PoT: Challenge: Need

[branchandroot]

Fic post from my archive.

Need

Fuji visits Rikkai, hoping Yukimura can explicate a few things for him. Drama, I-3

"Fuji," Seiichi sighed, running a hand through his hair. Still, he had been trying to wake Fuji up for years, now. Something he suspected Fuji had recalled, too.

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aha, now you're talking shonen manga!

[issen4.livejournal.com]

My terror aside, though, I've got to say that it's about darn time that *some*one talked some sense into Fuji's head. What's the point of playing if you aren't going to give it everything you have? That's the entire point of PoT, or one of them at least

I'd just like to add that *this* is what makes shonen sports manga so popular. On paper, it sounds so cliched, but that's exactly what the Japanese (and most of us) think the spirit of true sportsmanship should be, and they (sort of) frown on geniuses that don't want to give their all. Which is why we adore the players even when they lose, because you can see that they go all out and give it everything they've got.

Re: aha, now you're talking shonen manga!

[branchandroot]

Ex-actly! Which is why I really think Konomi must be planning to rehabilitate Fuji, too. I mean, he's done it for everyone else.

That's one of the things that fascinates me about PoT--the prevalence of geniuses and prodigies, and all the many and varied ways they find to cope with their talent inside their culture.