Subject: Re: The Yami no Matsuei Connection? |
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Ariane
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Date Posted: 03:19:37 10/23/03 Thu
In reply to:
Aeanagwen
's message, "Re: The Yami no Matsuei Connection?" on 02:26:12 10/22/03 Wed
*applause* Well stated! I very much agree. ^^
>I don't know; I'm inclined to think this all rather
>too much paranoia. First of all, the blood-licking is
>all OVER; Fuuma hardly has a monopoly on it. Nor does
>Seishirou have sole claim to all sakura tree related
>imagery; we all know sakura are everywhere in anime.
>And about the young bishonen friend--well, it APPEARED
>as a young bishounen but, at least in the manga, it
>was actually Enma being sneaky.
>
>I mean, you could draw lines and parallels until
>you're blue in the face, but that's the case with many
>series, and anything you're really trying to force
>connections with. Yami and TB have some similarities,
>but they're in a similar genre, and written for a
>similar audience. The presence of some similar plot
>devices probably just means that Matsushita and CLAMP
>have similar tastes, not that Yami is a total rip-off.
> Personality-wise, Hisoka and TB-Subaru really don't
>have much in common. There're more noticeable
>similarities between Seishirou and Muraki, but, while
>Seishirou is far more suave and slick than to ever
>rape anyone, and no where near as physically sadistic
>as Muraki, the good doctor gets rather more humanizing
>incidents and outside connections. (As cute as it
>would be, who can really see Seishirou adopting a
>stray kitten and naming it Subaru-neko?)
>
>As for the picture of Tsuzuki being a purple-eyed
>bishounen with an X carved on him--well, maybe it WAS
>an actual reference to X, Matsushida being funny.
>That doesn't mean it was maliciously intended, or
>meant to be a rip-off.
>
>And anyway, the greater majority of CLAMP's own work
>is inspired by other things, or a purposeful twist on
>a genre story, and no one calls them rip-off hacks,
>ne? Lets not be so quick to jump to conclusions.
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