PoT: Mirror Writing: Long Exposure - One

[branchandroot]

Fic post from my archive.

Long Exposure: One

Upon meeting again in the hospital, after Seigaku plays Rikkai, Tachibana decides Fuji could use a friend outside of tennis. Drama With Romance, I-3

He'd been told before, most notably by his little sister, that he worried too much. But he couldn't shake off a feeling of responsibility for this injury.

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[branchandroot]

*thinks* I remember following a link from [Unknown site tag]'s journal to a scan of part of the match in Chinese. If you have an irc client, I think #FET is still up on mircx.com, and they've done scanlations from 151 (I think) forward. The manga is up to 220 some issues, I think, and just finished the Fuji-Kirihara match.

Of course, now that it's licsensed, and viz intends to torture us all with an every-other-month schedule, it's going to take *forever* for the translated volumes to catch up. *glares at viz sadists*

To play seriously... well, the thing is, it's proverbial, before Kirihara, that Fuji has never played seriously. Never played full out. He's only ever played hard enough to win, except against Tezuka, and no one knows what his true capacity is. Which, it seems, really kind of pisses Tezuka off. He wants his team to be the very best they can be, and here's his annoyingly quirky, genius, singles two player toying with the game. In the manga, the Kirihara match is where Fuji finally buckles down and plays at full strength for the first time. Shocks the daylights out of everyone, including himself.

[lady-readwolf.livejournal.com]

Yes... I can imagine how that *would* shock everyone, including himself... And... dare I ask, what the outcome was--I mean, I'm sure he *won*, but... emotionally...?

Did he rip Kirihara to shreds, or did Kirihara survive with ego/spirit intake? Was Fuji himself hurt? devistated? shocked? horrified? Oh, damn... hmm... I wonder if I can't just sneak into the book store this weekend and find out... {mews at prospect of just hopping the train into Shibuya and visiting Mandarake's or Kikukinuya's...}

[branchandroot]

*wails* I don't know! Because the translations are only available on irc these days, and irc hates macs, and I keep getting bounced off the networks, and, and, and... *does the chewing handkerchief with big, wobbly eyes maneuver*

If you do go pick up the latest volume, tell me?

[lady-readwolf.livejournal.com]

{blinks} but I can't *read* Japanese.... {blinksblinks} Which volume is it, again? (whimpers at thought of how many there are because she knows, before the ned of the year, she'll have them all)

[branchandroot]

Um. Issue 222 is most recent, I think. Volumes are into the mid twenties.

[lady-readwolf.livejournal.com]

and that's $3-5 a volume.... >.<