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I imagine "esper" is most prominently used because the most connotatively appropriate English term would be "mutant", which would summon a buttload of Marvel Disney lawyers.... We don't really have a wide-use term in English that covers all the various types of "esper" (psychokinetic, telepathic, pyrokinetic, etc.).
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Although with their recent purchase of Marvel Comics, if Disney ever makes a sequel to The Incredibles, they'll actually be legally able to call them "superheroes" (Marvel and DC have a joint trademark on the term, similar to how the NFL has a trademark on the terms "Super Bowl" and "Super Sunday"). Quote:
And mileage varies on "mutant". If you start out describing people as such, the public expects an extra arm or horrible growths, but if you show the people flying around and shooting red energy from their hands and don't call them anything, the public starts looking for the blue and yellow spandex and the bald guy in the wheelchair all on its own.
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2010-01-24, 07:54 | Link #85 |
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The term '超能力者' literally means, Super (超) Powered (能力) Person (者). But this covers such a wide spread of characters (Yuki and even Mikuru could be considered) that I just find it weird to translate it to simply, Esper.
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Edit with a new topic: Recently I was rereading the first book and noticed something. In the end of the Chapter 6 Itsuki says that he just 'end up' with the knowledge about the consequences of letting the Avatars be (as well as about his powers) and "the same goes for everyone in the Agency" (Hachette's translation). There is something off there. I recall Koizumi saying, in the same book, that there are "probably ten (espers) or so around the world". How would be that everybody? Also, I find hard to believe such organization wouldn't employ some random people for menial tasks. Of course, in the end 'everybody' dos 'end up' with said knowledge in a way or another, since the espers are there to tell then. However, this made me wonder who, exactly, found the Agency. Who would creat such massive organization to fight somewhat invisible enemies? It should be someone, at very best, really close to on of these 'ten or so' espers. More probably, it should be an esper him/herself. After all it is harcd to believe someon would spend so much money and time if s/he wasn't sure of what s/he is doing, and the only way would be beingan esper her/himself. Well, it is just speculation. For some reason I doubt we will ever know. Unlike the other two groups, the Agency effect more the 'normal' world, and it would be nice knowng more about then. |
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Since Tanigawa-san doesn't expand so much on the Agency, I doubt we'll ever know. I'm not even sure he's even thought of it. This way he can use the Agency as needed, much like he does with time travel and "classified information" to prevent inconsistencies. vvv cut out, I misremembered the spoiler policy for these threads.
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So much foretelling is why I find hard to believe the series is intended to end in the 10th volume. (yeah, I know that originaly it wasn't even intended to go past the volume 1, but I believe Tanigawa changed that when he started to wrote the later ones.) PP: ultimatemegax, if you could, it would be nice tag/delete the Tsuruya bit in your post. It is really minor, but it is Vol. 7 spoiler. Last edited by Heatth; 2010-02-20 at 17:11. Reason: Just realized about the spoilers |
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I think Tanigawa-san just wanted a mysterious organization that was controlling things behind the scenes, like a mafia-type group. I agree that we've gotten many hints behind the groups like the schools of thought in the ITDE, a likely superior for Mikuru, and what little we know about the Agency. Spoiler:
I too share the thought that there's too much foreshadowing to end the novels after 10. I'm pretty confident it'll go on for a while, once Tanigawa-san starts writing again. I still find it odd that Boredom was the first story published (in the Sneaker before the first novel came out) if he was only intending of doing the one book.
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Nah. Both Boredom and Melancholy are stand-alone. As Kogetsu pointed, Boredom plot is rether shalow, the only purpose in the story is intruduce Tsuruya and Imouto-chan as semi-important characters and to stabilish the status quo. In any case, if the story ended with Melancholy, it would have had a good end with a bonus gaiden chapter. Of course Tanigawa was smart enough to leave th path to a sequel open in a form it wouldn't seen forced. |
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2010-02-21, 11:04 | Link #93 |
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True, I would think that only a part of being a successful writer is writing good stories. The other part is being savvy enough to leave loopholes like that for business purposes.
Anyway, if there are only 10 espers, I have to wonder about the transportation costs part. If all of the closed spaces happen in Japan, then it wouldn't be a big problem, just buy everyone a train ticket and wish them luck. But if some are popping up overseas, that's going to add up quickly. Which in turn gives a baseline for the minimum amount of support they would need. Do we ever get any indication on any incidents outside Japan? |
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Itsuki is probably my favorite Haruhi character. I loved is dry humor. So, Itsuki's organization views Haruhi as a god that can make the supernatural into reality just by wishing for it, right? I'm sorry for the noobish question, but I marathoned through the first and second season, so I kind of have a hard time telling Mikuru's, Yuki's, and Itsuki's explanation of Haruhi apart...
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