From: sunniechan@comcast.net   
      
   I am, in fact, alive.  No sooner did I get nearly caught up then   
   something bad happened.  Our apartment was broken into this week, and I   
   just haven't been up to PGSM or pretty much anything that doesn't   
   involve freaking out over the fact that strangers were in my home taking   
   things, and worrying they might return for more.   
      
   You know, in case anyone noticed and wondered.   
      
   Anyway...   
      
   Rick S wrote:   
   > Phoenix  wrote in   
   > news:v7rbs2tkg66hm4p84e5psdn8tqe21lid21@4ax.com:   
      
      
      
   >   
   >   
   > I really hate Mio, she bugs me, but I guess that's what she's supposed to   
   > do, so, I guess she's doing a good job!   
      
   What bugs me most is that mouth of hers.  At least she's half, so it   
   makes a bit more sense that she has a huge, Western mouth akin to Julia   
   Roberts.  It looks kind of odd on her though, at least in PGSM (she   
   looks better in other places I've seen her, quite lovely really).  Then   
   again, quite a few of the girls look mildly unattractive compared to how   
   they look in other sources (Mew in particular).   
      
   That aside, I just don't like two-faced characters.   
      
   (except for a certain character in Revolutionary Girl Utena ^_^)   
      
      
   >   
   >>Luna Tsukino (Wikimoon's designation for Luna in her human form)   
   >   
   >   
   > Hmmm, well it means 'of the Moon' right? as opposed to being Usagis   
   > sister. So I guess it's ok.   
      
   Well, the kanji used for Tsukino (and Hino, Mizuno, Kino) isn't the   
   possessive no (which is written in hiragana), but rather the kanji for   
   "field".   
      
   >   
   >   
   >>attempts to enter the Crown using one of the year-long passes, but   
   >>Motoki won't let her by. Motoki and Luna argue over whether she is too   
   >>young or not to enter alone. But then Makoto shows up and gives Motoki   
   >>a smile and all is well. I think that smile would have been hard for   
   >>anyone to resist ^_^ (So how has Luna been getting in before?)   
   >   
   >   
   > Motoki is still wearing Mokotos muffler.   
      
   And Luna called him Kamekichi.  Heh, he deserves it. I agree that no one   
   could possibly resist Makoto's smile there.  Very cute.   
      
   >   
   >   
   >>After school, Mio approaches Usagi and manages to get Usagi to   
   >>acknowledge her as a friend, playing on Usagi's good nature of wishing   
   >>to believe the best of others and to have them be friends with her.   
   >>Usagi gives a mental apology to Minako for betraying her.   
   >>   
   >>At the secret base, the girls are practicing Bushido chopsticks   
   >>training with a little wind cannon shooting colorful flower petals   
   >>into the air. I think you're suppose to do this with flies, but that's   
   >>likely a bit too disgusting for something as bishoujo as Sailor Moon   
   >>^_^   
   >   
   >   
   > I've seem those things advertised somewhere. Never known anyone to   
   > actually own one yet.   
      
   I just kept thinking of the Karate Kid while watching them try to catch   
   those things.   
      
      
      
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   > Of all the ballet-fu attacks, I hate this one the most. Mostly because of   
   > Mokotos half flip and then returning to where she started. What an   
   > incredible waste of time and energy. I wonder if during shooting the   
   > youma was supposed to be in place so it would look like she kicked him,   
   > but it wasn't and this move just bugs me no end.   
      
   That was just awful.  I stared at that going, "what was the point?"  Ugh.   
      
   >   
   > Lets call it 'Mercury tractor beam attract'   
   >   
   >   
   >>Luna tells Mercury to remember her   
   >>chopsticks training and tosses the weapon back to her.   
   >   
   >   
   > Oh, I thought she was referring to the tractor beam that she just   
   > learned.   
      
   I too thought she was referring to what Mercury felt at that moment as   
   she used that magic rather than the chopsticks training.   
      
      
   >   
   > Next time, Minakos first live appearance.   
   >   
   > By the way, in the last Oshiokiyo they mention that Ayaka has an accent   
   > or dialect different than the others. (It all sounds the same to me) It   
   > seems she pronounces some words differently and one of them is Artemus.   
   > Miyuu mentions that she says Artemis rather than Artemisu.(She says when   
   > little kids immitate her, they either fall over or say Artemis).   
   > Anyway, I don't get why she SHOULD say Artemisu, they don't add the u to   
   > any of the other names, why is Artemis different???   
      
   The thing is, that with the exception of certain words that end in 'n',   
   Japanese words all end with a vowel sound.  Notice that Nephrite's name   
   is usually pronounced "Neprhite-O", Kunzite is pronounced "Kunzite-O",   
   etc, particularly when the person speaking doesn't have a great grasp of   
   the fact that it shouldn't have the "o" at the end.  The name Artemis   
   when spelled in katakana would be romanized as ARUTEMISU. It's just   
   notable (I guess, I haven't had time for the oshikiyo segments yet)   
   because she's pronoucing it correctly, I guess, while the others are   
   forgetting to swallow the "u".   
      
   Sunnie   
   ~Currently relieved that the anime collection didn't get stolen~   
      
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