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The first suggestion was a good one, but. . . (Sat Dec 21 08:11:13 2002 )
Drac of the Sharp Smiles [View profile ]

drac@attbi.com

Translation software does a doozy of a number on 
names and titles. You're not going to find 
something that way. But if you can get the 
Japanese title, all you have to do is feed it 
into the search engine and you have your own link.

How to find the title? Go to the Japanese side of 
Taro's site (don't log in or it will send you 
back to the English side). Find cels from the 
show, then take the name from there. This can be 
done with several other Japanese sites that list 
both the Japanese and English names of the show. 
(Anime Iland, Collection Mall, Bonbee, etc.) Taro 
just has the most extensive list.

If Taro doesn't have it listed, then the best way 
is to look at the title on a DVD, video, fansub, 
CD cover, whathave you. Find one auction for the 
show and find those characters in the auction. 
(Chances are best, it's there somewhere.)

Once you do fine the name, cut and paste it into 
a document you can save somewhere. I have the 
titles of all the shows I like saved off into an 
e-mail I keep in my "Drafts" folder. Then you can 
cut and paste it into the search engine whenever 
you want. ^_^  If you put in the title of the 
show, then a space, and the Japanese for "cel", 
it will hunt auctions containing the title and 
the word "cel" - thus you can narrow down your 
search without eliminating auctions that might be 
cels, but not listed in the "cel" catagory. (Most 
deputy links hunt ONLY inside the "cel" catagory.)

("Wait! I can't even find one auction!")

Need to find an auction involving the show? This 
is tougher. . . First, you can try feeding in the 
English and see if you get anything. Otherwise 
you need to know what the name of the show looks 
like in Japanese. Assuming you can't enter 
Japanese text into your computer, go through some 
of the pages of Yahoo Japan and find a number of 
the characters from the title (all in a row). 
This is easiest if there's a short stretch of 
kana in the title somewhere. Cut and paste the 
characters into the search engine and weed 
through what you get. You may pull up hundreds of 
auctions, but somewhere in there is probably at 
least one auction for the show you're hunting. (I 
successfully found a show title this way using 
only *two* of the characters from the title.)

Yes, actually I DO think about this too much. ^_~ 
If you want help, or if you can't actually see 
and/or cut and paste Japanese text. . . (*points 
to address above*) I might be able to make a link 
for you. ^_^

Many Sharp Smiles,
--Drac



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