Okay, you know what? I'm getting sick of this. Half the C&C I read sometimes
is the reviwer pointing out this is wrong, and then backing it up with
evidence from the Manga. Does anyone stop to think that the writer has only
seen the Anime and is drawing their information from that?
I do. I've only ever seen the English Dub and I'm not ashamed to admit it.
Does that make me any less of an Otaku? No. All it means is that I've seen a
different version, but the spirit is there.
The solution here is for authors to _VERY_ _CLEARLY_ state what they're
basing their story off of.
If someone then fails to pay attention to what they're basing the story
off of, its their bad, not the authors.
In fact, people could then say, "Hey, this story is based off of the sign
language dub of Sailor Moon! I don't want to read this." (And it would
probably be a good idea, because the spoken dialog would be rather
suspect.)
Boiling this down even further, its a matter of tagging. Put your tags in
place, and if you can't cram enough info into the tags, make use of
author's notes. If they're brief and to the point and at the beginning of
the story, I bet people will read them.
- Jay Kominek <jay.kominek@colorado.edu>
A UNIX is anything which is subtly incompatible
with everything else claiming to be a UNIX.