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Group: rec.arts.animation · Group Profile
Author: Rob Kelk
Date: Sep 15, 2008 14:07

On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 13:53:30 -0400, "S.t.A.n.L.e.E"
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>Mon, 15 Sep 2008 10:05am-0700, Lee Ratner gmail.com>:
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>> On Sep 15, 10:02=A0am, Invid Fan loclanet.com> wrote:
>>> In article
>>> <6d92828a-2511-4a0b-94a2-6797c3f9f...@m44g2000hsc.googlegroups.com>,
>>>
>>> Lee Ratner gmail.com> wrote:
>>>> On Sep 14, 9:44=A0pm, Captain Nerd nerdwatch.com> wrote:
>>>>> In article registered.motzarella.org>,
>>>>> =A0"Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)" sgeinc.invalid.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>>> =A0 =A0And looks very Nordic. Yes, he's not the image that the NORSE had of
>>>>>> Thor (and in fact they've acknowledged that several times in the
>>>>>> comics), but at least he makes sense as an image of Thor.
>>>
>>>>> =A0 =A0Could be worse, look what they did to King Arthur in that one
>>>>> =A0 =A0anime...
>>>
>>>> =A0 =A0 =A0 If you are talking about Fate/Stay Night, that is really bad.
>>>> Not only was the change only made for fan-service purposes, it was
>>>> justified with the worse faux-feminism.
>>>
>>> Given I saw Fate/Stay Night and don't remember an Arthur connection, it
>>> must really be bad :)
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>> Saber the main character is really King Arthur. In the Fate/Stay
>> Night universe, King Arthur was a young woman who had to pretend to be
>> a man to lead her sexist subjects. This make the decision seem
>> feminist. The real reason was of couse because they needed a lead
>> woman for the lead man to get together with and for some reason they
>> decided not to use one of the myriad of heroines from Western
>> mythology. A really stupid choice IMO.
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>My first guess was Joan of Arc myself.

They couldn't get Jeanne d'Arc - she's too busy "stealing"
demonically-possessed artwork.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/anime.php?id=362



(Followups set to rec.arts.anime.misc only; this has drifted off-topic
for the other two groups.)

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Rob Kelk <http://robkelk.ottawa-anime.org/> e-mail: s/deadspam/gmail/
"I'm *not* a kid! Nyyyeaaah!" - Skuld (in "Oh My Goddess!" OAV #3)
"When I became a man, I put away childish things, including the fear
of childishness and the desire to be very grown-up." - C.S. Lewis
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