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angemediaNo, it's not the metal angels, but it's pretty interesting on its own.
OK, I think we've all seen this image:
(Image ganked from neo-romance.net; my scanner finally had the good grace to brick itself completely.)
Have you ever wondered what's going on in it, though? It looks like at first glance like the Guardians are taking a desert holiday. What's with Sturgis angel Oscar, though? And a holiday wouldn't explain this:
Clavis. Smiling. While standing next to Julious.
It's more unusual than you'd expect - sort of a Fushigi no Koku no Randy and Marcel, except riffing on RPGs instead of Alice in Wonderland. It eventually, though, takes a left turn into the unexpected.
You can download the CD here. A synopsis with partial translations along the way is available here. Please let me know if this translation/synopsis format works for you folks; if so, I'll use it to cover Gaiden 1:Metal Angels with Assault Weaponry A Scale of Infinite Notes. Any suggestions on how to improve matters are welcome.
Note: if you can understand Japanese well enough to follow a drama CD, then please take a listen instead of reading my synopsis to find out what's going on; it's a quickly-paced drama CD, and part of the fun is discovering where the story is headed.
On other business: you'll forgive me if I use this opportunity to ask the comm some advice on a few tangentally-related, actually-OT matters:
1) I just got a PSP. The glass screen collects dust horribly, even when it's tucked away safely in its box in a drawer. I'm scared that, eventually, some of those specks are going to work their way beneath the screen through the seam between the screen and the casing and muck up my view of the game permanently. Is there any way to prevent this? (Screen protectors, in my experience with a DS, don't prevent dust from entering those seams, and since I'm keeping the PSP in its box, I doubt a carrying case would be of any further help.)
2) I need to touch up an old website, and I'd like to get my HTML out of the early '00's. I know the basics of frames etc., but I'd like expand my knowledge beyond that to create an actually good-looking website by modern standards. Would anyone be able to recommend a site that has good upper-level HTML tutorials (and, while I'm at it, perhaps one for some basic Photoshop)?
3) Coincidentally, I just learned yesterday that my webhosting service is pulling the plug in about a month. Recommendations for a replacement host? (I don't have videos or anything bandwidth-gobbing on my sites; just text files and some images.)
Thanks again.
OK, I think we've all seen this image:
(Image ganked from neo-romance.net; my scanner finally had the good grace to brick itself completely.)
Have you ever wondered what's going on in it, though? It looks like at first glance like the Guardians are taking a desert holiday. What's with Sturgis angel Oscar, though? And a holiday wouldn't explain this:
Clavis. Smiling. While standing next to Julious.
It's more unusual than you'd expect - sort of a Fushigi no Koku no Randy and Marcel, except riffing on RPGs instead of Alice in Wonderland. It eventually, though, takes a left turn into the unexpected.
You can download the CD here. A synopsis with partial translations along the way is available here. Please let me know if this translation/synopsis format works for you folks; if so, I'll use it to cover Gaiden 1:
Note: if you can understand Japanese well enough to follow a drama CD, then please take a listen instead of reading my synopsis to find out what's going on; it's a quickly-paced drama CD, and part of the fun is discovering where the story is headed.
On other business: you'll forgive me if I use this opportunity to ask the comm some advice on a few tangentally-related, actually-OT matters:
1) I just got a PSP. The glass screen collects dust horribly, even when it's tucked away safely in its box in a drawer. I'm scared that, eventually, some of those specks are going to work their way beneath the screen through the seam between the screen and the casing and muck up my view of the game permanently. Is there any way to prevent this? (Screen protectors, in my experience with a DS, don't prevent dust from entering those seams, and since I'm keeping the PSP in its box, I doubt a carrying case would be of any further help.)
2) I need to touch up an old website, and I'd like to get my HTML out of the early '00's. I know the basics of frames etc., but I'd like expand my knowledge beyond that to create an actually good-looking website by modern standards. Would anyone be able to recommend a site that has good upper-level HTML tutorials (and, while I'm at it, perhaps one for some basic Photoshop)?
3) Coincidentally, I just learned yesterday that my webhosting service is pulling the plug in about a month. Recommendations for a replacement host? (I don't have videos or anything bandwidth-gobbing on my sites; just text files and some images.)
Thanks again.
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Date: 2010-02-13 05:25 pm (UTC)Yes, revise all you wish. I am a bit curious about the "final scene" between Randy and Clavis myself (if that indeed is one of the parts you're targeting).
I believe Clavis's burning of smoke actually created the mist instead of purifying it.
Well, according to
SailorLumiale :"that you, despite the deep fear you held in your heart, were wielding a great power to bind this world together with the mist."
This looks like support for your theory. Additionally, the burning of anything
adds to air pollutionso it could be that Clavis created thishaze"mist" unconsciously in the atmosphere.I wonder if this is connected to the #255 fallout.
This is an interesting idea. Ingenious, really. We can attempt to test this theory. If Luva's title alludes to a certain event or significance in reality, then the other guardians' titles should hold up as well~
The Thief (Luva)
So called due to his unquenchable thirst for knowledge
and playing a major hand in the #255 fallout which stole away Clavis' will to exist, among other thingsHe Who Is Fulfilled (Olivie)
Olivie is probably the most contented guardian in the sanctuary (or at least has the appearance of one). As you've already noted, "Clavis seems to envy or admire Olivie's ability simply to be happy."
The Guide (Julious)
Clavis might not have particularly minded smiling with Julious... when they were kids, that is. I believe they were quite close in their childhood days, and little Clavis in a way relied on Julious in the strange, unfamiliar sanctuary
(after they got over their initial fallout). The added detail of the Guide living on top of a steep mountain and protected by a shrine, can go both ways. Either these represent the difficulties of Clavis reaching Julious and being on good terms with him again (though it's not clear who threw up the barrier first, Julious or Clavis, or it's a matter of circumstances) ; Or, it may mean his previous good relationship & childhood memories of Julious is something very dear yet terribly private (the shrine), to be guarded and not shared casually to just any onlooker.The Courser (Oscar)
Manga-wise, Julious sometimes sends Oscar to check on Clavis' well-being, among other things. The wings could be a metaphor of a messenger. And an eagle is a far-seeing bird. It may allude to the fact that Oscar being Julious' trusted friend/right-hand man, knows a lot of what goes on in the sanctuary.
The Supplicant (Randy)
This may be a nod to Randy's helpful nature
It may just be me, but I seem to have a foggy recollection of Randy bursting into Clavis' office/mansion with a petition of assistance, over something not directly related to him...The Healer (Marcel)
Marcel seems to be happy person (the happiest after Olivie I suppose) and tries to cheer up others as well.
The Striver (Zephel)
Somewhat tricky~ Well, Zephel is always striving to do something. To invent, to innovate, to run away from his lessons,
to be a general annoyance in the santuary j/k XDThe Illuminator (Lumiale)
I think you can do more justice to Lumiale than I do~
(This much is evident: "You always light the way to the future. If only I could follow you...")
Do the rest hold up reasonably ? (If no, then we could simply be over-analysing things XD)
"feel sorry for lonely Lumi" story
*sigh* It's always sad when any bishounen, but especially the bishounen one <3, suffers~