"I grew up watching anime, and I thought, 'Wow, that's a really cool language!' " says Emily Connor, four-year Tokyo resident and singer with new pop duo oh sunshine.
"So it became my goal to be able to watch this one-hour film without subtitles. I could speak quite a lot of Japanese and read kanji before I moved here."
She pauses, then sheepishly adds: "I was a total otaku (fanatic)!"