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Harvey...?

(I don't care how gentle he is. Ordinary rabbits bite off fingers. That rabbit could bite off an arm.)

Finished Kurotsubaki 8. What a wonderful resource that is for a certain kind of vocabulary-- colour, textiles, the theatre, the geisha world. It's not a stunning dizzy-making series like Karin-- dragons! white tigers! pearl spirits! warriors! immortals! evil bishounen! genocide!-- but it has its solid pleasures. And is almost as clouds and willow haze as Rainy Willow or Mushishi, of which I just read 3 in English. The translation continues to be off enough to weird me; truly, all this weird stuff is much more normal in Japanese.

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Obviously that glint in Bunny's eye is evidence of Bunny plotting to eat his owner and take over the bunny farm when he grows big enough. Never mind biting off that arm, I think Bunny could gut Mummy from top to bottom with one well-timed kick.

Watership Down or no Watership Down, I do. not. trust. rabbits.

Hmm yes I can just see Nii carting that one around. ^_~

Or vice versa.

*insert obligatory Monty Python joke here* (didn't Richard Adams devote a fair amount of space to rabbits inflicting GBH on each other with tooth and claw? That bunny could probably disembowel the child with one swipe if sufficiently provoked, a la disgruntled kangaroos)

Mushishi...in English

I can imagine it must have been quite frustrating to translate the content and sense, much less the tone and atmosphere.

Kangaroos do that? With their tiny tiny front legs?

I'm sure it was frustrating, but *still*. One could give a smoothness to the thing, but between translator and editor they didn't.

Some gray kangaroos have pretty impressive claws: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tomobrienphotography/3894114219/in/photostream/

The hindleg claws are more fearsome, but are generally used for fighting with other (male) kangaroos. The kangaroo guards on the front of Australian outback vehicles are apparently to prevent the roo from kicking/smashing through the windshield and inflicting injuries with said claws.

Err. Yes. Very impressive.

Somehow I'd assumed the damage was done by the force of the blow, like swans' wings, and not with claws.

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