Date: Sat, 26 Sep 1998 17:50:01 -0400
From: Matthew Campbell <mgcampb@CLEMSON.EDU>
Reply-To: mgcampb@CLEMSON.EDU
To: A-kun McCrillis <akun15@hotmail.com>
CC: ffml@fanfic.com
Subject: Re: [FFML] [Fanfic][Various] 'Angry Letters'

?????: Hey!  Let's review this one in script format!

Been wondering.  How the heck do you pronounce ????? anyway?

Exactly how it looks.

Oh, and I think your ripping on 'Angry Letters' was a bit rude.  It
didn't come off nearly as humerous as I'm sure you intended.

Wasn't meant to be all fun and games.  And sorry if it was rude, I just 
get a bit hot tempered about Akane telling anyone, ESPECIALLY Mrs. 
Takahashi, that they are wrong.  Sorry if I went a little overboard.  My 
friends were speaking comments that should've been mine alone since I 
was the only one reading it.

GAH!  I might becoming another GUBBY!

 I've never hit
anyone in my life, especially not my boyfriend.

Huh?: Uh-huh.  I'd like to see _THIS_ in reality.

What?  I'm sure there are a lot of people who have never hit anyone in
their lives.  Akane's hitting is mostly obvious gags anyway.

Well, I guess I should made the same comment on this as Dana Carvey made 
about Waterworld: "You can't pee into a Mr. Coffee and expect Taster's 
Choice!"

I can think of few people that could twist someone's life into such a 
weird world without SOME of it being true.  Besides, who would practice 
in the Dojo?  Surely Mr. Tendo would want at least one of his daughters 
to learn the art.

 And jeez, just because
he's living with my family, why do you have to make it so that there 

is

some screwed up arranged marriage deal?

C-chan: And how could there not be?  You can't look at a normal girl
with a her normal boyfriend and get a 38 volume manga out of it.  

Unless

What about 'Maison Ikokku'?  Sure the people there have exaggerated
personalities, but there's nothing supernatural or extranormal there. 

That's Normal Insanity as TharzZzy would say.  Things that are just 
crazy enough in real life.

"There was a small blue-green planet called 'Earth' where they still 
thought that Digital Watches were a neat idea." - Douglas Adams.

What about, um, 'Harlem Beat'?  (I just got my Mixxzine yesterday.)

You certainly could do a manga about a normal girl and her normal
boyfriend.  Just the 'not engaged but living with her family' bit could
provide volumes of entertainment.

A-kun: Good idea, really bad arguments.  First of all, if Mrs. Tendou
Akane were to have had her life as the basis of the story, then she
would've read Urusei Yatsura, The Mermaid Saga, Maison Ikokku and 

other

fine Takahashi stories.

All of those have extremely different styles.  Expecting Takahashi to 

do

a "realistic" manga is no big deal. It's just another style.

Yes, but if Takahashi had actually talked to Akane enough for them to 
know each other by aquataince (sp?), then Takahashi-sama would've told 
her if it were to be a serious or a silly manga.  I doubt Mrs. Takahashi 
is one to just do something to someone's life without their permission 
or at least without telling them first.

?????: And besides, Real Life sucks as it is.  We don't need people
reminding us of that.

Does not.

Maybe yours doesn't.

Huh?: And besides, even if Mrs. Takahashi based it on someone's life,
the instant that life goes onto paper, it's instantly open for
alterations and such.

So that means Akane shouldn't be upset about it?

Well, maybe a polite letter asking if this was what was intended or so.  
Besides, this kind of rash thinking makes her more and more like the 
violent girl she is in the serious.  If she's this vicious in a letter, 
sooner or later, she WILL hit someone.  And then, she'll be just another 
hypocrite.

C-chan: Frankly, Akane should be happy about the manga.  If she 

really

IS the basis for the story, she could get part of the profits.  And

That argumant carries some weight.  On the other hand, her boyfriend
should also be getting part of it.  After all, he's the title
character!  Yet he's still broke.  Hmmm, maybe we've discovered the 

real

reason that Akane is mad.

Maybe.  Then again, perhaps the idea wasn't thought out fully.  I mean, 
if this was actually going on, wouldn't someone being trying to sue Mrs. 
Takahashi?  In which case, it can be proven that with so many 
inconsistances between her real life and the manga Akane, that there is 
no correlation and thus, there is no reason for Akane to be complaining 
since it's not about her.

-- 
Matthew Campbell 
E-mail me at mgcampb@clemson.edu

"For the engineers among us who understand that the obvious
is not always the solution, and that the facts, no matter
how implausible, are still the facts..."

Sorry if I made you mad, I was acting rashly.  I apologize to everyone 
because I was just as whiny as I try not to be.

Ben McCrillis

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