@Hashihime: It’s really crazy to even relate this unrecognizable piece of B grade series as a classic of ROTK. Any Rotk fan will probably bury themselves into a grave if this becomes anything close to a classic. Sure, it is funny at times (it doesn’t turn me into a laughing clown at all unlike other comedy series). I just cannot embrace or accept it, and I seriously think anyone who considers himself to like ROTK will find it hard to praise it. Zhao Yun being a fricking lesbian that sexually harrasses others? I rest my case.

@C.I: I prefer green hair anytime.

@Gaguri: Let me use an analogy. If you use trash as a source material and try to improve on it, you might do better but it is still trash. It is funny sparingly, no doubt, but most of these gags seemed to be on borderline slapstick comedy or sexual fanservice. It gets really lame and tiring for a while. Eventually, it will just degenerate into complete chaos and lameness.

I personally do not think that Zhao Yun will be able to rival Lu Bu. He is considered to be a valiant warrior, but there has been little history to indicate his comparative abilities with other great warriors. Nonetheless, the ROTK mentions how he went into the enemy camp alone to save Ah Dou, and that is perhaps the legend of Zhao Yun.

I must admit that Zhao Yun, despite all his prowess, has never been a key component or trusted general of Liu Bei. Sure, in the fictional story of ROTK, he is one of the five trusted Tiger generals. Nonetheless, he never had the position of Guan Yu and Zhang Fei or even Huang Zhong to Liu Bei.

By the way, why wouldn’t Red Cliff come to Australian shores? I think if it does gain a bit of international coverage, it might. If not, it does take some time to hit English international shores. They wouldn’t know whether white people (yes, stereotypical) are interested in an era that they probably know little about.

@Ex: Ya, Lu Bu is really cute and the good thing is that they did not forget to make her pretty darn awesome in martial arts. The red dog keychain was a good parody of Red Hare, and I was half expecting her to call out a horse or something.

As for Red Cliffs, I am not sure if it will ever make its way to Australian big screens Q__Q

@gaguri: Zhao Yun was portrayed as a strong warrior, but not as strong as how Lu Bu was portrayed :S. Undoubtedly a better general and leader though.

This was a perfect chance to introduce Zhang Liao, what happened? Is Zhang Liao not going to be in the anime? if so i am very dissapointed .

On another ROTK related topic, The battle of Red Cliffs movie was awesome. Anyone who is a fan should watch it.

And I personally see Zhao Yun as a warrior strong enough to at be a formidable match against Lu Bu, at least the way he was portrayed in the novel. The same goes with Zhang Fei and Guan Yu. The popular Koei strategy game (which unlike dynasty warriors, places emphasis on political affairs, administration and tactics) also rates them pretty highly, giving 98, 99 and 99 to their combat points respectively, while giving Lu Bu the only warrior to have 100 combat points.

http://myssa.teri-chan.net/Images/Koihime/ECG_COM02A.jpg

It’s funny how Lu Bei isn’t even actually ‘Lu Bei’ in a historical sense, but a time-slipped self-insert. No wonder it was so easy to leave the guy out.

http://myssa.teri-chan.net/Images/Koihime/ECG_ENS15A.jpg

The game is apparently divided into two parts, but so far I couldn’t be bothered to finishing part 1, since, y’know, I also play Guild Wars and Hellgate London.

http://myssa.teri-chan.net/Images/Koihime/ECG_KAN10A.jpg

Again, the anime is doing a FAR better job than what should have been expected, compared to the ‘plot’ we have in the (original) Koihime Musou game.

http://myssa.teri-chan.net/Images/Koihime/ECG_TOT01A.jpg

Yes, Dong Zhuo’s ‘default’ dress in the game is… Meido-fuku. I KID you not.

http://myssa.teri-chan.net/Images/Koihime/ECG_RYO11A.jpg

Funny how, as far as I’ve seen, there is NO true harem ending to the game (and I expect as much from the semi-adaptation). There ARE threesies and twosomes though (GUESS which faction gets the most).

http://myssa.teri-chan.net/Images/Koihime/ECG_COM99A.jpg

The last post above was copied from another site, since I haven’t even finished the game yet, but as you can see, the major copout of the game is the fact that… It’s ALL a dream. The student masquerading as Lu Bei seems to have confused the schoolmates he had with the history books he was STUDYING. Wet dream much?

So, for all it’s faults, Impz, the anime is WAY better than the game. Oh ho ho.

For something completely out of point, Hinano is now officially banned from drawing any more Impz fan-art. The more she draws, the more it becomes more ecchi. Soon, she will make a whole set of HCGs of Impz. That, by the way, is fricking scary.

DAMN there goes my hadaka apron impz idea! LOL xD
Also you are going to get angry fanboys for that statement! xD