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I will be studying abroad at Kansai Gaidai University Next fall, so I was wondering if there are any 40k gamers in the Osaka area. Playing a game in Nihongo would be pretty cool.

Nihongo de messeji o kaita ho ga ii deshou.

Supen-jin no Miguel-san wa Kobe de susunde imasu yo.

Thats easy for YOU to say.

...that AND...

No thank you, my girlfriend does it just fine.

He is talking about me go back to your Gozer. Nothing to see here .

extremn(54): I live at Kobe and there is a bunch of guys that play games around Kansai. Space sometimes is at a premium but we manage.

M.

I would have written in Japanese but I did not know if the Dakka server could display it.

kore wa ii desu ne. nihon ni iku toki gemu o shimasu kamoshirenai. tsukashi, nihon ni hikoki de iku toki 40k koto o motte koreremasen. zannen desu.

I sent myself all my stuff through surface mail before coming here, some pieces were a little bit battered but mostly came ok.

M.

Good idea, but 40k wont be my focus while at Kansai. I have way too much Japanese to learn. However, who knows, maybe I will bring a small army.

I think Bookwrack was in the Osaka area, might wanna try him.

I was, but I'm back in the states.

There's a Warhammer club that meets once a month in Kyoto that I can put you in touch with, and GW has a battle holiday in Osaka once a month at a hobby shop called Iconoclasm. Iconoclasm is an awesome shop in general, with its own crowd, so there'll be plenty of opportunities to game besides the GW Battle Holidays.

Let me get home from work and I'll look into digging up some urls. If you can read Japanese, just go to GW's Japanese page and look on the 'events' page for the Battle Holiday schedule. You'll even see a picture of me.

Wow, thanks. I think I will do that, but it looks like I dont know enough Kanji to navigate the site very well. I will keep at it though.

It'll certainly teach you about reading addresses in Japanese right quick, and learning the Kanji for Osaka is useful too.

http://jp.games-workshop.com/hobbysupportschedule/battleholiday/default.htm

Osaka is the 4th one down on the current list. Looks like the 15th was the last battle holiday, and they haven't put up the March schedule yet.

Here's the Iconoclasm's page - it's easy enough to navigate even without much Japanese. http://www.hobbymetal-iconoclasm.com/

Hey I was in Kansai Gaidai back in the 20th Century!

I recommend Paul Scott's classes, great professor I still quote stuff from him.

Definitely do a homestay, DO NOT do the foreign dorms. And watch as much Japanese TV as you can.

PM me if you want more random outdated advice!

Thanks, This definitely a place I want to check out while in Japan.

extrenm(54) wrote:I would have written in Japanese but I did not know if the Dakka server could display it.

fwiw, はい dakka supports all character sets.

extrenm(54) wrote:Good idea, but 40k wont be my focus while at Kansai. I have way too much Japanese to learn. However, who knows, maybe I will bring a small army.

Why don't you buy a codex in japanese (and one in your native tongue as well, so there isn't any super confusing stuff going on) while your there to an army you haven't played, and start a new army all in japan. Socializing with a bunch of gamers in Japanese while you do this will surely help you improve your skills in both language and warhams (or 40hams).

extrenm(54) wrote:I would have written in Japanese but I did not know if the Dakka server could display it.

kore wa ii desu ne. nihon ni iku toki gemu o shimasu kamoshirenai. tsukashi, nihon ni hikoki de iku toki 40k koto o motte koreremasen. zannen desu.

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Is that Osaka or Orksaka?

Why don't you buy a codex in japanese (and one in your native tongue as well, so there isn't any super confusing stuff going on) while your there to an army you haven't played, and start a new army all in japan. Socializing with a bunch of gamers in Japanese while you do this will surely help you improve your skills in both language and warhams (or 40hams).

Do they print the codexs in Japanese? If so, then I am DEFINITELY going to buy a Japanese codex and do some mad crazy Japanese gaming. たのしみ！

The Japanese codexes are available as free PDFs.

The Japanese codexes are available as free PDFs.

Where? That is something I need to get my hands on. Thanks for letting me know.

http://jp.games-workshop.com/resources/wh40k/default.htm

There you are, codexes in neat PDF format.

ほんとにありがとう！

Eh?! Watashi mo Nihongo de hanasemasu! Osaka ga ii kedou, inaka hodo yokunai. Miyazaki ga ichiban!

Inaka!

Inaka!

Miyazaki daisuki!

wwwww 何じゃこりあ。。。。

大阪か。。。。超bimz jyan? You should go to Tokyo Ropps/Shibz for a night out at least once =p. Also ageha.

extrenm(54) wrote:ほんとにありがとう！

You just typed that...and you're seriously going to go to JP with that level of Japanese.... D=...

Anyway, I'm in the UK for Uni, but I go back to Tokyo on break and stuff, so yeah. Historically, I've had trouble finding a place to play... but then again I guess this was before GW actually expanded into Japan... (if you can call that "expanding...")

does saying thank you have something to do with my level of Japanese?

Nah, nothing. =3.

So, I am in Hirakata now, but have not had time to check out Iconoclasm. Did someone say there was a 40k place in Kyoto? that is a bit closer to me. Any information on that would be much appreciated.

Your message arrives one week late. Last monday we had a mini con going on I got my head handed to me by a really nice guy, Roberto from Nagoya. Zannen!
I don´t know the Kyoto gaming scene so unless you want to come to play to Kobe, Nagoya apparently has a lot of people gaming there and they are planning some heavy gaming for next years Golden Week.

M.

I live in Kobe and play with a smallish group. I'm hoping to get a game day going this Sat actually. PM me your keitei and I'll drop you the details.

P.S. hey miquel, this is Adam. What you doing this Saturday?

You in Japan yet, mate?

Let me know! Kobe/Osaka peeps are ready to game!

extrenm(54) wrote:I would have written in Japanese but I did not know if the Dakka server could display it.

kore wa ii desu ne. nihon ni iku toki gemu o shimasu kamoshirenai. tsukashi, nihon ni hikoki de iku toki 40k koto o motte koreremasen. zannen desu.

YAY!So you $23million in Superball this sunday! Congrats!