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== [[Sailor Nothing]] ==

 

* If it ''was'' really an anime made in Japan, the American references could be included to appear cool and exotic, like the Christian references in ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]''.

*** This would be much the same thing as the characters' dialogue being rendered in English instead of Japanese. I'm certain Japan has some similar form of emphasizing an important word. I'm also certain it would be incomprehensible to most English-speaking readers. (I tried to make this go under the capital T truth complaint, but it didn't work... or did it?)

**** I believe the closest written Japanese equivalent is to write the word in katakana. Certain words are always written in katakana (e.g. foreign words), but it's also used with other words as a form of emphasis. In some cases also, a foreign word may be used in place of a Japanese word to change the sense of it, though precisely how this changes the feel/meaning may vary.

* Sailor Nothing is not fan fiction, so no Ami is not Sailor Mercury. As for what happened to her, {{spoiler|one of the villains brutally tortured her and and made her into something like a combination music box dancer and marionette.}} If you're wondering what his motive was, {{spoiler|it was a combination of [[For the Evulz]] and to make sure the heroines would be determined enough to destroy him and the rest of the villains}}.

 

* She's simply ''that'' filled with anger and rage. Considering that a human on an adrenalin rush can push a car off someone...

* All is explained in the last few chapters of the story: {{spoiler|it's not that she's strong, it's that with the strength of will she gets in her [[Unstoppable Rage]] her very touch becomes an anti-yamiko weapon - the amount of actual strength required is no more than that to tear wet tissue.}}

 

 

* It could be a modern thing, like "Sailor," but that wouldn't explain Radon. (Or Cobalt, for that matter.)

* A parody of [[Theme Naming]] seen in anime, like how the villains in the first season of [[Sailor Moon]] were named after minerals.

 

What's with the fixation on rape?

* I thought it was because rape is a manifestation of both desire and power, which are two basic impulses that drive the id. Naturally, the yamiko would go for rape. And as for Shin's uncle, he was just a bastard.

** There was only one rape in the story, and one in backstory. A higher proportion than one would expect in reality, but hardly a fixation by the standards of dramatic fiction.

* It's not the quality of the insult, but the attitude behind it. It wasn't just that these kids were insulting her, but they were pretty much doing everything within their power to make her miserable. As such, their weak insult becomes associated with all the mean things they've done over time. There are a lot of insults in history that might have originally been very weak or even a valid description, but became associated with hatred over time.

** I was simply taunted as "flea bag" in grade school. Weak. Except I heard it every day. And it was how I was introduced to new kids. A handful of pebbles can start to really sting, used right.

* It's the 'hen' part that's important. Translated, 'hen' just means 'strange' or 'weird,' which doesn't sound to bad to us. But in Japanese, it's a bit more harsh to use that towards somebody. Or at least that's what a Japanese instructor told me.

 

 

* Who says magic can't be oogie-boogie? Plus, if you don't provide a logical explanation for magic, [[Fan Dumb|people complain]] it's all an [[Ass Pull]]. Look at how many times in these pages people refuse to accept "It's just MAGIC!" as an explanation.

** As [[Star Wars|Randy Stradley]] put it, "When you define, you confine." Since there can be no realistic explanation for the powers the Sailors, Yamiko and Dusty display, and the story tries to be realistic overall, the only way I see to avoid pissing off a considerable chunk of readers is not to offer any explanation at all, prompting the reader to come up with explanations that satisfy them (anything from [[A Wizard Did It]] to [[Imported Alien Phlebotinum]] to... more controversial stuff, if desired).

** I thought the explanation was very good. It's a deconstruction of the magical girl genre. You can't leave the magical part unexplained.

 

The whole thing with Shin's dark half bugs me. Killing Yamiko because they do bad things is ok, but killing humans because they do bad things is not. Bigotry and double standard much?

* [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|But a common one]].

** Ah, but in the case of Shin and her uncle she wasn't able to press charges against him making the possibility of a fair trial moot in that case.

** Human teenage girls fight uncontrollable monsters who try to kill them. Of course they're going to see them as subhuman.

So just to be clear... were we supposed to accept as a given that ''nothing'' except sailor magic could hurt Yamiko? I'm not going to pretend that things would be pleasant without the sailors to fight them, but I don't think that the entire species would be in chains within the week should they all die. Humans are remarkably good at crafting weapons with the power to kill something far stronger than a human and are very even adaptable enough to adjust their tactics to tricks such as "The enemy can teleport" and "The enemy can turn your people against you, once per person" (hint: sleep in shifts). That goes double if Shin/Kotashi could expose the details of their enemy's abilities early in the game.

* Perhaps it's not that sailors are the only ones who can hurt them, so much as the only ones that can detect them. Yamiko are at least smart enough to avoid any unnecessary attention in the human world, and aren't about to go take on the military. Sailors, on the other hand, notice them as soon as they appear, and go take them down. In fact, they take them down before anyone else can take action -- if they weren't there, chances are the military ''would'' get involved. It's been a long time since I've read the series, so I don't remember which character said that only sailor powers could defeat them, but the only characters in a position to say that are Radon, who would say that regardless of whether it's true or not, and the priestess, who is probably completely unfamiliar with modern weaponry and would thus assume that sailor powers are stronger than anything available.

* It's important to note that the main source for the "all of humanity would be doomed without the Sailors" postulate is Argon, who is far from a credible source. It's not like lying or hyperbole are concepts too evil for him. Also, {{spoiler|it may have just been yet another attempt to ensure that the Sailors would have the resolve to kill him and the Dark Queen.}}

* Without the sailors to detect and kill them early, they could very quickly amass a huge army. This army would have certain advantages over human militaries. They'd always have a place to retreat to instantly, always have perfect intelligence due to being near-perfect spies, slowly develop super powers, be some level of invulnerable, and be perfectly able to steal and use human weaponry on their own, including things like missile launch codes. A lot of yamiko would die in the process, but I'm willing to bet the human race would be pretty well screwed.

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