it herself! i cant believe how much sacrificies she make for the sake of manga. Despite only having 5sgd for pocket money a month ( she cycles to school and eat at home), she managed to save her 5sgd to buy mangas. And to save on the cost, she made her own manga costume. I cant really comprehend her zealous over it. But oh well, I am thinking that youths in Vietnam is really influenced by external forces, they are not so "untouched" by foreign trends after all : )
shi lei
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