You have to love this manga...

[petronia]

Sakamoto Ryoma: OKKII---! You're as ky00t as ever!

Okita Souji: Ahahaha Ryoma-san! *heart* As ever, I do not understand your crazy katakanised gaijin loanwords!

[ They fight. ]

***

Ça viole l'histoire, certes, mais ça lui fait de beaux enfants. As Dumas Elder would say.

I am very cheerful, partially due to starlighter's scans (that go quite a ways to making up for the fact that everyone I sl0red on this series has got their manga before me _O_;;), and also partially due to the fact that I'm finally wrapping up this goddamned story that I've been writing since October 2002. ...The incredibly obscure Supersonic Angel Engine twelve-pager that I posted the first five pages of way back when, and only supacat's seen the last five pages of; except it's changed so much from the last version I've sent her that, well, that story. Is the one I'm talking about. Yes, I know it only matters to me, but gimme a break. ^^; I'll, um, pretend it's Christmas fic exchange or something. Cat's supposed to be writing me Nana. :P~

It's been an incredibly long day. But I prefer days when I have to scramble to meet deadlines and run around town attending meetings in highrises to days when I'm just stuck in front of the computer fiddling with projects, really. Variety is the thing. Yesterday I got paid to attend a training session on marine insurance business rules, and today I got paid to scan this. (Adamantly not work safe, and not sexy either though one never knows about select individuals.) ...Well, I didn't get paid per se, since I'm not about to claim overtime for the five minutes it took me to use my dad's slide scanner at home. But you see what I mean. XD

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[petronia.livejournal.com]

He has an accent for sure. If it's Kansai, it's a different Kansai from the usual manga kind (Ayu's, say - Osaka speech?). "Washi" and "onshi" in lieu of "wai", and lots of "--ki". I can read it, but I haven't the slightest what it is. ^^;

Here's your continuous scene, anyhoo, subject to my brain-deadness so there're likely errors:

***

Ryoma: Ishimura Tatsunosuke; Tetsunosuke. You're different from the people who live here. Come with me. We'll clean up Japan together.

//Tatsu: This man--//

Tatsu: Please leave. It's not for me to know what's to become of the Bakufu, or Japan, or the world.

//--I can't let him meet Tetsu.//

Ryoma: ...You have the same face, but you say entirely different things. It's sad.

*coughing*

Ryoma: Wah!! I'm here in secret, don't give me away!

Tatsu: Eh? Uh all right...

Souji: *coughcough* Ah, Tatsunosuke-san?

Tatsu: Okita-san, back from your rounds? You must be tired.

Souji: Tatsunosuke-san's working hard too, on organising the books. But this is an odd place to meet you--

Tatsu: ?

Souji: --Ryoma-san. *heart*

Ryoma: *jumps out from bushes* Ohh, OKKII~~ *heart* It's been so long! You're as CUTE as ever!

Souji: Ahahahaha, just the same as ever, I have no idea what you just said *hearts*

//Tatsu: The heck, he's a friend of Okita-san's?//

[They attack each other like mad katana/pistol fiends]

Tatsu: ...... -_-;; (Or not...)

[starlighter.livejournal.com]

[canis-m.livejournal.com]

Ryoma-san's accent is Tosa-ben~! From the glorious land of Tosa~! Located at the bottom of Shikoku in what is now Kochi Prefecture. I lived there, is how I know.

To this day, Ryoma is a big deal in Kochi. Local celebrity/mascot, despite the fact that he is very dead. They sell Ryoma keychains and cell phone straps at tourist shops. If you say "Tosa" to a random Japanese person in Tokyo--or indeed in Los Angeles--they will respond with "Aaa, Sakamoto Ryoma!" -_-;

[petronia.livejournal.com]

By J's theory Sakamoto Ryoma should be somewhat off-limits to mangaka crack. But I guess if he's already the local celeb mascot... *g*

Hey, he doesn't flounce. You can slash'im, but he doesn't flounce. And most mangaka are just plain on crack, but Kurono Nanae has... I think I should call it a healthy grasp of how to present fact like fiction, so no one complains about the fiction being presented like fact. I had to note with disbelief in the course of my general reading up that historical!Ryoma did indeed schlepp a Smith&Wesson around; this is the third or fourth time she's pulled that trick on me.

One thing, though: not enough wives in this series, generally speaking. Opportunity not taken, or is she waiting to spring something on us?