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Author: Lee RatnerLee Ratner Date: Sep 15, 2008 03:33
On Sep 14, 11:13Â am, David Johnston block.net> wrote:> On Sun, 14 Sep 2008 01:27:06 -0700, Antonio E. Gonzalez
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> aol.com> wrote:>>>is a beardless, average size Japanese high school boy named Narugami
>>>who wields a boken rather than a hammer. I really like Mythical
>>>Detective Loki and I like Narugami but I was always slightly disturbed
>>>of the changes made to Thor to make him culturally acceptable.
>>>Narugami is a nice character but I really can't see him as an
>>>incarnation of Thor.
>
>> Â Ummm, you've really never seen the long-lived Marvel Comics version
>>of Thor?
>
> Yeah but at least he had a hammer. Â
He was also big and burly and like Sea Wasp said earlier, was
passible as a fictional Viking and made more sense as an incarnation
of Thor.
Depicting Thor is a beardless, average size Japanese high
school student was not necessarily a bad thing. I really doubt that
the Japanese audience, even a shounen one, would go for a bearded
major character. What I do find unacceptable was replacing Thor's
hammer with a boken. I really want to know why that decision was made.
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