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Not really; she was really able to get to Revy. Fabiola is someone who knows how awful the world can get but chooses to have values because they matter to her. And Revy, desperately and impotently, wants to believe that who she has become was an inevitability of her conditions and not something she chose to be.
edited 30th Aug '13 5:39:35 PM by Scherzo09
These are the words that shall come from my mouth. I shall be known for speaking them.Well I think one of the reasons I liked Roberta's blood trail is characters like Fabiola, and I feel the overall tone kinda showed that it isn't as nihilistic as it sometimes appears to be; its just this really murky grey; and that people aren't intrinsically evil but can easily become that way.
These are the words that shall come from my mouth. I shall be known for speaking them.@Scherzo 09
Bro. Stop referencing the Black Lagoon Roberta Blood Trail OVA. Much of that material is non-canon and doesn't reflect the main material from the manga which is the appropriate source. Revy isn't shaken by Fabiola's words one bit. If anything she's peeved by her ungratefulness, and Garcia's after Rock went out of his way to help them.
"I don't give a rat's ass about going to hell. I guess it's because I feel like I'm already there." -Mugen
IDC, the anime is what I've watched. It's the canon I've been following, so everything I've said has been true about that. I'm sure as fuck not going to read all of Manga arc.
If anything, if what you're saying is true than I prefer the anime to it, because I like that it paints things as being less nihilistic. And even if Revy wasn't fazed, Fabiola still stood her ground in the manga too. And actually, now that I think about it, the bits of the new Arc I've read sort of show that Fabiola's comments about Rock have gotten to her, so I feel that is true to the manga there.
Anyways, don't obsess over canon, I'm just talking about what I've seen.
EDIT: Actually reread Fabiola and Revy's conversation in the Manga; even there it does seem like Fabiola gets to her, though she keeps up the facade. The only things the anime adds are the nightmare sequence, Revy arguing with Rock, The Spec Ops team capturing the general but then losing it to the CIA, and a different epilogue. I generally think the anime is an improvement (I love Eda's politicking and getting more of the human side of Revy), but the one thing from the Manga I wish they'd kept was Caxton having to shoot down one of his troops.
edited 2nd Sep '13 2:55:09 PM by Scherzo09
These are the words that shall come from my mouth. I shall be known for speaking them.See, that's part of why authors nowadays are the way they are.
In any serious line of professional work, you are expected to deliver your work in time. That's a basic principle of professionalism, one most jobs can and will easily fire you on if you don't meet those parameters. If you feel you can't meet those requirements, or they are unfair, then fine, but then don't get into that line of work in the first place. Doujin authors and fanfiction writers are excused because they aren't being paid for it and they are doing it only because of their hearts' desire, but part and parcel of being a professional is delivering well, on time and regularly.
edited 29th Sep '13 9:29:43 AM by NapoleonDeCheese
Depending on the publisher, the editorial department grants a mangaka certain leeway on releases, especially if said author has some "cred" in the business already. This is the main reason why Togashi's somehow managed to stay on Jump's payroll despite the stunts he's pulled with Hunter X Hunter, why Miura's still puttering along with Berserk despite regularly stopping due to IDOLMASTER game releases, and how Ritz Kobayashi's Saki has managed to stick around in SQ-Enix despite her erratic posting schedule (Saki went from weekly, to bi-weekly, to something like a single 14-page chapter a MONTH, to bi-weekly again, and back to monthly due to Ritz's operation).
It's not hard to imagine that BL's being given some space too, especially with the row that happened in the previous magazine that it was published in.
edited 29th Sep '13 9:43:10 AM by MyssaRei
Togashi has a very good reason, since his health is continuously frail and faltering.
Miura allegedly has self-confessed psychological issues, which is a very big thing to admit in Japan.
Anyway, while publishers shouldn't retake the slave driving system of yore, giving charte blanche to authors is just as bad an idea in the long run. It ultimately leads to the fandom becoming smaller and more centered on circles of patient hardcore fans, rather than keeping the attention of the average readers, which the medium needs so badly now.
edited 29th Sep '13 9:48:19 AM by NapoleonDeCheese
Well I feel at least Hiroe's consistent; he went on Hiatus and didn't give a fake timeframe of when he'd be back, and since he's come back he's been releasing chapters every month. I guess what annoys me is, if there is to be an S3, its looking to be several years away, since the PRC arc has produced two episodes worth of material, three if you're being reeeeally generous.
edited 30th Sep '13 12:01:08 AM by Scherzo09
These are the words that shall come from my mouth. I shall be known for speaking them.

I think this series really deserves a recap section. It's not as long-running as some of the others that received recap pages so Archive Panic won't be as much of a problem as it'd be for some other series. Either way, there's a lot of interesting stuff that deserves a closer look.
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