jumping on the bandwagon

[feliciter.livejournal.com]

First of all, apologies to that_oneill_guy if I gave you the impression in my comment about "Forcis(Forsyth?)/Chris subtext" that it was "stupid" to make the Bylaha/Weihrauch switch and leave Forcis as it was - katakana is frequently inadequate for exact phonetic translation, and I would never have guessed it was spelled any other way if I hadn't come across the alternative spelling.

Name: feliciter

How I discovered Scrapped Princess and this community: Local video store was having a sale, the title and premise sounded intriguing, art looked fantastic. Pretty much hooked after 4 episodes, but the dub on my version (VCD released by a local company) was less than satisfactory, especially for my limited Japanese. So I searched the Net, found that_oneill_guy's LJ (and his translations and scans), and here I am.

The character(s) I will defend with bike chains and broken beer bottles if I see anyone bashing him/her/them: Pacifica and Forsyth appear to be the most misunderstood.

How I plan to contribute: I'm not much of a writer, and even less of an artist, but might be inspired.

Level of exposure: Currently re-watching on local TV (subtitles are better than the VCD).

How SutePri broke my brain: the sudden, almost casual mention of DNA, the images of ruined apartment blocks/carparks, the mecha in a mediaeval world - it's almost like the last scene in the original "Planet of the Apes", except you could see the plot twist coming half a mile away in that movie, whereas in Sutepri it meshes in layers of a complicated Matrix.

How it broke my heart: The animation, the acting, episode 23 and 24...need I say more?

What I still don't understand: Think I'll defer this until I finish re-watching it.

I'm not sure if this really happened or not: See above.

Comments

[oneill]

No, hey, no need to apologize. It'd be one thing if I never made the Forsyth/firearms connection--the fact that I knew and continued using the old spelling JUST BECAUSE is what makes it stupid, and nothing you said implied stupidity on my part anyway.

And I loved the ruined apartment blocks/carparks. Hell, I loved all the little visual clues they threw in, like the way the shooting stars fall along preset paths.

. . . and now I need to watch the anime for a third time. GAH.

[tiara-hikari.livejournal.com]

Ah, it took me a while to really notice and grasp everything that they threw in there, even now sometimes I notice more that I hadn't before XD It is really awesome though.

And, well, nice to meet you :)