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Really? 'Cause I looked up the author online and it said he was born in 1959 and that he wrote the book in 1996. In other words, that he isn't Leon Trotsky. Here, let me look again ...
Author: Iwakami Yasumi Publication Date: June 1996 Now, it sounds just from the title and the fact that the book has to do with the Soviet Union that it may be about how Trotsky was driven out of the revolution by political adversaries, and how the Communist state that resulted was a betrayal of the ideals Trotsky and his supporters had fought for, but no, it doesn't look like this book was written in 1936 by Trotsky. So where did you get that idea?
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It's possible that the fansub translator is a political science or history buff and he recognized the similarity in Iwakami's 1996 title to Trotsky's 1937 title and just assumed that they were the same book, forcing an inappropriate English-translated title on the book that matched Trotsky's. I dunno, who did you watch it with? I've been watching with Commie. I couldn't make out their translated text from where I was sitting when watching, so I looked everything up via smartphone. I'll check to see if they're the culprits next time I turn on my computer.
EDIT: Nope, just checked. They're good. Translated 裏切られた as "sabotaged" rather than "betrayed" but one could argue that contextually theirs is the more English-apt translation, mine the more literal. Otherwise identical.
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Episode 15 was pretty good, but as build-up for future episodes it's fairly limited in how much ground it's willing to cover before rolling those ending credits and thus it's fairly limited in how exciting it can be. I didn't care for the graphic displays of violence in the first seven or so minutes of the episode, but once we got over that hurdle, it was pretty smooth sailing. Spoiler: show Not much else to say since, like I said before, this was sadly a build-up episode that is building things up for next week and/or the weeks after. But it wasn't a bad episode! I enjoyed watching it (other than the first seven or so minutes, which were a put-off) and I'm looking forward to next week's episode.
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So, about that Episode 16 ... Spoiler: show I could keep writing more, but I actually have to go soon. ^^; So I'll wrap up this post real fast by addressing the conversation I see unfolding between Kaisap and Yuki above. Spoiler: show
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Spoiler: show Also, since when were you such a fan of Akane? I swear, what is it about that pale tomboy face that attracts guys? >.>; Oh, in all the excitement over the ending, I forgot what I was going to make fun of! Spoiler: show Also! For kaisap (and Talon as well since we all know what he thought of 12): Spoiler: show
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Perhaps he will surprise you by sheer virtue of doing what we all say he's doing and not what you're so convinced he will do. Something tells me you'll be displeased no matter what as a result because he can only do one of these two things:
Me? I'm perfectly happy to keep on thinking that ... Episode 16 major spoiler: Spoiler: show
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