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January 19th, 2007 | help Need help?

Learn Japanese with JapanesePod101.com! As we approach setsubun, or the end of winter and the beginning of spring, one of the first things that comes to mind is oni. Today we bring you a mukashi banashi about just that - an oni who happened to love children. Of course, children don’t generally love monsters, so you’ll have to tune in to see how he won their hearts over, and ended up with a big empty spot in his own. After listening, stop by JapanesePod101.com and be sure to leave us a post!

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This entry was posted on Friday, January 19th, 2007 at 6:30 pm and is filed under Intermediate Lessons. You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.

10 Responses to “Intermediate Lesson #43 - The Red Monster that Cried”

avatar JapanesePod101.com says:

Mina-san, we hope you were also moved by this touching story!
The English female voice was that of Megumi Sotherden, more to come on her! The male speaker was played by Marky Star.
Yoroshiku onegai shimasu.

avatar nanaka says:

JapanesePod101の皆さん、こんにちは!

Really nice, touching-ish story indeed. However with Sakura-san’s touching laughter in the background, I couldn’t really cry at all!

It’s nice to hear the new voices of Megumi Sotherden and Marky Star, and I really like Megumi Sotherden’s voice, I could probably just close my eyes and listen to her all day along.

While closing my eyes, a funny picture showed up in my mind: JapanesPod101’s crew is making a live action drama of today’s story - guys as monsters and girls as children.

Can we actually have this live action? I mean, Yushi-san had a good, iie, brilliant perforance last Halloween, right? Surely doing some exercises and scaring away children wouldn’t be that hard.

Just imagining the scene has already made my day .^__^ :lol:

Yoroshiku onegaishimasu.

avatar Hugo says:

:mrgreen: :mrgreen: Really good, is very touching in deed! :smile:

I agree with Nanaka-san, imagining the process of Jpod crew making the story is to much funny :mrgreen: Any video about the backstage of making the show? :wink:

Truly this make my day better! :razz:

よろしく おねがいします!

avatar Sindy says:

JP101 crew and listeners! :wink:

I agree with Nanaka-san and Hugo-san! Great Job and story too. :cool:
This was much better than the other two truly! :wink: :mrgreen:

Its not to cry ehh Sakura-san :cry: :lol:
Its a :sad: story and it makes you analize how the blue monster prefer children (humans) instead their own kind! :shock: :???:

The red monster really was a true friend! :cool: :grin:
Right now on planet earth friends like him are little and strange to find so when you find a true one conserve him/her and tell him/her that they are special and the best friends in the world! :wink: :mrgreen: S_R_C

avatar Nate says:

Marky Star almost sounds like Nathan-san from Texas. Megumi has a wonderful voice. Very Internet/Podcast friendly.

Well done gang.

ネイト

avatar Alan says:

赤鬼が好きけど青い鬼が大好き。今出る青い鬼は寂しいね。また哭けてる。 :cry:

avatar Alan says:

Whoops. Mistakes as usual. That should be: 哭いてる
One of these days, I’ll learn to read back my posts before hitting the submit button. Or maybe not, the submit button is so enticing. :grin:

所で今日の話が分かりやすいでした。だから嬉しいです。

avatar ミシェル says:

みんなさんの金曜日はどうだったの?週末はなんか楽しい予定がある?
私は今晩、好きなレストランで友達に会ってお寿司(すし)を食べた。
親密な仲間と楽しい会話がある限り、いい暮らしですよね。

そして「泣いた赤鬼」について練習…

http://www.nifty.com/storygate/story/akaoni/index.html#
このサイトで「プレビュー」をクリックすると面白い映画が見えます。茶風林さんの声が少し分かりにくいけど、絵がかわいいからいいです。

そして、日本の一般人は「泣いた赤鬼」のことについてどう感じているか?
http://www.ehonnavi.net/ehon00_opinion.asp?No=5184
この掲示板で約10人が意見を書いた。載った漢字がどれぐらい分かりますか?
日本語の読解力を高めるように重要な言葉がよくあります:「印象」、「仲良く」、「絵本」、「手紙」、「大人」、「後悔」、「記憶」、「丁寧な」など…

最後に、前の話とあまり関係ないんですが、この写真は「赤鬼」というたこ焼き屋です~おいしそう?
http://flickr.com/photos/youconntakut/220752062/

avatar JapanesePod101.com says:

ミシェルさん、毎度ありがとうございます!今回も素晴らしいリンクを見つけました! :grin:

For everyone interested, the first link provides an animated version of the red monster that cried. The second is about people’s opinions of the story and the last is a picture of a octopus ball/pancake joint called Red Monster. :twisted:

Thanks again Michelle-san!

avatar marky says:

i had so much fun in the studio with megumi and sakura and peter! sakura was so touched by the story. we really had to stop recording because she was crying.
ほら、ほら、もう泣かないで。

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