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Didn't see anyone answer this yet (recently, anyway; I'm sure it's come up in the thread before) so here's from p.67 of the Reunion Files: Japanese...

Re: "Magical Night," BlankBeat, here is the discussion of how the translation folks have been using for years is actually wrong, starting with my crappy re-translation. I recommend reading everything afterwards for the full breakdown, so you don't feel like you're just having a translation...

Ah no bad phrasing on my part. In cases where there is no existing "official" translation, fan translations are fair game. But where there is an official English version, the official English version is all that can be looked at, because if SE wanted it to be clearer they would've made it...

Just chiming in to agree that, since the party line over on CxA now is that fan translations aren't to be used even when they're just being used to clarify the official one, I really want to know why that "engraved in his heart" BS is still getting tossed around. Harass harass harass. :monster:

Tres, what you're saying is kind of what I was getting at, just phrased better. XD And for your definition of canon, Ryu, I agree that Cloud/Aeris wasn't/isn't canon. The few times that I've felt it worth standing up for one side or the other, I've been using "canon" just to mean that they had...

This is one of the instances where I think it might be good to clarify terms. For some people, "canon" just means that the characters had mutual interest in each other. And Cloud doesn't have to be aware of Aeris's feelings to have his own for her. That's not really meant as an argument so much...

Well shit I guess my gf and I aren't actually in a relationship since we didn't have a "honeymoon period"; I better let her know these twelve years have been a lieeeeeeeee. :offended: SOME couples get a honeymoon period. Very lucky couples get a honeymoon period. It's not a requirement of a...

I have too many feelings today so I'm going to vomit some of them into the LTD thread sorry everyone Okay. I really don't mean this to be offensive but it's...probably offensive anyway, so I apologize, but I really have to know. Are you, or have you ever been, in a long-term relationship...

Hey, if no one's volunteered to translate that bit you Google-translated, I'll do it. But I don't wanna step on Dreamstar's toes if s/he's already doing so. :)

This was hard. o_O I think one of the strengths in FFVII's music - really in most of Uematsu's music - is that he does tailor it so well to the particular mood/character he's trying to evoke. Tifa's Theme is comforting and homey. The Turks' Theme makes you feel like you're either swaggering...

Nojima =/= Nomura. :moar: To keep this from being total spam: you are weakening your point by simultaneously arguing it's up to interpretation and it's "laughable" to not see the Clerith perspective. While I agree that the two arguments are not necessarily mutually exclusive, you'd do better to...

Awww damn, here I thought there was some corner of Sephiroth fandom that I hadn't yet discovered. XD Ahwell. Thank you for the links though; I will investigate. :D That's the thing, though; I just don't see Hojo griping ineffectually when it's something within his power to change, and I see no...

Also, because I am an internet masochist and procrastinating on workstuff, I went to this guy's channel, and he's got another video about how using the Japanese pronunciation of the character names is totally 100% wrong because "this is America" and yeah he can go get the hell out of my fandom...

I didn't even make it that far, ugh. As for characters "looking Japanese," why wouldn't they? I'm just not even seeing why this would or should bother anyone, regardless of your original visual interpretation of the character. They're created by a Japanese company and originally released to a...

...where are you finding these fics and will you share links. I did not know I wanted this in my life until just now. For the sake of staying on topic, my personal opinion is that if Sephiroth had been female-sexed, Hojo would've done some Mad Science to fix that and things would've basically...

Am now past the first book of Tawny Man (Fool's Errand, which I LOVED) and about midway through the second (Golden Fool). Depending on how the next couple chapters go I might be taking back every nice thing I've ever said about Robin Hobb.

To be honest, I didn't find Jordan's setting that compelling; I vaguely recall liking the way he wrote certain passages, but he pales in comparison to Tolkien and even Martin, IMO. YMMV, of course, and mine might too if I reread them, but I'm probably not going to any time soon. What bothers me...

The other characters of the Interview with the Vampire movie would like to have a word with you. And, c'mon, Sephiroth's pretty, would you want to meet him in a dark alley? ...I mean, I would, but that's because a part of my brain still secretly believes he would let me braid his hair and call...

I don't think it was the characters being jerks that turned me off - I was reading Feintuch's The Still around the same time, and the viewpoint in that is one of the most spoiled, selfish assholes I've ever read, and I loved that book to pieces. It was just that I cared about fewer and fewer of...

I'm quite fond of the end of the Farseer trilogy, but when recommending them to friends I always, always warn them that Royal Assassin can basically be summarized by "and then it got worse," and basically is the worst book for anyone's emotional state ever. It really says something when happens...