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Tales of the Abyss and Bleach revelations
Tales of:
Okay, now I'm intrigued. The new Tales of the Abyss manga is going to be essentially Jade's life, and it may be written by (or at least with approval from) "Takumi Miyajima, the main writer of [the] game and others in the "Tales of" franchise."
Now, I really had a problem with the Peony sidestory manga. I had a problem with it because it made Peony look like a dick and actively contradicted some things in canon, plus in the end it didn't seem like the same Peony/Nephry relationship I understood to be canon. The same applied to some of the other sidestory manga, even the ones I liked. (Anise and Asch's were neat.)
But if this is written by the game's writer -- then I'm holding my breath a little. This is the man who made me love Jade, and Peony, and Dist in the first place, and I would be really happy to see him writing them in their childhood in Keterburg, a time period that's so very deeply charged and puts the entire game into motion, and afterwards, during the big blank of time when Jade obsessed over replicas, and how Peony talked him out of his crazy.
So, a tentative "do want".
Bleach:
Holy shit the new chapter of Bleach. (Er, warning, spoilers for the new chapter ahead) It gives Ichigo/Orihime almost too much power. Even this wild, even this barely-in-control, even this animalistic, he's driven to protect her. Would he have done it for another friend? Maybe. But the fact that he fucking stabs Ishida this chapter reeeeally makes me doubt it. In hazymonstervision, to cop a term, he only recognizes Orihime. Ishida doesn't make a dent in his awareness, but he still knows her and wants to protect her. If Ishida had been begging him to get back up, would he have stabbed Orihime? I can't help thinking no.
And it's a train wreck. Ichigo has already stabbed Ishida, god forbid the others should come up now and get skewered with them. Orihime is already deeply horrified by what her wanting Ichigo to protect her has done. This Love Will Kill Our Friends.
Aaaand I love it. ♥
Stiiiiill crossing my fingers for Orihime's revelations in his chapter to mean she's going to take real action now, including fixing Ishida (she can do it, she fixed those Arrancar girls when they were pretty damn dead) and make Ichigo snap out of it and maybe driving the plot back to the Hougyoku.
Okay, now I'm intrigued. The new Tales of the Abyss manga is going to be essentially Jade's life, and it may be written by (or at least with approval from) "Takumi Miyajima, the main writer of [the] game and others in the "Tales of" franchise."
Now, I really had a problem with the Peony sidestory manga. I had a problem with it because it made Peony look like a dick and actively contradicted some things in canon, plus in the end it didn't seem like the same Peony/Nephry relationship I understood to be canon. The same applied to some of the other sidestory manga, even the ones I liked. (Anise and Asch's were neat.)
But if this is written by the game's writer -- then I'm holding my breath a little. This is the man who made me love Jade, and Peony, and Dist in the first place, and I would be really happy to see him writing them in their childhood in Keterburg, a time period that's so very deeply charged and puts the entire game into motion, and afterwards, during the big blank of time when Jade obsessed over replicas, and how Peony talked him out of his crazy.
So, a tentative "do want".
Bleach:
Holy shit the new chapter of Bleach. (Er, warning, spoilers for the new chapter ahead) It gives Ichigo/Orihime almost too much power. Even this wild, even this barely-in-control, even this animalistic, he's driven to protect her. Would he have done it for another friend? Maybe. But the fact that he fucking stabs Ishida this chapter reeeeally makes me doubt it. In hazymonstervision, to cop a term, he only recognizes Orihime. Ishida doesn't make a dent in his awareness, but he still knows her and wants to protect her. If Ishida had been begging him to get back up, would he have stabbed Orihime? I can't help thinking no.
And it's a train wreck. Ichigo has already stabbed Ishida, god forbid the others should come up now and get skewered with them. Orihime is already deeply horrified by what her wanting Ichigo to protect her has done. This Love Will Kill Our Friends.
Aaaand I love it. ♥
Stiiiiill crossing my fingers for Orihime's revelations in his chapter to mean she's going to take real action now, including fixing Ishida (she can do it, she fixed those Arrancar girls when they were pretty damn dead) and make Ichigo snap out of it and maybe driving the plot back to the Hougyoku.