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wombat1138 ([personal profile] wombat1138) wrote2006-05-09 10:01 am
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Jinchuu

Feh. The back-from-the-dead RK forum has crashed again right after I composed another post. Figured I might as well splat down the text here instead.

...Eh, I'm personally doubtful about the "strict constructionist" approach. IMHO, it's equally possible to make a rote-faithful adaptation that suffers from not being flexible enough to take account of the difference between mediums (i.e., the first Harry Potter movie) as to make an adaptation whose changes improve on the original (the first RK OVA?).

The thing is, I think it's *really* unlikely that whoever owns the current RK animation license would whip up an entire fourth-season treatment of Jinchuu; aside from the economics of whatever it takes to run a regular show on broadcast TV instead of releasing something straight to video, it's just a heck of a lot more animation for people to do.

Would the entire Jinchuu Arc be tellable in OVA format? Most of the OVAs on our shelf are 6-8 episodes, though sometimes there are sequel OVAs that tie closely together (frex, the original Tenchi OVAs and Crest/Banner of the Stars). Thingyhen was fairly plot-dense and took four half-hour eps to cover considerably fewer manga volumes than the surrounding Jinchuu material. Anyone have a guesstimate on the minimum time that would be needed to give justice to Jinchuu, so to speak?

[identity profile] wombat1138.livejournal.com 2006-07-08 05:45 am (UTC)(link)
The Eva movies didn't really have time to build up the characterizations that were developed throughout the preceding episodes, though, and those are a large part of why I like the series-- everyone gets their surface personalities established, and then the surface gets peeled back to expose the various ways in which they're deeply messed up and how it happened. (Ditto for Escaflowne, though to a lesser extent.) Also, Eva's casual use of the term "Pribnow box" utterly enchanted me.

Almost all of the characters in Gasaraki just blurred together for me-- Yuushiro's brothers, some political blahblah to do with Belgistan, and whatever else was going on; I don't think the other members of Yuushiro's mecha team were really individualized at all? Ah well. We can't all like the same things, or life would be boringly agreeable. Can't have that, now can we?

[identity profile] qadgop.livejournal.com 2006-07-08 02:13 pm (UTC)(link)
"Pribnow box"

??

Ah well. We can't all like the same things, or life would be boringly agreeable. Can't have that, now can we?

Naturellement. But wait: when life's boring, it isn't agreeable. I think.