On Sep 15, 5:36Â pm, David Johnston
block.net> wrote:> On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 03:34:37 -0700 (PDT), Lee Ratner
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gmail.com> wrote:>>On Sep 14, 9:44Â pm, Captain Nerd
nerdwatch.com> wrote:>>> In article
registered.motzarella.org>,
>>> Â "Sea Wasp (Ryk E. Spoor)" sgeinc.invalid.com> wrote:>
>>>> David Johnston wrote:
>>>>> On Sun, 14 Sep 2008 01:27:06 -0700, Antonio E. Gonzalez
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>>>>>>> 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?
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>>>>> Yeah but at least he had a hammer. Â
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>>>> Â Â And 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.
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>>> Â Â Could be worse, look what they did to King Arthur in that one
>>> Â Â anime...
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>>> Â Â Cap.
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>> Â Â Â 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.
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> They could have made that character Joan of Arc. Â The reason they
> didn't was not for fan service but to throw in a twist. Â
No, I disagree. The reason they made Sabre, King Arthur rather
than Joan of Arc was to stimulate certain male fantasies, mainly of
the ice queen variety. A common fantasy for men is to encounter a
beautiful woman who for one reason or another lost touch with her
womanly loving nature and be the person who rekindles that woman's
feminine, loving qualities. This would not really work for Joan of Arc
because Joan was always acknowledged as a woman. To have Saber pretend
to be a man and suppress everything feminine about her takes the
fantasy to the max.
