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dizzywulf
Joined: 16 Aug 2005
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Location: Machida, Japan
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 Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 11:04 pm |
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11 episodes for The Tale of Genji...really? I guess I can understand because they don't want to make it too boring with all the material. It still seems a little on the short side.
They better keep the old school giant-sparkly-eyed character designs. |
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ladholyman
Joined: 12 Feb 2004
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| Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 1:56 am |
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| Holy wow, how are they going to condense 13 volumes into 11 episodes? The original novel was over 1,000 pages too. |
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nargun
Joined: 29 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 6:10 am |
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| ladholyman wrote: | | Holy wow, how are they going to condense 13 volumes into 11 episodes? The original novel was over 1,000 pages too. |
It's pretty modular; there's a lot you could take out. Like, say, the entire last third of the story [basically a sequel with new characters], and most of the seduction-of-the-week stuff from the first half. The big problem is the Akashi empress, who is concieved, is born and grows to adulthood in the course of the novel. It's a lot easier to do that in a novel than in motion pictures; you could patch over that with a timeskip, but you'd have to put it in an awkward point in the narrative.
It's doable. Me, I'd rather buy a Taylor translation to go with my Waley; haven't seen the manga, I'm told it takes some significant liberties with the narrative. |
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grooven
Joined: 16 Aug 2006
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| Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 11:19 am |
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| I my god...you can't be serious....that book is so lame >.< who the hell wants to see an anime version? |
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Onsokumaru
Joined: 26 Jul 2008
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Location: New York
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| Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 2:59 pm |
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| Where is my Fairy Tail anime!? |
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scortia
Joined: 27 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 4:31 pm |
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I guess none of you have seen the Tale of Genji anime movie. I can't compare with the novel, because Genji is written in a genre I don't care for, but it was amusing in that it was like a guy and his harem with no characterization. Compare to that, 11 episodes is a lot.  |
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nargun
Joined: 29 Mar 2006
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| Posted: Fri Aug 29, 2008 11:30 pm |
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| scortia wrote: | | I guess none of you have seen the Tale of Genji anime movie. I can't compare with the novel, because Genji is written in a genre I don't care for, but it was amusing in that it was like a guy and his harem with no characterization. Compare to that, 11 episodes is a lot. |
Ah, Genji, world's first eroge adaption. |
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