June 15, 2007
The joy of meta
Browsing through my archives today, I ran across a translated doujinshi of Archer with little-girl Sakura and Rin, nice and heartwarming and I can't believe I downloaded it and didn't read it, and I got to thinking...
Not too long ago, Steven mentioned that there are certain shows that he enjoys rewatching, and that those are usually shows that have a great cast - it's another opportunity to visit with characters that he enjoys, so to speak.
I get the same sort of feeling out of a lot of the fan works that get created around popular shows. Oh, sure, a ton of that stuff is porn, and very little of the remainder gets translated into English. And even when it does, it's not quite the same thing as the original - you're visiting with characters who are a little different from the original.
That's not always good - it's easy to take a character who had some depth and reduce one to a one-dimensional caricature. But it can go the other way just as easily, and THOSE can be really rewarding. Side stories about background characters, alternate scenarios, humor unburdened with the responsibility of maintaining the original plot...
Due to the proclivities of certain translators, it's a lot easier to find this material from some series (and, of course, the popularity of the original is a big factor.) I seem to find Fate/Stay Night and Tsukihime stories on a regular basis, more than everything else put together. These can be a lot of fun - the original continuity is fast and loose to start with, since we're talking about multi-path visual novels with not a small amount of harem potential.
I also run into a good number of Nanoha comics, but those are largely due to the efforts of one Japanese artist, who draws comics as a kind of response to the series as it's airing... more or less one per day. Not as good at expanding the show - he's a lot more likely to take a specific scene and make a joke based on an exaggerated characteristic of the character. Still quite good, though - you can find some translated ones here, though they'll spoil the heck out of the first season and A's if you haven't seen them already.
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Not too long ago, Steven mentioned that there are certain shows that he enjoys rewatching, and that those are usually shows that have a great cast - it's another opportunity to visit with characters that he enjoys, so to speak.
I get the same sort of feeling out of a lot of the fan works that get created around popular shows. Oh, sure, a ton of that stuff is porn, and very little of the remainder gets translated into English. And even when it does, it's not quite the same thing as the original - you're visiting with characters who are a little different from the original.
That's not always good - it's easy to take a character who had some depth and reduce one to a one-dimensional caricature. But it can go the other way just as easily, and THOSE can be really rewarding. Side stories about background characters, alternate scenarios, humor unburdened with the responsibility of maintaining the original plot...
Due to the proclivities of certain translators, it's a lot easier to find this material from some series (and, of course, the popularity of the original is a big factor.) I seem to find Fate/Stay Night and Tsukihime stories on a regular basis, more than everything else put together. These can be a lot of fun - the original continuity is fast and loose to start with, since we're talking about multi-path visual novels with not a small amount of harem potential.
I also run into a good number of Nanoha comics, but those are largely due to the efforts of one Japanese artist, who draws comics as a kind of response to the series as it's airing... more or less one per day. Not as good at expanding the show - he's a lot more likely to take a specific scene and make a joke based on an exaggerated characteristic of the character. Still quite good, though - you can find some translated ones here, though they'll spoil the heck out of the first season and A's if you haven't seen them already.
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