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June 26, 2007 at 12:00 AM
Ok, I had to leave another review about the flame from "GreenTeaLeaves". I just read it, and that review was so completely ridiculous. This is fanFICTION. . . . .HELLO! And I have to agree with you: A.This is YOUR story, you are the writer, ergo it is written the way you want it to be. B.Some ppl have this great thing called a life, it sometimes gets in the way of spending hours researching "The Entire History Of Japan and Europe and the Interactions of the people therein" and lets not forget the ever fascinating "Japanese and European Fashion Styling for the Past 1500 YEARS". If someone doesn't like a story, well let me give them a hint on how to handle this situation, DON"T READ THE STORY ANYMORE!! I swear some people can be so incredibly idiotic sometimes that it just comes off as pathetic. Anyway, I will end by saying once again that I love this fic. I read it when it was first posted before the rewrite, and I like it both ways. But I have to admit, I really like the new direction you're taking it in. Kudos to you!
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June 25, 2007 at 12:00 AM
ummm... I think you need a little bit of a history lesson. Inuyasha takes place around, what, 1500? The first westerners to step on Japanese soil were a few Portuguese adventurers aboard a Chinese ship that landed at Tanegashima in 1543. Excepting what the Inu-tachi might have learned from Kagome herself, no one in Japan knows the west even EXISTS. Naraku would have no way of knowing about England. Christopher Columbus, heartless prick though he was, died in 1506, if that gives you any perspective on the timeline. Da Vinci finished the Mona Lisa around that time, too. This is BEFORE the Spanish subjugate Mexico, before Martin Luther gets his Reformation on, before the really dire parts of the Inquisition, before the Ottoman's attempt siege on Vienna, and before King Henry the Eight and all of his wives. This is really freaking long ago. Much of the world was unknown, even to the "civilized" nations of the West.
Furthermore, I think you'll find that European fashion at the turn of the 16th century was quite different from what you have described.
If you had a really good plot device that accounted appropriately for the total lack of ANY lingua franca, massive culture shock on both sides, her likely refusal to eat Japanese food, Naraku's aspirations upon realizing that the world exists outside of feudal Japan and coastal China, and so forth, it could be interesting. However, you don't. There are a variety of books and online resources cataloging how the Japanese regarded the westerners, and vice versa, upon first encounter. When the first Japanese to ever set foot in America did so, in the very early meiji period, they had many hilarious and often unkind things to say about the ugly white people with their silly mannerisms and indecent women. You include none of this. (As We Saw Them is an amazing historical analysis of this trip.) Feudal era Japanese people would be even more bewildered. On the flipside, the Westerners had their own disparaging opinions of the Japanese for quite a while, though Japan gained popularity during the Rennaisance because Marco Polo lied and made them out to be incredibly wealthy.
History is important, yo. It SERIOUSLY fucks up your story that you have an Englishwoman in Japan before any European nation ever landed there.
/history rant
Furthermore, I think you'll find that European fashion at the turn of the 16th century was quite different from what you have described.
If you had a really good plot device that accounted appropriately for the total lack of ANY lingua franca, massive culture shock on both sides, her likely refusal to eat Japanese food, Naraku's aspirations upon realizing that the world exists outside of feudal Japan and coastal China, and so forth, it could be interesting. However, you don't. There are a variety of books and online resources cataloging how the Japanese regarded the westerners, and vice versa, upon first encounter. When the first Japanese to ever set foot in America did so, in the very early meiji period, they had many hilarious and often unkind things to say about the ugly white people with their silly mannerisms and indecent women. You include none of this. (As We Saw Them is an amazing historical analysis of this trip.) Feudal era Japanese people would be even more bewildered. On the flipside, the Westerners had their own disparaging opinions of the Japanese for quite a while, though Japan gained popularity during the Rennaisance because Marco Polo lied and made them out to be incredibly wealthy.
History is important, yo. It SERIOUSLY fucks up your story that you have an Englishwoman in Japan before any European nation ever landed there.
/history rant
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June 21, 2007 at 12:00 AM
:( I was sad that's all I could read for now, but I can't wait for the next update so I hope you udpate asap please.
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June 21, 2007 at 12:00 AM
yes that chapter was good and i can not wait for the next chapter of the story and see what happen next to kagome and see if she get his arm for him . up date soon.
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June 21, 2007 at 12:00 AM
Oh, this was getting good to. I always new Inu had a softer side, he just doesn't show it enough. Can't wait til you update.
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June 12, 2007 at 12:00 AM
OMG! This chapter was so sad that I cried. All I have to say is that you better give Kagome and Sesshomaru a happy ending or I am gonna find you someohow and shred you to pieces. That being said, I love your story and hope to God you write soon. Please don't ever stop writing because you have a true gift. I have yet to find a single grammatical error and that is a feat in itself. Keep up the good work and don't let anybody tell you different.
Seren1tystar01
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June 12, 2007 at 12:00 AM
right when it getting good... no more chapters
please update soon
please update soon
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June 12, 2007 at 12:00 AM
right when it getting good... no more chapters
please update soon
please update soon
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June 5, 2007 at 12:00 AM
the story is real good and i like it and i can not wait for more of the story and see what happen next on in the story. up date soon.
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March 5, 2007 at 12:00 AM
so glad you're feeling better! my husband had to try a lot of different meds until he found a 'fit'.
i was enjoying the 'dark' story even though i don't really get into dark and angsty horror (preferring humor/drama/adventure/fantasy/romance/fluffy stuff) it was a very well written and descriptive story... and it didn't make me afraid and give me nightmares (i was reading 'the shining' alone i my apartment and there was a wasp/hornet in my kitchen and i freaked out. i couldn't sleep without a light for a week after i finished the book). so if you want to lighten it up a little it would be just fine with me.
thank you,
ginny
i was enjoying the 'dark' story even though i don't really get into dark and angsty horror (preferring humor/drama/adventure/fantasy/romance/fluffy stuff) it was a very well written and descriptive story... and it didn't make me afraid and give me nightmares (i was reading 'the shining' alone i my apartment and there was a wasp/hornet in my kitchen and i freaked out. i couldn't sleep without a light for a week after i finished the book). so if you want to lighten it up a little it would be just fine with me.
thank you,
ginny