2013-05-14, 04:46 | Link #1701 | |
見習い魔剣使い
Join Date: May 2006
Location: 大陸の片隅
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...until a major reveal hits around Volume 3 (which would make ANY main character become useless in a fantasy setting, if it were to happen to them). Along the way, several characters get to question Rach's "dream" or motivation (and pointing out his own lack of character at the same time). His character growth is mostly driven by his apparent lack of goal/motivation for himself for the first few volumes, which changes once he finds his (shounen-ish) answer for himself; then challenged once more at the end of Volume 8 onwards when he loses the very thing he could not afford to lose at that point. At the same time, it is also about Baltuetas the Maken Breaker, Rach's master, who has been preparing for all this time so that he can defeat the Maou and save his first and only love, the Hero Sasha. Sasha who went up against the Maou, destroyed his body, and sealed the Maou's soul inside hers with the power of Claimh Solais. Until volume 9's end hits... It's very adventure-driven, and much of the battles are against the demons that occupy the setting of Thousand and Aegis (which might be the direction that Vanadis itself will eventually take). In contract to Vanadis and its delishuz realpolitik and strategic military encounters, Thousand and Aegis can be refreshingly straightforward - though more shounen in its tone and execution, but not overtly so. It shares several concepts in familiarity with Vanadis and especially with Seizuyomi no Riina; and while Vanadis uses Slavic folklore as its foundations, Thousand and Aegis has Celtic folklore to show for it (oh god the terms, save me from the terminology). The fanservice...I would say that both are on par with the fanservice, though Elicia does tend to lose her clothing at the end of every volume so much that I can only assume that it is a running gag. Which do I find preferable? I go to Vanadis for the realpolitik and the strategies, and I go to Thousand and Aegis for the adventuring and the demon-slaying. They're essentially covering different fields of interest, though they do touch on some common grounds (harem, main lead growing into a badass, etc.) that one can find familiarity with the execution. While Thousand and Aegis does read like a standard, straightforward adventure fantasy RPG story, Kawaguchi's distinct worldbuilding touch is present for those who are into it. I swear that's my last edit. Until I realized I had some lines wrong.
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2013-05-14, 05:35 | Link #1702 | |
asexual, cynic, pessimist
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Location: Amnesia: Thailand
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2013-05-14, 22:35 | Link #1703 |
The Sanctuary Knocker
Join Date: Feb 2007
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I've been meaning to ask. In chapter 2 of volume six, Setsuna translated: "...Lovely smile as I let you think that there would not be it came into the people who were not attracted by such beautiful face." What does this even mean and why the sudden inclusion of a first person pronoun?
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2013-05-15, 00:04 | Link #1704 | |
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Join Date: Jan 2012
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Valentina's body sunk into the soft chair full of cotton and feathers as she listened to her subordinate. Her long, black hair seemed to melt into the air. Those not enchanted by her face would fall for her beautiful smile. She wore a pure-white dress and had an open book on her knee. Not necessarily the most accurate, but it should help clarify the line some. Edit: Also, yes, there's an issue I have in general with the tense and perspective issue as well, but that's more a job for the editors to fix up :P |
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2013-05-15, 01:08 | Link #1706 | ||
The Sanctuary Knocker
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I would think that melting and blending into the darkness constitutes the same dramatic effect, but I see what you mean. Last edited by Iskatar; 2013-05-15 at 02:28. |
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2013-05-15, 16:46 | Link #1709 |
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Join Date: Jan 2012
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I'll probably do that at some point in time. Most likely when I do a proper edit of the translation (i.e. grammar), I'll do a quick see through. Since I'm still not very proficient with the language, I can only get a decent grasp of what's being said unless I put a lot of time into it. I'll likely just check to see if the gist of the sentence/line is correct, and then edit it into my own style (no offense to sets on this one for my part, but it's also partly for consistency, since the other 5 volumes were essentially written in my style). I need a bit of a break, though. I just finished reading volume 2 of Mondaiji, which I've been reading through for quite a while
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2013-05-18, 06:11 | Link #1716 |
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Join Date: May 2007
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i don't know if you noticed,but so far,almost all battles ended with-proportionally- the same amount of casualty:30%,i hope the author will,for the next battles,drop that recurring number and be more realist by varying it depending of the circumstance.
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2013-05-18, 18:36 | Link #1719 |
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Join Date: Jan 2012
Location: gloucester city nj
Age: 31
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been wondering what if the king wants to build something
like a succesur conquering the world with said socceser , or he could be trying to piss people off , or trying to get tiger too comite double or triple regeniced by killing both brothers and sister leaving them kingless and queenless making the land up for grabs thus giving the king of Zhcted an excuses too say something like lets say (clears throught to make different voice) "this young man here has defeated the tyrants and is the reincarnation of the red dragon, or personafacation of the red dragon his red hair is proof of this." oh and ive been playing warband and thinking what if someone made a mod for this based on maden no ou ..... that would be awome ..... marying a vanadis ruling a country, and pissing off lords ..... sounds fun
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2013-05-18, 23:29 | Link #1720 | |
The Sanctuary Knocker
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action, ecchi, fantasy, harem, light novel, mf bunko j, politics, romance, seinen, strategy, true harem, war(s) |
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