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AceNoctali A lil' bentô ? from France Since: Nov, 2009
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#1: Mar 14th 2011 at 5:18:14 AM

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

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#2: Mar 14th 2011 at 5:29:55 AM

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.
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#3: Mar 14th 2011 at 6:18:57 AM

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

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#4: Mar 14th 2011 at 6:22:23 AM

[up] I think it was decided in a previous thread, too.

Catalogue A pocketful of saudade. from where the good times are Since: Sep, 2009
A pocketful of saudade.
#5: Mar 14th 2011 at 6:33:08 AM

Someone can locate the thread?

The words above are to be read as if they are narrated by Morgan Freeman.
AceNoctali A lil' bentô ? from France Since: Nov, 2009
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#6: Mar 14th 2011 at 2:14:42 PM

Went through all 13 pages of Image Pickin' : can't find the old thread.

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Deboss I see the Awesomeness. from Awesomeville Texas Since: Aug, 2009
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#7: Mar 14th 2011 at 3:09:27 PM

I prefer the Kenichi picture.

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#8: Mar 14th 2011 at 3:57:46 PM

I prefer the manga one. The OP's... I dont get the hell part. It's a small stairway. Big deal.

AceNoctali A lil' bentô ? from France Since: Nov, 2009
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#9: Mar 14th 2011 at 5:10:04 PM

In 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
DragonQuestZ The Other Troper from Somewhere in California Since: Jan, 2001
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#10: Mar 14th 2011 at 5:12:55 PM

You can't tell he's moving. He actually looks like he's resting from that angle.

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AceNoctali A lil' bentô ? from France Since: Nov, 2009
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#11: Mar 14th 2011 at 5:22:24 PM

^ 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 Yae
DragonQuestZ The Other Troper from Somewhere in California Since: Jan, 2001
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#12: Mar 14th 2011 at 5:25:16 PM

From the angle, you can't even tell he's still on the stairs. He could be just below them. That's what I thought when I saw it. So just because you know what's going on does not mean it's "not believable" for others not to.

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Ghilz Perpetually Confused from Yeeted at Relativistic Velocities Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Barbecuing
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#13: Mar 14th 2011 at 5:29:32 PM

I agree in the OP, it looks like he's sitting at the bottom of the atairs, and the stairs are half a dozen feet ahead of him.

AceNoctali A lil' bentô ? from France Since: Nov, 2009
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#14: Mar 14th 2011 at 5:32:33 PM

Maybe 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
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#15: Mar 14th 2011 at 5:34:41 PM

[up][up]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

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#16: Mar 14th 2011 at 5:41:41 PM

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.

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AceNoctali A lil' bentô ? from France Since: Nov, 2009
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#17: Mar 14th 2011 at 5:55:33 PM

^^ 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 Yae
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#18: Mar 14th 2011 at 6:03:07 PM

Gimme an hour to track down my copy and get a screenshot when I have time.

Ghilz Perpetually Confused from Yeeted at Relativistic Velocities Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: Barbecuing
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#19: Mar 14th 2011 at 8:25:28 PM

Kinda dark and hard to see
Tried to brighten it.

edited 14th Mar '11 8:30:40 PM by Ghilz

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#20: Mar 14th 2011 at 8:37:54 PM

That 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.
Discar Since: Jun, 2009
#21: Mar 18th 2011 at 8:24:27 PM

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.

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#22: Mar 18th 2011 at 8:41:55 PM

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

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Deboss I see the Awesomeness. from Awesomeville Texas Since: Aug, 2009
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#23: Mar 18th 2011 at 9:33:43 PM

I'm not a fan of Negima because the rocks drew all my attention.

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#24: Mar 20th 2011 at 8:30:58 PM

I'm with Deboss. The rocks draw the attention too much. I still say a color Kenichi would work.

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Heatth (X-Troper) Relationship Status: In Spades with myself
#25: Mar 20th 2011 at 8:55:49 PM

Does it need to have colors? It was that image that made me want to read Ken'ichi in the first place and I surely didn't missed any color back then. I also could understand it very well.

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