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[Fedora]

Thanks much for the link!--I bookmarked it and will check it out shortly. When you say "Padre Pio" it seems like I've heard him by that name before, just not as "St."

Have you ever read Charles Joseph Quadrupani? He is my favorite writer on Christian living.

[JenB]

Yummy...

3 is one of my favorite episodes, in retrospect - some things are more meaningful after you've seen other things, like in episode 20-something, you see some of the scenes from 3 in a different perspective.

Still, the cute little brothers angsting and in pain is very nice ;-D - Ed in particular angsts really, really well. It's his eyes.

[RosieCotton]

Never heard the name.

[HairOfTheDog]

But he got in a fight because of town! He wasn't the aggressor, he was the defender! I think he counts!

[Fedora]

:-) I didn't really have subtitlephobia :) I used to watch old German movies and Kung Fu movies in subtitles all the time. But I've been so busy lately and when I watch on the computer it ties up my computer, so I've been putting it off.

Yeah, I'm definitely picking up the honorifics from SP--actually that's the main thing I'm picking up, vocabulary-wise. I'm also finding the cadence easier to follow in this than in other animes I've watched, for some reason. I don't understand the words but at least I can hear the "breaks" between syllables/words better, which helps. Once I get that down I figure it'll be easier to tell root words from prefixes/suffixes.

I'm halfway through Episode 6 now. The part in 5 where Pacifica almost died and asked her brother to hold her hand was really touching. I paused at the part in 6 where she's offering the minstrel her arm for her brother and sister's life. . .

BTW I don't know if you saw it, but I had a manga question I posted while you were out I was hoping you could help me with (for something I'm laying out to draw). I was asking if manga typically uses a 1-panel layout on the first page (like US comics) or a multi-panel layout. Also do you know how many pages a typical manga is and is it broken up into "issues" like a US series is?

[Fedora]

Okay, talk to you when you get back! :)

[Fedora]

"Actually, that was one of my favorite movie moments, along with Harrison Ford and the dude in black with the big sword in "Raiders of the Lost Ark"."

That was classic :) I also like in the second movie where he reaches for the gun against the two swordsmen only it's not there this time :)

[Fedora]

He was known for summing up the teachings of saints in a way that made them easy for the average person to apply. This is a really good book he wrote I've gotten a lot out of:

Charles Joseph Quadrupani, How to Love God and Keep His Commandments

[JenB]

Er. Let's see... my manga are packed away. Usually there's a title before each chapter, with a character or something, but then the story starts right away. Panels vary. Usually six - three rows of two - but the panels will be any size/shape/number that fits the story.

Tell you what - a lot of the Fullmetal Alchemist manga is available online. If you want to see what a typical manga looks like, go here and start reading! Just remember that it's read right to left. Of course if you have dialup this could be a little slow, but you should get an idea, anyway.

[Fedora]

Of course if you have dialup this could be a little slow, but you should get an idea, anyway.

Unfortunately, I have dialup :-( But I should still be able to download a few pages to get an idea, so thanks, that should help!

The three rows of two sounds like the same format typical of US comics. I guess maybe the main difference is the division into chapters instead of issues. How long is the average chapter, about?

BTW I was about to mention, the hair and look of some of the characters reminds me of these X-Men characters, leading me to suspect that either X-Men was influenced by manga/anime at the time these characters were introduced (late 80s/early 90s), or else X-Men influenced manga/anime:

Longshot

Gambit

[Professional Engineer]

*Opening up more Fancy Feast*

You sure you ought to be doin' that?

[JenB]

I think chapters vary. Um.. Kenshin, for instance, is usually 9 chapters of 20 pages. Fullmetal Alchemist is 4 chapters of anywhere from 35 to 60 pages. In general, I think the books are about 200 pages long.

[Fedora]

I've been reading Pio's biography--wow. I like this quote, too:

"In order to attract us, the Lord grants us many graces that we believe can easily obtain Heaven for us. We do not know, however, that in order to grow, we need hard bread: the cross, humiliation, trials and denials."

[Overtaxed]

Hehehe....the way to get on the good side of the cat is to do what the cat wants, when the cat wants it.

[RosieCotton]

Sophia Press? Hm...my brother worked for them briefly. Wonder if he's read any of Quadrupani's books.

[Professional Engineer]

Devil Dog, checking in.

[RosieCotton]

Cute kid ya got there, too!

[Fedora]

Intersting. 20 pages is about the same as a single issue of a US comic. 35-60 would be similar to a "giant-size" format that was popular in US comics for a brief period but fell out of favor because it wasn't cost-effective; and curiously, in this format the comic was usually divided up into chapters and/or multiple stories.

I'm checking out the FMA site now. It's actually downloading at a reasonable speed :)

[Fedora]

"Sophia Press? Hm...my brother worked for them briefly."

Cool :) What'd he do for them?

[Fedora]

Yikes! That reminds me of the dog from "The Omen" :)