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You should know this if you have ever watched anime what I mean when I say an excited nose bleed It is a visual symbol for attraction and lust, generally by a male. Predominantly used as a gag.
In anime females blush prettily when they are romantically touched by the situation. What do males do? Well, one answer is that they become so aroused that they bleed from the nose. This may range from a drop to a literal gout, which certainly looks weird the first time you see it. Silver isn’t actually attracted to Shauni in this case, but as the avid anime fan he is, he concluded the situation needed an explosive nose bleed. Even if it was tomato sauce in a sashay.
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Straight from Wiki:
“The kimono is the national costume of Japan. Originally the word 'kimono' literally meant thing to wear but now has come to denote a particular type of traditional full-length garment.
Kimono are T-shaped, straight-lined robes that fall to the ankle, with collars and wide, full-length sleeves. Kimono are wrapped around the body, always with the left side over the right (except when dressing the dead for burial)and secured by a wide sash called an obi, which is usually tied at the back. Kimono are generally worn with traditional footwear split-toe socks.”
The kimono’s design only allows dainty movements, thus preventing large strides which Shauni is reminded of in the first panel. Shauni has commented on her displeasure of the constricting garment before.
The following series of actions that follow panel two here are traditional scenes leading up to an action sequence with a fighter wearing a kimono. It is all in aid of quickly freeing a hand for combat as the nature of a kimono isn’t really suited for combat as it’s traditionally warn.
To quickly free there hand, the wearer pulls his hand through the sleeve of the kimono. This requires considerable pressure to force the arm threw if it is a woman performing the move as the sash is located higher than on a man. The freed arm is then brought around underneath the underarm. The wearer inserts his hand threw the space between the chest and the kimono, finally pushing his arm forward and thrusting off the kimono in one deft move. The empty shoulder hangs limply over the sash. Here is a clip of Auron from FF 10 doing the exact same thing, except his arm is already free from the sleeve.
Shauni is wearing chest binding over her bra as Yomikko’s kimono is a little to small for her. Also, instead of all the traditional layers to a kimono, Shauni is just wearing shorts. I don’t blame her either, theses about three or four layers to a kimono, and it looks like it’s warm in Onett.
Enjoy the comic, and I hope I see you all next week!
Regards
Shauni
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Okay guys, this comic follows on directly from where we left off at the Onett Holy Ground. We are finally back to the main characters after nearly 2 years! Yay! Hopefully this chapter will see the end of the battle that’s been going on for THREE years. Okay, that’s enough self loathing about my crappy updating schedule over the last year…now, onto randomness!
Seeing as how there's no topic on my mind today that would make for interesting reading, I've decided instead to finally do the movie review I promised ages ago, in an effort to ensure you don’t die of boredom, or god forbid, stop reading the ravings of a mad woman.
I’ve been promising a review of the movie Ironman for a while.
Ironman is an okay movie. Wait, what...? You were expecting more than that? But that involves effort....okay, okay fine, stop throwing things at me.
What first drew me to the film was my friend John Goth. He likes Marvel and apparently the movies sound track was by a band he loved, so, with nothing else on and no good weather to speck of, we went to the cinema. I was kind of excited to see it since I had heard good reviews...however, after watching the firm I was left tarn on my opinion. On the one side, the film had excellent CGI, a decent premise and a good few laughs that completely caught me off guard (i.e I burst out laughing from sheer surprise). On the other hand, the story telling was sub par, most of the characters except Tony didn't really DO anything and the whole thing left me thinking 'was that it?'. All in all, a solid action/ super hero movie, but if you are after any level of depth, you'll be disappointed. Then again, sometimes you want to see two giant robot men battling it out. It’s what kind of mode you are in I guess. Watch it one rainy afternoon on DVD.
Regards
Shauni
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