[ SECRET POST #101 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #101 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Notes:

Finished making it earlier than I thought, so uh... here! >>"

Secrets Left to Post: 03 pages, 71 secrets from Secret Submission Post #015.
Secrets Not Posted: [1] broken links, 0 not!secrets, 0 not!fandom.
Next Secret Post: Tomorrow, Tuesday, April 17th, 2007.
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Comments

[colortheory.livejournal.com]

12. The manga was SO MUCH BETTER than the anime. You're totally justified in that. XD I do the same thing with Rurouni Kenshin. The anime makes my brain liquefy and come out of my ears!

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[dusk.livejournal.com]

I agree for the most part, except that I absolutely loved Samurai X. I don't know if that was in the manga or not, but I thought X was amazing.

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[colortheory.livejournal.com]

What, the OVAs? The first one--the one that tells Kenshin's back story--WAS in the manga, and was EXTREMELY well-done. The animation is beautiful, and the music is just gorgeous. HOWEVER. The second OVA plays with manga canon a little TOO much for my tastes (Watsuki wasn't involved in its creation), and that sort of put me off it. XD;

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[dusk.livejournal.com]

Yes, that one. I'm sorry, I don't actually remember the names of each individual one. 8D; But yes, that first one's the one I meant. The third one I thought was alright, too - the post-series one, I think it was.

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[colortheory.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the first one's GORGEOUS. ♥

The post-series one? I hated it. I really did. XD But I've always been a manga purist, so.

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[dusk.livejournal.com]

Yeah, the first one was. That one was definitely my favorite. *___*

XD; I thought it was a nice ending. That wasn't in the manga, either? I've only read bits and pieces of the manga, so. =/

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[colortheory.livejournal.com]

XD Actually, the manga only goes up to the end of the Jinchuu arc with Yukishiro Enishi, and then skips forward five years to when Kenshin is married to Kaoru, and they have their son (Kenji). It's just a chapter long, but it revolves around Yahiko, and Kenshin giving the sakabatou to him as a coming-of-age gift. So.

No, it isn't in the manga.

WOW I'M A DORK.

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[dusk.livejournal.com]

Ohhh, okay. Yeah, I knew who Kenji was, just didn't know how far the manga itself actually went.

XD IT'S COOL, I"M THE SAME WAY WITH OTHER SERIES? 8D;

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[colortheory.livejournal.com]

Yup! That's how volume twenty-eight ends, and there was actually much rejoicing, since buying manga was a strain on my wallet that I wanted to save for other things (Lolita), and Kenshin was the last series I was actually still buying (the rest I get scanlations of...or I just translate them myself XD).

THAT'S GOOD TO KNOW. XDDD

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[dusk.livejournal.com]

Haha, I know how that is. I've ended up collecting quite a few volumes of manga and I can't say it was cheap. :'( And translating them yourself is an amazing idea. I do that, too. 8D; Saves me so much time and money~

XDD YES. YOU'RE NOT ALONE IN YOUR FANGIRLING WAYS? ♥

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[colortheory.livejournal.com]

I probably dropped over $1000 on manga over a five or six year period (and I'm not kidding...I have over one hundred volumes back at my parents' house). SUCH a waste of money, especially because the translations (ESPECIALLY VIZ, AUGH) are usually pretty inaccurate.

Translating yourself is fun, but sometimes I don't want to have to think, so I download a scanlation or two. X3

WOO. YAY.

[dusk.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I have about two hundred or so volumes in my posession at the moment, all bought within the last four or five years. And yeah, the translations are sometimes so off it makes me sad (which is why I stopped buying the FMA manga), but some series are impossible to find scanlations for so I just buy it. (For example, Clover. I can never find scanlations of that series, so I bought it.)

And yeah, same here. XD If I'm really excited about what's going to happen next, though, I'll translate it myself. 8D'

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[(Anonymous)]

STORY AND CHARACTER RAPE WTF.

I haven't seen OR read Kenshin, so I can't agree or disagree with you there :D;

[colortheory.livejournal.com]

YUP. XD; Though I DO have a certain fondness for Pretty Guardian Sailor Moon. The manga will always be the best in my mind, but PGSM makes for some pretty awesome mindless entertainment.

...Trust me. It's just as bad as a discrepancy as Sailor Moon. Plus, the music SUCKS. The battle theme in the first season made me want to gouge out my eardrums.

[(Anonymous)]

HAHAAHAHAH. OHGOD PGSM XDDD I appreciate how closely they followed the manga, and the places where they strayed were actually kinda cool and well-done. BUT GOOD GRIEF IT'S SO CHEESY. It's so bad...that it's good XD I love it XD

Ooooh ._.;;;