Panda's Corner

I just wanted to add a list of my discoveries in the world of Iphone/Kindle, and other media.　If names are given in English– If you have your iPhone set to Japanese, the language of the game will be in Japanese. All are free unless otherwise said.

Games

-Mushroom Garden AKA Funghi Gardening kit

• You grow mushrooms. A really easy straight forward game.I believe there’s a market to improve your equipment.

-Brain lab

• Your Japanese skills  need to be a little more advanced for this one. This is similar to brain age in the respect that it’s there to sharpen your reaction time and mental play.

-はらぺこモグモン

• (Hungry Mogumon) You play around with a Mogumon by feeding and breeding. Still figuring out the gameplay!

-あそんでまなべる 日本地図パズル

• Learn Japanese Geography with a drag and drop map timed puzzle!

-こえほん

• Koehon, Japanese children picture books. There are some free books, you can buy more, however. Natives read the book to you, Kana can be displayed but you must manually follow along. Other options include recording yourself reading and play it back.

-ぐんまはん

• You harvest crops and buy land in Japan.

Kana practice

Read the Kanji

• I prefer this over sursu/anki because I can play it as long as I want. I prefer to DRILL kana/katakana in the morning before class and after class during my breaks. Anki just doesn’t allow me to do this easily. I also, for whatever reason, cannot input audio into my Anki. RTK has audio! Learned my Kana and Kanji.

Real Kana

• Browser form of simple flash cards. You can pick and choose with species (column) and alphabet (Hiragana or Katakana)

Kanji romaji Hiragana Converision:

• Like me and don’t know much kanji? Convert your books, songs, and likewise into Kana!

Dictionary aids:

ーDenshi Jisho

• I can look up kanji by radicals from games and other places that I can’t copy and paste.

Music (artists)

• Sakanaction
• Perfume
• yum!yum!orange
• Bonnie Pink 
• Chiaki Ishikawa
• Eiko Shimamiya
• Inoue Joe
• Kou Shibasaki
• Konishi Kayo and Kondoo Yukio
• Olivia
• Orange Range
• Rei Harakami
• Tokyo Nights
• Tskiko Amano
• UVERworld
• Versailles
• Kyary pamyu pamyu
• Miku and the other vocaloids (if you can count them)
• Arashi

Finding music:

• www.jpopasia.com

Anime

• Naruto and Naruto Shippuden
• Hunter x Hunter
• Bleach
• 5 cm per second
• Every day Kaasan

Drama

• Deka Kurokawa Suzuki
• detective Fffice 5
• Secret Agent Erika.
• Mr. Brain

Movies

• Spirited away.

Websites

• 
  http://www.hiraganatimes.com/hiragana_blog/