2010-02-19, 13:01 | Link #641 |
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Oh, I agree that her eye power (if it is such a thing) is highly ineffective. I just assumed that it was an actual change and expected it to be explained later. It simply hadn't occurred to me that it might be symbolic in the way that sparkling eyes when a character is enthralled are symbolic.
I guess it was the fact that Leaf-Head-kun mentioned noticing her eye in ep 1 that caused me to assume it was an actual change. That, and the fact that only one eye changes rather than both as is the norm for symbolic eye changes.
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2010-02-19, 15:03 | Link #642 |
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I'm not arguing for or against it -- I just don't see enough information to decide. The only plot point so far is that Shichika noticed the way her eye looked and brushed it off as "cute" or some such.
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Gaaaah. Thanks a lot. Now I'm deteremined to go through 45 minutes of Katanagatari just to find that one moment. Right in the middle of Howl's Moving Castle, too.
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2010-02-21, 15:22 | Link #657 |
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I don't sympathize with Ginkaku too much. He himself know that he got poisoned by the sword's charm and power, and he couldn't pull himself out of it. His days as a warrior is over as soon as he was unable to leave the sword. Instead of homing his skills so he comes better, he relied entirely upon the sword for his power. You can argue that his attacks are meaningless without the weapon, but I don't buy that case entirely because he himself mentioned that once he tasted the power of the sword he can't let it go again.
The only point that I sympathize with him is in the end when he asked Togame if she would have granted his wishes, AND he didn't feel sorry that he slashed her, which means he held very true his ideal of protecting his home. At that point, he very well know he could lose, but yet he showed more concern for his hometown than the sword, which meant while he failed as a swordsman, yet he still trump as a protector with great devotion. |
2010-02-22, 16:22 | Link #660 |
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The hilarious thing is that the "geas" concept is in no way original to Code Geass. Its a very old magical concept intertwined with the "evil eye". But this is typical of people who are "bright new and shiny" - they don't realize that ideas were around and things happened before they started paying attention
I get the impression the CG fans saw her eye and just automatically made the assumption it was a reference to CG or a borrowing from CG -- whereas it doesn't seem to have a blooming thing to do with CG.
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