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Zhou Yu was completely villainfied in Romance, while Lu Xun was more of himself since he and Zhuge never faced each other. Sima Yi was also pretty true to his historical self as most of his accomplishment comes after Zhuge's death. Quote:
Yes, he does a very good job in striking a balance between the novel (Romance of Three Kingdom) and the facts (The Record of Three Kingdom) while filling in with he imagination. BTW, that was one of my favorite quote in the series. Along with " no leader who give command of his troop to an incapable person"
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2011-06-04, 11:33 | Link #42 |
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Meanwhile, in the latest Chapter, Zhang Liao impersonates Cao Cao, lure in Yuan Fang for a mano a mano. Who will survive ?
And Chen Mou really have a talent for spotting and quoting phrases in old chinese lifted from obscure classics. Here's the latest :- 考績篇 再曰:鷹不試則巧拙惑;馬不試則良駑疑 I'll love to see how will people translate them into modern english and yet retains the favor. |
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but seriously, all 3kingdom readers already knew who will win... however the fun part is the process, Chen Mou always twist it and present us lots of surprises looking at the speed of the story progress, he better live long enough to finish it
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2011-06-04, 18:43 | Link #47 | |
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His pretty boys and female figure do look similar, but you can always tell by what they wear, just as most other manga you see.
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What I really interested in is exactly what is Yuan Fang's ultimate plan. Zhuge's student stated that one needs to live long enough to see realize that Yuan Fang was planning. And Yuan Fang also predicted Zhuge's future hardship. To me that show both knew what the other was thinking, and their interest does not collide, at least for the moment, otherwise he would have assainated Zhuge just like he did with his other schoolmates and Sima Yi.
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no worse then a lot of other mangaka. if you visit Fairy Tail Manga thread there are all sort of jokes regard FT Geard and Rave Master Sieghart
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2011-06-04, 20:17 | Link #50 | |
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And i can't emphasis this enough it is HISTORICAL manga. 99% of the name characters who appear in the manga are real people.
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2011-06-04, 20:30 | Link #51 |
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My suggest is make sure your head is clear when you dives in. Don't read too quickly and put you mind in the story itself. The main theme in this manga is "counter measures after a counter measure" and the key it to spot the details that links them together.
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2011-06-04, 21:48 | Link #53 | |
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This has nothing to do with manga (at least not yet). I was playing Dynasty Warriors 7 just now as started the new Jin Dynasty story mode. Then mentioned that Xiahou Ba (Xiahou Yuan's son) fled to Shu after Sima Yi's coup against Cao Shuan.
I had a small chuckle when Sima Zhao commented how he can't fathom one fled to the country that was responsible for the death one's father. Shu and Wei's royal families were pretty messed up. (by today's standard) Cao and Xiahou clans were pretty much one and the same since they often marring clan daughter forom one to another. While lessor known but Liu Bei's daughters ends up as Cao Chun's (Cao Ren's brother) daughter-in-laws. Not only that, Xiahou Yuan's niece was Zhang Fei's wife and Xiahou Ba's cousin and her two daughter with Zhang Fei both ended up as Lui Shan's Empresses.
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Just read some godly chapters from a godly manga, lol. Seems like a bunch of people here are reading the Chinese version, sadly I have to work with the translations. 341-348 just got released in one huge chunk, damn that was fun.
I read RotTK before, once, in English. I am not so familiar with the work except for the major characters. That's still enough to generally work out what's going on in the story though. My favourite parts are the quotes and stuff that connect with what's happening. Feels so cultural, lol. Anyway, I'm cheering for Cao Cao and Sima Yi, heh. I did that while reading the original novel too. The blatant revisionism and deification of Liu Bei/Zhuge Liang in the novel made it quite satisfying knowing that they would lose, lol. That's why this latest batch of chapters kicked ass, time for the comeback, lol. If the Chinese releases are slow, the English ones seem to be coming out even slower...seems they're just waiting for the Tankoubon releases nowadays. This was still great though. I wanna find out what happens to Yuan Fang. |
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