Path: ccsf.homeunix.org!ccsf.homeunix.org!news1.wakwak.com!nf1.xephion.ne.jp!onion.ish.org!onodera-news!newsfeed.media.kyoto-u.ac.jp!headwall.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews1.google.com!not-for-mail From: scott34494@yahoo.com (Scott Dubin) Newsgroups: japan.anime.evangelion,rec.arts.anime.misc,uk.media.animation.anime Subject: Re: Just what is so special about Rei Ayanami? Date: 21 Jun 2003 16:17:59 -0700 Organization: http://groups.google.com/ Lines: 43 Message-ID: <887734a2.0306211517.5e7781fa@posting.google.com> References: <20030621141410.678$yU@news.newsreader.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: 68.83.233.157 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: posting.google.com 1056237480 20601 127.0.0.1 (21 Jun 2003 23:18:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: groups-abuse@google.com NNTP-Posting-Date: 21 Jun 2003 23:18:00 GMT Xref: ccsf.homeunix.org japan.anime.evangelion:5870 marshall@astro.umd.edu (James Marshall) wrote in message news:... > In article <20030621141410.678$yU@news.newsreader.com> "Ralph Wade Phillips" writes: > >"Daniel Rudy" wrote in > >message news:CmTIa.179$lM3.45@newssvr19.news.prodigy.com... > >> Somewhere around the time of 06/20/2003 21:49, the world stopped and > >> listened as Ralph Wade Phillips spoke these words of wisdom...: > > >> > !AND! hadn't checked out Toy's drawing, at > >> > http://www.toyboxarts.com/gallery/numbers/pages/tb13e.html (just so you > >> > can enjoy). > > I'm sure I've seen that link in the other discussion, but I'm not sure if > I looked at it then or not. Man, that skirt is awfully short, as if it > wasn't short enough to begin with. ;) > > >> > "Isn't he one of the bad guys" indeed {snicker} > > OK, I know you folks said you're doing this as a tease, but you do all > know that "bad guys" is normally used in the general sense to mean any > person on the side of evil, not specifically bad males, right? :) > > > MY only gripe - well, twofold - is 1) she's one of the baddies, and > >2) she's only in two episodes. > > Well, the good/evil thing doesn't matter a ton to me, but yeah, it would > been nice if she was on the good side instead. I totally agree that > seeing her in only two episodes wasn't enough. Yura was awesome -- great > body, outfit, and the dub voice was a great fit, too. I was disspointed > to see she had a rather minor role and only got two episodes. :( > > > Of course, she DOES look like Nabiki from Ranma (not surprising), > >and so I can always watch Ranma for more of Yuri ... > > Hmm, maybe I should consider getting Ranma. :) Actually, I had been > thinking about getting Ranma 1/2 anyway since it seems to be such a well > known series and I don't think I've ever seen it. I think it's rather > long though and I'm not sure I want to buy that many DVDs for a single > series (same reason I probably won't end up buying Inuyasha). Ranma 1/2 has no overall storyarc, just a bunch of different adventures. You should be fine just buying the first season and no others, the first season is the best anyway.