Thread:Ashleyien/@comment-918376-20150707020140/@comment-918376-20150708025625

Long-winded and rambling? That makes for the two of us. Just look for my LHFF Rants on LHFF and you'll see some of my rants (that I cut down so it would be easier to read).

I honestly wouldn't be surprised if Tetora's in college. In my opinion, a lot of her mannerisms are pretty obviously faked/acting because she's totally immersed in "playing" her part as an idol. Mikakage, the small blonde Druid, is around college-age (she's in a specialized culinary school, which I'm assuming is post-high school) despite looking nothing like it. Nureha's only in high school, putting her in the same age group as Serara, Shoryuu, Isuzu, and William. All five of them have very distinct personalities and interests from each other due to their past experiences. I think Rudy's around 19 years old; he's the oldest of the "kids". (It might just be me or just Hara's art evolution, but I feel as though he 'aged' the most in the illustrations, between volume 3 and volume 8. If that's true, though, then that opens up some possibilities for depressing fics where Rudy realizes that his friends' bodies won't really change at all, while his continues aging since he's still a Lander.)

Mamare isn't exactly the most punctual updater or the most consistent publisher, so there can be months or years between publications depending on his pace. Occasionally, there are relatively huge gaps in updates.

I imported one Japanese BD, the first one for S2. Never again. It's so expensive. Don't get me wrong -- it was worth it for all the bonus material it had. But it was around $56 for the BD alone, and then shipping was another $12 or so. It's a nasty price to be spending on a show, and the bonus for purchasing all 8 or so BDs just isn't worth it. I'm not interested in getting Sentai's BDs; if I was buying anything for the anime, I'd still rather import the Japanese ones, since they have more bonus content. Most of the best extras are limited to the first press (which is why it's so expensive), but it's better than getting next to nothing from Sentai's.

My longest fic, Let's Go Adventuring, Okay?, hasn't gotten all of LH's members yet (since the focus is on the Tea Party members). But I rarely ever use Japanese honorifics in my own writing. It just reads oddly, which is probably why I'm fine with Yen Press translations -- some people criticize the fact that they drop the Japanese honorifics, but I honestly believe that it wouldn't make sense for them to keep them. I keep the 'nya' like you do. 'Mew' or 'meow' just doesn't make sense when his name is Nyanta.

In my LHxFE8 script, Naotsugu calls Maryelle "Mari". Akatsuki calls Shiroe "my liege" just because Lord's an actual class in-game. It's kinda weird having to replace almost all mentions of "Krusty" to "Krescentius" (with the exception of when Rayneshia, Pianississimo, or William say it, since they call him Krusty), but I don't think I'd be able to take the script seriously if people in-game were saying "Prince Krusty" with a straight face.