hi On Fri, 8 Nov 1996, Ted Ekering wrote: > On Thu, 7 Nov 1996, Yin Lai wrote: > It's just a single novel, then? I'd love to know about the other stories yes , as far as i know anyways, it's only one bk > in the book, and how the first story differs from the anime. there are only 5 shorties in them:) the anime just made the first story. nothing much differs in the anime except that they cut a lot of backgrd stuff , ie the politics, a bit of the history, like some of the backgrd on the charas, eg charles etc. /shrug, they had to squash quite a bit of history and warfare into a abt 1 hr anime slot so.... it's the same as for lgh the tv anime (i have only seen until epi 20+ i think), the beginning of the novels detailed the how and why rise of the goldenbaum empire and how the federation came to being (the dissendents and their somewhat spectacular escape) but i dont think the anime had all of this in the beginning of the anime.....O.O > > the 2 main charas REALLY remind u of some of the charas fr LGH...:) > > Tanaka seems to have a fairly limited range of protagonists to his > stories, doesn't he? Oh well, I s'pose shojo will never entirely be err.......i suppose so, he seems to draw a lot fr chinese lit too :)...i remember those conversations back home when we were all reading LGH the novels when it first came out in chinese.....many a debates were held :) and there were also (of course) the inevitable comparisons btwn lgh/arslan and the classic 'romance of the 3 kingdoms' :).....esp for arslan...geez that one was kinda obvious who was who btwn san1kuo2/romance and arslan.... > CLAMP's domain, as long as he keeps writing bishonen characters for other err...clamp sensei tachi has V interesting ideas abt main charas and what drives them...take RGV for eg.....:) >manga artists and animators to illustrate... hehe......:) > > but the premise of the entire thing is kinda ok, and kinda fun too since > > they are not allowed to use anything that is above 500m/ft(?) coz of the > > olympus sys > > It's a gimmick, but a good one. B) > Ted Ekering > Secretary, JAC Victoria > ws635@freenet.victoria.bc.ca > Make love, not dubs. but it's kinda unusual :) for me that is :)...havent been reading enough miltary SF these days.....in any language...sigh... ramblings lai .....executing the 'get the hell outta here' manueuver.....