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wombat1138(Cut for spoilers.)
1.) Finished Okami earlier this week, though I missed several things in the game. Most of it was minor stuff like Stray Beads here and there, but apparently I managed to accidentally skip what is largely considered Issun's crowning moment of awesome by turning on the sun too fast during the last battle-- hey, it seemed like the obvious thing to do at the time, though I couldn't figure out why that seemed to finally boost Amaterasu back up to full Shiranui power after everything else. (As a future trivia reference, 大神 (ゲーム).)
2.) Finally managed to semi-confirm a theory about a minor detail in a Yamaguchirow doujinshi, specifically the last panel in the disturbing Enishi/Tomoe short at the beginning of "Jinchuu"-- the scrap of paper does in fact seem to be the unfolded form of a traditional medicine envelope, or yakuhoushi (薬包紙) (the text is in Japanese, but the clickable folding diagram is clear enough to recreate the envelope and then unfold it for comparison; okay, I can't quite match up the results crease by crease, but I'm particularly struck by the long diagonal fold and the lopsided pentagon; possibly I haven't quite worked out the matching proportions and perspective, or Yamaguchirow's model was a variation of ths basic fold).
(Though this doesn't answer what Enishi was toked up on; opium was a rather sticky resin that probably wouldn't've been packaged that way, and there's no sign of any opium-smoking apparatus. Of course, Yamaguchirow may not have necessarily thought things out that far.)
Meanwhile, making slow progress with the hana-kotoba book, though not in a very organized way. If I'd thought this out more clearly, I would've divided the translations into individual index cards for each entry, instead of just sequentially jotting things down into a notebook; this is especially obvious when considering the long list of flower names transcribed from the table of contents, and then the separate list of add'l info from the book proper. Oh well.
1.) Finished Okami earlier this week, though I missed several things in the game. Most of it was minor stuff like Stray Beads here and there, but apparently I managed to accidentally skip what is largely considered Issun's crowning moment of awesome by turning on the sun too fast during the last battle-- hey, it seemed like the obvious thing to do at the time, though I couldn't figure out why that seemed to finally boost Amaterasu back up to full Shiranui power after everything else. (As a future trivia reference, 大神 (ゲーム).)
2.) Finally managed to semi-confirm a theory about a minor detail in a Yamaguchirow doujinshi, specifically the last panel in the disturbing Enishi/Tomoe short at the beginning of "Jinchuu"-- the scrap of paper does in fact seem to be the unfolded form of a traditional medicine envelope, or yakuhoushi (薬包紙) (the text is in Japanese, but the clickable folding diagram is clear enough to recreate the envelope and then unfold it for comparison; okay, I can't quite match up the results crease by crease, but I'm particularly struck by the long diagonal fold and the lopsided pentagon; possibly I haven't quite worked out the matching proportions and perspective, or Yamaguchirow's model was a variation of ths basic fold).
(Though this doesn't answer what Enishi was toked up on; opium was a rather sticky resin that probably wouldn't've been packaged that way, and there's no sign of any opium-smoking apparatus. Of course, Yamaguchirow may not have necessarily thought things out that far.)
Meanwhile, making slow progress with the hana-kotoba book, though not in a very organized way. If I'd thought this out more clearly, I would've divided the translations into individual index cards for each entry, instead of just sequentially jotting things down into a notebook; this is especially obvious when considering the long list of flower names transcribed from the table of contents, and then the separate list of add'l info from the book proper. Oh well.