Re: AMG in Megami Magazine Vol.5


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from Sam the man <sam.hay@virgin.net>
subject Re: AMG in Megami Magazine Vol.5
date Tue, 02 May 2000 09:11:59 +0100
[SNIP]
> The only explicit wedding overtone that I saw was in the song,
> Congratulations.  If you reread the lyrics (link below), they don't really
> resolve things any better than the OVA itself does, and besides ... the song
> was present for all five episodes.  If it had suddenly changed to
> Congratulations for OVA 5 alone, I might see reading something more into it.

I doubt many people who read the manga saw the overtones. But I was talking
about the great unwashed, your acquaintances and mine, the non-otaku. :)

I've shown the AMG OVA to an awful lot of people, regular, normal people who
haven't picked up a *western* comic book in their life, let alone read any
manga of any description, and a) they always love AMG, and b) they always
take the ending being a suBtle wedding reference as a given.

So what I'm basically saying is, "Of course *you* didn't see it that way,
you're one of *us*." :)

> I didn't catch your bus reference, BTW.

Take the word 'subtle'. You know it's meaning. (Though, as is well
documented by the rest of the world, Americans in general don't. ;) Now say
it again but pronounce the silent 'b', so that it sounds more like
'sub-tle'. The meaning of this pronunciation is the opposite of 'subtle', as
in about as subtle as an oncoming bus. It's a commentary, reactionary thing.
An irony thing. (Another thing widely regarded as being unknown to
Americans. :) Now notice that 'sub' spelt backwards conveniently spells
'bus'. Hence the term "suBtle with a capital Bus", where the 'b' in 'subtle'
is voiced.

(This reminds me of the time Chris had to explain why he'd said of Kenji
that "he never stole a freight train". I got the idea that in the time
before I arrived on the ML we'd been regaled by Kenji of a time when he in
actual fact stolen a freight train.)

Sam the man


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