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@ 2008-10-16 23:53:00
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Show #64 - Guin Saga Roundtable
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Music: Conan the Barbarian theme by Basil Poledouris, Berserk music "Forces (God-Hand Remix)".

  • Vertical has published the first 5 novels of the Guin Saga, the 120+ volume fantasy series that inspired Berserk and other Japanese fantasy in a Tolkien-esque way (that is to say, Kaoru Kurimoto inspired Japanese fantasy as much as Tolkien inspired the genre in the West, but Guin Saga is not in itself Tolkien-esque).
  • 3-4 Guin Saga volumes come out every year in Japan
  • The author also publishes a few other books, cleans the house, and is a regular on a quiz show (Specifically Hinto de Pinto). And she's a literary critic. And she's a composer. And she composed a musical based on the Guin Saga that has been performed in Tokyo.
  • Kurimoto-san married the editor of the sci-fi magazine that first published Guin Saga.
  • Noah vocab: Phatic. "A Phatic Experience."
  • Guin Saga is the "Mother of Light Novels," along with the Vampire Hunter D novels.
  • What is a light novel anyway?
    • Short and Fast read
    • Has illustrations
    • Usually "genre" but not always
    • There's often a psychic
    • "Feats of the imagination"
  • Guin Saga is soon to be an anime series from Aniplex
  • Guin Saga is translated by Harvard graduate and fantasy fan Alexander O. Smith (who probably edits his wikipedia page about himself retracted, see below).
  • We're all glad about the Viz Big editions of Vagabond.
  • Yoshitaka Amano got famous in part for his Guin Saga covers!
  • Noah and I recommend King Naresuan 1 & 2 (but mostly 2). We're looking forward to part 3.
  • Finally at about one hour and 17 minutes Dungeons and Dragons comes up. That's one hour and 15 minutes longer than it usually takes for Noah to start talking D&D!
  • Is the leopard headed fighter in Tekken a Guin reference? Or a Tiger Mask reference?
    • UPDATE: Since Guin was first published in 1979, it post-dates Tiger Mask by 11 years. HOWEVER, as it turns out, before Tiger Mask was a Japanese pro-wrestler, it was actually a MANGA! Who knew???

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[info]lostphrack
2008-10-17 07:35 am UTC (link)
Would it be possible to get a scan or photo of the full color spreads from the books? Everyone sounded really impressed when they were brought up and I'm all curious about what they look like.

I forgot how good the Conan soundtrack was.

I think Tiger Mask predates Guin. Apparently the manga came out in '68. Also, personally, I think the Tekken characters, King, is most likely a TM references. They're both professional wrestlers wearing cat masks and all. That said, the TM mask in the manga/anime, Kings mask in Tekken, and Guin's mask do look a lot alike which is kind of odd.

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[info]ninjaconsultant
2008-10-17 01:11 pm UTC (link)
Full color spreads... do you mean from the Japanese editions of the book(s)? I don't think the Vertical ones have color spreads - unless you mean the cover art?

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[info]lostphrack
2008-10-17 09:03 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, from the Japanese editions!

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[info]ninjaconsultant
2008-10-19 07:04 pm UTC (link)
I don't own any of those! Maybe if you did some google image searches? Although I'm not finding much...

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[info]naniwa
2008-10-18 03:18 am UTC (link)
Nice! I must listen to this ASAP.

Oh and it looks like you have personally met and in some cases hung out with most of the beings in my Mt Rushmore of American Masters of Manga.

Yani, Carl, Jason, Alvin (you met him in SDCC when we talked/kissed Tekkon... i did the kissing you did the talking in disgust)... All you need is Matt Thorn, Toren Smith and Fred Schodt. You should make pins for all of them.

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[info]ninjaconsultant
2008-10-19 08:03 pm UTC (link)
By Alvin do you mean the Del Rey guy they call Ali, or someone else...?

And Kurt's not on your list?

Yes, Toren Smith and Fred Schodt get pins for sure! You also request one of Lillian Diaz-Przyby, I think.

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[info]coldfireserge
2008-10-18 07:35 pm UTC (link)
I really enjoyed this episode. You guys may not come out come out with episodes as regularly as others, but they are all quality.
I just hopped onto Amazon and ordered all five books.

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Yani- great voice and eloquence
(Anonymous)
2008-10-23 10:00 pm UTC (link)
This was fantastic. I can't imagine anyone listening to this podcast who would not want to read these books. What a great intelligent dialogue.

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Re: Yani- great voice and eloquence
[info]ninjaconsultant
2008-10-24 04:28 am UTC (link)
We think this comment was left by Yani...

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Re: Yani- great voice and eloquence
[info]froglartbge
2008-10-24 05:45 pm UTC (link)
No, apparently (and in the interest of full disclosure), it was left by my mom.

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Wikipedia entries
(Anonymous)
2009-01-16 07:31 pm UTC (link)
Actually, I *don't* edit my own wikipedia page. I even tried once to correct a listing (I was and still am listed as having translated Star Ocean 2, when I was just an editor on that title) and the wikimasses retracted the edit because, apparently, some game site lists me as translator, and that trumped my own paltry evidence (my own online resume). Viva la wiki! (Actually, don't get me wrong, I love wikipedia, and was gratified to see that someone bothered to put up a blurb about me. Thanks, someone!)

Alex
www.aokajiya.com

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Re: Wikipedia entries
[info]ninjaconsultant
2009-01-19 07:31 pm UTC (link)
Some wikipedia writer thinks highly of you, I guess!

Nice job on those last three Guin books especially!

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