Akira Kurosawa's Samurai 7
Jan. 14th, 2007 11:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kiyakotari
Oh, fuck me.
No, I'm serious. Dude. Love. So much love. I knew I would like this series when I saw the first 4 episodes...over a year ago. But I finally got around to downloading it and...shiiiiiit. I'm in love.
I want to cosplay Katsushiro. Oh yes. I love that outfit. I love it so much.
Kambei. Kyuzo. The possibilities there....oh my. I must go find good fanfiction. I have to wonder what Mal would do, if she got her hands on this series and saw what I see between those two. Oh, it would be deliciously gritty, I'm sure.
EDIT: Went on my fanfiction search. Was very disappointed - it's a relatively new and not wildly popular series, so I didn't expect to find much, but...well. I hadn't thought it would be this bad, either.
Encountered such gems of phrasing as:
"Kanbei eagerly met his thrusts with jerking movements of his hips, wanting all of the samurai's man meat inside him." (Man meat? WTF? Please, just say penis, or dick, or something. Hell, even 'throbbing member' would have better than 'man meat.' The sentence was painful enough to read without that little creative beauty. **wince** And that's not even considering the fact that Kambei was portrayed as a...whimpering weakling. Er, OOC much?)
..... **whimper**
I've found one thing that looks...tolerable. Possibly. We have a clone Kyuzo, and a captured retiree Kambei. Ehhhh, we'll see. The clone bit was a novel way of setting it after the series and yet still staying true to the story, at least. And there's been no mention of 'man meat' as of yet. **gags**
EDIT 2: **weeps** That fic...the one that looked like it might have potential...WHY MUST OTHERWISE DECENT AUTHORS IGNORE CHARACTER MOTIVATION!?!?! **bangs head on keyboard** I'm sorry, but Kambei is not, would not be, COULD not be a whimpering, mewling, un-resisting ANYTHING. Okay, so the little 'secret rebellion' type thing he had brewing was in-character, but while I could - maybe - see him letting himself get knocked around for the sake of a disguise or to make someone underestimate him - and that's a REALLY BIG maybe, and it better have a hell of a lot of justification behind it - I just can't believe him getting all "oh, woe is me, why me, you should all despise me, I'm not worthy, HERE, LET ME HAVE A PANIC ATTACK FROM A FLASHBACK TO A BEATING, why don't you all abandon me or let me kill myself" over the whole thing. Dude, WTF? He's a samurai. He's a fucking GOOD samurai. He's got this guilt/pessimism issue with being on the 'losing' side in past battles, but he's that makes him no less damned freaking awesome. He is a master tactician, a great leader, charismatic, and capable of chopping VERY LARGE OBJECTS in half with apparent ease. He's also been known to escape from execution-blocks with only a 'borrowed' hairpin as a tool. HE IS NOT A MEWLING COWARD!!! He does not get the crap kicked out of him on a regular basis by someone who - according to the author's own story - can't even dodge an attack from a farmer who had no training at all and is overcome by grief and rage, and thus acting stupidly. **roar**
**pants to regain breath**
...Needless to say, that fic was a bust, too. Urgh. And least that person understood...you know...grammar. **grumble**
No, I'm serious. Dude. Love. So much love. I knew I would like this series when I saw the first 4 episodes...over a year ago. But I finally got around to downloading it and...shiiiiiit. I'm in love.
I want to cosplay Katsushiro. Oh yes. I love that outfit. I love it so much.
Kambei. Kyuzo. The possibilities there....oh my. I must go find good fanfiction. I have to wonder what Mal would do, if she got her hands on this series and saw what I see between those two. Oh, it would be deliciously gritty, I'm sure.
EDIT: Went on my fanfiction search. Was very disappointed - it's a relatively new and not wildly popular series, so I didn't expect to find much, but...well. I hadn't thought it would be this bad, either.
Encountered such gems of phrasing as:
"Kanbei eagerly met his thrusts with jerking movements of his hips, wanting all of the samurai's man meat inside him." (Man meat? WTF? Please, just say penis, or dick, or something. Hell, even 'throbbing member' would have better than 'man meat.' The sentence was painful enough to read without that little creative beauty. **wince** And that's not even considering the fact that Kambei was portrayed as a...whimpering weakling. Er, OOC much?)
..... **whimper**
I've found one thing that looks...tolerable. Possibly. We have a clone Kyuzo, and a captured retiree Kambei. Ehhhh, we'll see. The clone bit was a novel way of setting it after the series and yet still staying true to the story, at least. And there's been no mention of 'man meat' as of yet. **gags**
EDIT 2: **weeps** That fic...the one that looked like it might have potential...WHY MUST OTHERWISE DECENT AUTHORS IGNORE CHARACTER MOTIVATION!?!?! **bangs head on keyboard** I'm sorry, but Kambei is not, would not be, COULD not be a whimpering, mewling, un-resisting ANYTHING. Okay, so the little 'secret rebellion' type thing he had brewing was in-character, but while I could - maybe - see him letting himself get knocked around for the sake of a disguise or to make someone underestimate him - and that's a REALLY BIG maybe, and it better have a hell of a lot of justification behind it - I just can't believe him getting all "oh, woe is me, why me, you should all despise me, I'm not worthy, HERE, LET ME HAVE A PANIC ATTACK FROM A FLASHBACK TO A BEATING, why don't you all abandon me or let me kill myself" over the whole thing. Dude, WTF? He's a samurai. He's a fucking GOOD samurai. He's got this guilt/pessimism issue with being on the 'losing' side in past battles, but he's that makes him no less damned freaking awesome. He is a master tactician, a great leader, charismatic, and capable of chopping VERY LARGE OBJECTS in half with apparent ease. He's also been known to escape from execution-blocks with only a 'borrowed' hairpin as a tool. HE IS NOT A MEWLING COWARD!!! He does not get the crap kicked out of him on a regular basis by someone who - according to the author's own story - can't even dodge an attack from a farmer who had no training at all and is overcome by grief and rage, and thus acting stupidly. **roar**
**pants to regain breath**
...Needless to say, that fic was a bust, too. Urgh. And least that person understood...you know...grammar. **grumble**
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Date: 2007-01-14 08:04 pm (UTC)I am also curious because I like writing fanfiction. 83 (sans "man meat", at least, not referred to as such *chokes*) and boy do i need a new series for that. Where did you download it?
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Date: 2007-01-14 08:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-01-15 08:50 am (UTC)AND i meant to ask you... i am sending Gin away for a new faceup, and I was hoping he could make a stop with you on the way home ^^;; (I don't think the Canadian government will believe me when i tell them i've paid duty on him once already >_>; )
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Date: 2007-01-15 02:30 pm (UTC)Pocky Of Choice = Green Tea. I'll slap it onto CD for you whether there's pocky involved or not, though.
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Date: 2007-01-14 09:37 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2007-01-15 05:42 pm (UTC)Nuts to them.
Did you get the DJ compilation Fiouri had at Ycon this year? It had a Samurai 7 story in it. I bet she still has some copies! But I don't think it's the pairing your after.
Man Meat is the second worst synonym for cock ever. I got about that far in your post before I aspirated my coffee and had to stop before morphing into Lil Miss Grammar Nazi o' Doom.
I was about to say how sorry I am that I'm not fanficcing anymore and I can't write you a decent fic, but then I remembered I have a request post open!
http://saintsavin.livejournal.com/144121.html?nc=17
On one hand, there's a line. On the other, the fact there's a line gives me a chance to soak up more of the series :D.
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Date: 2007-01-16 02:53 pm (UTC)Kyuzo/Kyuuzou/whatever spelling you want paired with Kambei/Kanbei/whatever, no clear-cut seme/uke roles (**gags**), in which Kambei is not a 1) simpering, whimpering, weaklingwhoneedstobesavedbyKyuzo, or in other ways grossly OOC from the determined-yet-somewhat-doomed-to-failure leader that he is 2) stupid, 3) a psycho bent on raping Kyuzo for unexplained reasons, 4) wallowing in guilt and sleeping with anyone who shows an interest and/or Kyuzo as 'penance.' And Kyuzo is not 1) a female in disguise or a hermaphrodite (no matter how interesting the latter might have the potential to be, when written by you **grin**), 2) a psychotic rapist bent of molding Kambei into his image of the perfect fuck, 3) stupid, 4) wallowing in his own guilt and sleeping with Kambei as 'penance.'
**huffs** I want grit, I want realistic interaction, I want gruff and annoyed and possibly a bit of 'secretly protective' underneath. I want the whole "I'll be the one to kill you" and "Of course, but only once I finish this job" thing dealt with and woven into the story as a huge driving motivation behind their relationship and character interaction, not explained away/forgotten/ignored. Hell, I don't even need the smex (though it's a wonderful, wonderful thing, and I loves it dearly) to happen, I just want exploration of their behavior towards one another. I want it to stick to the canon, not insert handy "oh, they knew one another before the series" plot devices, and I want characters who die to DIE and characters who live to live and.... **growls**
**panting**
Ahem. **more puppy eyes**
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Date: 2007-01-16 05:18 am (UTC)When do we build the Samurai 7 FanSnack?
For all that Sam7 fanfiction you are gonna write? and all the fanfiction you're gonna needle Mal into writing?
XD
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Date: 2007-01-16 02:36 pm (UTC)...I'm doomed, aren't I? #_#
**reconsiders the possibility of finding out how to get a copy of the series to Mal, in the hopes it will get her attention**