So, um, okay. In the Japanese version of Okami (and Okamiden, I guess? IDK) Amaterasu -and Shiranui for extension- didn't have an actual gender. We can agree on that. Then in the English game, there were hints for female (Waka using French female pronouns and adjectives, Yatsu seeing her as a maiden) so most people think of her as a gal in fanon. Me included, but that's not the point.
So now the English localizators of Okamiden have randomly decided that the Shiranui incarnation is male. "Always remember: it’s people that assign gender to the gods."And by people, we mean us.
No, your reason is utter bullshit. Shiranui might be another incarnation, but she was the original Amaterasu with full powers and memories. Shiranui is the name humans gave her because they didn't know who the fuck the white wolf was, and they used "it" pronouns. Waka thought of Shiranui as Amaterasu. Ishaku called her Ammy. The Brush Gods called Amaterasu their mother, but they were born from Shiranui. No one is seeing a huge distinction between Ammy and Shiranui in the original game. Actually, does she turn into a dude in the final battle to you guys?
Why don't you just say WE FELT LIKE CALLING HIM A GRANDPA or admitting you are afraid of girlfleas cooties instead of using the Japanese lack of gender as a loophole? Mind you, I'm not pissed that Shiranui gets her gender changed to male. It's the inconsistency. If they had changed BOTH Amaterasu and Shiranui as male, I wouldn't agree but I certainly wouldn't complain about it. Then it's just a translation choice. But by doing this picking, it feels just wrong and badly thought. IT'S THE SAME CHARACTER, YOU DUMBASSES.
Sigh. I'm done with my wank. Back to replaying Ghost Trick and uploading Okami fanart on Tumblr.
So now the English localizators of Okamiden have randomly decided that the Shiranui incarnation is male. "Always remember: it’s people that assign gender to the gods."
No, your reason is utter bullshit. Shiranui might be another incarnation, but she was the original Amaterasu with full powers and memories. Shiranui is the name humans gave her because they didn't know who the fuck the white wolf was, and they used "it" pronouns. Waka thought of Shiranui as Amaterasu. Ishaku called her Ammy. The Brush Gods called Amaterasu their mother, but they were born from Shiranui. No one is seeing a huge distinction between Ammy and Shiranui in the original game. Actually, does she turn into a dude in the final battle to you guys?
Why don't you just say WE FELT LIKE CALLING HIM A GRANDPA or admitting you are afraid of girl
Sigh. I'm done with my wank. Back to replaying Ghost Trick and uploading Okami fanart on Tumblr.
So I wake up in a world with Gyakuten Kenji 2 coming up. And Edgeworth is still the main character.
Sigh. Where's my "Stephen Colbert re: Eshiro pissing on my fandom cereal" gif again?
Here we go.
And I'm copy-pasting my comment at the![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-community.gif)
gyakuten_saiban post on why this mom is disappoint.
Hell, I'm the only person in the world who dislikes Franziska intensely, but I'm more than willing to put up with her bratty POV if this means the chance to get a Klavier game this decade.
Sigh. Where's my "Stephen Colbert re: Eshiro pissing on my fandom cereal" gif again?
Here we go.
And I'm copy-pasting my comment at the
gyakuten_saiban post on why this mom is disappoint.a) I WANT GS5 MUCH, MUCH MORE /WHINE BIAS WHINE CHEESE WHINE
I was expecting a GK coming sooner, with Takumi not involved recently, so that wasn't that heartbreaking... but still. Meh.
b) Ah, it's also an Edgey game? Are they all GK/AAI games going to be his? Eshiro, drop your fanboy boner for him for a sec, because you can't see the potential of this series. Haven't they thought of rotating the prosecutor? One game with Franziska, one game with Godo-- wait, how is that going to work if he only takes cases with Phoenix?-, one game with Klavier ♥ (AND EMA AS THE DETECTIVE OH GOD PLEASE NO MORE LITTLE THIEF BULLSHIT I WANT THE SCIENCE GIMMICKS BACK), and so on. I know Edgeworth is the fan favorite and he sells like hot bread, but it would be more fun like this. I want to play as Klavier ;;
Hell, I'm the only person in the world who dislikes Franziska intensely, but I'm more than willing to put up with her bratty POV if this means the chance to get a Klavier game this decade.
I hate the gamers in this country SO MUCH
Feb. 7th, 2009 04:09 pmSo Chrono Trigger DS was out over here yesterday (or it should be, because game.es has it out of stock already O_o; and knowing the local Game store, it'll take it 100000 years to arrive to this city). I go and check around Spanish boards out of curiosity, and guess what. THERE'S WANK.
FOR THE SAME USUAL (AND RETARDED) REASONS. GODDAMMIT.
( OMG IT'S NOT IN SPANISH THEREFORE IT SUCKS!1! )
You know, I was planning to import CT from the UK because it's cheaper, but after seeing this I'm so buying it full-priced in Spain. I do agree with the wankers about one thing: if it's the same North American game, then why the fuck did it take Squeenix this long to release it here? I wanted this shit for Christmas, not Valentine's day.
FOR THE SAME USUAL (AND RETARDED) REASONS. GODDAMMIT.
( OMG IT'S NOT IN SPANISH THEREFORE IT SUCKS!1! )
You know, I was planning to import CT from the UK because it's cheaper, but after seeing this I'm so buying it full-priced in Spain. I do agree with the wankers about one thing: if it's the same North American game, then why the fuck did it take Squeenix this long to release it here? I wanted this shit for Christmas, not Valentine's day.
(no subject)
Jan. 25th, 2009 01:51 pmGuess who's "modding" her PS2 to play non-Europe-released games :D
...Okay, a big part is playing Abyss on my own. The second reason is that I'm intrigued by Persona 4, but I'm not spending money on a turn-based RPG -I'm perfectly aware it never ends well with me.
...It's just that. Crossdressing girl genius who's a srs bsns detective. Sob.
Uuuuuuh, you know what? Don't mention again Shamalamadingdong's Avatar live-action crap again in front of me. So much fail in so little time. I'd rather become a Pharaoh of Denial and pretend it's not happening, instead of participating on the ongoing, never-ending wank. Unless, you know, there are news of a cast/crew member who actually is racially sensible or isn't a complete ignorant about the canon.
I'll just say that the Koreans wear KIMONO and Belgians wear LEDERHOSEN coming from the casting director? Suddenly it *all* makes fucking sense. In this failboat kind of way, that is. If someone like this is in charge...
So yeah, let me know only if there's someone smart working in this oxymoronic whitewashed mess of a movie.
...Okay, a big part is playing Abyss on my own. The second reason is that I'm intrigued by Persona 4, but I'm not spending money on a turn-based RPG -I'm perfectly aware it never ends well with me.
Uuuuuuh, you know what? Don't mention again Shamalamadingdong's Avatar live-action crap again in front of me. So much fail in so little time. I'd rather become a Pharaoh of Denial and pretend it's not happening, instead of participating on the ongoing, never-ending wank. Unless, you know, there are news of a cast/crew member who actually is racially sensible or isn't a complete ignorant about the canon.
I'll just say that the Koreans wear KIMONO and Belgians wear LEDERHOSEN coming from the casting director? Suddenly it *all* makes fucking sense. In this failboat kind of way, that is. If someone like this is in charge...
So yeah, let me know only if there's someone smart working in this oxymoronic whitewashed mess of a movie.
Hija de zorra
Oct. 3rd, 2008 11:29 amMy brother would agree
It gets really strange when your mom goes and tells you over the wank they had with the main administrator at their Spanish-speaking cat photo group at Flickr. In one hand, you feel extremely embarrassed by both your old woman and the crazy bitch with whom she has the fight with, and want to interrupt and say "why the fuck are you telling me this I don't care" (but I figured she'd need to let it off her chest). On the other, and that might be the part of me that reads fandom_wank, I thought it was hilarious! There was name-calling, trolling and spamming (by the admin, no less!), menaces of leaving forever in four days, one or two banhammers, several women in Argentina not going to bedbecause someone is wrong on the Internet!, the bizarre bonus of people calling each other on the phone as some sort of odd alternative to flocked posts (so people supported my mom on e-mails... and phone). And the coup of grace: the crazy admin bahleeting her own account, leaving several important pictures as red X's (taking her toys and leaving?).
I'm still not reading the wank or what's left of it, however, because I dislike crossing the Internet streams to my mom's corner of the 'tubes. Too bad, because the admin sounded extremely batshit and my mom actually didn't wank that much on public.
It took a good effort not to laugh at the phone when she told me, or going "ooh, banhammer! lol troll!" at several points of her narration, I'll tell you that.
It gets really strange when your mom goes and tells you over the wank they had with the main administrator at their Spanish-speaking cat photo group at Flickr. In one hand, you feel extremely embarrassed by both your old woman and the crazy bitch with whom she has the fight with, and want to interrupt and say "why the fuck are you telling me this I don't care" (but I figured she'd need to let it off her chest). On the other, and that might be the part of me that reads fandom_wank, I thought it was hilarious! There was name-calling, trolling and spamming (by the admin, no less!), menaces of leaving forever in four days, one or two banhammers, several women in Argentina not going to bed
I'm still not reading the wank or what's left of it, however, because I dislike crossing the Internet streams to my mom's corner of the 'tubes. Too bad, because the admin sounded extremely batshit and my mom actually didn't wank that much on public.
It took a good effort not to laugh at the phone when she told me, or going "ooh, banhammer! lol troll!" at several points of her narration, I'll tell you that.
Feelings woe woe woe
Jun. 30th, 2007 03:17 pmThis isn't really triggered by anything. I guess I want to distract my mind from the news my mom fell down some stone stairs in her garden (she's fine, just really scratched).
I was once sort of questioned, a while ago, how come I was a CLAMP fan if I wasn't digging the current angst. My own sympathetic capacity was also put in trial just 'cuz I was indifferent to two twin boys locked away from each other with piles of dead bodies.
See, I liked RG Veda. I liked Tokyo Babylon and X, although I'm slowly losing interest in it. So I don't think angst per se is a bad thing. I do like angst. Then why can I stand TB/X, RGV, Clover, Shirahime-sho, and all those manga filled with tragedy, but not TRC's most recent chapters?
I think I might have a theory. It's the magazine syndrome. When I read the manga mentioned above, the series were already finished or had just entered the Hated Hiatus. So really, I read the chapters volume by volume. Between volume and volume, the time period would be either really short (question of minutes or hours) or medium-term (one or two months). So it never really dragged on to me in that format. I'd finish the series, or would be spoiled for them, before it felt heavy.
However, XXXHOLiC and Tsubasa are the first CLAMP manga I'm reading as they're been published, and keeping up to date with Japan. The weekly periodicity is a killer, even though it kills me in different ways than most fans. So basically, it looks like the waaaangst just drags on and on, gnawing your brain endlessly. I'm sure that if I had read Acid Tokyo, Infinity, plus Celes in a volume batch, I wouldn't have this issue not even remotely. It's something that happens to me with some Shounen Jump serieshi Bleach, and I know I'm not alone in this... just not in the CLAMP fandom.
And yes, I said I liked angst like every other girl, but it's also true I'm a person of balance. I like heartbreaking pasts. I like character introspective. I like silly faces and comedy relief. I like minor characters alternating with main ones, and not only the newest ones that have to do with the current plot. I like old plots returning. I like foreshadowing. I like to see all of this blending (as much as possible)! (*) See, X and RGV did focus in several characters, and it wasn't always about the wangst.
TRC isn't balanced to me: they started with fluffy comedy for volumes, then threw over-the-top-is-this-even-humanly-possible angst. I know that it works for a lot of people and think this is awesome, but it's not the way I like storytelling. I don't mind extreme gore and woe when a series is ending, like RGV, but Tsubasa is... well, I'm not sure if it's right in the middle or just wrapping Fay's issues and FWR's schemes up to move on to the ending. Either way, it just means more Woe-Is-Me is yet to come, and they'll keep throwing more WTF twists (I like CLAMPtwists, though, most of the times), and always focused on the five/six main characters. It's too unbalanced for my taste, and instead of getting me answers or sympathy, I get more confused and start to find characters annoying for excess of spotlight. Then again, I can't stand post!Rainbow Bridge!Subaru's subplot, so there might be a problem within me and The Ultimate CLAMP Angst Triggers.
Still, I don't think I'm a bad or a lesser CLAMP fan because I'm not digging it, or my nose isn't dripping for Fay|Yuui's Sad Past Of Dooooooom. It's just the magazine format plus my non-CLAMP fandoms' awesomeness what make it lose points, along with my ideas about storytelling.
(*) It IS quite possible for a mangaka to do all those things at once, believe it or not. Probably not in most popular, fanservice-oriented fandoms, but it certainly can be done. I can think of several manga that managed to pull this off beautifully and, unlike Fay's pastor SAINT SEIYA LOL, have drove me to tears more than once.
I was once sort of questioned, a while ago, how come I was a CLAMP fan if I wasn't digging the current angst. My own sympathetic capacity was also put in trial just 'cuz I was indifferent to two twin boys locked away from each other with piles of dead bodies.
See, I liked RG Veda. I liked Tokyo Babylon and X, although I'm slowly losing interest in it. So I don't think angst per se is a bad thing. I do like angst. Then why can I stand TB/X, RGV, Clover, Shirahime-sho, and all those manga filled with tragedy, but not TRC's most recent chapters?
I think I might have a theory. It's the magazine syndrome. When I read the manga mentioned above, the series were already finished or had just entered the Hated Hiatus. So really, I read the chapters volume by volume. Between volume and volume, the time period would be either really short (question of minutes or hours) or medium-term (one or two months). So it never really dragged on to me in that format. I'd finish the series, or would be spoiled for them, before it felt heavy.
However, XXXHOLiC and Tsubasa are the first CLAMP manga I'm reading as they're been published, and keeping up to date with Japan. The weekly periodicity is a killer, even though it kills me in different ways than most fans. So basically, it looks like the waaaangst just drags on and on, gnawing your brain endlessly. I'm sure that if I had read Acid Tokyo, Infinity, plus Celes in a volume batch, I wouldn't have this issue not even remotely. It's something that happens to me with some Shounen Jump series
And yes, I said I liked angst like every other girl, but it's also true I'm a person of balance. I like heartbreaking pasts. I like character introspective. I like silly faces and comedy relief. I like minor characters alternating with main ones, and not only the newest ones that have to do with the current plot. I like old plots returning. I like foreshadowing. I like to see all of this blending (as much as possible)! (*) See, X and RGV did focus in several characters, and it wasn't always about the wangst.
TRC isn't balanced to me: they started with fluffy comedy for volumes, then threw over-the-top-is-this-even-humanly-possible angst. I know that it works for a lot of people and think this is awesome, but it's not the way I like storytelling. I don't mind extreme gore and woe when a series is ending, like RGV, but Tsubasa is... well, I'm not sure if it's right in the middle or just wrapping Fay's issues and FWR's schemes up to move on to the ending. Either way, it just means more Woe-Is-Me is yet to come, and they'll keep throwing more WTF twists (I like CLAMPtwists, though, most of the times), and always focused on the five/six main characters. It's too unbalanced for my taste, and instead of getting me answers or sympathy, I get more confused and start to find characters annoying for excess of spotlight. Then again, I can't stand post!Rainbow Bridge!Subaru's subplot, so there might be a problem within me and The Ultimate CLAMP Angst Triggers.
Still, I don't think I'm a bad or a lesser CLAMP fan because I'm not digging it, or my nose isn't dripping for Fay|Yuui's Sad Past Of Dooooooom. It's just the magazine format plus my non-CLAMP fandoms' awesomeness what make it lose points, along with my ideas about storytelling.
(*) It IS quite possible for a mangaka to do all those things at once, believe it or not. Probably not in most popular, fanservice-oriented fandoms, but it certainly can be done. I can think of several manga that managed to pull this off beautifully and, unlike Fay's past
