Working on next post may post around the 24/25. If not sooner. World gate opening.
Well, earlier I said I was going to wind up my current storyline this month, but that’s not going to happen, altho I am slowly building up to a climax, and that will probably take a few more months. What’s at issue here is that with the Year of the Rabbit coming up, I was hoping to introduce a storyline involving a Bunny Girl, but it’s going to have to wait awhile.
Now here’s a puzzle. A few years back, I read something somewhere that said the White Rabbit was a sexy prankster goddess in Japanese mythology. This led me to theorize that the reason so many female characters in manga and anime end up in bunny outfits was to emphasize their playful and pranksterish natures, rather than expressing a desire to become Playboy bunnies (especially since the clubs closed down decades ago–way before Haruhi was born). Unfortunately for my beautiful theory, I’ve been checking around on the Web but can’t find any reference to the White Rabbit as a sex goddess at all. In fact, the only rabbit in Japapese mythology that I can find is the one on the Moon that is spending eternity pounding rice into mochi–a rather dreary and domestic pasttime, if you ask me. So what happen? How did I get it wrong? Aren’t there any sexy rabbit goddesses in Japanese mythology? Anyone here have any ideas about this?
In the interest of full disclosure, I have to point our that spear style and arrow style knife-throwing are not two different styles, as Mrs. Katatana implies, but the same. Either she doesn’t really know that much about knife-throwing, or else I mis-heard her. One thing’s for certain, tho. She’s definitely a knife-throwing shotacon.
The Wife asked me if the inmates in Chinpo’s prison wouldn’t have seen the same AVs that he had. She seems to be under the impression that criminals have nothing better to do than to sit around watching porn all day. But even if they had, the plots of AVs are all so similar that it probably wouldn’t matter. If Chinpo was a good enough storyteller, and if they really wanted to believe in the Panty Thief, they probably wouldn’t make the connection between his BS and the Sora Ai flick they saw.
Smart fox in not ruining the blade by using it to mark the wall. Would not the prisoner work out but then that’s only on TV so I’m not sure if its really true or not.
I can not think of anything yet. I hate when that happens to me.
You make an interesting point. Prisoners in the movies seem to have a lot of time on their hands, don’t they. But my research on Japanese prisons indicates that they keep them busy most of the time, with few breaks. Japanese prisoners usually spend most of their days laboring in workshops, making things for manufacturers who sub-contract with the prison for the labor. This, I believe, is also true of many American prisons (and perhaps elsewhere), but I don’t know it for a fact (and hope to never find out). I had thought of showing the inmates in the Moriyoh prison working for a company that was owned (ironically) by Saitama , the local yak, but I just couldn’t fit it into the flow of the narrative. Don’t you just love Kitsune as Zorro? Personally, I love Zorro.
Anyway, I was wondering how to describe Zorro’s distinctive hat, because I’ve never heard it described. So I did a some research and found out that it’s called a “cordoba” --named after a town in Spain (Cordoba) where it originates from and still made. Apparently, a cordoba is a very practical headpiece in the Spanish sun. In the end, tho, I decided to describe it as a gaucho hat, because I reasoned that it would be easier for most readers to get a mental image of what it looked like than calling it by its proper name.
Would Dom be a ghoul given he could talk?
I’ve an idea sort I shall start working on it sometime soon.
You raise an interesting point.
Zombies are the dead, who have been brought back to life, while ghouls are demons who haunt graveyards and eat corpses. However, these creatures have been in the public domain for so long that anyone can say anything they want about them now–and do. Zombies, for example, used to be merely animated corpses, servants of witch doctors and evil wizards; Lurch, from the Addams Family would fall into that category. It wasn’t until Night of the Living Dead and Resident Evil that they developed their peculiar appetites. Actually, now that I think about it, those Resident Evil zombies aren’t dead, strictly speaking, so they might be more accurately described as ghouls, don’t you think?. My version of Kuchisake started out human, but became a ghoul in the course of her embrace of Uzumaki, and while I haven’t shown her explicitly eating human flesh, I have hinted at it. (Remember the human femur Chinpo found in that hut in the woods?) As for Beast Dom, I expect he would have become a zombie instantly upon his resurection if Kuchisake hadn’t taken steps to delay it until she could get what she wanted out of him. Plus, he called himself a zombie, and who should know better?
I hope everyone enjoyed our “Moe [error] Downhill Race” story.
The wife asked me if Yoshimi’s voice wouln’t give her away as a girl. I suppose it would if this were a more realistic story, but you might as well ask why Takuya doesn’t have five o"clock shadow.
I’ve been waitng and waiting for Netflicks to offer the new Eva movie for rental without any movement in that direction. So I finally gave up and bought it from Amazon. Result: it’s not bad. I’ve watched it about 57 times, now. Of course, I’m not the one to go to for a measured, rational review of Eva–I’m just a dyed-in-the-wool Eva fanatic. I like the new movies, Death and Rebirth+End of Evangelion, etc. Of course, I found those “psychoanalysis” episodes at the end of the first series deathly dull, but other than that, I’m really big on Eva.
I was most interested in this Mari Makanami character, since I’ve been seeing her all over the Internet for the last couple of years–on anime web sites, being cosplayed, in doujinshi, etc. But, in actuality, she really doesn’t have much impact on the story (just another strong-willed female whose job it is to prop up that wuss, Shinji), but obviously is enjoying a huge afterlife in the fan press.
Fans are like that, I guess. Another example, in the movie [this might be a spoiler, but I say it], Ausuka is the only member of the tean wearing the new test suit, but on the net it’s hard to find any pictures of any of the Eva pilots in anything else but. Don’t know why it’s so popular; kind of an ugly outfit, actually.
Flatlander?
By the why there’s a big gap in your post at least when I look at it.
Need ideas.
Big gap?
Are you referring to the fact that I didn’t actually describe the race as such? That’s because I feared that it would be anticlimatic if I showed Yoshimi losing to ID and then going back to Nihachi and explaining to Takuya about it. I thought it would have more of a dramatic impact if Takuya and the reader found out about it at the same time.
But if the reader puzzles over things like that, then it means the writer isn’t doing his job. I see my mistake now. I should have changed the point of view in that scene to Takuya and built up his confidence that Yoshimi would win, only to dash it to pieces when he hears that she’s lost. Well, maybe I can take care of that when I get around to revising all my stories someday.
How about that Takuya, eh? Despite his protestations about men, he certainly seems to enjoy their attention and didn’t have any qualms about smooching up ID there in the back of Nihachi. But if you’ve ever played X-Change, his behavior shouldn’t come as any surprise. Well, the next time we catch up with him, it will be in a convent full of women. What do you think will happen there?
Went to an anime con in Columbus, Ohio last weekend. It rained for three days and I caught a cold. But I did snag some issues of the Cromartie High manga that I don’t have and discovered the Ping Pong Club anime. So it was good.
That wasn’t really the gap that I was talking about, my mistake for not explain. I meant that on my browser for some reason I see a large empty space after the end.
You could of made it where Takuya was talking to others acting confident she’d not lose when they’d say she would/will. Though you are a better story teller than I.
Another hot adventure with Eri and Brant, eh? I’m glad they’re still going together.
There is, of course, no such thing as a union for porn stars; especially not in Japan. But since this is not really Japan, but Sakura World, I thought I’d give them a break. If you don’t know already, Zenra Swan Lake was a real AV, and a pretty popular one, too. Soft On Demand is still making ballet porn, but non of them have topped it.
I just got back from an anime convention in Ohio. It was pretty good, I found the cutness index of the cosplayers rather on the high end. Late, late Friday night I attended two very interesting panels. One was going to be about hentai anime, and the other was called “Let’s all read hentai manga out loud.”
But the moderator of the anime panel never showed up, so a couple of audience members pitched in by downloading porn from the Internet: Bible Black,and one called Midnight Gymnastics. They were pretty good. Especially the latter one, which was about a boy who has to dress as a girl to infiltrate a girl’s gym class in order to save his sister from the dark underbelly of high school athletics. I can see now that my mission in life is to add both of them to my personal collection.
The “Let’s all read hentai…” was a hoot and a half. The way it worked was this: the moderator uploaded manga from his files and got people from the audience to take the parts of the characters and read them aloud. You can probably already sense the humor inherent in this approach already. One of the storieswas about a brother and sister home alone and with time on they’re hands. Well, besides the boy and the girl, this story also called for a narrator. So the moderator says: “Let’s get someone older to play the moderator. Who’s the oldest person in the room.” Personally, I didn’t want to get involved, but there was no way to avoid it, so, what the heck! But when I got up on the stage, I found I’d lost my glasses and couldn’t read the words on the computer screen. So I had to resort to standing up next to the big screen in front of everybody to do my bit. I felt a little vulnerable out there, but overall I think it worked out. My fifteen minutes of fame.
I’ve been writing so many flashbacks lately that I felt the need to do something this time to remind myself that there actually is a story here that takes place in the present, which can be defined as the morning after Kokoro’s adventures in the cave. However, Yoshimi’s adventure up on the Ridge is a flash forward to the following evening. I have to admit that sometimes I get a little confused as to what’s going on, but I just hope it’ll all work out.
After seeing the Bible Black anime at that convention a few weeks ago, I decided to break down and finally get the game. Poor Yuki is going to end up on the block eventually, so I figured I needed it for inspiration. I’ve been meaning to get it for ages, but PP was always dangling some other bright, shiny object in my face. Anyway, I had a long session with it last night and liked it. I have 22 other games which (except for Kana and Crescendo) I’ve hardly touched, but I might go all the way with this one.
Have fun.
I liked the twincest and narg part. Though I’d go for a more multiverse type thing than anything but that’s just me.
I’ve got my hands full juggling umpteen characters around. Two universes is all I can handle right now.
Well, I’ll leave it up to the reader to guess which Sagara sister is the manager of the Starry Sky, although I think it’s pretty obvious.
If I ever write something like this again, I think I’ll make out a time table first, because I’m getting a little confused about what’s been going on. That’s because I’ve been using so many flashbacks, that I’m beginning to lose track of the present. Let’s see if I can reconstruct recent events in my mind: First, Kokoro broke into the House of Pain and had her encounter with Kuchisake while trying to escape through the woods, but she was re-captured (or rescued, depending on how you look at it). Then Nanjou and the girls show up the morning after that, and Rex come in around noon. They must have been on the road that same night. On the other hand, Yoshimi’s evening encounter with ID couldn’t have taken place that same night, even tho in Scent of the Woman I said she started trailing Binkan earlier on that day. But that couldn’t be, because Binkan, Jose and Aquamarine aren’t scheduled to show up at the Chateau until the next evening. Likewise, Chinpo was arrested the night before Yuki was abducted, but he must been in jail for a few days before Kitsune (as Zorro) came to his rescue. So the events recounted in the jail break won’t occur until some time in the future. I hope that explains everything. Unfortunately, my next post is going to be another long flashback, because that’s the only way I can explain about the bloody knife.
Continuity, it’s the bugaboo of amateur writing.
That is why I try to keep mine pretty much self enclosed.
No ideas yet for my next one sadly.
Well, who knew Sugimoto was such a yandere? But it was the most logical explanation i could come up withto explain why she’s living in exile at the Chateau. Too bad about Hannah, tho. Despite her normally cheerful demeanor, Anna has had a hard life. And it’s about to get a lot worse. What are her chances, do you suppose that she’ll get out of this story alive?
I got Raidy II a couple of weeks ago, despite the fact that I don’t consider Raidy I that much of a hoot. So far, I’ve only just dipped my toes in RII, but it seems promising. I once heard that there was a Raidy III out there, but I’m not expecting to ever see it, considering the current direction PP seems to be going in. I’m kind of interested in Django, tho.
The year of the Tiger brought us the Meow Meows and Yoshimi (who’s a tiger girl. Did you know that?), and the year of the Rabbit gave us Hannah, the ill-fated bunny girl. The year of the Dragon will soon be upon us, but I don’t do dragons, so don’t expect nothing. Chaos?
Sugimoto (hence forth anna easier to spell) will probably die saying ‘I had enough of living’ least that’s how I would do it.
No dragons how sad. Dragon’s hmm well I do love dragons but horrible at instilling given traits to my characters. But perhaps their will be chaos.
Working on post.
Well¬Öso there’s going to be a fight between Teresa and Eri? In my experience, the dog always wins those.
Can you explain this line: “Eri had something planned with her friends¬Ö?” What friends? As I recall, Kimouchi moved to Vancouver and Yuki is in a coma. I didn’t know Eri had any other friends. Other cat people, perhaps? But I think the cops are going to round them all up and put them in detention camps because of this Meow Meow thing.
In the beginning of your story, you describe Teresa as the Fox and the other kids as Hunters in a game where if the Hunters catch the Fox they kill her. I thought at first that was literally going to happen, and maybe you should try it like that sometime. Obviously, you’d just be re-telling the story of The Most Dangerous Game, but you should never be afraid of the obvious (I got that from none other than Phillip Pullman, author of The Golden Compass). Nor, for that matter, should you be afraid of swiping everything you can-I’m sure not.