... I am brilliant. I managed to accidentally close the window instead of posting the comment. -_-;
Heh, I'm more fluent in Cantonese than I am in Mandarin so I've only watched adaptations in Cantonese. Mandarin hurts my brain because I would need to mentally translate it to Cantonese to understand. I love HK's wirework, but then again, it might be because I grew up watching HK wuxia series which are very heavy on wirework.
... I didn't know that there's already an english adaptation of JttW. Hearing what you said about it, I'm just going to give this a miss. ._. I have issues with the whole white guy saves the day/takes the lead in another culture's story.
I liked Saiyuki's first season. Then it starts going in circles/losing the plot. -_-; One daaaay, I will get the manga just to see if it's any better. It's very superficially related to JttW though. I can't think of any anime/manga that's faithful to JttW though. Toss me a few titles to check out?
Haven't watched much USian adaptations due to bias against them. The trailers never look/feel right. Wonder when will Hollywood realize that it's more important to get the story right and cast right for the roles than to try to please the audience based on assumptions like that. =/
The 86-87 two season series was before my time so that's definitely good news. All this talk of JttW makes me want to rewatch the series. XD
orz sorry. I don't get it. Is it a Dune reference?
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Date: 20 Mar 2011 09:26 am (UTC)Heh, I'm more fluent in Cantonese than I am in Mandarin so I've only watched adaptations in Cantonese. Mandarin hurts my brain because I would need to mentally translate it to Cantonese to understand. I love HK's wirework, but then again, it might be because I grew up watching HK wuxia series which are very heavy on wirework.
... I didn't know that there's already an english adaptation of JttW. Hearing what you said about it, I'm just going to give this a miss. ._. I have issues with the whole white guy saves the day/takes the lead in another culture's story.
I liked Saiyuki's first season. Then it starts going in circles/losing the plot. -_-; One daaaay, I will get the manga just to see if it's any better. It's very superficially related to JttW though. I can't think of any anime/manga that's faithful to JttW though. Toss me a few titles to check out?
Haven't watched much USian adaptations due to bias against them. The trailers never look/feel right. Wonder when will Hollywood realize that it's more important to get the story right and cast right for the roles than to try to please the audience based on assumptions like that. =/
The 86-87 two season series was before my time so that's definitely good news. All this talk of JttW makes me want to rewatch the series. XD
orz sorry. I don't get it. Is it a Dune reference?