That favourite characters meme recently...

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I forgot a few really important ones. Can I have a number eleven on that list?

11. Kenji Endo; Otcho; Yoshitsune (Naoki Urasawa: 20th Century Boys)

(Yes, three characters instead of one. I can't possibly choose between them. I don't know why I forgot about them in the first place... probably because I forgot to catch up on the manga for so long. *ashamed*)

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Heh.

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Here's the mangaka himself singing his main character's song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cth3QHUDF_I&feature=related

One of the stranger... tie-ins I've encountered, I think.

Random geek fact about me:

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I have the manga page of this scene up on my wall above my desk:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UMmhdf9-Z8&feature=related

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Hee! I love how many replies this created... ;)

Wikipedia claims that the final film was released in August 2009 in both Japan and the USA, but...maybe it didn't happen? At least in the UK foreign films or films that don't do excellently in the US are always being shelved, pushed back for release or sent straight to DVD...

I do understand that worry about how well it'll translate into a movie. I'm not even a particularly huge Harry Potter fan and while I love the "look" of the movies I often find myself disappointed by the stuff they left out (okay, that's a problem in some movies more than others).

I do know that apparently it was some epic undertaking of filmmaking in Japan, though again, to compare to HP, that doesn't necessarily mean it will be what you want it to be.

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Hehe, yes, I've rediscovered my 20th CB love big time, it seems. Spent nearly all night rereading the books. Well, or rather, I spent the night *beginning* to reread the series - I only managed a couple of volumes, of course. This will probably take a couple of weeks or so.

I have so much love for this manga. I think it's actually one of the few really long-running series (in any medium) that has a satisfying ending. Not perfect, but not a monstrous let-down, you know? (Anything that long is bound to have *some* unsatisfying answers and some untied strands at the end, I think.)

Mainly I love it for the characters, though. Even if aspects of the story fall flat, the characters - their arcs, their development, but also their basic personalities - are things of beauty. And it's all the quiet-but-awesome character moments, the ones that for me really *make* the manga, that I doubt will have been translated to film.

I spent a lot of time leafing through the volumes yesterday night, finding again a lot of my favourite moments. I'm probably going to post some of those, one of these days. (Easy enough, nowadays that you can just link to onemanga.com. *g*)