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- From: conty@cbnewsl.cb.att.com (E. Kontei)
- Subject: Re: ORION INFO
- Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories
- Date: Tue, 29 Dec 1992 20:19:30 GMT
- Message-ID: <1992Dec29.201930.22491@cbnewsl.cb.att.com>
- References: <72519@cup.portal.com> <0V6JwB1w165w@shakala.com>
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- In article <0V6JwB1w165w@shakala.com>, bahamut@shakala.com (Motoko Kusanagi) writes:
- > DrAllosaurus@cup.portal.com (Samuel DrAllosaurs Crider) writes:
- >
- [Liked ORION]
- > > Plus I find
- > > this story a lot easier to understand than APPLESEED. Now I liked
- > > APPLESEED -- just after several years of reading and re-reading it I
- > > STILL don't understand a single thing that went on. Compared to that this
- > > naga-ritual/psycho-science stuff is easy.
- >
- > Heh, well welcome. :) Strange you should mention that you find Orion
- > easier. Most of my Japanese friends wouldn't touch it with a ten
- > foot pole. Shirow's original Orion story, at least in the Japanese
- > version, utilized a great deal of mythology combined together, including
- > some of the Taoist, Buddhist, possibly even some Shinto (but I'm not
- > sure since I don't know much about Shinto), and includes many references
- > from the Japanese Kojiki story as well as some other references and
- > many of Shirow's own home-cooked recipes.
-
- True. But most of these references ARE going to go over the heads of
- most of the readers of the Dark Horse version. The point is that what
- we CAN understand makes quite a bit of sense (unlike APPLESEED).
-
- BTW, I'm pretty sure there's Shinto in there. Isn't Susano
- supposed to be the namesake Shinto thunder god?
-
- > Shirow uses puns and double meanings in his story, and I am uncertain,
- > and rather sure, very few of them were actually translated over properly.
-
- You're correct, unfortunately.
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