Akira Kurosawa's Samurai 7

[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**

Comments

[worldinacage.livejournal.com]

Yayyyy a new series to check out, thanks!! Been needing something new.

[kiyakotari.livejournal.com]

You. Will. Love. It.