Amazing what one can realise on a bus

[puddingcat]

The scene where Omi shoots his brother bugged me since I watched the episode at the weekend, and not *only* because of Omi's appalling hand position.

He uses a compound bow, but not a trigger release.

Considering (a) the detail in the animation of all other technology (identifiable cars & bikes, accurate brake systems, etc - if I still shot I reckon the bow would have been an actual model as well), and (b) the whole character / storyline thing, that just doesn't fit. An assassin should use the most accurate tool for the job; i.e. a trigger release, not fingers. And if he's skilled enough to hit someone through the windscreen of a fast-moving car, he should be skilled enough for his hand to end up by his shoulder, not flopping around in midair.

I reckon he should have used a bow sling, too - but I shot recurve and can't remember whether compound archers use them.

< / archery geek >

Comments

[vampwillow]

I didn't know what "WK" was so clicked-in.

It was *definitely* interesting to me (even though I wasn't in the required category) ;-P

[daegaer.livejournal.com]

That's very interesting! I know a lot of WK fans stress the cracktacular nature of the anime (and cracktacular it most certainly is), but it does some things very well - I really like the odd, stylised fight scenes and the slow-building introduction of Schwarz, for example - and it's fascinating to know the technology-depiction is so good as well, despite the sometimes shaky quality of the animators.

I wonder if there's meant to be a characterisation reason for Omi's choice there (as opposed to the writers thinking it looked more dramatic)? I mean, all the other characters look like stylised anime young men, while Omi looks like a little kid till the scene where he's being beaten by Hirofumi, and it's clear that he has (as he should) the physique of a late teenager who has been a trained assassin since he was eight - which makes me thikn that Omi purposefully plays down his age in a sort of creepily pathetic way. (Till he wants to seem older of course, when he wears his terrifying disco suit - have you reached the episodes where he starts wearing the horrid smock-thing yet? It's like he forgot to change after his night off of picking up skeevy older men).

[mami-san.livejournal.com]

Ehh, I like this discussion about Omi. It's interesting, as is the talk about the bow. The only bow I halfway understand is the Japanese kyudo bow, so I accepted Omi's weapon in a tra-la-la sort of way. His kiddiness was a little harder to swallow after a while.

If you still can't get the Gluhen eps 12 and 13 from somewhere and want them, I could up them to a different file sharing thing for you, but they're .rm format for realplayer. Would that be okay? I'm afraid if the "those few in the middle" are between 1 and 6, I couldn't offer them, because I don't know how to rip VCDs. *is dumb* 7-13 are all .rm format.