martes, noviembre 01, 2005

Gory stuff which goes thu-thump - Inuyasha

Zio [a.k.a the otouto, or the little brother] said:

meesa no like gory stuff which goes thu-thump and is squishy.


I just had to laugh at this one - it sounds so dreadfully like my own idea of Naraku! Just the sort of villain I wouldn't find one inch appealing. He's so yuckie and so...!!
So... shall we switch the topic to Rumiko Takahashi's Inuyasha?

Naraku went squishy and th-thump all the while. I'm so happy the manga is now focusing on his alienated heart and now rebel minion, Moryoumaru , who goes thu-thump and all squishy quite often, but not quite as much. And there's lots of new interesting stuff - like Seshie-sama developing actual feelings towards another creature (about Kagura's death) and his sword having been forged into a fighting (rather than healing) weapon in consequence. And Inuyasha's Tesseiga has new powers (yet more powers, I meant!), and he's finding it hard to control them without hurting himself. And he needs them if he's to do something against Naraku/Moryoumaru. So he's been to a friend of Totousai's, a powerful youkai, and has had a sort of informal training lesson when he thought he was saving his sensei to be from an evil youkai. Great fun and better art as was to be expected from Takahashi sensei. I have mentioned I'm a huuuuge fan, have I?
If you folks are for her works and you still haven't visited Ear-Tweak, what are you waiting for? The webmistress translates the weekly installment from Shounen Sunday quite punctually ( it's usually up on Thursday) - not only does her translation sound natural and smooth, also her editing is great, very comfy to read. She also writes notes to clarify aspects of her own translation and on top of that, her art is also wonderful. I love her weekly parodies of the installment - I so wish she'd put them all together somewhere, because they are so good. Do spend time on the site, she's got all sorts of very interesting info on Inuyasha and she updates often. Yup. A 10 out of 10.
Those are the two mangas I'm following closely online (as they are far from that advanced here in Spain) - Inuyasha and Fruits Basket. More on Fruits Basket when they release next chapter at Soul Society scanslations!

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