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Note: please do not spoil me in comments for developments occurring after disc 4 of Escaflowne.
Oyce and I also watched a randomly selected episode of Wolf's Rain to mock the horrible subtitling that translated "Paradise" as "amusement park." The episode we picked actually translated it as "Fairyland." It also used randomly selected Chinese pronunciations of the characters' names, so every time they yelled, "Toboe! Look out!" it came out "Lanhu! Missing!" A character named Darcia was alternately called that, Xorsha, and Jinhei. This made watching the series very confusing, when I watched the whole thing off of the awful bootleg version so many years ago.
So many years, in fact (probably two) that I had completely forgotten that the randomly selected episode contained a giant talking flying walrus. In fact, the whole episode was about the wolves battling a talking flying walrus the size of the Staples Center.
"I had forgotten about the giant walrus," I explained to Oyce.
"That can happen with anime," she assured me. This was because earlier we had watched a disc of Escaflowne in which there was a brief appearance by a mermaid.
"Mermaid!" I shrieked.
"Oh, yeah," said Oyce. "I forgot about the mermaid."
"Talking mouse with a fez!" I shrieked, a moment later.
"Him too."
Van decides to attempt to merge with Escaflowne and feel what Escaflowne feels. Oyce, who has seen more mecha that I have, informs me that this is always a bad idea (apart from the obvious disadvantages, which rather negate a large portion of the purpose of wearing a giant robot, ie, its function as armor), because it causes the pilot to go insane. Sure enough, the damage to Escaflowne appears as wounds on Van's body, necessitating a rescue by... Dryden!
Dryden is a Han Solo type character with a merchant ship and five o'clock shadow. He also appeared to have rabbit ears.
"Does he have rabbit ears?" I asked.
"No, that's a bow in his hair," Oyce assured me.
"With Escaflowne, you have to ask."
Dryden is hilarious. Unlike anyone else including Van, he has read Escaflowne's user's manual, and summoned its makers. They were a horde of very very strange creatures who did a Gregorian chant in front of Escaflowne, then fixed it, thereby healing Van's wounds and enabling him to confront Dilandau. Only either the creatures screwed up the interface or the traditional fate of over-identified mecha pilots caught up with Van, because he went berserk and started seeing ghosts who told him he couldn't kill Dilandau because Dilandau gave them guymelefs, and then... end of disc. Damn.
The Escaflowne drinking game is this. You drink whenever...
A tarot card appears.
Hitomi has a vision.
Dilandau lets out a drink-worthy (by consensus) maniacal cackle.
Atlantis is mentioned.
Wings appear.
Someone suddenly goes insane.
Some random bit of drink-worthy crack (by consensus) appears. Drink-worthy bits of crack were the mouse in the fez, the mermaid, and a farting guymelef. Really, a big cloud of fumes suddenly came out of its backside and propelled it into the air. Perhaps we would not have perceived it as a fart if we had not previously cackled over a moment when Naruto farted in the middle of a battle, and Kakashi, with a priceless deadpan expression, remarked, "Well... maybe that fart was unintentional, but trust the ultimate maverick ninja to turn a fart into an attack move." (It was unintentional, because Naruto thought, "Rats! I clenched too hard!")
I have several theories on what could possibly make Dilandau interesting. Do not enlighten, ie, spoil me; I will know soon enough.
He is Allen's missing/dead sister.
He is a werewolf.
He is a Draconian who had his wings amputated and went insane.
He is a dragon who got turned into a maniacal cackling person.
He had a very, very, very, very unhappy childhood... OK, that is probably a given.
Oyce and I also watched a randomly selected episode of Wolf's Rain to mock the horrible subtitling that translated "Paradise" as "amusement park." The episode we picked actually translated it as "Fairyland." It also used randomly selected Chinese pronunciations of the characters' names, so every time they yelled, "Toboe! Look out!" it came out "Lanhu! Missing!" A character named Darcia was alternately called that, Xorsha, and Jinhei. This made watching the series very confusing, when I watched the whole thing off of the awful bootleg version so many years ago.
So many years, in fact (probably two) that I had completely forgotten that the randomly selected episode contained a giant talking flying walrus. In fact, the whole episode was about the wolves battling a talking flying walrus the size of the Staples Center.
"I had forgotten about the giant walrus," I explained to Oyce.
"That can happen with anime," she assured me. This was because earlier we had watched a disc of Escaflowne in which there was a brief appearance by a mermaid.
"Mermaid!" I shrieked.
"Oh, yeah," said Oyce. "I forgot about the mermaid."
"Talking mouse with a fez!" I shrieked, a moment later.
"Him too."
Van decides to attempt to merge with Escaflowne and feel what Escaflowne feels. Oyce, who has seen more mecha that I have, informs me that this is always a bad idea (apart from the obvious disadvantages, which rather negate a large portion of the purpose of wearing a giant robot, ie, its function as armor), because it causes the pilot to go insane. Sure enough, the damage to Escaflowne appears as wounds on Van's body, necessitating a rescue by... Dryden!
Dryden is a Han Solo type character with a merchant ship and five o'clock shadow. He also appeared to have rabbit ears.
"Does he have rabbit ears?" I asked.
"No, that's a bow in his hair," Oyce assured me.
"With Escaflowne, you have to ask."
Dryden is hilarious. Unlike anyone else including Van, he has read Escaflowne's user's manual, and summoned its makers. They were a horde of very very strange creatures who did a Gregorian chant in front of Escaflowne, then fixed it, thereby healing Van's wounds and enabling him to confront Dilandau. Only either the creatures screwed up the interface or the traditional fate of over-identified mecha pilots caught up with Van, because he went berserk and started seeing ghosts who told him he couldn't kill Dilandau because Dilandau gave them guymelefs, and then... end of disc. Damn.
The Escaflowne drinking game is this. You drink whenever...
A tarot card appears.
Hitomi has a vision.
Dilandau lets out a drink-worthy (by consensus) maniacal cackle.
Atlantis is mentioned.
Wings appear.
Someone suddenly goes insane.
Some random bit of drink-worthy crack (by consensus) appears. Drink-worthy bits of crack were the mouse in the fez, the mermaid, and a farting guymelef. Really, a big cloud of fumes suddenly came out of its backside and propelled it into the air. Perhaps we would not have perceived it as a fart if we had not previously cackled over a moment when Naruto farted in the middle of a battle, and Kakashi, with a priceless deadpan expression, remarked, "Well... maybe that fart was unintentional, but trust the ultimate maverick ninja to turn a fart into an attack move." (It was unintentional, because Naruto thought, "Rats! I clenched too hard!")
I have several theories on what could possibly make Dilandau interesting. Do not enlighten, ie, spoil me; I will know soon enough.
He is Allen's missing/dead sister.
He is a werewolf.
He is a Draconian who had his wings amputated and went insane.
He is a dragon who got turned into a maniacal cackling person.
He had a very, very, very, very unhappy childhood... OK, that is probably a given.
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Dryden rocks. I'm also particularly fond of one character who appeared to be a whiny wuss and then developed some real strength as the series progressed. It's an excellent show for character development in general.
And oh, how beautiful it looks!
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But my old drinking game (don't drink, thrilling times with soda) was guessing what someone was going to yellout in dramatic fashion yet, from 'Van-SAMAAAAA!' to 'Oni-SAMAAAAA!' and on and on. All bets were off when the kitty girl was on camera.
I'll have to go find that list... might have lost it on the old comp.
And Dryden's little geekout when he first sees Escaflowne is priceless. =)
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My problem with most drinking games is having to remember all those complicated rules -- by the time you're drunk, you can't. Simple is best, like the AbFab drinking game: anytime someone takes a drink, take a drink.
---L.
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