Jinchuu

[wombat1138]

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?

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[chapbook.livejournal.com]

I've friended you, if that's OK with you. If not, let me know and I will cease and desist.

I have not yet seen any of RK, but then, I'm still not done reading Buddha and Nausicaa and viewing Graveyard of the Fireflies, Millenium Actress, Last Exile, CoS and BoS. Indeed, the number of series and films I've seen seem paltry: Vision of Escaflowne (series), Earth Girl Arjuna, 12 Kingdoms, Tokyo Godfathers, and most of the Studio Ghibli films available on DVD in the US.

Would you recommend starting with the manga or the anime incarnations of RK?

Songster

[dewlettizzle.livejournal.com]

I know it's unlikely that they'll ever animate the Jinchuu arc, especially considering that petition is years old.. but a girl can dream, ne?

I think it's just a shame that they never did, but things happen. :/