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fighterholic



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PostPosted: Sun Mar 26, 2006 11:05 pm Reply with quote
Does anyone notice a trend where in certain adventure animes, the main character will set off to find or follow in ones footsteps? For example Gon in Hunter x Hunter sets off to find his father and become a hunter like him, Luffy in One Piece sets to become a pirate like Shanks, who saved his life when he was younger.
Now I'm not saying ALL of them are like this, but certain ones are.
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joel_s95387



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PostPosted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 12:49 am Reply with quote
This form of story-telling has been around for a really long time now. Some of the times, not only do they follow someones foot steps, but end up surpassing them and beating them in a one on one duel.
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Zalis116
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PostPosted: Mon Mar 27, 2006 1:08 am Reply with quote
Luke Skywalker from Star Wars, Episode IV wrote:
I wanna learn the ways of the Force and become a Jedi like my father.
Yeah, it's a classic device in epic storytelling that goes way, way back, and crosses language and geographical barriers. Heck, even a series as cute/innocent as Snow Fairy Sugar has this device, where spoiler[Sugar wants to become a Snow Fairy like her mother, while Salt decides not to follow in his father's footsteps and elects to become a Cloud Fairy rather than a Sun Fairy.]

And by the way, on the "possible spoilers" warning in the subject--it doesn't say what the thread spoils, so it doesn't really serve any good to put it there...it would be better to just have the subject be "Following in one's* footsteps" and then put, "like in One Piece, spoiler[this and that and that other stuff happen]" , with spoiler tags. Now, if the thread title was "The end of Elfen Lied (spoiler warning)," then it would be a good idea to put the warning in the thread title.

(Not BSM, I swear, just suggestions)
* "one's" is possessive, so I added the apostrophe
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