Re: other Tanaka works
Michael Renjie Tom (renjie@uclink2.berkeley.edu)
Thu, 7 Nov 1996 10:19:52 -0800 (PST)
Certainly hope that good Tanaka has taken precautions to protect himself
after stepping on so many zealous toes. After all... would be tragic if
he were to end up like Yang.
mike
On Wed, 6 Nov 1996, Yang Wenli wrote:
>
> >
> >Sohryuden, however, was absolute crap from the beginning. I must admit
> >I haven't seen this whole series either (I gave up after the third part),
> >but the whole premise of a family of brothers descended from dragons didn't
> >seem like Tanaka's usual intelligence. The production values and character
> >designs were so weak it only made the stories that much worse. Has anyone
> >found something of merit in these?
> >
>
> Nope, IMHO, Sohryuden is the 2nd best Tanaka's work. I have to admit that
> the anime is not well organized, and have a lot of devaiations from the novels.
> In the novels, Tanaka blamed governaments around the world in a harshly
> manner, including China, US, and esp. Japan. In the arthour's words of each
> volume, Tanaka always said that he was threatened by some 'patriot' and
> Sohryuden may be banned by Japanese government. Actually, as most of
> netters in the mailing list have only watched the anime, which was highly
> 'purified' and turned into a more 'non-sense' style.
>
> Besides, in the later volumes, Tanaka refered to many Chinese ancient stories
> which are very difficult to express his views to Westerners through anime.
>
> Regards,
> Yang
>
>
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