chapter 293: the true power of Fornicaras is...
... inspiring SLASH!
Is it me, or are the fansubbers at Bleach Exile really good at translating innuendos? This is just an observation. I absolutely LOVE their continual efforts every week, and it keeps me amused.
On KT's part... Renji and Ishida attacking at the same time is just crack. (Menage a trois, anyone?) Or is meant to echo an earlier failed battle, Ichigo and Renji's attack on Aizen?
It would all be funny if Ishida wasn't being picked apart like a Russian matryoshka doll. Torturing characters like that in a manga meant for teens is a bit graphic. I mean, the Western equivalents would be Alan Moore's "From Hell" or anything by Frank Miller, and their works are clearly labeled "for mature audiences only." Perhaps standards of age appropriateness are really just different in various parts of the world...
Wait, there's more.
My friend wicked_liz has some fabulous ranty-rants on the current state of Bleach. Sadly, I agree with her, although I'm not quite ready to jump ship because I've only been into Bleach for a couple of months. So far it's the best therapy I've had for getting over the death of my fiance.
(Aside from my pottery classes.)
So right now, I will pretend I don't mind being part of a sinking ship. I stuck out with Rurouni Kenshin all throughout the horrible anime fillers, to the very bitter end and even through "Reflection." I did bail out on Harry Potter and Ranma (the moment I knew the love was dead: Book 6 and the introduction of Kuno's father in the anime.) Let's see how far I can stick out with Ichigo.
Personally, I think KT just needs a month-long vacation from drawing and writing to re-charge his batteries and gather his thoughts on where he really wants to take Bleach. Take a month, two months, even a quarter of the year! I don't care how long it delays the production of new material, as long as it helps him come up with material as good as the Soul Society arc. When a person doesn't rest from the creative process, the endless churning out of product ceases to be creative and original.
I haven't totally forgotten my Terry Eagleton (which I read almost a decade ago). There was a nice bit in his classic chapter, "What is Literature?" on the social conditions for the production of literature. If I remember it correctly, he included TIME as a major factor. [If I am totally wrong about this, please correct me. I've long been gone from the world of academics and I can't find my copy of the book so I can't quote directly.]
I know Eagleton's been shooting his mouth off in his latest book, "After Theory," about how literary criticism is past its golden age and theory is dead, but somehow I would like to believe his old conditions still apply. At least they seem to apply to KT. Because they sure as hell applied to Anne Rice and J.K. Rowling, and a lot of other writers who should have stopped, kicked back, and taken a break, instead of caving in to the pressure to create more, more, more in shorter amounts of time.
What's all the money in the world, or pleasing your crazy editors or the demanding CEO of your publishing house, if your huge fan base just grows to hate you and they all want to stab you with sporks?
Overproduction's a bitch.
As things stand now, plot-wise, I am merely waiting for the October release of Bleach volume 21 (the end of SS arc) and then I am going to STOP buying, because I want to know if the rest of the Bleach story is still worth coughing up my cash. And that's the type of consumer attitude that's a harsh wake-up call.
So I'm begging you, KT, take a vacation and have a heart-to-heart talk with your soul slayer/muse/mojo! In the long run it's better for everyone and the story you're trying to tell.
Is it me, or are the fansubbers at Bleach Exile really good at translating innuendos? This is just an observation. I absolutely LOVE their continual efforts every week, and it keeps me amused.
On KT's part... Renji and Ishida attacking at the same time is just crack. (Menage a trois, anyone?) Or is meant to echo an earlier failed battle, Ichigo and Renji's attack on Aizen?
It would all be funny if Ishida wasn't being picked apart like a Russian matryoshka doll. Torturing characters like that in a manga meant for teens is a bit graphic. I mean, the Western equivalents would be Alan Moore's "From Hell" or anything by Frank Miller, and their works are clearly labeled "for mature audiences only." Perhaps standards of age appropriateness are really just different in various parts of the world...
Wait, there's more.
My friend wicked_liz has some fabulous ranty-rants on the current state of Bleach. Sadly, I agree with her, although I'm not quite ready to jump ship because I've only been into Bleach for a couple of months. So far it's the best therapy I've had for getting over the death of my fiance.
(Aside from my pottery classes.)
So right now, I will pretend I don't mind being part of a sinking ship. I stuck out with Rurouni Kenshin all throughout the horrible anime fillers, to the very bitter end and even through "Reflection." I did bail out on Harry Potter and Ranma (the moment I knew the love was dead: Book 6 and the introduction of Kuno's father in the anime.) Let's see how far I can stick out with Ichigo.
Personally, I think KT just needs a month-long vacation from drawing and writing to re-charge his batteries and gather his thoughts on where he really wants to take Bleach. Take a month, two months, even a quarter of the year! I don't care how long it delays the production of new material, as long as it helps him come up with material as good as the Soul Society arc. When a person doesn't rest from the creative process, the endless churning out of product ceases to be creative and original.
I haven't totally forgotten my Terry Eagleton (which I read almost a decade ago). There was a nice bit in his classic chapter, "What is Literature?" on the social conditions for the production of literature. If I remember it correctly, he included TIME as a major factor. [If I am totally wrong about this, please correct me. I've long been gone from the world of academics and I can't find my copy of the book so I can't quote directly.]
I know Eagleton's been shooting his mouth off in his latest book, "After Theory," about how literary criticism is past its golden age and theory is dead, but somehow I would like to believe his old conditions still apply. At least they seem to apply to KT. Because they sure as hell applied to Anne Rice and J.K. Rowling, and a lot of other writers who should have stopped, kicked back, and taken a break, instead of caving in to the pressure to create more, more, more in shorter amounts of time.
What's all the money in the world, or pleasing your crazy editors or the demanding CEO of your publishing house, if your huge fan base just grows to hate you and they all want to stab you with sporks?
Overproduction's a bitch.
As things stand now, plot-wise, I am merely waiting for the October release of Bleach volume 21 (the end of SS arc) and then I am going to STOP buying, because I want to know if the rest of the Bleach story is still worth coughing up my cash. And that's the type of consumer attitude that's a harsh wake-up call.
So I'm begging you, KT, take a vacation and have a heart-to-heart talk with your soul slayer/muse/mojo! In the long run it's better for everyone and the story you're trying to tell.