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Post by wildfire2099 on Nov 30, 2016 18:21:38 GMT -5
I find that in real life, couples that complement each other often work better long term that two people that are very alike. Chizu is kinda right in the middle of the spectrum as far as oversimplifying characters go.
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Post by shaxper on Nov 30, 2016 19:31:53 GMT -5
I find that in real life, couples that complement each other often work better long term that two people that are very alike. Chizu is kinda right in the middle of the spectrum as far as oversimplifying characters go. This is the best argument for Chizu that I've ever seen. Well done, Sir. |
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Post by stillpoint on Dec 1, 2016 2:24:28 GMT -5
It's remarkable how easily a discussion about Usagi comes to focus on the supporting characters. That's why I love reading it. It's the same feeling I got when watching the Buffy the Vampire Slayer series 20 years ago or reading the Harry Potter novels. Not only are the stories enjoyable but so many characters are so well represented that I can see the world through their eyes, too, and come to identify with them. Shaxper wrote on another thread that many of Usagi's cast are strong enough to carry their own series (I'm paraphrasing; let me know if I misinterpreted), and that's true. Hell, I'd cash in my kids' college funds to buy The Lost Adventures of Inazuma*.
For the record, I vote for Jotaro and/or Motokazu to take over for Tomoe so she and Usagi can retire to the mountains to train boys and girls in swordsmanship and being nice.
*But only if they get scholarships.
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Post by stillpoint on Dec 4, 2016 2:38:28 GMT -5
As the kids say, I 'ship Usagi more with Kitsune, but I know you don't. I'd rather Tomoe just be his friend. Tomoe is a great character, but is too like Usagi to make a good match with him, IMO. I think it was stillpoint who recently pointed out that Kitsune is far better suited to Gen. Of course, by your rationale, maybe that's exactly why she should be with Usagi -- opposites attract. At the risk of oversimplifying and vasty underrating the characters, Tomoe is the female counterpart to Usagi while Kitsune is the female counterpart to Gen. Not as sure where Chizu fits into all that. Just this moment, while researching something entirely different (namely where was "Ninja Hunt" first published), I came across the letters page to #149 (an issue I have never read and probably won't for another year or two). In a response to a letter, Stan wrote: "Kitsune did not make an appearance in Senso, but I was going to make a reference to her as the deceased wife of Gen." |
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Post by usagigoya on Dec 4, 2016 15:08:44 GMT -5
I find that in real life, couples that complement each other often work better long term that two people that are very alike. Chizu is kinda right in the middle of the spectrum as far as oversimplifying characters go. This is the best argument for Chizu that I've ever seen. Well done, Sir. I have always felt that Usagi's loss of Lord Mifune and the combined loss of Chizu's brother and her place in the Neko clan gave Chizu and Usagi more in common than anything Tomoe and Usagi have. Tomoe represents the life Usagi had at one time. It is a life he could easily have again just by joining the Geishu clan, but he is still dealing with the loss of Lord Mifune and all the emotional baggage that came with that. |
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Post by hondobrode on Apr 24, 2017 20:18:18 GMT -5
I'm starting on UY, a series that always seemed ok but it wasn't until Shax posting on it over at CCF that convinced me to try it.
Dynamite had a Mega-Bundle that I bit on. I'm now reading the original Fantagraphics run and am greatly enjoying it.
Just today I was thinking that a Gen mini-series would be good.
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Post by shaxper on Apr 25, 2017 10:56:02 GMT -5
I'm starting on UY, a series that always seemed ok but it wasn't until Shax posting on it over at CCF that convinced me to try it. Dynamite had a Mega-Bundle that I bit on. I'm now reading the original Fantagraphics run and am greatly enjoying it. Just today I was thinking that a Gen mini-series would be good. I always get excited when someone starts reading from the beginning and is already loving it. It gets so much better  Gen will get a lot more attention as the series progresses, but one of the frustrations of being a Sakai fan is that he introduces so many endearing characters we'd love to see in their own series, and yet he's only one man. |
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Post by hondobrode on Apr 25, 2017 11:02:46 GMT -5
I love being able to buy a huge run like this and get everything together. It makes it so much more enjoyable.
Easy to see why Fantagraphics got behind Stan with this.
I think most people if they read it would like it.
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Post by shaxper on Apr 25, 2017 11:27:37 GMT -5
I think most people if they read it would like it. I've legitimately never heard of a person who read more than one issue of Usagi and didn't like it. |
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