vorticity Wrote:Just a few thoughts I had while reading this chapter. Essentially spoiler-free for this story, if you've watched/read Sailor Moon before.
> It also kept me in contact with the Minato-kai
Why is there a Minako-kai? I now have this image of a row of men in suits bowing before Boss Mina-ojou-chan vowing to protect her honor.
Why is there a Minato-kai? Because there is a Sumiyoshi-kai in the real world, and that's what they were called when they were founded in 1958.
Quote:> "And how is my little firefly?" he murmured into her hair as he kissed the top of her head."
Oh, are we merging the two best plot arcs of BSSM? I can live with that.
Yes and no. According to the best timeline I can find for the events of the original anime version of Sailor Moon, Hotaru most likely had Mistress Nine implanted into her somewhere during the events of Season One. This is here because, well, Doug and Usagi together are going to derail that storyline without ever knowing it.
Quote:> I stuck my hand up. "Waiter? A tuna salad sandwich and a glass of milk for our friend here, please?"
Is this the kind of meal Kat is into? And on this whole conversation, how did you manage to drag several seasons of exposition out of Luna into episode 1? I realize her memory had swiss-cheezed, but I guess it helps if you know the right questions to ask.
Kat's tastes have nothing to do with it. It's Doug combining being a host with being a smartass. Stereotypical cat likes fish and cream.
And Doug is less accepting of "because" as an answer to things than Usagi is/was, and out of long (and sometimes painful) experience asks the questions she wouldn't think to.
Quote:In the concordance:
> This is mainly because smoking is as thoroughly pervasive in Japan today as it was in the United States in the early 1960s.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smoking_in_Japan
http://www.cdc.gov/mmwr/preview/mmwrhtml/mm4843a2.htm
Compared to the U.S. (current rate 15.1%), the current rate in Japan is high (19.3%), and even higher among men. There's still more social acceptance, but laws in districts are really starting to change now, like they did in the early 1990s in the U.S. And if you see in the graph, the current level of smoking is more akin to 1993 levels in the U.S. And as you can see from the other graph, 1960s levels were much higher, though that graph excludes children so the numbers aren't directly comparable. Basically tobako smoking in Japan is like 25 years ago in the U.S. This gap might get pushed tighter by internationalization for the upcoming Tokyo Olympics, we shall see.
I think I was a bit too deep in the story when I switched tabs to add that to the concordance work file -- I think I meant to say "in the 1990s" instead of "today".
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.