Vampire Knight Novel Arrived!
My copy of the Vampire Knight Novel "Ice Blue Sin" arrived yesterday! :D Earlier than I thought since I didn't think it would be released until next week, much less shipped here all the way from Australia. :D
I already sort of knew the thrust of the first story "Ice Blue Sin", although it made a bit more sense now with a few translation issues smoothed.
The second story "Season of Transience" about Zero and Kaito was very interesting in light of their current relationship in the manga. It is really interesting (and sweet) to see Zero as the gentle little boy who doesn't really want to kill and wishes that Level E's could be saved. It shows clearly how much Shizuka changed him, and not just physically. You can just imagine that his encounter with Kaito's fallen older brother had a huge impact on him later in his life too. Having seen a turned hunter reduced to madness and knowing their ultimate fate had to have been horrible as he felt himself sliding that way slowly but surely in the beginning of the series. :S No wonder he was just sitting there waiting for Yagari to shoot him. *huggles him*
Really, it's sweet, heartbreaking and interesting to realize how much alike Zero and Kaname were as little children. Both were so friendly, trusting and innocent. It makes me wonder so much what might have happened if they had met then, before Shizuka stripped Zero's innocence and Kaname's returning memories and Rido stripped his. I honestly think that if they'd met before then, they probably would have been friends.
I mean we see in the senario when Kaname was little and his interactions with Aido, Kain and Ruka that he was almost a bit shy and really wanted to make friends. Zero as a child seemed especially attuned to looking out for others because of Ichiru and inclined to gravitate towards people who seemed to need him. I could just imagine him actually being the one to make the first move if Kaname was kind of by himself, unintentionally shunned by the other children who simply think he's too above them to interact with, and trying bravely not to look lonely. Zero would know what he was of course and he'd be a bit cautious, but at that point, Zero held no emnity towards vampires, and Kaname is around his age, does not seem at all threatening and is obviously not ever in danger of being an E. I could see it happening. *sighs and pats the cute, errent little baby plot bunnies rubbing against her ankles*.
...oops, okay, sorry, total tangent there. 0:) Yeah, you know the direction my brain always wanders off.
I also have some other Vampire Knight goodies to share that I got for myself for my birthday last week. :D But I shall have to wait until I get home tonight because I didn't bring the pics with me to work.
I already sort of knew the thrust of the first story "Ice Blue Sin", although it made a bit more sense now with a few translation issues smoothed.
The second story "Season of Transience" about Zero and Kaito was very interesting in light of their current relationship in the manga. It is really interesting (and sweet) to see Zero as the gentle little boy who doesn't really want to kill and wishes that Level E's could be saved. It shows clearly how much Shizuka changed him, and not just physically. You can just imagine that his encounter with Kaito's fallen older brother had a huge impact on him later in his life too. Having seen a turned hunter reduced to madness and knowing their ultimate fate had to have been horrible as he felt himself sliding that way slowly but surely in the beginning of the series. :S No wonder he was just sitting there waiting for Yagari to shoot him. *huggles him*
Really, it's sweet, heartbreaking and interesting to realize how much alike Zero and Kaname were as little children. Both were so friendly, trusting and innocent. It makes me wonder so much what might have happened if they had met then, before Shizuka stripped Zero's innocence and Kaname's returning memories and Rido stripped his. I honestly think that if they'd met before then, they probably would have been friends.
I mean we see in the senario when Kaname was little and his interactions with Aido, Kain and Ruka that he was almost a bit shy and really wanted to make friends. Zero as a child seemed especially attuned to looking out for others because of Ichiru and inclined to gravitate towards people who seemed to need him. I could just imagine him actually being the one to make the first move if Kaname was kind of by himself, unintentionally shunned by the other children who simply think he's too above them to interact with, and trying bravely not to look lonely. Zero would know what he was of course and he'd be a bit cautious, but at that point, Zero held no emnity towards vampires, and Kaname is around his age, does not seem at all threatening and is obviously not ever in danger of being an E. I could see it happening. *sighs and pats the cute, errent little baby plot bunnies rubbing against her ankles*.
...oops, okay, sorry, total tangent there. 0:) Yeah, you know the direction my brain always wanders off.
I also have some other Vampire Knight goodies to share that I got for myself for my birthday last week. :D But I shall have to wait until I get home tonight because I didn't bring the pics with me to work.
Labels: Ice blue no Tsumi, ice blue sin, season of transience, vampire knight light novels, vampire knight novel
Question? will this be the version be released in the us or will the us have their own translation i am not really sure how this works thats why i am asking sorry if my question sounds wierd
Posted by
Anonymous |
April 7, 2011 7:16 PM
OOoh that cover is so droolworthy*___* And Hanabusa.. poor kid, he did go trough rough times, but he still has that smiling face on;__; I think he understands what it takes for a person to break (observing Zero nad to some extent Kaname) and doesn't want to let himself go that way.
Like in the latest chapter, he's consciously working on NOT HATING people he could hate - because it would be easier to blame them, he knows that, but he saw what that kind of thinking did to Zero...
I think it's pretty awesome of him - and wish that Zero and Kaname would try to apply it sometime>_>
Yuki is the same - she sees flaws and faults of others - but she takes time to think about them and makes her desicions based on her observations and the "good of all" in any situation.
While Kaname is a genius planner, he can't really escape his fatalistic viewpoint. Zero has strong mind, but lacks the ability to change mental gears. In that aspect I find Yuki and Aido to be a kind of welcome counterbalance - they are aware of their emotions and are not afraid of thinking 'okay, I don't like myself like that, I'm not going that way'.
I probably make no sense at allXD It's just something I realized lately about the cast of VK - those lightheaded, smiling types are actually strong and reliable while the 'hero' types are all angsty little boys insideXD
Posted by
jeza.red |
April 8, 2011 9:23 AM
Anon: Doesn't sound weird at all. :) To be honest I don't really know, but I'm going to guess the US will probably get its own translation in the future. The formatting of the book and the spelling of some words in it are not the American English way of doing things - for example dialogue is in single quotes instead of double and they use the British spellings for words like "Colour". They also call purebloods "true-bloods". So overall, I'm guessing the translation will probably be Americanized for the US market. The US also uses a different style / font face for the covers of the manga volumes than Australia does, so that might be another difference.
jeza.red: Aye, isn't it? Very drool-worthy cover pic. :) Yes, I think you're right. I love the way Aido and Zero continually weave in and out around one another's lives in subtle ways. Like how Aido's intentionally trying not to hate because he knows where it leads, even though it's hard not to.
*nodnod* Yes! LOL really, I have to agree completely, Kaname and Zero totally need Aido and Yuki to balance them. Actually you make perfect sense and a very good point. LOL and that of course is why the hero types need the more stable comic types to comfort and take care of the hurting little boys inside... It all makes sense now! XD
Posted by
Blackened Wing |
April 8, 2011 10:04 PM
*sighs and pats the cute, errent little baby plot bunnies rubbing against her ankles*
uuuh..I hope that baby plot bunnies would never give up in their rubbing effort and succeed one day *cross fingers*
Posted by
karupin sama |
April 21, 2011 5:29 PM
where can i read the 2nd and third chapter of vampire knight:ice blue's sin
Posted by
chiutane |
October 29, 2011 7:47 PM
TT______TT I'M JEALOUS...BECAUSE...I REALLY WANT THAT BOOK!!!!!
BUT I HAVE NO IDEA WHERE I CAN BUY IT FROM~~~~~*cries to death*
Posted by
Crystal |
December 2, 2011 2:59 AM
I got mine for Xmas! I have only read the first story yet but it is great! I am about to start reading Season of Transcience.
Where can you get it? I am overly curious as to HOW my parents got it and they won't tell me D:
Posted by
Anonymous |
January 11, 2012 10:53 PM