> On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 19:34:49 -0400, "sanjian" vt.edu> wrote:
>

>> David Johnston wrote:

>>> On Mon, 15 Sep 2008 03:33:08 -0700 (PDT), Lee Ratner
>>> gmail.com> wrote:

>>
>>

>>>> 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.

>>>
>>> For the same reason they chose to turn Fenris into a cute little
>>> puppy. Even in Japan people would expect Thor to use a hammer.
>>> Humour comes from defying people's expectations.

>>
>> Which makes him one of the few anime characters not to use a hammer.

>
> No, the comedy hammer is the province of women.