Turtles, what’s the dealio?

As you can see I’ve made some changes to the header, mostly because it was outdated (it contained some information that wasn’t correct anymore). So why turtles? Well, some of you probably didn’t know this but kame (as in my blog’s name) is the Japanese word for turtle. Of course there’s a story about this word and why it’s a part of this blog’s name, and that is the story I’m going to tell you now!

When I was young (I’m still young, but with that I mean really young) my parents and I adopted three turtles. These turtles were my first pets ever and I loved them very much, until it started to smell that is (which was like 2 weeks later). So we got rid of them and then I got two sand rats instead, but that’s a whole other story. So my first encounter with turtles wasn’t that good but a couple of years later when I started watching anime, the turtles slowly started to come back to me. Turtles are quite common in various animes and in Japanese culture in general, so I couldn’t really escape them. However, my opinion on turtles really changed after this. But this of course isn’t the only reason why I chose to use kame as a part of my blog’s name. Just to make this clear, kame is just a part of the blog’s name while my nickname is Sano (but you might know me as Sanokame from other places since Sano usually is unavailable, I also tend to use kame as a surname).

The real reason why kame came to be a part of my blog’s name is because of a girl, A girl whose name is Eri Kamei. This girl is a member of one of Japan’s most famous all-girl J-pop groups and is also in my top 5 list of female celebrities. Since turtle (kame) is part of her name, this is a subject that is quite often mentioned wherever she might be at the moment. And that is the main reason why I chose to use this word.

That’s the whole story of my relation to turtles and why it’s a part of me and this blog. Why I decided to add the turtles now was because I thought the header was too simple and it didn’t make this blog unique at all.

Just in case you don’t know Eri Kamei I’ll post a couple of pictures of her from her latest photo book.