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Nana —
Nana Komatsu is on her way to Tokyo; now she can finally be with her boyfriend after a year of dating long-distance! On the train there, Nana Komatsu meets Nana Osaki – a girl who shares her name but seems to be everything Nana Komatsu is not; cool, street-wise, and a punk rocker. The two hit it off and spend the entire journey getting to know each other, but when they get to Tokyo, circumstance separates them seemingly forever. However, fate is not finished with these two. Whilst hunting for a place to live the two Nanas again cross paths. They decide to share a flat and become best friends in no time. Nana K. Must learn to be independent and mature, while Nana O. Works on becoming famous with her band; but together, they will learn about love and loss, and the growth that comes with it.

Hataraki Man —
Hiroko Matsukata is a 28-year old editor at Jidai Weekly. She is a talented writer who strives to provide her readers with the biggest scoops, by whatever means necessary. What distinguishes Hiroko from other writers is her ability to transform into the go-getter Hataraki Man (aka working man), allowing her to write furiously until an article is completed! In addition to her masterful writing ability, Hiroko also can’t stand those who don’t take magazine articles as seriously as she. Though Hiroko desires romance in her life, her career as a writer is all encompassing. Can Hiroko maintain a romantic life outside of work, or is she doomed to the life of a spinster?

Rumbling Hearts (started off with high school but mostly adults)–
Narumi Takayuki is a normal high school student with a crush on Mitsuki, the school’s swim star — that is, until he receives a profession of love from his friend Haruka. But amidst the beautiful budding relationship, tragedy strikes when an accident occurs, turning Narumi’s life upside-down. Rumbling Hearts is a compelling drama about one man, and the choices he must make for love

Nodame Cantabile –
During Shinichi Chiaki’s 4th year at Japan’s top music university, he happens to meet Noda Megumi; or as she refers to herself, Nodame. On the surface, she seems to be an unkempt girl with no direction in life. However, when Chiaki hears Nodame play the piano for the first time, he is in awe at the kind of music she plays. To Chiaki’s dismay, Nodame moves into the apartment next to his and finds out that she is head over heels in love with him.
Nodame Cantabile tells the story of Chiaki and Nodame, as they not only learn to deal with each other, but learn lessons from one another as they strive for the top of the musical world.

Welcome to N.H.K. –
Tatsuhiro Satō, a university dropout entering his fourth year of unemployment. One day just when his life seems entirely unchanging, he meets Misaki Nakahara, a mysterious girl who claims to be able to cure Tatsuhiro of his hikikomori ways. She presents him with a contract basically outlining that once a day they would meet in the evening in a local park where Misaki would lecture to Tatsuhiro in an effort to rid him of his lifestyle. During these outings, many subjects are discussed. Both Tatsuhiro and Misaki, however, have a tendency of over-doing things, such as hiding the truth, especially from each other and themselves. Despite Misaki’s offer and pressing attempts at salvation, it is Tatsuhiro’s neighbor and high school friend, Kaoru Yamazaki, who Tatsuhiro often turns to in moments of need and support. Despite his own idiosyncrasies, Yamazaki is one of the more stable characters in the story.

Rec –
Fumihiko Matsumaru is an average salaryman with no girlfriend. He invited his colleague Miss Tanaka to a movie but was stood up. Right at the time he was about to toss tickets into a trash can, a cute girl appeared and asked him not to waste those two tickets. After movie and dinner, he escorted her home and found they live in the same neighborhood, yet unfortunately her apartment caught on fire hours later. Having nowhere else to stay, rookie seiyuu Aka Onda moved to Matsumaru’s place, and the two had started a “more than friend but not yet lovers” relationship under the same roof while keeping this secret from their employers.

White Album –
Tōya Fuji, a college student is dating a rising idol singer named Yuki Morikawa. There are numerous challenges to the couple’s relationship from the other people at Fuji’s college, Morikawa’s work, and elsewhere.

Honey and Clover –
Takemoto Yuuta, Mayama Takumi, and Morita Shinobu are college students who share the small apartment. Even though they live in poverty, the three of them are able to obtain pleasure through small things in life. The story follows these characters’ life stories as poor college students, as well as their love lives when a short but talented 18 year old girl called Hanamoto Hagumi appears.

Hope this helps:D!!!

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They’re your 5 points to piss away.

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This game is long gone mate. Floppy disks. I have seen one of them in years

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If it’s where I think it is you need to move around him and switch on the power. You need to move around several rooms and past him several times (it’s been a while since I’ve played it) avoid fighting him. It’s fairly easy as all the levers to operate the power etc are fairly obvious.

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Http://ski.ihoc.net/

Free for download as well, It was on Windows 3.1 if I recall.

It’s a snowman thingy btw. Have fun skiing =)

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As a 10+ year Forex trader, here is how I trade to make money…

If you want, you can also follow these steps. I’ve dumbed it down to the easiest, yet safest way to win in the Forex.

1) Open a live account at http://bit.ly/iPV25O
2) Select AAAFx broker, and open MICRO account with 200:1 leverage.
3) Deposit at least $300 in your account to start.
4) “Add to Portfolio” the top 20 strategies at http://bit.ly/mJiyZV
5) Don’t add any strategy that makes less than 10 average pips per trade.
6) …when adding strategies, set maximum number of trades to 5, and…
7) …select lot size of 0.1 “mini” lots for each $1000 in your account. It will trade automatically, following all those top 20 strategies.
9) Then sit back, relax and take a vacation as you make easy Forex money.

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All you want about Online Forex Trading platforms company with FREE trading on thise here

http://www.ifma15.org/blog/online-forex-trading/

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A Forex broker cannot change your strategy without your permission. They can only execute the instructions you give them, unless you give them discretionary trading authority.

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Since you are new to forex trading you should start by learning more about the domain: http://www.babypips.com/school.
After you have managed to graduate from babypips school you are ready to choose a strategy. I suggest you choose a strategy that fits you. Then learn the strategy, trade it profitable for a few months and then you are ready to open your trading account.
As for brokers I think you should go with the big ones that are authorised and regulated by a financial services authority such as:

http://www.forex.com

http://www.ibfx.com

http://www.odlmarkets.com

http://www.fxcm.com

http://www.mbtrading.com

As a final note, forex is taught business. You need time, money, discipline and patience to succeed. Use a proper money management system. Don’t trade if you don’t have and know a profitable trading strategy. Stay on demo until you can trade profitable for at least 6 month.

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I have been trading a long time.
There is no best way – because the market change over time.
The beauty of the FOREX is you can always get out of a trade at any moment – because the market is Soooo large. 100 time that of the DOW. That in times of crisis, is a very big deal. Once in ’86, when the oil market fell out and I was long & it took 3 days for me to get out – even though I had a stop in place!
At any rate there a so many tools out there now – you can make a tidy profit as long as you are not to greedy and want the last pip squeezed out !

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There might not be evidence

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Long term, forex will grow roughly in line with global GDP at 3% to 4% per year.

Any growth above that is just short term speculation. New entrants to the market are generally novices with small accounts. Most lose quickly and never return. No way that model supports 20% growth.

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The exchange rate is whatever currencies are worth in terms of one another. For example, 1 dollar is worth .7614 euros, or 1 euro is worth 1.3134. Therefore, you can exhange one dollar for .76 euros, or you can exchange one euro for 1.31 dollars. Hence, ‘exchange rate’

finance.yahoo.com has a convenient ‘currency converter’ located at
http://finance.yahoo.com/currency-converter/

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Realistically, about 80%-90% of all traders blow out. This is not “investing” or “Buy and Hold.” This is trading, and it takes skill, knowledge, and balls of steel. It is probably the most difficult thing you will ever encounter.

You can buy $100,000 worth of currency with $1,000 margin in a standard account. This would be the purchase of one standard lot, at 100:1 leverage. Or you can get 200:1 leverage in a mini account. Wo, how much trouble can we get into now?

Just because you “can” doesn’t mean you “should” trade with this kind of leverage. Trading stocks with 2:1 leverage is considered risky.

What most people don’t seem to realize, is that you don’t have to trade with leverage at all. Just put $100,00 in your account, buy one lot, and you have zero leverage. Or put $10,000 into a mini account and buy one mini-lot, or $1000 and buy one micro-lot.

You can see that by controlling leverage, trading the Forex doesn’t have to be any more risky than trading stocks or any other investment.

The same holds true with all or any futures contract. You decide how much leverage to use, and how much risk to accept.

You can accept the maximum leverage like most people looking to “get rich quick,” and blow out like 80%-90% of all traders, or you can play it smart and ease into it slowly, starting with a simulator while you’re learning, probably for at least six months.

I’ve traded stock index futures and options about fifteen years, but have only traded currencies a few months. A lot of the same principles apply, especially the “trading” techniques. Last month my account was up 42%, and the month before it was up 40%. This month, it is down sixteen percent.

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If you close the trade and reopen it, this will work, you will avoid the interest payment, but you have to pay the spread again and continue paying the spread everytime you do it. Its not worth it.

Suggestion contact various brokers and have them email you their rollovers (swaps) schedule before you open an account, the rollover interset varies widely from broker to broker.

If you BUY the AUD/USD or AUD/JPY , these two pairs pay generous swaps daily. Instead of avoiding the interest rate you get paid and put it in your pocket every day and pay the spread once. I held the AUD/USD 41 days and my swaps were awesome. Along with 375 pips in profit.

Http://theforexheatmap.blogspot.com/2009/07/forex-educationa-post-5-draft.html

Also read lesson 3 and 4 several times concerning forex brokerage in my 35 part series.

Good Trading
Mark Mc Donnell

http://www.forexearlywarning.com/

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Heavy Rain is good, its more like a dramatic thriller of a movie, but its entertaining. If you havent played the first Uncharted i’d recommend that.

Army of Two (the first one) was pretty fun.

Killzone 2 was awesome and visually stunning.

Heavenly Sword its like a female God of War and less bloody.

Dark Sector was really fun. (feels like a Gears of War gameplay setup and has monsters, but the abilities in the game are really fun.)

The Darkness was great too (FPS) and you can use demonic abilities like ripping enemies faces off with your snake demon things.

Turok is a good FPS, you get to fight dinos, but can get repetative, but still fun.

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Before you even have a chance to figure out how to hit this guy, the screen turns white and Roxas finds himself in the air, chained in floating energy shackles. The Twilight Thorn comes face to face with Roxas and pulls back its fist to swing. A reaction command (Key Counter) will appear suddenly. You’ll definitely want to hit it as soon as you can; otherwise you’re going to take a few punches. A successful Reaction will cause Roxas to dodge the blow and strike the enemy in the face, sending it flying.

The Twilight Thorn will regain its composure, but now it will grab you from a distance (note that this will happen even if you don’t pull off the previous reaction command). It will throw Roxas up into the air, and attempt to spike him into the ground. Again, you can use a reaction command (Lunarsault) right when you’re nearing the creature’s head. This will hit it back, but it will slink underneath the platform.

You can run around now, but in a few moments, the creature will tip the platform upside-down. During the next few intense moments, Roxas will find a large (very very large) ball of energy between him and the Twilight Thorn. Things will pause for a second, and you’ll be able to use the Break Raid reaction command. This will break the ball of energy and send both Roxas and the Twilight Thorn slamming back onto the platform. Take this opportunity to smack a few combos worth of hits into the enemy’s head. Now the battle will start proper.

– The only vulnerable part is its head.
– It will swing its arm horizontally across the area. Jump to avoid this.
- It will also swing its arms in wave patterns as it moves across the platform. Hit the head a couple times and run to the side.
– After it does the previously mentioned attack, it will stretch out its head and start releasing arcs of energy. During this time, use the Reversal reaction command repeatedly to dodge the energy and get closer to the head. Attack when you have a chance.
– It will also stand up and repeat the same energy arc attack. You can still use the Reversal command to gain some major air and reach the head.
- While the energy arcs are flying around, the boss will also summon more Nobodies. They aren’t that difficult to defeat on their own, but the arcs of energy might give you trouble. Stay on your toes and keep using the reaction commands. These Nobodies will give you a few big HP orbs when defeated, so keep that in mind.
- If the screen turns white again, you will have to go through the really cool part from the beginning of the battle again. This is good, as you can stun the beast again.
- When it’s close to dying, the Twilight Thorn will turn into a sort of floating halo, and will shoot out more energy arcs than ever before. Once again, successful and repeated reaction commands will bring you to the head. Keep smacking away until you’ve defeated it.

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Hmmm I think you are referring to Godannar. (Shinkon Gattai Godannar!!)

The main characters are Goh Saruwatari and Anna Aoi.

The story starts a few years after some aliens a.k.a. ‘mimetic’ beasts have been defeated and the couple are about to get married.

Of course we cannot have that kind of a happy ending in a giant robot versus alien anime and the aliens are back. :p

Let me know if this is the one.

Cheers!

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Though it’s originally from the early ’70s, you might be thinking of Spectreman:

http://www.geocities.com/Hollywood/Academy/6396/spectre.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spectreman

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If you look further ie u tube type in subliminal messages disney you will be suprised gl sorry didnt see it but wonder why sky movies put snakes at the end of the swirls of c s

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Of course not

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There’s some good ones on this site -

http://forex.webexpresslane.com/forex.html

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I use Forex Tracer as my single-point forex trading system. It works seamlessly with my Metatrader 4 broker and is pretty good at spotting signals & creating trades. I work out of Melbourne, Australia as a forex trader.

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There are many companies that create Forex trading software, Forex Trading Systems, Forex Signals and Forex alert services.In order to continue to improve our software we setup a trading office ONLY for trading. We believe nothing and I mean nothing can improve Trading software, and Trading Systems more than actual LIVE trading. We hired two local traders, trained them, and they are trading OUR money. This has made many breakthroughs in our software and will continue to do.

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The Federal government warns there are a lot of Forex frauds out there, and these Forex robots appear to be one type of these scams. If these robots really worked, there would be scads of articles about them in the Wall Street Journal and other financial publications talking about them. When I do a web search, I can not find a single reputable news article encouraging the use of Forex robots. The link below is a Federal website warning you about Forex fraud.

There are a lot of people on the Internet claiming they have done very well using Forex robots. These appear to be of two types. One is the outright liars. For instance, you might meet a person called “Zboy227″ who says “I made a lot of money using ScamRobot2000, go to their website at ScamRobot .com/Zboy227.” The “/Zboy227″ tells the website that Zboy227 has referred you. If you buy the product, Zboy227 gets a commission. He is only lying to you to get a commission.

There is a lot of luck in Forex. Sometimes you will run into people on the web who have tried a robot for a few days and have had some beginner’s luck with it. They start bragging about how well they have done. Later, they start to lose money, but they rarely get back on the web and talk about how much money they lost. People like to brag about their successes, but rarely talk about their losses. The result is that much of the feedback about these Forex robots is positive.

I may point out that websites that sell Forex robots admit there are a lot of scams out there. Of course they claim the other guy’s robot is a scam, but their robot works. If you do a web search on the words “forex robot” and “scam” you will find a lot of sites saying their competitors are scams.

I will admit I have not personally tested every robot out there, and I can not prove they are all scams. But I would be very hesitant to spend a lot of money on a robot without clear proof it really works.

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Www.oanda.com has a “practice” area where you can actually trade currencies without risking money. You can make candlestick charts as well.

Www.stockcharts.com has an excellent page which teaches all about candlestick charting.

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Worden or Metastock.

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Www.oanda.com?

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Pip spread is the difference in the ask and bid prices of a particular pair of currency. Usually 3 to 5 for major common currency. Up to maybe 15 or even 20 pips difference for less coimmon pairs, eg Aud/Eur, Aud/Yen

Best free charts definitely those provided by FXCM. Have a choice of several charts.
@ http://www.geocities.com/lcming/ForexForex

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You should already have your stop loss set in place like your strategy has you do. You post alot of analytic data there but do you even know what they mean?

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No way! It’s a dirty trick!
Think about it. If we offered an alien to stay on Earth, we would preform tests and scrutinize it. Wouldn’t they do the same to us?
Similar scenario:
A child getting into a stranger’s van because he has “candy”. The child being you, the stranger being the aliens, and the candy being anal probing.

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How bout winnie the pooh?

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Idk at the moment but I like all of their movies since they give
out valuable lessons-the next two movies will be:

Toy Story 3(2010)
Cars 2 (2011)

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My son still has his, it called a “Scannerz”.

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Only if they were really nice evil robots, aliens, demons, and monsters.

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Why learn to trade the Forex the HARD way like most people who LOSE their money, when you can profit in the Forex the easy way?

Just follow these steps. I’ve dumbed it down to the easiest, yet safest way to win in the Forex.

1) Open a live account at http://bit.ly/iPV25O
2) Select AAAFx broker, and open MICRO account with 200:1 leverage.
3) Deposit at least $300 in your account to start.
4) “Add to Portfolio” the top 20 strategies at http://bit.ly/mJiyZV
5) …when adding strategies, set maximum number of trades to 5, and…
6) …select lot size of 0.1 “mini” lots for each $1000 in your account.
7) It will trade automatically, following all those top 20 strategies. Then sit back, relax and take a vacation as you make easy Forex money.

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Hey ZZ,
Your best bet might be to go to meetup.com and look under investing strategies to see if there are any Forex related groups already organized in your area.

You can also find quite a few Forex folks by searching on Yahoo 360.

I don’t live in Detroit but I would be happy to answer any questions that you may have.

Paul
pupp52@yahoo.com

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Ebay

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You’ve already spotted the con with the whole book-writing and DVD thing. If I had a real secret or formula for trading currencies, why would I tell anyone, when I can simply sit 2 hours everyday and make US$12 million in profits. There’s no such thing as a secret or optimal trading technique, what these guys teach you is basic economics principals. Sometimes their textbook principals are flawed as well, and these guys make so little money actually trading forex, that they probably make 10 times that amount by selling books and DVDs .

Back to your question, and the answer is plain and simply: no, you cannot make a living trading forex as an individual. Some organizations do it, but they’re utilizing massive amounts of labour and technology and even they get it wrong sometimes. This whole concept about not working hard but being able to make easy money is one of the biggest scams that’s been in existence since who knows when. I personally don’t feel that you need to work “hard” either, you must work smart, save smart and spend smart.

It’s also highly speculative, you need to know the news minute by minute and you need a fundamental understanding of economics, supply and demand, finance, politics and basically every other facet of knowledge if you wish to scrape pennies trading currency.

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Don’t worry about forex. Candlestick charts are candlestick charts. You can still learn from the books even if the examples are in futures or stocks.

Http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_ss_b_0_11?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=candlestick+charting&sprefix=candlestick

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I would chech out http://www.elance.com or the MetaTrader forum at http://www.forexfactory.com

Good luck

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Call your broker to find out how you can download the information directly to your tax return software.

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Florida and new hampshire

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US citizens and resident aliens pay tax on worldwide icnome, so of course you do.

Unless this is classified as a 1256 contract, you report it on line 21, other income. 1256 goes to form 6781.

And, if the account had more than $10,000 in it at *any* time during 2009, don’t forget to file form TDF 90-22.1

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There are so many, try www.fxstreet.com and www.xpresstrade.com

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You just need to establish a general scale. Find some simple detail and decide what the distance of that thing is, and then base all of your other measurements on that as well.

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Being a horror movie buff, I’ve come across loooots of low-budget, b-movie horror films that are just freakin’ terrible. Some are so bad that it’s not even funny xD

I’m not sure about how old they are (does that really matter?), but some really awful low-budget films include:
- Ozone (the acting is horrendous)
- Zombie Chronicles (a very poor attempt at mimicking Creepshow with the short ‘horror’ stories… Atrocious film, awful acting, etc…)
- Crocodile (original by Tobe Hooper, who funnily enough directed The Texas Chainsaw Massacre…. Shocking that Crocodile is absolutely terrible whilst TCM is brilliant!)
- Plan 9 From Outer Space (notorious for being universally dubbed ‘the worst film in history’)

Just search for old low-budget zombie films and you’ll find loads that are hilariously bad.

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Well, it looks an awful lot like the monster from D-wars…

Http://images.allocine.fr/medias/nmedia/18/65/77/64/18908524.jpg

But I should be very surprised if that isn’t Jormungand, the Midgard Serpent, an ancient enemy of Thor.

Http://marvel.wikia.com/Jormungand_(Earth-616)

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Jet Jackson? Alan Strange? That’s all I got.

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I thuink that was back then, now it cute and furry stuff. Just google Japan Cute Culture.