日本事情 Japanese Cultural Background

The test... was odd. Who would have thought that I would ever end up... writing a mini-essay about: the difference between Ultraman and Kamen Rider. Or even about: What are the differences between bakemono *equivalent=boogeyman?* and ghosts. Or about the definition of bakemono? There was even the last mini-essay about why a paticular TV show had continued for over 30 years est. where in the correct answer would have been to quote a professor from Tsukuba University.

One year ago I would never ever have been able to imagine that I would be doing such a thing as what I had done... early this afternoon. That was the strangest exam I've done so far in my life ^^ But if you're one of the people laughing in disbelief, I'm wishing that you could have seen the people in the exam room, bent low over their paper trying to answer the above stated questions. It really was very... strange ^^;