[HPforGrownups] Re: Japanese fanart

[Amanda Lewanski]

No: HPFGUIDX 10552

Thanks for the link, Gaynor!

Severus Snape looks far too much like Elrond from the Rankin/Bass "The
Hobbit." McGonagall's too young-looking. And Voldemort's nose is too
pointy. But I love the kids! Especially Neville.

Looking at the adults, I'm wondering if the Japanese tend to perceive age
using the same cues as Westerners--the ages I "get" from the pictures
aren't the ages I think of the characters as being, but maybe they're
right for Japan. Thoughts?

--Amanda

Gaynor Thomas wrote:

> Teek <purdymango1 at y...> wrote:
>
> > if you hit the links button at the bottom, the ...second link has
> > some more HP art, if you look around for it, including comic strips,
> > which are facinating to try to figure out what scenes they're
> > illustrating. If anyone can find additional art by following the
> > first link, could you post how? There's a "Harry Potter" link, but
> > the rest appears to be all Japanese text.
>
> <tentative delurk>
>
> The three sites listed in the links section of this page all have HP
> pictures. But some of the pictures are a bit hard to find unless you
> can read Japanese, so here is some help:
>
> http://www.ne.jp/asahi/miraiken/aliel/haripota/harrypotter.html
>
> Click on 1-6 for pictures
> Bottom link- "Go>>>" - takes you to another page with more links to
> pictures.
>
> http://www.geocities.co.jp/Bookend/4822/harry/harry0.html#Anchor-49575
>
> A picture of Harry appears as the background to this page: the rest
> of site is text only.
>
> http://www.alpha-net.ne.jp/users2/akuru/harrypotter/har.index.htm
>
> Lots of pictures here: click on the (japanese) links listed
> under "Illust" and "Comic"
>
> The illustrations seem to be of PS/SS and CoS, which are the only
> books to have been translated into Japanese so far, I think. PoA is
> out in English in Japan, but GoF is definitely not available there as
> I have spent vast sums of money shipping hardback copies of GoF to
> British and Canadian friends in Hiroshima!
>
> Firebolt <particle at u...> wrote:
> > > my only nit is that they're not always
> > > canon-accurate
> > > (Hermione's hair being blond in a few pics, Lee Jordan with short
> > > hair instead
> > > of dreadlocks...). Very cool, though.
>
> There is a bit of confusion about the dreadlocks in a (Japanese-
> language) discussion on the page. Someone complains of the lack of
> dreadlocks in Lee's picture, and has obviously read the book in
> English, but someone else replied asking her what "dreadlocks" are,
> so maybe they *aren't* in the Japanese-language edition. Thinking
> back, I didn't see any dreadlocks during my time in Japan, so maybe
> they aren't common. I just ordered HP in Japanese so perhaps I'll be
> able to find out soon ;)
>
> Hope the link information is of help.
>
> Gaynor xx
>
> (shaking at having the daring to do my first-ever delurk!)
>
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