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[telophase]

I am reconsidering my assessment of my toe as non-broken: much of the general swelling has gone down, leaving a nice big lump right at the impact point, and it's actually starting to hurt a bit when I bend it, and throb a little when I'm just sitting there not doing anything. Again, not that it changes anything other than allowing me to whine a lot online and at my mother.

No picture, because my digital camera inexplicably reboots Windows when I disconnect it, whether I disconnect it properly using the Add/Remove Hardware, or improperly by turning it off, and as I'm not wanting to take the time for it to reboot at the moment, I'm not using the camera. (The iPod doesn't do that, however.)





Yeah, ok, I'm really posting because I'm in the midst of writng a Tpop column (on Osamu Tezuka, this time) and am finding all sorts of ways to distract myself. But my toe still might be broken.

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[telophase.livejournal.com]

I have not, unfortunately, because the classic Tezuka art style is an art style that bugs the hell out of me. :D

I really ought to, though. I know Buddha is being published in English right now. I'm not sure Phoenix is in print in English right now, but then again I probably don't have the budget for it - he worked on it from the early 60s until he died and it's still unfinished (he considered it his masterwork).

[rayechu.livejournal.com]

Haha, I don't feel so bad now. We watched Metropolis years ago and I hated every minutes. I have seen some of the scans from his animal stories (Unico, Jungle Emperor Leo) and the art is much more tolerable in those.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

If I can beleive the stuff I'm going through on Wikipedia, the anime and the manga of Metropolis aren't that much alike - the anime is based mroe heavily on the silent movie. Apparnetly Tezuka hand't seen teh movie and was instead inspired by the poster. (That's not referenced, though, so take it with a grain of salt. I'm unsure because Tezuka was a movie freak and saw as many as he could growing up.)

[rayechu.livejournal.com]

Yeah he saw a ton of movies so I highly doubt that. My friend wants me to watch the silent movie but I decline because I am afraid it will be like his Metropolis. Honetly the movie wasn't bad, for everyone. It just happened to be one of those you either love it or hate it ones.

[thomasyan.livejournal.com]

Oh, god, the silent movie bored me silly! The anime movie was better --partly in that at various points it disappointed and irritated me, and thus didn't bore me-- but by no means good.

While I'm bashing anime movies that turned out to be disappointing, let me also mention Steamboy, but at least for that I had seen rachelmanija's warning that it sucked.

I'm worried about the Ghibli version of Earthsea. Maybe if I pretend it has nothing to do with the books I'll enjoy it.... Actually, if is still playing in the middle of October, not understanding what people are saying might do the trick. I wonder if I can trick talk my brother into watching it with me on our family visit to Japan....

[rayechu.livejournal.com]

Ugh, I am sad to hear that, but I will not be talked into seeing it now. The anime version bored me silly!
I'm not so worried about the Gedo Senki. Even if it isn't a 100% faithful adaption it'll be pretty. I never had a problem with the differences between anime Howl and movie Howl so I think this will be similar. But then I only read the books recently and didn't grow up with them, so that may make all the difference. I still don't understand why they didn't pick the first book because it had kids, magic, dragons and is probably much more adaptable then the The Farthest Shore.

[snarp]

...I don't suppose you remember where you saw the Unico scans? I've got bootlegged versions of all of the anime, but I've been looking for the manga for about a million years.

(Unico was my first anime; I saw it when I was tiny, and I suspect it's been surreptitiously in control of my literary and artistic tastes ever since.)

[rayechu.livejournal.com]

It was one of my first as well. I always thought the fight between Unico and the baron was really exciting! (And got annoyed when other cartoons didn't do that.) I have never seen a subtitled version though.
Unfortunatly I don't remember where I saw the manga. It was just a website probably from around 1997. It wasn't a complete collection/scanlation of the manga so much as a couple of scans talking about it. I remember something about translating Unico as female instead of male but that is it. Sorry I couldn't be more help.