Nicholas Leifker <nightelf@thekeep.org> wrote:

The multiple-fiancee thing is canon - in the anime.  If I count correctly,
there are at least four Genma-made engagements shown in the anime - two in
the Kaori episode alone - with more implied.  

Hate to break it to you, but most people don't have the combination of
time, money, resources, and education to get and use all 38 tanks.  To
them, the anime IS canon, and the characterizations formed by such should
at least be respected.  That might be depressing to you, but it's the truth.  

Depressing? No. I happen to *prefer* the manga as a much more consistent
source, but if people insist on using the anime, that's up to them.

Okay, so if this is anime continuity, we're up to four instances. Still
not the hordes and hordes that you sometimes see in fanfic, and it was
only really a "pattern" as a joke at the end of one episode, but yes,
it's more than two.

Now, Deedo can use whatever characterizations she wants. But it's
legitimate for me as a reader to ask whether the ones she's chosen work
in the story. In this case, I thought it didn't; it wasn't funny to me
because I'd seen it too many times before in fanfics.

Maybe you felt differently. Maybe you were rolling on the floor during
that scene. If so, you have a perfect right to say so. But kindly don't
try to tell me what I can and can't say.


Gary