scars, far angstier than yours

[meganbmoore]

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[estara]

Methuselah in Immortal Rain with the huge scar tissue over his heart and the metal cross (with the date of the rebirth of his nemesis on it) plus all the machine parts that make him immortal.

Nice ^^

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[meganbmoore]

I forgot about Methuselah...did Tokyopop ever start putting it out again? I remember they didn't for over a year, and I kinda forgot about it.

Hmm...By that description, Will Turner can qualify, too...

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[estara]

Well, as far as I know it's been released as far as it was in Japan, i.e. it's not finished there either (much like the Planet Ladder fiasco). Tokyopop has released up to volume 8.

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[rachelmanija]

Wait, Planet Ladder isn't finished? I could have sworn it was over with the last volume I read. It had an epilogue and everything.

[chomiji]

Francis Crawford of Lymond - scars on both back and hands (mild spoiler - I think it gets revealed in the first volume) from being a galley slave in the Med.

There's a series of mysterious, significant scars in SDK, all surrounded by considerable angst. And Mahiro also had a bunch of scars, didn't she? From her training?

(Yukimura ought to have beaucoup des scars, starting with the one from the wound he takes so dramatically in "Dragon of the Blue Sky," but of course Kamijyo-sensei would never show him that way.)

[meganbmoore]

Aside from the spoilery cross shaped scars, most of the scars-including Mahiro's and the giant one on Yuya's stomach(I forget how she got that) seem to be of the "normal course of lifestyle" type, as opposed to directly connected to a specific point of angst/point where life change, which is what I was thinking of. But Yukimura would count, if he still had it...

[kitkat_cat]

I don't know if this counts as a scar, but i think it should

[meganbmoore]

Well, I don't know about scars, but it counts as lots of angst...

[smillaraaq]

You see why I love that movie so much!

(Also, Leslie Cheung and Brigitte Lin = EXTREMELY PRETTY angst.)

[rachelmanija]

Icon!

[madame_manga]

In the case of BotI, Manji's most prominent facial scars all seem to date from the night he killed his sister's husband, though her husband inflicted only the vertical slash that destroyed Manji's right eye. On the same pass that cost him his eye, he took the top of her husband's head off right in front of his sister, and she went insane from the shock. Yep, high angst-meter points... Manji was already bleeding from the two horizontal slashes to his forehead and across the bridge of his nose when he encountered the husband, having just killed a pack of officers and gotten well cut up. It was a pretty wild night, apparently.

Giichi's scars -- yeah, they're apparently just what he's accumulated over years of "hunting". Unless Samura decides to specify later, natch. Anotsu, of course, is utterly smooth-skinned. :D

[meganbmoore]

Yeah, I thought at least one scar was from that, but wasn't sure. That night does count as extreme angst directly related to the scars.

Hmm...I wonder if Samura left Hyakurin with scars from Beasts. If so, I'd say she wins the award.

[sora_blue]

Given I haven't seen most of these, I'm probably biased when I say Kenshin Himura wins hands down.

Trust & Betrayal are emotionally painful to watch.

[meganbmoore]

It's just one of many ways in which Kenshin is hard to top.

But you know, as good as Trust and Betrayal are, the story loses a lot of its impact for me without the contrast of the main story and the older Kenshin.

[sora_blue]

Oh for sure. I haven't seen the TV anime, just the OAVs, but where the back-story falls in the manga makes it incredibly powerful.