Beren/Lúthien!
I adore them both, but Beren does get over his “listen to your lady, she has the better ideas” problems, and individually on their own both are so awesome and interesting and together hell yes! Both couples are though very similar and not just in the homeless dude wandering in the woods finds goddess and she decides ‘fuck higher plane of existence, this idiot is perfect’. Though the other is easier to write for, Beren/Lúthein is the OTP above all others.
[Color wheel decoder ring activate! = We have a lot in common,
You taught me something new,
You make me laugh, You’re a really cool person and admire you from afar, I want to run through the Northern wilderness barefoot with you, I would share my favorite food with you,
You’re my homie]
First of all, as some who has run through the wilderness of Montana (that counts) – we are wearing pairs of shoes. We can walk barefoot while visiting my grandma’s garden in Seattle, but only in the summer, and because she doesn’t mind guest and her garden is full of berries and grapes and stuff to eat. Any further north or winter and we cover our feet with socks and shoes.
Jess, if you have never eaten tamales, I must insist.
Well, most of my dash I think are CINNAMON rolls (wait. is that why?)
And if nothing else, i have introduced you to a new series and I would be happy if I accomplished nothing more.
The actual color of razzmatazz and not just a marketing term?
RuroKen:
❤ Favorite Male: Shinomori Aoshi
❤ Favorite Female: Makimachi Misao
❤ Favorite Pairing: Kenshin/Kaoru
❤ Least Favorite Character: …you haven’t met them yet, but there’s a villain squad from the last arc, three of the four from those guys.
❤ who’s most like me: Tae
❤ most attractive: tie between Aoshi and Hiko Seijuro
❤ three more characters that I like: Everyone in this picture, plus Megumi and Tsubame (that counts as three)
(And Shishio and Yumi)
Harry Potter:
❤ Favorite Male: Neville Longbottom
❤ Favorite Female: Hermione? Maybe Luna
❤ Favorite Pairing: Ron/Hermione
❤ Least Favorite Character: Sirius Black
❤ who’s most like me: book one! Hermione. and Percy
❤ most attractive: canon suggests the correct answer is young Tom M. Riddle Ron?
❤ three more characters that I like: Hagrid, Percy Weasley, Remus Lupin
Forgive me sister for I have sinned. It has been seven days since I last read manga.
Anyway this page came out of nowhere and punched me in the face, wow. He has…so many issues…and yet he is….SUCH A GREAT PERSON :’)))
That Aoshi guy seems like he’s gonna come back and have another go, I’m…not sure if I’m looking forward to that or not? It should be a good, well thought out fight (seriously I love how they think through the other person’s technique and how to counter it). But also Kenshin might get beaten up – or WORSE, he might get SAD D:
Gonna have to reply this way, if you don’t mind –
I’m too tired to have coherent thoughts but needed to reblog this because MY BABY and YES THIS and also I really need to get a wig and drag out my Battousai!Kenshin cosplay again, I miss it
OKAY SO
(It’s Jess, I thought I ought to put this on my anime blog :P)
Yay Jess – more replies 😀
RuroKen isn’t totally realistic, because yeah James Bond-y level action shuts and you’ll see some various styles/things and some super-villain esque level stuff – I mean, Jin’eh and his heart-stopping eyes isn’t totally realistic, but you believe and go with it, and that’s about as magical ki and abilities go. But things like Hannya’s optical illusion punches, yes. The author stays clever.
Sano is so great, and he does make this foil where he’s honest and straightforward, he has connections to the criminal underbelly from his street fighting days but it’s like deceit goes against his very core. IDK has to do with his backstory (that that the author goes into it, pulls out that black stain on the hero’s side), that he hates corruption and those in power and he’s not wrong to feel that anger (and this will pop up again) but that overarching theme of not being consumed by that anger or lashing out at the wrong targets, to work to improve lives and work through that survivor’s guilt (Good Lord, survivor’s guilt describes the underlying motive of a third the cast…)
Kaoru not fighting against Kanryuu (and getting pushed to the sidelines fight-wise) is definitely a common valid complaint and one of the weaknesses/bothers me compared to FMA and later works. It does get addressed and a bit rectified later and in other versions – the 90s anime had Kaoru go with Yahiko, and later around the time of the first live action movie the author went back and did this sort of an AU project that gave her more on-screen fights. And the author admits that Kaoru in-universe is one of the best kendo users, would sweep through any tournament – but that she’s surrounded by these inhumanly strong fighters like Kenshin and his enemies from the war. But her insight into their fighting styles, even if she can’t personally match their experience, doesn’t go away. And why I like the Tokyo-based arcs where we visit these other dojos and get a sense of Kaoru’s daily routines and the world she inhabits where the other teachers and students really respect her and her skills, even if she feels she’s only an assistant dojo master.
Yahiko – yeah he’s the kid appeal character, the substitute for the target audience (this was written w/ preteen boys in mind; it just happened to recent a HUGE secondary demographic), but that he isn’t the viewpoint character. The story does focus on Yahiko’s growth, physically as well and mentally, and it does by having Yahiko admire and learn from the rest of the cast – Kenshin, Sano, Kaoru, here are your his role models. And he grows on you, or at least did for me. I admit, I will forever hold a soft spot in my heart for the little brat that for all he teases Kaoru and doesn’t initially believe/respect her skills, he does become her earnest student (and Yutaro highlighting Kaoru-the-teacher and his cute crush on her and Yahiko’s seething jealousy). And that when the yakuza tried to shame him by taunting him about his mother becoming a prostitute, bless that little street punk for shouting back ‘so what? I’m proud of her, she did want she had to so we could survive’, that her sacrifice was equaled to a samurai death in battle.
Oh man, the Raijuta arc~ Tool is right. I love how in the author notes, Watsuki admits that the character started out supposed to be intimidating, but in the end was such a putz. Asshole too, but this poser.
Oooh, the next two in the volume is a another short arc I like and then the one-shot the author did before RuroKen. I love that one-shot so much, and it has a call-forward/easter egg to RK.
And yes, the live action doesn’t have absolutely perfect casting, but damn if a lot of choices weren’t perfect, especially translating to the screen, and the actor who played Kenshin was a big reason why and the music ~♥~ RuroKen has always had great music/acknowledged as superior soundtracks, the anime and live action both.
Forgive me sister for I have sinned. It has been seven days since I last read manga.
Anyway this page came out of nowhere and punched me in the face, wow. He has…so many issues…and yet he is….SUCH A GREAT PERSON :’)))
That Aoshi guy seems like he’s gonna come back and have another go, I’m…not sure if I’m looking forward to that or not? It should be a good, well thought out fight (seriously I love how they think through the other person’s technique and how to counter it). But also Kenshin might get beaten up – or WORSE, he might get SAD D:
Gonna have to reply this way, if you don’t mind –
BUT YES!
So glad you are really the series, and sharing your thoughts. And Kenshin ruined my for a lot of protagonists, shonen or otherwise, because yes, here is your older and very experienced veteran, who looks back on what he has done – aka killed a lot of people – and knows that despite his reasons back then -trying to bring about a new world where life would be better for everyone – it doesn’t change the fact that he is was an assassin. That he’s filled with so much self-loathing that doesn’t end up wallowing on-screen angst in part because he believes in and treasures this optimistic belief in the goodness of others. That his personal suffering doesn’t equal out the suffering he caused, but to take those skills and dedicate his life to helping others and easing their suffering. (and again, such issues and the dealing/healing of his come up in later arcs)
The Kanryuu arc is the best of the first third without a doubt for this theme between Kenshin and Megumi about atonement (and other reasons too).
I like that I don’t have problems understanding the flights in RuroKen, and that there’s often this little elements of counter-moves and different strategies and it doesn’t stray too far into ‘kung-fu magic’ (i mean, yeah laws of physics get rather pretzel-like, but it pretends to not be outright magic – ignore the force of a blunt object at lethal speeds being not lethal, medicine back then could handle broken bones better that inflection rises of open wounds, or at least that’s our hand-wave)
Aoshi. Oh poor precious baby Aoshi. I won’t count it a spoiler that yep, you’re right, he will return in some fashion or another, and there are sad feels. And it’s great that he (and others) are here as characters that are almost matches to Kenshin in skill, and that the duels are as much between philosophies and personal outlooks. Fandom jokes about Kenshin as a warrior therapist and the Hiten Mitsurguri style as weaponised counseling exist for a reason. But Aoshi, he’s one of my favorite characters, and it started with ‘hey, a smart villain’ but really because with ‘oh no, his squad of wacky grotesque villain underlings are really loyal to him and that devotion is reciprocal, he sacrificed his personal opportunities to try to take care of his men/ not abandon them’ -and then Kanryuu and the Gatling gun and leave me to die~~ (he reminds me of a dark!Roy Mustang in a way. Speaking of which Mustang and Riza and the others from the Ishval War gave me a lot of Kenshin feelings). But yeah…I named the LotR fusion version of Aoshi Túrin. because.
Let’s see, other thoughts/questions: what do you think of the rest of Kenshin’s group? And feel free to send any other notices about parts that illicit feels. 😉
(live-action Kenshin a++ casting)
*Bortë blowing out a bunch of candles on a cake presented to her by a bunch of tall blonde elves* Thank you! 😀
Already answered. Though if you want ‘earliest thing I remember liking that has a fandom’ – Little Mermaid VHS I watched like once a day from when it came out, and then Beauty and the Beast (and the sing-along with Sebastian tapes, and going to the Beauty and the Beast on Ice). The Jungle Book and Fantasia (the pastoral especially) were the other two I remember being about the very first VHS we owned.
On the list of shows I got into thanks to tumblr (as opposed to say TV Tropes), most I can name off the top of my head are animated: Young Justice and Green Lantern: the Animated Series, Over the Garden Wall, Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun (Weeky Girls’ Nozaki)
Silm fandom? More Edain-centric fics and fanart and more Sindar (especially art and stuff about Sun and Moon). Lump this under more focus on groups I like. More using the spiritual/magic bits like LaCE’s no adultery you can see marriage status by eyes and oswarë. More happy post-First Age Valinor stuff and less elves resenting the Valar.
Borgias is the big one. I know a lot about the later seasons of Korra only because of the dash. All my Doctor Who knowledge comes from there. Hannibal. Steven Universe. Adventure Time. Dragon Age and all sequels is the other big one.
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