All posts by Azalea542

<p>Just got back from looking at Shieh's Steins;Gate art. Found some new pieces to add to my collection--and some I already had. Bookmarked that page in case anything new is added in the future.</p>

<p>Thanks. I've already discovered Pixiv, and have bookmarked one female artist's page of Steins;Gate fan art (mostly Kurisu/Okarin romantic mush stuff)--even wrote her a couple of brief messages, which thankfully she was able to read. I have no idea what her name is, because it was in Japanese characters, but the site did list her as "female". Below is one of her pieces:</p>

<p>I can read some basic signs and ads in Spanish, after decades of trying to learn, but can't understand spoken word. I've tried listening to Spanish-language radio and watching telenovelas on cable, but no good. </p><p>
</p><p>I did learn just enough of--either it was hiragana or katakana--to realize in a Trigun doujinshi panel that Wolfwood & Milly were making laughing noises. </p>

<p>Thanks. You seem familiar with Japanese terms--are you fluent? I read a book on kanji, and a smaller one on hiragana and katakana, but gave up. I can still recognize the kanji for tomodachi, and for a few other basics. If ever I do learn a second language, I've decided Spanish. I live in Orlando, Florida, & it's the 2nd most spoken language here. I'm not a total noob about Japanese culture, though. Even before I got into anime, I was researching Japan for a character I had in a series of my stories. Read several books, subscribed to expatriate Peter Payne's informative e-mails for a while, & still surf to web-japan.org every day to see if they have a new five-minute film. Lately, they've been so boring! "Japanese Ultra-Precision Spring Technology", really? Zzzzz.... But you do know a world without springs would be horriblel, don't you? (Sorry, Mystery Science Theater 3000 reference there.) </p>

<p>PS: Is 4C & Shido the same character? I don't even remember any one of those names in the anime, but it's been at least a couple of years since the last time I watched the original series over again (seen it twice so far, though, and watched Zero last half of 2018, & rewatched the Deja Vu movie a couple of weeks ago. Have the first series on DVD & intend to rewatch it before the end of this year). My guess is that he (or they) was one of those gamer thugs in that one episode who chased after Faris & beat up Okarin when he tried to protect her. I guess he or they had a much bigger role in the VNs. (The guys, who according to Faris' dubbed dialogue, would be willing to "drown a puppy", they were so ruthless.)</p><p>
</p><p>And though I've been into anime since way back in 2001, I am unfamiliar with the definition of chunnibyou. Please fill me in. </p>

<p>Thanks for the insight! I couldn't have realized the term pussy referred to cats, even though a non-anime fave of mine is Hanna-Barbera's "Josie & the Pussycats"! LOL. Here's a copy & paste of ESRB's ratings guide to SG Elite that'll show you guys why I was so disturbed: "Rating Summary: This is an adventure game in which players follow a narrative involving a group of young scientists discovering time travel. As the storyline unfolds, players can view fully animated sequences that depict acts of violence: a woman pushed in front of an oncoming train; a character stabbed in the stomach; civilians shot and killed by gunfire. Blood stains are depicted on characters' bodies and clothing; a handful of sequences depict large pools of blood underneath corpses. The game contains some sexual material in the dialogue and in the central character's inner monologue (e.g., “You can rape her, and then undo it with the Time Leap Machine”; “I'm gonna dye that p*ssy black before the duel even starts"; “...why not taste the same girl's virginity over and over again?”). The words “f***” and “sh**” appear in the game."</p><p>
</p><p>As you see, every objectionable bit of content is listed out of context! Now that I know Okabe was going through such torment, I can forgive him his predatory thoughts. Man, I thought the anime version of Okabe went through enough Hell! At least, from reading here, & my prior research on Wikipedia & such, I know now the visual novels are a separate universe from the anime, which frees me up in writing fanfic from feeling worried that I'm writing inconsistently with the continuity of the VNs. I am indeed doing that, but I can just say in my author's notes that it's based solely on the anime. (Don't worry, I'm not asking you to read my fanfic, and it'll probably be months, maybe even over a year, before it's finished & I'm confident enough to post it anyway.)</p>

<p>You can always go to fanfiction.net & follow me as an author--that should automatically notify you via e-mail when I update. I haven't updated in years! I have Cowboy Bebop fanfic on there, too, as well as some non-anime inspired quasi-fanfic (I explain this term in my profile) on fanfiction's sister site, fictionpress.com. I can't let my "real life" friends read my stories (especially my church friends or my parents)--they'd be shocked at the content! I recently gave an elderly gym friend the link, & I've regretted what she might think of me upon reading the stories. She hasn't even brought the subject up since then, so I dunno what she's thinking. The MA rating's mostly for profanity, and sexual content, usually between married couples, so I don't feel all that guilty about it. I had Faye and Jet have pre-marital sex in one of my Bebop fics, but I didn't go into explicit detail, & I just think it's something they would do. My S;G is part Kurisu/Okabe romance, and part angst, with some humorous sub-adventures inbetween. It takes place over decades, and not every sub-story has to do with time travel or is even an adventure. I relate to Okabe, especially in the Zero anime, where he goes through long term depression. I myself have gone through this & am still being treated for it, mostly for maintenance, though I occasionally have what I call a "flare up". So I've used this story as catharsis to write about my mental health problems, throwing virtually everything I've ever suffered from at Okabe--& he has some unique problems of his own, such as trauma from time travel. My pen pal, Lucky Ladybug, when I tell her what I've come up with next, often exclaims, "Poor Okarin!" (I've been calling him Okabe here, but I usually call him Okarin, as it's the name I first latched on to, & what his closest friends call him.) </p><p>
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<p>Thank you so much! I finally got an answer! It came via e-mail as well, so I intend to save the e-mail for future reference if needed. I'm a big fan of the anime version & am even working on a fanfic. It's reached over 100 pages, but unlike other authors, I started writing stories before the advent of the internet, and don't post as I create, but jump back & forth on scenes as my muse hits me, and make a final draft & reread it several times before even daring to post, not to mention if it's a fanfic, I'll make sure I've seen the source several times. So it may be ages before this one ever sees the light of day. I continually worry about fans criticizing it for not being consistent with the VNs, but I see them as a separate universe, as most sources that get stories based on them are, such as Hans Christen Andersen's "The Little Mermaid" vs. Disney's "The Little Mermaid". One is based on the other, but what is canon in one can't be considered canon in the other. That's how I intend to write my fic, based on the anime only, but I'm still intimidated by the unknown worlds of the VNs. I did something similar with my Trigun fanfic (which is on fanfiction.net, same pen name as I use here). I based it solely on the anime, English dub version, ignoring revelations & plot points in the manga, such as I made Wolfwood 27 years old, not a teen, and kept him as a Christian priest, rather than a priest for some fictional cult Yasuhiro Nightow made up. If I ever do post my S;G fanfic, I intend to let any potential readers know that it's based the anime, dub version, and not the VNs. (I watch anime both subbed and dubbed, but it's easier to capture speech patterns with a dub than hearing dialogue in Japanese and reading it in English). </p><p>iIronically, my fanfics, including the planned S;G one, I've rated MA. I feel a bit like a hypocrite. But I tend to keep my fictional heroes virtuous. I'm pretty nonjudgmental with real people, but can be so demanding with fictional heroes. Okabe--the anime version--is one of my faves, so when I first read those quotes on the ESRB site, I felt so disturbed & disillusioned that I lay awake for several hours that night, unable to relax my mind and dream up scenes for my fanfic or think about any other fandoms for that matter. Then I began to reconsider that I didn't get those quotes within context, & that might make a lot of difference. I mean, I myself am guilty of sexual thoughts of a less than pure nature, but those quotes seemed predatory in nature, and so unlike the Okabe I had come tto know in the anime franchise. At least my take on him! I realize different viewers of any show or movie have different interpretations of what characters are capable of. </p>

<p>(sound of crickets chirping). Gee, all of Fandom seems to be a ghost town. No one responds to anyone here. I'd delete my Fandom account, but none of the staff has ever responded to my messages asking me how to delete said account. I tend to wonder--do these people know me from somewhere else, & have a grudge against me for something I did elsewhere? Enough to make a gal paranoid. </p>