...Umm, I hope this comment doesn't repeat. I was mostly done writing this reply, and then lj freaked and seemed to have erased it...urgh >____>
Also was wondering if pixie dust = sand. Or Robin might be Wendy, swept away by the eternal boy in the straw hat...
The influences on OP are many and varied, and I love the unique twists Oda-sensei gives on them. One of the first things in the series that really made me go, 'huh, now that's a cool idea' was Usopp's variation on the boy who cried wolf - it's an oft-told story, an old lesson, but I'd never seen this before, the liar protecting his honor by making sure his lie remains only a lie.
I've wondered, too, if I might be missing references to Japanese stories, because I'm not familiar with them. It is interesting that Oda-sensei knows so many Western stories. And it probably does make OP more accessible to a Western audience, though I don't think 4Kids was really looking at the series at all...just the money made off it. >_>
And I've thought myself that Crocodile is a James Bond villain! Only even more evil...he doesn't leave obvious escape routes. That's not the real key. And he doesn't leave the murdering up to his hapless henchmen, either...you can't blame him for being flabbergasted at Luffy's survival...
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Date: 2004-06-11 02:56 pm (UTC)Also was wondering if pixie dust = sand. Or Robin might be Wendy, swept away by the eternal boy in the straw hat...
The influences on OP are many and varied, and I love the unique twists Oda-sensei gives on them. One of the first things in the series that really made me go, 'huh, now that's a cool idea' was Usopp's variation on the boy who cried wolf - it's an oft-told story, an old lesson, but I'd never seen this before, the liar protecting his honor by making sure his lie remains only a lie.
I've wondered, too, if I might be missing references to Japanese stories, because I'm not familiar with them. It is interesting that Oda-sensei knows so many Western stories. And it probably does make OP more accessible to a Western audience, though I don't think 4Kids was really looking at the series at all...just the money made off it. >_>
And I've thought myself that Crocodile is a James Bond villain! Only even more evil...he doesn't leave obvious escape routes. That's not the real key. And he doesn't leave the murdering up to his hapless henchmen, either...you can't blame him for being flabbergasted at Luffy's survival...