2007-12-27, 06:17 | Link #62 |
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Uhh hi, I am a new reader of this series and in all honesty I've only been able to get a spattering of translations. So not sure if I got everything and still confused to how the Arume do breed amongst themselves. And....
I still don't get the nosebleeds. ANyways... um... sorry new fan and trying to get everything in some semblance of togetherness so I can understand what's going on. I get the basic premise, but I enjoy societial and cultural clashes and... um well so I am trying to understand stuff. Anyone know how to help someone completely lost? And hopefully people are still here after... ummm a week. |
2007-12-27, 10:00 | Link #63 | |
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The nosebleeds are common in anime/manga, usually means someones really turned on/sexually frustrated Can anyone tell me the names of the Arume with the cat ears and the human girl thats with her? from Bokura.
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And since there are people who don't know what oral sex is: From wiki: Oral sex consists of all sexual activities that involve the use of the mouth, which may include use of the tongue, teeth, and throat, to stimulate genitalia. In the case of Arume, it would be Cunnilingus (mouthXvagina).
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2007-12-27, 17:15 | Link #65 |
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lol. I see now. THanks I was kinda curious about all that and couldn't find an explanation. Also couldn't find easy downloads. I can't use rar files and that limits my abilities to download. So I've gotten like one or two, but the premise I found interesting.
Though I am curious about how the Arume run their society if they are so hedonistic. There have to be some chaste Arume in order for them to survive as a society. No matter how advanced, you always need the Public Servants, Scribes, or Pencil Pushers, what have you to make sure life is in some form of order. I gather the military is probably rather organized (If its a military that is able to fight at all it has to be.) Either way I am a new inductee and was really curious about that. Cause I couldn't find it. Anyways, does anyone know any good Blue Drop fanfics and downloads for the originals that aren't in rar? Zip is always preferabble to me. And thank you Kazka-kun and Lessca. It's nice to meet you. Must be polite after all. |
2007-12-27, 21:07 | Link #66 | |
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Apparently there are two classes of citizens: ordinary citizens and the military. There is also a third kind of Arume, who are artificially force-grown and become those human bombs you see falling from the sky in the manga. Some hidden pages on the anime official site explain this, and there are translations of that info in the anime thread. By the way, the special manga chapter from the first DVD has shown up in cyberspace, in one of the usual places.
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2007-12-27, 21:58 | Link #67 |
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Huh I don't remember that part. I gotta redownload this.... and I am missing the place. ARGH!! So they are high-school teachers. Interesting. As for being hedonistic and working, well that's a fine line. I've worked public service before and you gotta be careful to balance it out. Not that I am a hedonists, but I haves me fun.
I was curious about the phrases of blowing up girls. I got confused. What's the usual places? I don't know good places to download. O_O I really want to read both of the mangas translated. ARGH!! Public computers. Zip files, need zip files. *Mumbles* |
2007-12-28, 12:55 | Link #69 |
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Yeah, but see even in a very outgoing society you have to have someone whose ordered. A society its impossible to survive without some ordered individuals. Now that could mean that the Arume leave it to the humans to be ordered. (Humans like order even if they wish to think of free-will and such)
It's possible that the majority of Arume are hedonistic, but that there is a small minority that refrain from such actions. From what I gathered the number of Arume you actually see in the manga is rather limited recently. At least in the newer one that's based on societial changes. It's still ongoing last time I checked. It'd kinda be funny if the Arume look down on those who refuse to be hedonistic in their culture as we do hedonists in ours, and yet they are the ones that the society depends on to allow them to be hedonisitic. That'd be kinda ironic. Sorry I'm long winded and also a huge political science and history nerd. (Got my degrees in it) The thought of a new culture, as fictional as it is, is what drew me to this story in the first place. New cultures make me... uh... well lets not say that. Yes not say it. |
2007-12-28, 18:49 | Link #70 |
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They're not completely disorganized - far from it; especially in the military, and they seem to be a military-centric society. It's more like they're just uninhibited in certain areas.
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2007-12-28, 23:59 | Link #71 |
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I think that hedonism and order are not necessarily opposites. Someone who's French should correct me, but I note that the past two presidents of France have openly had lovers. Some societies are able to function quite well, doing their jobs during work hours, and indulging themselves in off-hours. Even in America, there is the saying: "Work hard, play hard." Maybe more nose-to-the-grindstone societies are economically and/or militarily more successful, but another paradigm is at least imaginable, it seems to me.
And I'll add that a scanlated version of the new manga chapter has shown up on Nyaatorrents and Tokyotosho.
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2007-12-29, 01:24 | Link #72 |
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OOH have to read that then. HMM I suppose I haven't read it enough yet to really know. And that's true in off hours you can play hard.
The motivation for saying that is I am curious if they will show more varied charecterisation. A good series can devolve quickly when a certain type of individual becomes a charecterature. I just want to make sure I'm not getting into an area where the aliens are just all uncontrolled hedonists. Ergo are some of them much less anti-male or something. Little use doesn't automatically lead to hatred. Are some Arume apathetic? I guess I'd have to really read it, but I don't want to be disappointed. Is it a rich tapestry of a culture? Also if they are a military centric society, do they have ideals of honor, loyalty, and duty? I know they are humanesque, but it seems people only point out the negative Imperialisms they have in common with us, and not the other aspects that come with a military society that doesn't have "loyalty to the state" I keep hearing people say that most Arume most likely aren't like the two teachers who threaten the girl with impregnantion and the boy with outing him. (And do if I read it right.) So that comment confused me. Are those the only two Arume we really get to know even in the regular series? As of yet. Sorry if I appeared argumentative. -_-() I just like variety of charecters in a culture. If too simplified it gets dull. And that statement confused me. Also I know I am grilling you and thank you for the time and patience you are giving me. Will be downloading them on Sunday. ANd now I have to figure out how to uncompress a torrent file. HMmmm I'll bug someone who knows computers. Last edited by Keahi19; 2007-12-29 at 01:42. |
2007-12-29, 06:44 | Link #73 |
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The entire first volume has been scanlated into Chinese and boy the last chapter was just... Having read RAY long ago I forgot how graphic the mangaka gets when it comes to violence.
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2007-12-29, 16:02 | Link #75 |
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Great summary of the Arume characters in the manga, FPB. That belongs in Wikipedia. (I find the system won't let me give you a cookie yet, either.)
It seems that the author is developing quite a cast of characters and gradually fleshing out the society. Alien it is, but human, too. I think of how chaotic and immoral North American society looks to people from certain traditional Christian, Muslim, or Asian societies. Spoiler for speculation about new manga from anime DVD:
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2007-12-29, 19:30 | Link #77 | |
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Spoiler for new manga:
Like with most serializations, it's impossible to know. Quote:
http://homepage3.nifty.com/garigarik...gakiokiba.html There are some pics of Blue Drop, Ray, and Eatman too.
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2007-12-29, 21:20 | Link #80 |
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You spoke with an air of authority and knowledge.
Plus, you're the only one here who knows anything at all about Yoshitomi's other work Human Gosuta... what makes one a Gosuta is the gestation in an artificial womb and being rapidly grown with artificial proteins - not the boom. The boom makes you beautiful to Arume for some reason. Maybe they have a thing for guro. |
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