I would be more than happy to actually beat my head against figuring out Japanese (well more like "translate the hanzi and then harangue CP to translate the kana for me") if they did an artbook + actual text with more than just "and these are his shoes". MORE than happy. DELIRIOUS.
My urban-fantasy modern-genre brain goes crazy with stories stuffed so full to the brim, like this one.
Thanks for tip on obi height -- I'm never quite sure sometimes whether three people doing it this way just means these are three pictures similar and not that everyone did it that way. And I'm too lazy to trot my duff downtown to do really heavy-duty research on this at the university libraries (at least the ones open to the public), so... I'm stuck with what literature I do have, other than what's on the net. Bleah.
But mostly I stick with the blender theory. When you tap archetypes, the idea is to catch a small, single detail that will make a person say, "oh, that just seems so familiar", and (hopefully) not really place it right away. It just seems... boy, doesn't that remind you of something? Dunno what... and off you go, new archetype now punchholed into your brain. Glee.
Unless you're me, in which case deconstructing that archetype is just hours upon hours of fun, and besides, it beats installing drawers in kitchen cabinets. (Or doing laundry, but everything beats doing laundry.)
Glad you've enjoyed -- probably going to be tossing various posts out over the next month or so as I work through the series, see what other folks have for input as well.
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Date: 3 Dec 2008 04:06 am (UTC)My urban-fantasy modern-genre brain goes crazy with stories stuffed so full to the brim, like this one.
Thanks for tip on obi height -- I'm never quite sure sometimes whether three people doing it this way just means these are three pictures similar and not that everyone did it that way. And I'm too lazy to trot my duff downtown to do really heavy-duty research on this at the university libraries (at least the ones open to the public), so... I'm stuck with what literature I do have, other than what's on the net. Bleah.
But mostly I stick with the blender theory. When you tap archetypes, the idea is to catch a small, single detail that will make a person say, "oh, that just seems so familiar", and (hopefully) not really place it right away. It just seems... boy, doesn't that remind you of something? Dunno what... and off you go, new archetype now punchholed into your brain. Glee.
Unless you're me, in which case deconstructing that archetype is just hours upon hours of fun, and besides, it beats installing drawers in kitchen cabinets. (Or doing laundry, but everything beats doing laundry.)
Glad you've enjoyed -- probably going to be tossing various posts out over the next month or so as I work through the series, see what other folks have for input as well.