(Oh, just want to say, it's good to be back after a. . . geeze, two year, three year hiatus? [I think back then I used a different name; Harijubal, maybe; and not that I was there a long time, but well . . . ] Just dropped out of the whole message board thing, I guess. Oh, and I might have some comments on the newest chapter. Might not. But might have.)
As I skimmed through the messages in this section, I wonder which version of Sailor Moon you'll use, manga or anime.
And you could easily use your "rules o' magic" that have in Sailor Moon, since both continuities are pretty vague on magic, beyond the whole "power of spirit" thing and mass produced monsters and what not.
I remember it being noted . . . somewhere . . . that Tuxedo Kamen, in the anime at least, served as a guide for the most part to Sailor Moon, Merlin to her Arthur kind of thing. He's basically there to support her, not fight her battles. She's the hero, after all.
(Another thing; it seems that in the manga, Mamoru has psychic abilities since as psychometry or even telepathy[he picked up visions of the future from Chibi-Usa by touching her, which might indicate either, though I lean to psychometry here]. And his "Tuxedo La Bomber" attack might be telekinetic in nature . . .
Sailor Moon, in fact, would make for an interesting x-over; a sort of Drunken Sailor's Walk . . .
But I don't think that some anime/manga would work in a x-over with DW, if only because the internal logic of the series. Take, for instance, Slayers, which I note that you mention as a possible future DW.
The cosmology, and the magic, of Slayers, which is very neatly laid out, would, I think, prohibit him from visiting the Slayers' world.
It goes like this: the Lord of Nightmares created four "worlds" (and I'm assuming this means universes as well) and on each of these worlds she created a Dragon God to preserve the world and a "Evil Lord" to destroy it and set them to fighting. They are, you might say, programmed to fight each other. (just because the LoN is a God, doesn't make her a very nice God). All magic is drawn from four sources: Black magic from the Mazoku, either the Evil Lord himself (Shabranigudo in this case) or his immediate subordinates, or just from the Mazoku in general if it doesn't call upon the power of a particular mazoku high uppity-up; white magic from the Dragon God (Ceiphied in this case . . . or well, it gets complicated), which is known for its healing and protective spells but can also do destructive spells too. Then there's Shamanism (i've heard it translated differently, but can't remember what, adn shamanism seems evokative enough), which manipulates the elements (earth, fire, wind, water) and also what is called the Astral Plane for spirit-type stuff.
Then you have your magic that doesn't involve casting spells per se, such as enchanted objects, or magic created golems, clones, genetic manipulations, etc. Then there's the power derived from the Lord of Nightmares herself, but that's very dangerous stuff and only Lina Inverse was seen using it.
All spells can be cast anywhere, with the exception of this one mountain that blocked magic use (and possibly other places. And Orihalcon can also resist direct magic), with no nodes or leylines.
But there's nothing in here, REALLY, that a clever author couldn't get around. But it should be remembered that the Slayers' world isn't just a different universe, it's part of a different SET of universes, an entire multiverse of its own, with different origins than "our" multiverse. I mean, it would just take a very radical detour from Doug's walk.
You know, speaking of world-travelling super-humans, I wonder what would happen if Doug met Luther Arkwright.
Hmm . . . seem to have gotten quite a bit clear from the topic of sailor moon, too . . . sorry.
As I skimmed through the messages in this section, I wonder which version of Sailor Moon you'll use, manga or anime.
And you could easily use your "rules o' magic" that have in Sailor Moon, since both continuities are pretty vague on magic, beyond the whole "power of spirit" thing and mass produced monsters and what not.
I remember it being noted . . . somewhere . . . that Tuxedo Kamen, in the anime at least, served as a guide for the most part to Sailor Moon, Merlin to her Arthur kind of thing. He's basically there to support her, not fight her battles. She's the hero, after all.
(Another thing; it seems that in the manga, Mamoru has psychic abilities since as psychometry or even telepathy[he picked up visions of the future from Chibi-Usa by touching her, which might indicate either, though I lean to psychometry here]. And his "Tuxedo La Bomber" attack might be telekinetic in nature . . .
Sailor Moon, in fact, would make for an interesting x-over; a sort of Drunken Sailor's Walk . . .
But I don't think that some anime/manga would work in a x-over with DW, if only because the internal logic of the series. Take, for instance, Slayers, which I note that you mention as a possible future DW.
The cosmology, and the magic, of Slayers, which is very neatly laid out, would, I think, prohibit him from visiting the Slayers' world.
It goes like this: the Lord of Nightmares created four "worlds" (and I'm assuming this means universes as well) and on each of these worlds she created a Dragon God to preserve the world and a "Evil Lord" to destroy it and set them to fighting. They are, you might say, programmed to fight each other. (just because the LoN is a God, doesn't make her a very nice God). All magic is drawn from four sources: Black magic from the Mazoku, either the Evil Lord himself (Shabranigudo in this case) or his immediate subordinates, or just from the Mazoku in general if it doesn't call upon the power of a particular mazoku high uppity-up; white magic from the Dragon God (Ceiphied in this case . . . or well, it gets complicated), which is known for its healing and protective spells but can also do destructive spells too. Then there's Shamanism (i've heard it translated differently, but can't remember what, adn shamanism seems evokative enough), which manipulates the elements (earth, fire, wind, water) and also what is called the Astral Plane for spirit-type stuff.
Then you have your magic that doesn't involve casting spells per se, such as enchanted objects, or magic created golems, clones, genetic manipulations, etc. Then there's the power derived from the Lord of Nightmares herself, but that's very dangerous stuff and only Lina Inverse was seen using it.
All spells can be cast anywhere, with the exception of this one mountain that blocked magic use (and possibly other places. And Orihalcon can also resist direct magic), with no nodes or leylines.
But there's nothing in here, REALLY, that a clever author couldn't get around. But it should be remembered that the Slayers' world isn't just a different universe, it's part of a different SET of universes, an entire multiverse of its own, with different origins than "our" multiverse. I mean, it would just take a very radical detour from Doug's walk.
You know, speaking of world-travelling super-humans, I wonder what would happen if Doug met Luther Arkwright.
Hmm . . . seem to have gotten quite a bit clear from the topic of sailor moon, too . . . sorry.