Big Noise is such a tool. I agree--he deserved to be taken out by a noncombatant in a completely undignified way. And yeah, sensei is really good at timing his breather scenes.

Ah, thanks. Strangely enough, Windows 7 (which I'm now having to use since my old XP notebook finally died) comes with Japanese fonts pre-installed. I'd been using Tahoma to type Japanese into Notepad all along, so it was kind of a shock to open one of my files and find a field of those infamous blank rectangles aha. Oh well, I'll just keep looking.