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死んでいた朝に 弔いの雪が降る
はぐれ犬の遠吠え 下駄の音きしむ
因果な重さ 見つめて歩く
闇を抱きしめる 蛇の目の傘ひとつ
命の道を行く女
涙はとうに捨てました
振り向いた川に 遠ざかる旅の日が
凍てた鶴は動かず 泣いた雨と風
冷えた水面に ほつれ髪映し
涙さえ見せない 蛇の目の傘ひとつ
恨みの道をゆく女
心はとうに捨てました
義理も情けも涙も夢も
昨日も明日も縁のない言葉
恨みの川に身を委ね
女はとうに捨てました
It's hard. IME won't spit up some of those kanji, I had to resort to google. >_< But I love this song; when it played during Kill Bill Vol.1 it knocked me back in my theatre seat. Just the image conveyed by the first lines.
In the dying dawn
A funereal snow falls
The distant bark of a lost dog
And the sound of geta
蛇の目の傘 means an umbrella made of red paper, with a pattern of white rings (thank the saints for a really good dictionary).
***
I've spent most of my fannish time this past week reading Tenjou Tenge. (And concurrently dreaming about Tenjou Tenge; it's the sort of series that makes just as much sense in dream logic, and loses none of its entertainment value. XD) I think if I were on the anime scripting team I'd re-jig the sequence of events a little, add some flashbacks and explanations early on - like they did with GetBackers - in order to make it a little less apparent that the mangaka was pulling the plot out of his hat ex tempore. You can sort of tell that as he writes he starts to find certain characters more interesting, and drops the primary action to hare off after them. That being said it's a pretty compelling story (because chances are everyone in the room will agree with Ougureito on who the interesting people are XD), and when one digs beneath the RATED XXX one finds that the character motivations are... shoujo-esque? Ranma-esque, maybe. A serious, bloody, angst-ridden version of Ranma. Fighting, school, love polygons (incest, vengeful ghosts, motorcycle gangs...). But as demonstrated in Kill Bill, some people overreact emotionally and break a plate. Other people overreact emotionally and leave a fiery trail of mayhem and murder.
(Who was it that said Ranma should never be ficced in a realistic style, because it would be too dark? Guess fandom failed in that respect.)
Artwork is drop-dead gorgeous, especially the colour spreads. The anime seems to have eliminated all the pantyfloss-and-nipple action, though, which is... is like taking the crack out of Prince of Tennis. I mean it's the equivalent of punching a hole in the side and letting the juice out. XD;; The manga has uncensored pubic hair, for the love of bob. (For people who want to know these things, it's none too slashworthy - not that I missed it; YMMV, but I'm all for m/f when both the women and the men are as INCREDIBLY HOT as this - until one hits the serious backstory, which not-so-coincidentally was when I started to lose track of the plot, because I was staring at young!Mitsuomi's ass. And then Shin let his hair down, and it was all a blur after that. One day someone will have to write an essay on why blond hair down + eyepatch automatically equal uke points +100 in animanga. Bunshichi starting with the homoerotic cigarette thing was redundant at that point.)
Okay, remind me tomorrow to talk about why I like Bob and Chiaki. And Maya. Did I manage not to mention Maya at all, or what? >_>
はぐれ犬の遠吠え 下駄の音きしむ
因果な重さ 見つめて歩く
闇を抱きしめる 蛇の目の傘ひとつ
命の道を行く女
涙はとうに捨てました
振り向いた川に 遠ざかる旅の日が
凍てた鶴は動かず 泣いた雨と風
冷えた水面に ほつれ髪映し
涙さえ見せない 蛇の目の傘ひとつ
恨みの道をゆく女
心はとうに捨てました
義理も情けも涙も夢も
昨日も明日も縁のない言葉
恨みの川に身を委ね
女はとうに捨てました
It's hard. IME won't spit up some of those kanji, I had to resort to google. >_< But I love this song; when it played during Kill Bill Vol.1 it knocked me back in my theatre seat. Just the image conveyed by the first lines.
In the dying dawn
A funereal snow falls
The distant bark of a lost dog
And the sound of geta
蛇の目の傘 means an umbrella made of red paper, with a pattern of white rings (thank the saints for a really good dictionary).
***
I've spent most of my fannish time this past week reading Tenjou Tenge. (And concurrently dreaming about Tenjou Tenge; it's the sort of series that makes just as much sense in dream logic, and loses none of its entertainment value. XD) I think if I were on the anime scripting team I'd re-jig the sequence of events a little, add some flashbacks and explanations early on - like they did with GetBackers - in order to make it a little less apparent that the mangaka was pulling the plot out of his hat ex tempore. You can sort of tell that as he writes he starts to find certain characters more interesting, and drops the primary action to hare off after them. That being said it's a pretty compelling story (because chances are everyone in the room will agree with Ougureito on who the interesting people are XD), and when one digs beneath the RATED XXX one finds that the character motivations are... shoujo-esque? Ranma-esque, maybe. A serious, bloody, angst-ridden version of Ranma. Fighting, school, love polygons (incest, vengeful ghosts, motorcycle gangs...). But as demonstrated in Kill Bill, some people overreact emotionally and break a plate. Other people overreact emotionally and leave a fiery trail of mayhem and murder.
(Who was it that said Ranma should never be ficced in a realistic style, because it would be too dark? Guess fandom failed in that respect.)
Artwork is drop-dead gorgeous, especially the colour spreads. The anime seems to have eliminated all the pantyfloss-and-nipple action, though, which is... is like taking the crack out of Prince of Tennis. I mean it's the equivalent of punching a hole in the side and letting the juice out. XD;; The manga has uncensored pubic hair, for the love of bob. (For people who want to know these things, it's none too slashworthy - not that I missed it; YMMV, but I'm all for m/f when both the women and the men are as INCREDIBLY HOT as this - until one hits the serious backstory, which not-so-coincidentally was when I started to lose track of the plot, because I was staring at young!Mitsuomi's ass. And then Shin let his hair down, and it was all a blur after that. One day someone will have to write an essay on why blond hair down + eyepatch automatically equal uke points +100 in animanga. Bunshichi starting with the homoerotic cigarette thing was redundant at that point.)
Okay, remind me tomorrow to talk about why I like Bob and Chiaki. And Maya. Did I manage not to mention Maya at all, or what? >_>
