* I can't for the life of me figure out if it should be 'tankoubon' or 'tankoobon'. This sort of thing is exactly why I hate bad transliteration techniques.

I've been watching the dub scenes involving Mana, and honestly, they're painful. They changed her whole character! In the original, she was very devoted to Mahaado and spent most of her time thinking and talking about him. She looked up to him and wanted to always be there with him, and so was obviously heart-broken when he died. In the dub? She's so far spent most of her time talking about Atemu, and the scene after Mahaado's death...well, it's truly awful.

Firstly, here's the original:

This is an issue which has been nagging at me for a while.I know that a lot of sites will remove fanfiction stories and artwork which depict underage characters involved in sex. When it comes to prepubescent children, I understand, because...duh, pedophilia. But...

When dealing with a fanfiction set in, say, ancient Egypt, where the common marriagable age was twelve for girls and fifteen for boys, what does the site's decision become then? And the age of consent varies greatly in different states and countries (I'm not sure of the age, but I'm pretty sure it's a good bit lower in Japan than in the different US states), so how does a website deal with that issue?

So of course for an example...Atemu is confirmed in the anime as being fifteen, which is marriagable age in his time period, and being royalty those rules were fuzzier anyway (loads of Pharaohs were married at younger ages). If Atemu gets married in your fanfic, he's going to have sex. Or let's say someone's writing Atemu/Bakura in ancient times- Bakura is quite a few years older than him, likely in his early twenties. In my ancient stories Atemu is fifteen and Aishisu twenty-two. I don't know if in GfaT they'll have time for sex or not, but if they do then, yes, they'll have sex. If I ever did that ridiculous full series AU, they'd get married and have sex and possibly have a kid because they hate me...

Would a website like, say, ff.net feel the need to remove a story because of such an age difference, or would they not care since both are adults by the standards of their society? I've yet to hear about any stories removed for that issue, and hey, I've seen plenty of stories where Atemu has sex. But I'm wondering. Some authors do feel the need to heavily emphasize that the characters having sex are all legally adults...in the states the authors live in. Is that really an issue?

From writing Atemu, that is. And so much for that conviction- last night while showering I got a plot bunny, and this evening I started writing it... It's a one-shot exploring how Atemu came to the decision to use his name as the seal on Zorc in ancient times. It's almost complete right now, so I expect to finish it up at 2k before bed.

Pharaoh? After this you're taking a break and letting some other characters take the spotlight, okay? I've got Mana/Mahaado back-story to write, and as usual my ridiculous epic which refuses to be completed and is worse off length-wise due to the re-write.

I'm also too hungry to figure out if that is a run-on sentence or not.

Yay! Banzaaai! *celebrates quietly but exhuberantly* The poetry one-shot is finally complete and posted!

I wanted to post it here, but it's too large and I'm too tired to make multiple posts....zzz.... If anyone interested it's up here. At least it will be in an hour or so when it decides to display.

Now I'm going to bed...nnn...nemui yo....