I adore this book. I adore 5 too, and 7 and 8, and yeah, basically everything from 5 onwards is just relentlessly good, and keeps on hitting you with thing after thing. I still go 'Wow' at some of this stuff, no matter how often I look at it.
he's such a complex character, that Priest.
Guess I must be in that kind of mood, 'cos I'm going to rant now. It's my LJ, so I can and nobody can stop me XD. Wolfwood is not a Priest. He never was a Priest, not even in the anime where ep 23 strongly suggested he actually was a genuine clergyman. He's certainly not in the manga; I somehow doubt the Eye of Michael was in the business of ordaining Christian ministers of any denomination. It is a ruse, a guise - even Vash can't keep a straight face at the end of volume 5 when Wolfwood describes himself as a clergyman.
I know I'm fighting a losing battle here. The mistranslation of the word 'bokushi' by the anime translators has permeated the entire western fandom, and it's existence in the anime has leached straight through into the mangaverse. The fandom will never be free of Wolfwood the Priest. But he's not, dammit!
I will stop ranting now - it's safe! Mostly I've learned to sigh and ignore it, but sometimes I have to vent. It's not you personally, you just happened to catch me in pedantic mode XD
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Date: 2005-04-07 03:13 pm (UTC)he's such a complex character, that Priest.
Guess I must be in that kind of mood, 'cos I'm going to rant now. It's my LJ, so I can and nobody can stop me XD. Wolfwood is not a Priest. He never was a Priest, not even in the anime where ep 23 strongly suggested he actually was a genuine clergyman. He's certainly not in the manga; I somehow doubt the Eye of Michael was in the business of ordaining Christian ministers of any denomination. It is a ruse, a guise - even Vash can't keep a straight face at the end of volume 5 when Wolfwood describes himself as a clergyman.
I know I'm fighting a losing battle here. The mistranslation of the word 'bokushi' by the anime translators has permeated the entire western fandom, and it's existence in the anime has leached straight through into the mangaverse. The fandom will never be free of Wolfwood the Priest. But he's not, dammit!
I will stop ranting now - it's safe! Mostly I've learned to sigh and ignore it, but sometimes I have to vent. It's not you personally, you just happened to catch me in pedantic mode XD