I remember a Training from Hell from The Mask Of Zorro, where the Zorro-in-training is doing pushups above a collection of candles, while the old Zorro is resting his legs on top of the former's back.
The words above are to be read as if they are narrated by Morgan Freeman.I remember the previous image. It is the first panel of this page
. A much better image, if you ask me. No idea why it was pulled.
The current image was decided in a crowner, if memory serves me right, though.
edited 14th Mar '11 6:24:43 AM by Heatth
Someone can locate the thread?
The words above are to be read as if they are narrated by Morgan Freeman.Went through all 13 pages of Image Pickin' : can't find the old thread.
"Your kindness gives me the presentiment I can be reborn. Now, I want to believe at least in you." - Kaori YaeIn the OP pic, he's doing squat-walking on stairs. Believe me, that's anything but an easy training, as attested in how he profusely sweats.
That said, I did say it's just a demo pic: my plan was to add it in Image Links in the first place.
The Kenichi pic looks okay, but Catalogue's Zorro suggestion sounds really good. The bummer is, I don't have the movie.
"Your kindness gives me the presentiment I can be reborn. Now, I want to believe at least in you." - Kaori Yae^ Are you talking about OP pic or Kenichi pic? If OP pic, not believable. What kind of idiot would stay on public stairs in that position, sweating like that, with a stern-looking, wooden sword-wielding kendoka watching over him? You'd automatically assume he's climbing in that position.
Again, discussion about the OP pic is irrelevant, as it's destined to Image Links, not main page.
edited 14th Mar '11 5:25:19 PM by AceNoctali
"Your kindness gives me the presentiment I can be reborn. Now, I want to believe at least in you." - Kaori YaeMaybe he may not be on the stairs right on the pic (which I disagree), but he's facing towards the stairs: he's, at least, obviously walking towards them. You thus can assume he's going to climb them (and the sweating and kendoka above visual clues helps the assuming going that way: if he wasn't climbing the stairs, you'd assume the kendoka would have no point in being on top of stairs), even if you don't know the context.
3rd time: This is Image Links pic material, not main one. Can we go on searching pics for main page now, please?
"Your kindness gives me the presentiment I can be reborn. Now, I want to believe at least in you." - Kaori Yae![]()
Indeed, I also did not understood exactly the 'from hell' in the OP image. However, I have to agree with Ace that it is better then the current image. We can, at last, see the 'training'.
Any more comments on the Ken'ichi image? The previous thread was probably already deleted since it was quite old, so we can't know why it was pulled in the first place. In the current time, however, does anyone have any objection to this image?
edited 14th Mar '11 5:35:42 PM by Heatth
On the pic in the OP: It looks to me like he's sitting in front of the stairs, not climbing them.
The Kenichi pic is much better.
Reaction Image Repository^^ Kenichi pic is the best available pic so far, I agree.
Nobody has The Mask Of Zorro on hand here? I don't remember the movie exactly, but Catalogue's suggestion at post n°2 sounds good, according to what he says. Google failed on me for finding a pic of it online: I'd love to see that scene to see if we could get a good pic out of it.
"Your kindness gives me the presentiment I can be reborn. Now, I want to believe at least in you." - Kaori YaeThat looks like a Training from Hell all right, although the quality might be lacking. Definitely Image Links material.
The words above are to be read as if they are narrated by Morgan Freeman.Does anyone have a shrunken version of the Kenichi pic? Maybe it will look terrible smaller. If it still looks good, I think we should go with that one. Kenichi is basically the most triumphant example of Training from Hell, after all.
On second thought, the anime would probably have a clearer pic. That scene was in the anime, completely unchanged. Just, you know, in color.
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.If anyone can get a higher Rez pic of this it would work quite well.
EDIT: attempted to scan the panel from my copy... [1]
◊ Thoughts?
edited 18th Mar '11 9:04:26 PM by Raso
Sparkling and glittering! Jan-Ken-Pon!I'm with Deboss. The rocks draw the attention too much. I still say a color Kenichi would work.
Writing a post-post apocalypse LitRPG on RR. Also fanfic stuff.
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Seeing the Training from Hell article, there's something that bothered me...
I know very well Dragon Ball (one of my first anime back in the beginning of The '90s, and one of the first manga published in France and that I read), so I know the example shown... But, take out the knowledge-of-the-work googles, and what I see is a terrified kid chased by a T-Rex.
Here's an example of a replacement pic that's a step in the right direction, although I'm sure there exists even more extreme training examples out there:
(350 px image, click-right => display pic)
edited 14th Mar '11 5:19:30 AM by AceNoctali
"Your kindness gives me the presentiment I can be reborn. Now, I want to believe at least in you." - Kaori Yae