Whaaaaaaaaaaah! It's hard to write this fic but I do it anyway!! :has writers block: bear with me! I'm NOT dropping this fic! I think we've had enough sad and mushy stuff for now, let's have some fun!
Lololololololololololololololololol!!!!!!!!!!!! -see end notes to see what I'm laughing about.**
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Warning: I was in a really strange mood when I wrote this. Well, I've proven that I can write well!!! That doesn't mean I have to… right?
Disclaimer: If I owned Rurouni Kenshin, WHY would I be writing fics?! Does George Lucas write Star Wars fics? I don't think so! Anyway… this proves I don't own Rurouni Kenshin.
Vocab
Misao-taichi- Misao and everyone
Genki- energetic (happy-ish)
Datte- but
Iya! … Nanda mo nai!- Nothing! Not a thing!
Naze- Why?
Bakayero- idiot (at least that's how it sounds like it should be spelled)
Kitsune- fox
Mou- jeez (I'm no longer translating things twice)
Shinai/Bokken- one's a bamboo sword and one's a wooden sword, but poor MaraJadeblu-dono doesn't know which one's which @.@, can anyone help her out? :sounds like 'Blues Clues':
Ee- feminine affirmative
Ano…- Um… or Excuse me…
Ore mo iku- I'm going too. (Notes at bottom)*
SOMEONE PLEASE SUGGEST A BETTER WAY FOR ME TO DO THIS!!! :goes insane writing translations: Some are justified… but others… I mean, ack!! Ano and nani are basics!!!
Nani?!! - What?!!.
Chikisho!- Damnit!
Tanuki buuuuuuuusu! - Racoon/ Ugly old hag!
Chapter 6: Goodbye! :tear:… :strange look: Part II!!!
I finished the last letter, the one to Misao. I had my letters for Sanosuke and Megumi with me. Unlike the letters to Tae/Tsubame and Misao-taichi, the letters I had for Yahiko, Megumi and Sano were from me personally, and they were not explanations of my disappearance.
I was disappointed to see that Yahiko had already left in the morning. He wasn't going to stay to say goodbye. In fact, he had packed all his stuff. It was true, there wasn't much left at the dojo for him… and he was angry… but man was I going to miss that little pain in the ass. I really would have rathered that I had left while on relatively good terms with him but I supposed it couldn't be helped. I couldn't postpone leaving.
This was the morning I was to leave. The morning we were to leave. I repressed the fourth sigh I had almost let out in the past minute and a half. No! I snapped at myself. Genki! I must be genki! Besides, it wasn't so bad… I would still have Kenshin. I needed to grow up! It wasn't suitable for a girl my age to cry so much and be so dependant. I shouldn't need comfort. I didn't need Kenshin to treat me like a child; I didn't need to be fussed over!
I sighed.
I refused to be sucked back into some sort of pathetic crying fit. Megumi had taught me that lesson back when Kenshin left me. I couldn't just mope. I needed to be strong. Otherwise, it was a waste of precious time to sit around skulking. I have things I need to do.
Like pack. Let's see, I have my clothes, undergarments, toiletries, pictures, some of my dad's old stuff, my knick-knacks, different shoes, the things my mother left me, lots of bokken and shinai, my training gi and hakama, my wind chimes and every single ribbon I've ever owned. There; all the necessities. After some consideration I thought that maybe I had packed a little too much, Datte- the more I bring… the less I'll buy! I smiled.
As I packed I tried not to think about what the things I was bringing meant to me, or what the things I was leaving behind meant to me.
"Kaoru-dono… do you really need so much stuff?" Kenshin asked as he carted away Kaoru's multitude of luggage… on his back.
"Why are you complaining? You offered to carry it! I'm carrying most of it anyway," Kaoru responded as she lugged her largest bag of luggage full of clothes over the ground.
"But you're bulkier than I am de gozaru."
WHAM!
The luggage Kaoru was struggling with was suddenly lifted off the ground with ease and slammed full force into the red headed rurouni's upper half.
"Oooorooro…" came the muffled sound of Kenshin's voice from under everything Kaoru had ever owned. After restacking they trudged once more into the woods where the ship was. Kenshin kept silent but thought angrily, It's so like Sano to abandon me with Kaoru to do the work. :Shuffle: He's probably sleeping late right now. :Pull: Sure, leave the small guy to carry all the stuff. :Drag: "He's superhuman… besides the limits of his '5'3, twenty-four inch waist' frame he could lift mountains" :Glare: Sanooooooo… :Heft:
"Kenshin, what are you glaring at?"
"Hm?" Kenshin looked up confusedly, he sweatdropped when he realized he had narrowed his eyes and glared intensely at an invisible Sano walking leisurely in front of him with the total added weight of a fishbone to carry. Nervously he dropped one of he bags he was carrying and his hand went behind his head, "Iya! Hehehehe… Nanda mo nai!"
Kaoru's eyes became murderous and triangular with a slight twitch, "You just dropped my mother's favorite vase…"
"Oro?!" Kenshin gave the dropped bag a terrified look.
After a long pause he added, "Why do you have that anyway…?"
Kenshin and Kaoru stood outside the ship with the luggage and waited for their friends to come so that they could say goodbye. From off to the right they finally heard the sound of some yelling.
"Sano! I'm telling you you're wrong you idiot! It's this way!"
"Yer headin' west! We need to walk east! It's that simple, you dork!"
"Sano, what direction does the sun rise from?"
"East, naze?."
"The sun's rising from over there bakayero!!"
"That's why we need to go west!"
"YOU JUST SAID WE NEEDED TO GO EAST!"
:looooooong pause:
There was a crashing sound as Katsuhiro and Sanosuke finally plowed through the last bush in between them and the ship. Katsu's eyes went wide and shaky at the sight of the futuristic metal vehicle. His jaw dropped.
"It's like I told ya'" Sano said as he patted Katsu's shoulder and walked pass the amazed man gawking to stand in front of Kenshin. "Sorry for being late and all. I was just talking with Katsu and time flew… before you knew it he had us lost in the woods." Kaoru raised a skeptical eyebrow and Kenshin sweatdropped.
"Man Kenshin, you look like shit, what happened? Fell into a ditch?"
-.-x Kenshin gave him an annoyed disbelieving look.
"Sano why-" Kaoru started.
"SANOSUKE! Get your butt over here NOW!" Everyone looked confusedly at everyone else. Was that just Megumi's voice?
"Kitsune?" Sano looked towards the yelling part of the woods.
"Well?" Although the bushes were in the way, everyone could almost see Megumi put her hands on her hips.
It was the perfect chance for Sanosuke to gain the fox-doctors affection, the perfect time to do something nice and charming and-
"Why don't YOU come over HERE?" With his head held high, Sano blew his chances.There was a sound of a struggle and a bunch of snapping noises. "Mou! Sano you are the biggest, most immature pain in the ass-"
"And you're asking me for help?" Sano commented disbelievingly on her choice of words.
Megumi grunted, there was another snap, a large thump and then Megumi's body poked out of the shrubbery. She was struggling to pull something will all her might but it wouldn't budge.
Kenshin-gumi sweatdropped. "Umm… Would you like some help Megumi-dono?"
Megumi's head swung to face him; she looked at him with triangular angry eyes and flames seemed to spring up around her, "No thank you," she said with a fanglike deathly voice.
To Kenshin's right he had another unhappy customer, "So you'll help her but you complain and insult me when I need help?!" Blue flames and triangular eyes ensued on Kaoru's part.
"Orooooo…" Kenshin started to back away slowly.
"What are you dragging?" Katsu asked.
"Don't you DARE run away!" Kaoru yelled. Somehow she had acquired a shinai.
"Oro!" Kenshin ran… smart little boy… Kenshin ran.
Megumi calmed, "It's my trunk."
"Trunk?" everyone asked, even Kaoru who had been busy beating Kenshin over the head while holding him by his gi. She let the swirly-eyed man drop and looked quizzically at Megumi.
"Ee, trunk."
"Ano, Megumi-san… why do you have a trunk?" Kaoru asked what everyone was thinking in a very confused way.
Megumi flipped her hair; "I'm coming with you, silly."
Everyone's mouths hung open and they had small surprised dots for eyes. As a delayed reaction Kaoru fell over. Question marks floated amongst the crowd.
"Why are you so surprised? I suppose one more adventure before I return to Aizu is a good idea. Normally I wouldn't, but you see," her eyes became sparkly, "I have the chance to really make amends for what I've done. I can learn how to be a better doctor in the future. In fact, I might become the best, most well educated, foxiest doctor in Japan! ^~.~^ Ohohoho." When she opened her eyes she looked at Kenshin levelly, "Then I can return to my family with pride." Kenshin's confused eyes finally lost their confused glaze and popped back into understanding.
Kaoru could hardly make a sound, but she finally spit out about the third (and easiest to say) thing she was thinking, "Who said you could come?" Somehow Kaoru managed to put pride into that statement while on her side on the ground.
Megumi shot her an evil look that warned her of DOOM! Um… yea…. "I've already spoken to Soiya-san about it. Not only did he say there was no problem in bringing me, but he also assured me that he could pull strings to get me into a medical school. It's so nice to have love sick men do whatever I tell them."
Sano and Kenshin frowned. Kenshin frowned because Dom seemed way too happy go lucky with putting his friends lives on the line. The less people that came the better, Shouldn't there be a restriction on messing with the space time continuum de gozaru ka?
"Ah… right…" Sano added, on of his hands went behind his head and he looked distractedly towards the spaceship. "I almost forgot. Ore mo iku."
"NANI?!!!!" Everyone except Katsu and Sano promptly fell over.
When are they gonna say their damn goodbyes and leave?! I thought with severe annoyance. I looked at the bags anxiously from my hiding spot behind one of the legs of the ship that holds it up. Kaoru and Kenshin were still standing too close to the bags for me to risk it, Where the heck is Sano?!
Right on cue I heard a crashing in the woods and then that large dolt's voice yelling directions or something. Kenshin and Kaoru turned their attention that way luckily and I made a stealthy run for it. Sano wasn't even out of the woods yet by the time I had reached my chosen large bag of Kaoru's stuff.
The bags were under the ship and shaded pretty well right next to where the platform would descend. I opened Kaoru's bag and almost blushed. There were all the contents of her clothes and underclothes! But no, I was too cool to blush.
However, I had to consider this, both the clothes and I couldn't fit in the bag (it was already overstuffed). I took a large armful of garments and carefully stepped away from the luggage. As unnoticeably as I could I dumped the clothes behind the nearest bush. Luckily, I repeated this action about six times without getting caught when I could finally fit in the bag. Then I ripped a hole in the side and peered out to see what was going on.
Everyone had just asked a question or something. Megumi answered them, "Ee, trunk." I furrowed my brow, what are they talking about?
"Ano… Megumi-san, why do you have a trunk?" Good question, I added to myself.
"Blah blah blah- I'm coming with you." I almost shouted out angrily. Wait! Megumi gets to go, but not me?! What the hell is that?! You can just go and say, "ooh, look at me, I'm going!" and go? Then why am I sitting here in Kaoru's clothing with limited air looking through a rip in a bag?
I listened for possible answers, "Blah blah blah blah, blah blah, blah blah blah. Blah, blah blah blah, blah blah blah blah… Blah- I've already spoken to Soiya-san about it. Not only did he say there was no problem in bringing me-" So that was the key! I had to go behind Kaoru and Kenshin's back and ask the foreigner guy! Damn!
Then Sano started saying something that ended in "Ore mo iku."
"NANI?!" I yelled from inside the bag. They were all going to leave me behind? Everyone?! Chikisho!!! I at least thought that Kenshin would get Sano to take care of me or something but Sano was willing to just leave me here? Why that stupid-wannabe-ahou-CHICKEN! Before I knew it I popped out of the bag and stormed toward the fallen Kenshin-gumi.
Oroooooo… Sano too?! Kenshin thought from his spot on the floor. Hey, wait a second… he gave me the impression he would be taking care of Yahiko! "Sano," Kenshin lifted himself up. After long consideration of what words he should say he came up with, "Why are you coming?"
Sano sprouted fangs, "And why can't I?"
Kenshin put his finger up in the air, "Because you said you were staying here with Yahiko de gozaru."
Sano faltered, "U---h---… I knew that! Bring him then!"
Kenshin smacked his forehead with a defeated sigh.
"Oi!!!!!!" Yahiko yelled as loudly and annoyingly as he could manage. Well, that finally got their attention. "So everyone can go but me?"
Kenshin looked right and left for help- then 'eeped' in an 'oro' way when he realized none would come. "Well… it's not like we knew they were coming de gozaru… he he he…"
Yahiko twitched, "So I take it I'm going after all?"
Kenshin sweatdropped.
Kaoru to the rescue!!!! "Yahiko- why are you here spying on us?"
Now it was Yahiko's turn to sweatdrop. He couldn't very well say "I was just hanging around, sitting in piles of your underwear." Well, he could, but then she would kill him. Umm… must… save… ass!! he thought frantically, "I was… too… um… angry to say goodbye but… I wanted to watch you guys leave." He looked down to hide his shame at lying.
Kaoru blinked. She was surprised to find just how glad she was that he was that Yahiko had wanted to say goodbye to her. Her brow furrowed and slowly she walked over to the boy that had become something less than a son and more than a younger brother to her. Kaoru couldn't help but smile and bend down to try and see Yahiko face to face. Finally, when Yahiko did look up, she couldn't help but give him an unexpected hug.
Kenshin suppressed a groan, There's no way I'm going to win this de gozaru. Yahiko's safety may be at stake, but I just can't win! It's not that I want to leave him. That's not it at all. It seems every time I try to keep my family safe they choose to hurl themselves into danger de gozaru yo. He sighed as he pictured a scene where Kenshin-gumi in chibi form came to a forked road with signs. One said DANGER!!!! in large red letters, and the other one said SAFETY ^.^ in large white angelic letters. Yahiko, Kaoru, Sano and Megumi point to the "Danger" sign, smiled and started frolicking down that road happily. Kenshin was left behind at the fork pointing down the "Safety" road with his finger up and looking on helplessly and unnoticed with big round eyes and an open mouth. ***
Yahiko finally pulled away, "What are you doing, freaky emotional hag?!" He looked away proudly.
"What did you just say?!" Kaoru tackled him and held him by his gi.
Everything seemed to be settled and clicked back into place when Yahiko laughed, disappeared and then reappeared behind Kaoru running (with Kaoru not far behind) and yelling, "Tanuki buuuuuusu!!!"
Kenshin sighed, "So what is your reason for coming de gozaru ka?" he questioned Sano.
"DIE! Die die die die die!!" Yahiko and Kaoru ran around the conversing pair.
"Maa, maa…"
"I figured, 'Why not?'-"
"Because you were going to watch over Yahiko until I got back-"
"I could use one more adventure, and anyway I was planning on traveling pretty soon. I might as well go into the future with everyone else, ne? Besides… I can see that now I have to keep an eye on you and Jo-chan- make sure you don't do anything embarrassing." An elbow jutted into Kenshin's ribs suggestively.
"Huh?" After finishing that bright remark something large and hard hit Kenshin in the head. It happened to be Yahiko.
"Take that you-" Kaoru stopped, Damnit! I hit him again! "Gomen Kenshin!"
"Oroooooooooo!" he "responded".
There was a drawn out warning beep that suddenly emitted from the ship that made everyone stop. It was a warning signal for the lowering platform from the belly of the ship. Sawyer was on it with Tackets. The former was sweatdropping but smiling none the less. "I'm afraid one of these days I am going to come back- and you' will all have killed each other. ^.^" Everyone laughed. When the platform reached the bottom Tackets started loading all of the luggage onto the platform silently. "So what have you all decided?"
Kaoru looked at all of her friends lovingly. She let out a sigh but as she turned it was very clear just how grateful she was and how lucky she felt. "It looks like everyone is coming. Kenshin-"
Kenshin couldn't express his extreme disapproval considering he was out cold on the ground in an entangled heap with Yahiko. @.@
"Yahiko…" she said with annoyance and a glare, "Sano," Sano smiled and raised an eyebrow (enough to say "Aren't I just as cool as it gets?"), "Megumi-san and I."
Sawyer smiled in approval, or at least that was what it looked like. It could have been a smile of empathy for Kaoru's happiness, it could have been a bit of hidden envy, it could have been pride that so many people "believed" in his cause (that was unlikely), but nooooooobody knew… It was the biggest mystery in the world!
At that time…
In Japan…
In Tokyo…
In those woods… yea.
Over in the corner under the ship Tackets struggled and sweated over moving the bags. The man was rather out of shape. He was pleasantly surprised to find one of the largest bags was almost completely empty and very light. It was one of those times where life builds you up just to let you down.
"Tackets!" Sawyer yelled with little fangs poking out of his mouth. "You forgot one!" He pointed to Megumi's trunk. Tackets' mouth fell open, his head rolled to the side and he looked as if he was ready to fall over. Serves him right, not learning Japanese and making me do all the work, thought Sawyer.
Kenshin probably would have offered to help, but at the time he was still unconscious with Megumi and Kaoru arguing over how to properly fan him awake. "I've done this thousands of times! Trust me," Kaoru would say.
"Well I'm a doctor and I tell you that you have the wrong angle!"
"Oh, bite me." It continued downhill from there.
Sano, who was saying goodbye to Katsu, could have helped Tackets… "Tackets! Oi!" Tackets looked up dejectedly hopeful that someone would help him… to be hit in the gut with Sano's travel bag. "Arigatoyo," Sano graced him.
Tackets murmured English curses no one understood his whole time trekking back to the platform with Megumi's large and incredibly heavy trunk.
By the time the luggage was on the platform and everyone who was going as well, Kenshin and Yahiko had been revived and therefore could wave goodbye to Katsu. Kaoru had thanked him and given him the letters to deliver and Megumi flirted with him a little… possibly just to make Sano jealous?
Actually, Sano hardly ever got jealous since he had absolutely no claim to Megumi. Megumi just wanted to make sure that they were both VERY AWARE that he had no claim to her.
They were all ready to leave within the hour. Not without complications...
"Sano, I thought you were afraid of stuff like this... you know, technology... metal things that move..." Megumi teased.
"Nice try kitsune, but things really can't any weirder than how they are already. I'm not "afraid". You must he kidding! Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha... :sweatdrop:" Sano looked away embarrassingly.
"You're shaking..."
"Am not!"
As the last thin lines of light disappeared through the crack that was closing and Kenshin-gumi prepared to completely change their life forever, leave behind their world and time, everything they knew... all of a sudden Sano freaked, "OH MY GOD GET ME OFF THIS THING! I JUST KNOW THAT THERE'S FREAKING SCREWY MAGIC INVOLVED IN THIS LET ME OUUUUT!!" He made a dive for the crack but was held back from crushing every bone in his body by everyone from Megumi to Sawyer. (Tackets stood there and hoped that he would crush something vital for that stunt he pulled with the bag.)
"Should I let him off?" Sawyer questioned sympathetically. He was assaulted with two strong, feminine 'yes's and one strong feminine 'no'. Kaoru and Megumi looked critically at Kenshin... who diverted his eyes and head quickly. Sawyer sighed humorously, "Oh, okay. Well in that case:" All of a sudden Sano calmed. In fact, Sano ceased to move. Kenshin-gumi became concerned.
"What did you do to him de gozaru?" Kenshin asked concernedly.
Megumi felt his forehead and checked his pulse, "Anesthetic?"
Sawyer innocently held up a concealed gun-like object and nodded.
"Was that really necessary...?"
Everyone sweatdropped.
And then, all seven of them finally left.
* Ore mo iku- there is a story behind figuring this out, but first, to teach you why it means what it means! Any term for 'I' such as 'watashi' (for girls) 'ore' (for guys) and 'sessha' (for… well, Kenshin) + mo = 'Me too'. 'Iku' is somewhere along the lines of 'to go'.
How I figured this out: I have SERIOUSLY badly subbed Yu yu Hakusho tapes. I was watching the end of the series last night (omg! Goodness :smile: )last night and Botan says: "Watashi mo iku!", which was not translated (bc its so badly subbed). I already knew what "___ mo" meant because of a fic I read, and I knew what "iku" was because I use "Ikuzu!!!!" all the time (I got it from Sano.. you know, "IKUZU!!! KYOTO!!!" {And then… Sano got even more lost…}) And I had heard "iku" used in other animes so I put 2 and 2 together, got 5 and then figured it meant "I'm going too". Which, made sense in the context of what Botan was saying. Ha ha! :is done saying useless stuff: Wait… no I'm not! -
**Kenshin… in English: Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh! I actually bought a legal copy of Rurouni Kenshin!!!! On DVD!!! LEGAL!! ME! I'm laughing at the english version. :is funny: The best voice is Shishio, he's the guy that does the english version of Spike in Cowboy Bebop. Man I love that guy! Kenshin's voice isn't bad, but it doesn't compare with Mayo Suzakaze and the guy can't 'oro' for his life. It's one of the main guy characters with the rather high voice from Pilot Candidates. Sano's voice is pretty not Sano-y. I mean, C'mon, you gots to roll the r's like Yuji Ueda (Sano's seiryuu)!! It's either someone from DBZ or Pilot Candidates. Lessee, who else is funny? Kaoru's voice… is, I think Boma? From DBZ English version :doesn't watch, can't spell Boama- is that it?: It's sooooooo not Kaoru. Chou has a "southern" accent. :cringe: And Soujiro? He's one of the little GIRLs from Pilot candidates!! :wince:
The best part is that not one of them can pronounce Japanese correctly. Jeez, can't you hire a voice coach? I'd do it for free! I watched the outtakes (only some of which were real) and they kept messing up on the names of the attacks. The funniest was of course Ama Kakeru Ryu no Hirameki, which ended up "Ama Kakala blah bleh… damn!" Imagine that from Hiko?! LOL.
The worse part is hearing them say names. Kaoru is now: COWru, Sanosuke is now: SaNOske, Himura Kenshin is now: HeMURE-a Kenshin :sigh: CAMiya CASHin Riyu. (The reason that there is a 'ryu' is to shorten riyu!!! :ack, defeats purpose:) I couldn't bear it long enough to hear anything like Highten Mitsoruji Riyu. Btw, I got only one DVD :is broke: the one with the Shishio fight on it. Less than halfway through the first episode I needed to turn it off.
I finally turned the Japanese version back on when Kenshin's "Ororororororo" turned into "Ah-H-h-H-h-H-h-H-h-H-h!!!!!HhHHh…!!!" during the character special monologue thingies. :sigh: That's why curiosity killed the cat. Myao. :dies: (Don't you dare revive me JadeAnime! If I have to listen to that one more-) :dies AGAIN:
***Note to self… draw this. (Lol, as I was writing this I looked down to my DVD cover at a serious (and shirtless!!!) looking Kenshin. Ahhhh, he of many faces and voices make good shounen. Oroooo… I told you I was in a strange mood. :notice name of chapter:
Someone please shut me up!!! :dies for the THIRD time this rant:
Lololololololololololololololololol!!!!!!!!!!!! -see end notes to see what I'm laughing about.**
Misao-taichi- Misao and everyone
Genki- energetic (happy-ish)
Datte- but
Iya! … Nanda mo nai!- Nothing! Not a thing!
Naze- Why?
Bakayero- idiot (at least that's how it sounds like it should be spelled)
Kitsune- fox
Mou- jeez (I'm no longer translating things twice)
Shinai/Bokken- one's a bamboo sword and one's a wooden sword, but poor MaraJadeblu-dono doesn't know which one's which @.@, can anyone help her out? :sounds like 'Blues Clues':
Ee- feminine affirmative
Ano…- Um… or Excuse me…
Ore mo iku- I'm going too. (Notes at bottom)*
SOMEONE PLEASE SUGGEST A BETTER WAY FOR ME TO DO THIS!!! :goes insane writing translations: Some are justified… but others… I mean, ack!! Ano and nani are basics!!!
Nani?!! - What?!!.
Chikisho!- Damnit!
Tanuki buuuuuuuusu! - Racoon/ Ugly old hag!
* Ore mo iku- there is a story behind figuring this out, but first, to teach you why it means what it means! Any term for 'I' such as 'watashi' (for girls) 'ore' (for guys) and 'sessha' (for… well, Kenshin) + mo = 'Me too'. 'Iku' is somewhere along the lines of 'to go'.
**Kenshin… in English: Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhh! I actually bought a legal copy of Rurouni Kenshin!!!! On DVD!!! LEGAL!! ME! I'm laughing at the english version. :is funny: The best voice is Shishio, he's the guy that does the english version of Spike in Cowboy Bebop. Man I love that guy! Kenshin's voice isn't bad, but it doesn't compare with Mayo Suzakaze and the guy can't 'oro' for his life. It's one of the main guy characters with the rather high voice from Pilot Candidates. Sano's voice is pretty not Sano-y. I mean, C'mon, you gots to roll the r's like Yuji Ueda (Sano's seiryuu)!! It's either someone from DBZ or Pilot Candidates. Lessee, who else is funny? Kaoru's voice… is, I think Boma? From DBZ English version :doesn't watch, can't spell Boama- is that it?: It's sooooooo not Kaoru. Chou has a "southern" accent. :cringe: And Soujiro? He's one of the little GIRLs from Pilot candidates!! :wince:
The best part is that not one of them can pronounce Japanese correctly. Jeez, can't you hire a voice coach? I'd do it for free! I watched the outtakes (only some of which were real) and they kept messing up on the names of the attacks. The funniest was of course Ama Kakeru Ryu no Hirameki, which ended up "Ama Kakala blah bleh… damn!" Imagine that from Hiko?! LOL.
The worse part is hearing them say names. Kaoru is now: COWru, Sanosuke is now: SaNOske, Himura Kenshin is now: HeMURE-a Kenshin :sigh: CAMiya CASHin Riyu. (The reason that there is a 'ryu' is to shorten riyu!!! :ack, defeats purpose:) I couldn't bear it long enough to hear anything like Highten Mitsoruji Riyu. Btw, I got only one DVD :is broke: the one with the Shishio fight on it. Less than halfway through the first episode I needed to turn it off.
I finally turned the Japanese version back on when Kenshin's "Ororororororo" turned into "Ah-H-h-H-h-H-h-H-h-H-h!!!!!HhHHh…!!!" during the character special monologue thingies. :sigh: That's why curiosity killed the cat. Myao. :dies: (Don't you dare revive me JadeAnime! If I have to listen to that one more-) :dies AGAIN:
***Note to self… draw this. (Lol, as I was writing this I looked down to my DVD cover at a serious (and shirtless!!!) looking Kenshin. Ahhhh, he of many faces and voices make good shounen. Oroooo… I told you I was in a strange mood. :notice name of chapter:
