| Hyouge Mono anime (and manga) [message #366375] |
Mon, 16 April 2018 22:35  |
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Originally posted by: Bobbie Sellers
Hi typers and readers,
Sending this from an Internet Cafe as my home router/modem has
been corrupted.
I have been reading the manga for some time and a week or so
back I found the fan-subbed anime online.
The story is subtitled "Tea for Life, Tea for the Universe"
and concerns a samurai named Furuta who is fixated on the aesthetics
of the tea ceremony. Furuta is entirely fictional but he hobnobs
with the greats of the era of the re-unification of the Japanese
empire, his lord is Oda Nobunaga, who will be displaced by Hideyoshi
and whose reign will be taken over by Ieyasu Tokugawa.
So far I have read 96 chapters of the manga.
But of the anime I have only 6 chapters under my belt.
The anime translation is not as good as the manga, but if
you can make allowances for the attempt to put the matter into
archaic English with "ye" and so forth and to elevate the language
it can be quite enjoyable.
Furuta is quite capable of heroism in one moment and rapturous
appreciation of what he considers beautiful tea pots, tea scoops, tea
bowls in which the bitter powdered chai is prepared and served and tea
jars in another. His features in the later case betray his otherwise
realistic characterization. One part of the story is entirely
conjectural about a conspiracy between the tea master and
Hideyoshi.
There are 39 episodes up online at this time but on
Friday April 13 my adsl modem router quit working and I plan
to have a lot more watched before I have another modem to get
back on the net.
Well this will be out on the 16th if I am lucky at the
SF-Linux Users Group meeting which has WiFi net connection and
if I can find the Eternal September's net connection from that
site.
I think this is one interesting and important anime
and deserves full commercial licensing in the English language
as does the manga.
bliss
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bliss dash SF 4 ever at dslextreme dot com
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| Re: Hyouge Mono anime (and manga) [message #366399 is a reply to message #366375] |
Tue, 17 April 2018 12:06  |
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Originally posted by: Derek J Decker
On Mon, 16 Apr 2018 19:35:29 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
> Hi typers and readers,
> Sending this from an Internet Cafe as my home router/modem has
> been corrupted.
>
> I have been reading the manga for some time and a week or so
> back I found the fan-subbed anime online.
>
> The story is subtitled "Tea for Life, Tea for the Universe"
> and concerns a samurai named Furuta who is fixated on the aesthetics of
> the tea ceremony. Furuta is entirely fictional but he hobnobs with the
> greats of the era of the re-unification of the Japanese empire, his lord
> is Oda Nobunaga, who will be displaced by Hideyoshi and whose reign will
> be taken over by Ieyasu Tokugawa.
A Quibble - The protagonist of this tale is based on Furuta Oribe, who
even has his own Wikipedia page, at:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furuta_Oribe>
so he's not _entirely_ fictional. I'm not certain he, or any of the
other real characters in this work, would recognize themselves in the
wildly exaggerated and entertaining manner they are portrayed, though.
<snip>
> I think this is one interesting and important anime
> and deserves full commercial licensing in the English language as does
> the manga.
>
> bliss
I found the anime to be a lot of fun, and it's pretty decent historical
fiction.
-Derek
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| Re: Hyouge Mono anime (and manga) [message #366400 is a reply to message #366399] |
Tue, 17 April 2018 12:17 |
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Originally posted by: Bobbie Sellers
On 04/17/2018 09:06 AM, Derek J Decker wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Apr 2018 19:35:29 -0700, Bobbie Sellers wrote:
>
>> Hi typers and readers,
>> Sending this from an Internet Cafe as my home router/modem has
>> been corrupted.
>>
>> I have been reading the manga for some time and a week or so
>> back I found the fan-subbed anime online.
>>
>> The story is subtitled "Tea for Life, Tea for the Universe"
>> and concerns a samurai named Furuta who is fixated on the aesthetics of
>> the tea ceremony. Furuta is entirely fictional but he hobnobs with the
>> greats of the era of the re-unification of the Japanese empire, his lord
>> is Oda Nobunaga, who will be displaced by Hideyoshi and whose reign will
>> be taken over by Ieyasu Tokugawa.
>
> A Quibble - The protagonist of this tale is based on Furuta Oribe, who
> even has his own Wikipedia page, at:
>
> <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Furuta_Oribe>
>
> so he's not _entirely_ fictional. I'm not certain he, or any of the
> other real characters in this work, would recognize themselves in the
> wildly exaggerated and entertaining manner they are portrayed, though.
Thanks for the correction. I forget where I found the
idea that he was not related to any historical person. Perhaps
I depended on a bad source.
>
> <snip>
>
>> I think this is one interesting and important anime
>> and deserves full commercial licensing in the English language as does
>> the manga.
>>
>> bliss
>
> I found the anime to be a lot of fun, and it's pretty decent historical
> fiction.
>
> -Derek
Thanks again Derek for the correction on Furuta Oribe.
bliss
--
bliss dash SF 4 ever at dslextreme dot com
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