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Tuesday, August 11th, 2009 10:32 pmPlaying more Musou Orochi 2: Why does anyone bother trying to get Masamune to join their side, I wonder? It seems they're rather wasting their time. Maybe they were inspired by the first Orochi game or something. The Sengoku portion, BTW, seems like one huge glorification of Shima Sakon, which is fine by me. XD
Speaking of Masamune, am trying to read a Shiba Ryoutarou story about him, which seems to prominently feature the stuff about his mom trying to kill him. I guess we should be thankful that such secondary sources are not available to the English fandom, or Masamune would end up being portrayed as a ball o' angst. (But if you add all the apocryphal stuff together, Masamune has enough issues for four or five people).
Am also reading the Temple of Dawn; a third of the way through, and this book does feel at parts like Mishima is blogging his really awesome mindblowing trips to India and Thailand, although I have no idea whether he at some point really did go there. And then there's a chapter in which the main character's readings into Western theories of reincarnation are summarized. (As with the first two books, the contrast between Honda and my image of Mishima inappropriately looms large in my reading: much of the book takes place in Honda's head, or really, through Honda's head, yet he himself is a self-styled observer figure, and Mishima admires action (or at least this is my image of him). Anyway, more when I'm done w/ the book)
For my own ref: http://www.themystica.com/mythical-folk/articles/zagreus.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zagreus)
Speaking of Masamune, am trying to read a Shiba Ryoutarou story about him, which seems to prominently feature the stuff about his mom trying to kill him. I guess we should be thankful that such secondary sources are not available to the English fandom, or Masamune would end up being portrayed as a ball o' angst. (But if you add all the apocryphal stuff together, Masamune has enough issues for four or five people).
Am also reading the Temple of Dawn; a third of the way through, and this book does feel at parts like Mishima is blogging his really awesome mindblowing trips to India and Thailand, although I have no idea whether he at some point really did go there. And then there's a chapter in which the main character's readings into Western theories of reincarnation are summarized. (As with the first two books, the contrast between Honda and my image of Mishima inappropriately looms large in my reading: much of the book takes place in Honda's head, or really, through Honda's head, yet he himself is a self-styled observer figure, and Mishima admires action (or at least this is my image of him). Anyway, more when I'm done w/ the book)
For my own ref: http://www.themystica.com/mythical-folk/articles/zagreus.html http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zagreus)
