Cut that out, Imuri.
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snarpImuri! I'm only on, like, your first chapter! And you are apparently mainly about teenagers at an evil boarding school, which is not actually a complicated premise! Do not make me go to your glossary to figure out what's going on! And you probably don't need those huge expository lumps every couple pages!
...but I'll probably keep reading you because you are very pretty.
There's a planet in here called "Rune" [ルーン], which is apparently an acronym for mukou no hoshi [向こうの星], "the planet over there." My thoughts about this idea:
1) I don't think that this makes naming planets "Rune" any more respectable of a practice. What's your other planet's name, Blaze? This manga is an 80's-to-early 90's American sci-fi novel displaced in time and space.*
2) The furigana says that Rune's an acronym for mukou no hoshi, so it is, okay? These are far-future space teenagers, they are not actually speaking Japanese; the furigana is allowed to do this sort of thing. (Though I think we need to keep Okano Reiko away from furigana entirely, because she is badly behaved.) English needs to institute furigana, to make it less work for me to insert made-up words in stuff I write.
3) Is there is a specific term for made-up-language-furigana-ized-acronyms? I need to know if there is, because otherwise I will invent the word "kanjacronym," and I really shouldn't be doing that.
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* Closely Related: Somebody wrote a licensed Star Trek: TNG novel where Commander Riker went undercover as a space pirate named "Stryker," to mess with an actual space pirate whose name was "Blaze." The title is Blaze of Glory, as I think should be obvious. I think Blaze nobly sacrificed himself for something? I don't actually remember, but it seems like a pretty safe guess.
What I do remember is that - unless I'm confusing this with another bad Star Trek book, which is possible - there was a scene where Riker tried on his new space pirate wardrobe, which included tight leather pants. Even at the age of ten, I found this idea unacceptable.
With the pants business in mind, I'd originally googled the book convinced that it was the one that Laurell K. Hamilton wrote, but no, that was Nightshade, which I remember as being bad in a less spectacular way. Though maybe I just didn't recognize the madness when I saw it, having been ten at the time and all.
...that said - why did they choose to re-issue this? There's creepy new cover art with Worf hovering threateningly over Troi. I assume that means they're aiming it directly at LKH fans. I wonder if it's working?
...but I'll probably keep reading you because you are very pretty.
There's a planet in here called "Rune" [ルーン], which is apparently an acronym for mukou no hoshi [向こうの星], "the planet over there." My thoughts about this idea:
1) I don't think that this makes naming planets "Rune" any more respectable of a practice. What's your other planet's name, Blaze? This manga is an 80's-to-early 90's American sci-fi novel displaced in time and space.*
2) The furigana says that Rune's an acronym for mukou no hoshi, so it is, okay? These are far-future space teenagers, they are not actually speaking Japanese; the furigana is allowed to do this sort of thing. (Though I think we need to keep Okano Reiko away from furigana entirely, because she is badly behaved.) English needs to institute furigana, to make it less work for me to insert made-up words in stuff I write.
3) Is there is a specific term for made-up-language-furigana-ized-acronyms? I need to know if there is, because otherwise I will invent the word "kanjacronym," and I really shouldn't be doing that.
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* Closely Related: Somebody wrote a licensed Star Trek: TNG novel where Commander Riker went undercover as a space pirate named "Stryker," to mess with an actual space pirate whose name was "Blaze." The title is Blaze of Glory, as I think should be obvious. I think Blaze nobly sacrificed himself for something? I don't actually remember, but it seems like a pretty safe guess.
What I do remember is that - unless I'm confusing this with another bad Star Trek book, which is possible - there was a scene where Riker tried on his new space pirate wardrobe, which included tight leather pants. Even at the age of ten, I found this idea unacceptable.
With the pants business in mind, I'd originally googled the book convinced that it was the one that Laurell K. Hamilton wrote, but no, that was Nightshade, which I remember as being bad in a less spectacular way. Though maybe I just didn't recognize the madness when I saw it, having been ten at the time and all.
...that said - why did they choose to re-issue this? There's creepy new cover art with Worf hovering threateningly over Troi. I assume that means they're aiming it directly at LKH fans. I wonder if it's working?
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Date: 2010-04-24 04:06 pm (UTC)I'm going through things in my mind she could be singing, and besides that I think of "Accidentally in Love" by Counting Crows. (?)
Additionally: the art is gorgeous. I'd also keep reading it anyway.
All of my crushes before age 11 were on Star Trek characters (Spock, Riker, Data, etc). Despite that I think the leather pants would have been over my head. I've never been able to see leather pants as anything other than funny.
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Date: 2010-04-25 08:44 am (UTC)I always wanted to hit Riker for some reason; it probably has to do with the way he ends up acting in the licensed novels like that one. The creepier male writers always ended up writing stuff about him creepily picking up alien girls.
I also thought Whoopie Goldberg's character Guinan was secretly in charge of the ship, and I think I actually had a notebook with some fanfic assuming this in grade school. Again, this might be an idea I picked up from the licensed novels, where she shows up a lot more regularly than she did in the show.
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Date: 2010-04-25 01:51 pm (UTC)Oh, ST:TNG novels, why?
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Date: 2010-04-26 03:09 am (UTC)(I still really like Uhura's Song, by Janet Kagan, though that's Original Series. I used to think Q-In-Law by Peter David was great - Lwaxana Troi and Q start dating and he gives her powers, which is obviously the best premise ever - but I'm a little afraid to re-read it now.)
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Date: 2010-04-26 05:44 pm (UTC)