At 01:36 PM 4/9/00 -0400, Paul Corrigan wrote:
Just a few comments and questions...
And few responses, and (hopefully) answers.
I can't blame Kyouchi-san for what happened. He's
Oniisama's friend. He would never do something like that on
purpose.
For the record, I think Saionji's only called Kyoichi once (by Toga).
Everybody calls him Saionji, including Miki and Nanami.
I'm fairly sure there is at least one point in the series (I'd have to look
through the scripts to confirm it, which is more time-consuming than I'm
willing to do right now) where Nanami refers to him as Kyouichi when
speaking of/to him. Even if she doesn't, I think can get away with it for
her internal dialogue (you're right about Miki, though, and I've changed
his dialogue to take this into account) because Kyouchi, after all, is her
brother's oldest friend; she's probably known him all her life, and would
still think of him as Kyouichi, though she wouldn't necessarily refer to
him as that.
"I don't think I feel the same way about Kozue that you feel
about Touga-sempai, Nanami."
Why do you say it like that?
"Oh? And how exactly do I feel about Oniisama that's so
different from how you feel about Kozue-san, Miki-kun?"
What indeed? ;)
"Well, you see, Nanami, your relationship with your sibling takes the form
of a genuine obsession with him. I, on the other hand, tend to take an
idealized version of my sister, and project it onto other girls, whom I
then fall in love with. It's a fairly significant difference, you see."
"Oh; it makes lots more sense when you explain it like that, Miki-kun."
Click.
What is with that stopwatch, anyway? Someday, I'll have to
corner you and ask you--and not let you go until you give me a
straight answer.
At Animazement, Kunihiko Ikuhara was asked just what was the purpose of
Miki's clicking his stopwatch. His response: "It's just there."
Yes, from what I've heard, this was similiar to his response to a lot of
question he didn't want to answer, or didn't have any decent answer too.
I don't believe him, though; one day, I shall figure out the symbolism of
the stopwatch! ;)
"What's Dvor�k?"
"Not what. Who."
"Oh."
My brother has strange taste in music.
Is that what he's listening to? Which piece by Dvorak?
The slow piece Touga listens to on the gramophone in the series is the
"Largo" from Dvorak's 9th Symphony.
(For the record (no pun intended), Bach's "Jesus, Joy of Man's Desiring,"
which anime fans will know from the _End of Evangelion_ movie, plays in the
background in episode 37 of Utena.)
Hmm... actually, when I first saw this episode (I should watch it again and
come to a more definite conclusion), I identified the Bach piece being used
as an instrumental version of the opening chorus of the cantata "Wachet
auf, ruft uns die Stimme", not as "Jesus, Joy of Man's Desiring". You
might well be right, however; Baroque music has a notorious tendency to
sound alike to my ears. :)
I thought there was something fishy about Nanami's sudden appointment to
the Council...
Undoubtedly. :) Her series dialogue seems to make it clear she's acting
of her own volition, not on directions from Touga (and he's not really in
any state during the Black Rose arc to direct her anyway). Thus, I presume
some sort of rule must be in place to allow siblings to act as proxies on
the Student Council; this is the only reason I can think of for Miki and
Juri to defer to her even slightly.
My guess is that Akio rewrote the charter shortly after the end of the
Student Council arc, and surreptitiously got a copy to Nanami. :)
Thanks for the comments.
Ciao,
-Alan Harnum