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branchandroot) wrote2006-03-22 12:29 pm
branchandroot) wrote2006-03-22 12:29 pm
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Having given the matter sober and measured consideration, I have come to the following conclusion.
Konomi, you suck.
In the space of two pages you have totally slaughtered all the characterization you have previously built up.
For one, Ryouma is a brat, and has the Mouth that ate Manhattan, but he is not, or has not been to date, the kind of evil little fucker that would perpetrate indignities on an unconscious opponent.
For another, as Michelle points out, NO ONE STOPPED HIM. Not even Tezuka.
And that says some pretty nasty things about Tezuka himself, things that I had not thought to be true. That Tezuka does not, in fact, care for good gamesmanship and respect for the game and the opponents nearly as much as he makes out.
Getting back to Hal's observation about this not really being a typical sports-story, this is the kind of thing that the VILLAIN-TEAM does.
If I accept what those couple pages say about characters I love, I'm just going to have to cry. And I'd really rather not.
So Konomi? You suck. Get your shit back together, man.
Konomi, you suck.
In the space of two pages you have totally slaughtered all the characterization you have previously built up.
For one, Ryouma is a brat, and has the Mouth that ate Manhattan, but he is not, or has not been to date, the kind of evil little fucker that would perpetrate indignities on an unconscious opponent.
For another, as Michelle points out, NO ONE STOPPED HIM. Not even Tezuka.
And that says some pretty nasty things about Tezuka himself, things that I had not thought to be true. That Tezuka does not, in fact, care for good gamesmanship and respect for the game and the opponents nearly as much as he makes out.
Getting back to Hal's observation about this not really being a typical sports-story, this is the kind of thing that the VILLAIN-TEAM does.
If I accept what those couple pages say about characters I love, I'm just going to have to cry. And I'd really rather not.
So Konomi? You suck. Get your shit back together, man.
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If Konomi recants and the first frame of the next issue shows Atobe using the razor himself, I will be much better pleased. Because, yeah, the end of the match was obvious from the start, but Ryouma doing something like this just doesn't match with the overall arc of the story. Or even Ryouma's own thoughts on what he learned from his senpai a few pages back! *frowns at Konomi*