Re: "A fake form of old-fashioned Japanese speech supposed to represent the old style of the language is used."
- From: trap_for_junk_mail@xxxxxxxxx (Louise Bremner)
- Date: Sat, 15 Jul 2006 23:24:00 GMT
Bart Mathias <mathias@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
# In a sword fight, absurdly, when a large number of villains attacks
the main character, they never act simulaneously. Instead, the villains
each politely wait their turn to be dispatched, often standing
motionless holding their sword within easy striking distance of the main
character until their turn to be easily defeated arrives.
The villains know that if they tried a simultaneous attack, the main
character would duck and let them chop each other up over his head. I
would think that was obvious.
I like the way the villains roll neatly out of the way when "killed", so
as not to trip the participants who are still upright. The bit-player
who would do such a dramatic grimace at the camera everytime he was
"killed" has now retired, I believe.
Being a Go-player myself, I also note the convention that the playing of
Go is used as an indicator that the character lives in a different world
from commoners--villains play Go, whereas commoners (and samurai
masquerading as commoners) play shogi, but Go is also played by
high-ranking samurai whom you could never imagine lowering themselves to
dress as commoners and mingle with the masses, such as Oooka Echizen.
I got confused by one character who was clearly a commoner but played
Go, but it turned out he'd been born into an elite samurai family but
had run away.
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