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Subject: Re: Pessimistic Review: 4-12-03

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LrdDimwit

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Date Posted: 20:28:36 04/19/03 Sat
In reply to: Dena 's message, "Re: Pessimistic Review: 4-12-03" on 14:56:46 04/18/03 Fri

>Haven't seen the rest of them due to having been out
>of town last weekend and deposited the goods on VHS
>instead of computer, but:
>
>>Fruits Basket: The first episode was pretty good.
>>But I am confused as to the actual relationship
>>between tiger-girl and sheep-boy. How exactly are
>>they related again?
>
>This is about where I'm at with translating the manga
>for MangaProject. Kisa (the girl) and Hiro (the boy)
>used to be friends before Kisa got her life turned
>into living hell.
>
>Hiro had a crush on her. Unfortunately, he made the
>mistake of mentioning that to Akito. So our
>ever-charming Akito beat the $#!% out of her.
>
>Not unreasonably, Hiro concluded from this that if he
>wanted Kisa not to end up hospitalized for a good
>chunk of the rest of her life, he'd better stay away
>from her. Unfortunately, Kisa didn't know why Akito
>had beat her up OR why Hiro was now avoiding her...
>
>Shortly after that, her classmates all started
>shunning her too, leading into the point where she was
>so traumatized she couldn't even talk.
>
>Tooru's the one who coaxed her back out of that, and
>Hiro, who's still liked Kisa the whole time, is caught
>between (a) hating himself for being too young to be
>able to stand up to Akito without getting the $#!^
>beat out of both Hiro and Kisa and (b) hating Tooru
>for having done what he couldn't do because he was
>trapped and (c) hating the world because he's a
>miserable brat who doesn't even like himself, let
>alone anything else on the planet, except Kisa...
>
>well, that's the nutshell version anyway. ^_^

I for one am quite surprised that Akito hasn't met with a mysteriously lethal accident. I know I at least would be seriously tempted.

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