Princess Nine - Ryo's a southpaw!

[jlazar]

I can't believe it took me watching this series two and a half times before I noticed that Ryo is a southpaw!


(this useless trivia bit brought to you by the letter O and H and a very inattentive anime viewer)

[Serial Experiments Nobue]

Yay for leftys! /images/graemlins/sdsmiley.gif

Come to think of it, I don't remember how or when I first noticed that, though it was during my first viewing of Princess Nine... either I was being particularly observant, or it was mentioned early on.

This is yet another show that I'm waiting for to come around in my viewing rotation again.

[Sensuifu]

assuming she uses the same hand to write with, her pitching wouldn't be the only thing I'd be mesmerized with.

[Fencedude]

*blinks*

I'm almost positive that this is mentioned in the series at least once.

[Jimmie M]

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Fencedude said:
*blinks*

I'm almost positive that this is mentioned in the series at least once.

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And in the show's opening, no less! /images/graemlins/wink.gif

[jlazar]

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Jimmie M said:
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Fencedude said:
*blinks*

I'm almost positive that this is mentioned in the series at least once.

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And in the show's opening, no less! /images/graemlins/wink.gif

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Yeah, it's oviously all over the place. It just never seemed to register in my consious mind that she was left handed.

[populuxe]

I understand that Boy Ranma and Girl Ranma are actually the same person!

Actually, that happens to me a lot, too. In the sixth volume of Princess Tutu, I only just noticed that in the opening animation, the faces in the paintings in the backgroud are moving as Tutu dances.

[Falcon_73]

I first noticed that Ryo was a lefty when I watched the ADV trailers, years before I watched the TV series. My brother is left-handed, so I tend to pay a bit more attention to who is and who isn't.

I'm trying to remember if anyone else was a lefty.... I know that Yuki was listed as being a lefty somewhere, but she threw and batted right handed. Hikaru was the switch hitter, right? Where is that list now that I need it?

[touma]

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Falcon_73 said:
I'm trying to remember if anyone else was a lefty.... I know that Yuki was listed as being a lefty somewhere, but she threw and batted right handed. Hikaru was the switch hitter, right? Where is that list now that I need it?

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Hikaru is the switch hitter, but she throws right handed.
Everybody else throws and bats right handed, except Ryo.

[Kevinroc]

Damn southpaws. /images/graemlins/sdsmiley.gif

[Helschadenfreude]

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Mike Dungan said:
I understand that Boy Ranma and Girl Ranma are actually the same person!

Actually, that happens to me a lot, too. In the sixth volume of Princess Tutu, I only just noticed that in the opening animation, the faces in the paintings in the backgroud are moving as Tutu dances.

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They DO?!! /images/graemlins/sweat200.gif I never noticed that....

[tenton]

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Falcon_73 said:
I first noticed that Ryo was a lefty when I watched the ADV trailers, years before I watched the TV series. My brother is left-handed, so I tend to pay a bit more attention to who is and who isn't.

I'm trying to remember if anyone else was a lefty.... I know that Yuki was listed as being a lefty somewhere, but she threw and batted right handed. Hikaru was the switch hitter, right? Where is that list now that I need it?

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I'm a huge baseball fan and was a switch hitter (for little league/softball), so I also am sensitive to the handness of a particular player (throwing and batting)...I noticed that Ryo is a southpaw off the bat (as well as Hikaru the switch hitter).

[populuxe]

Just to broaden this thread a bit, who are some of the other left-handed characters in anime?

[jlazar]

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Mike Dungan said:
Just to broaden this thread a bit, who are some of the other left-handed characters in anime?

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Well, there's a whole lot of lefties in manga...

Flipped manga, that is. /images/graemlins/happy.gif /images/graemlins/happy.gif

[populuxe]

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Jim Lazar said:
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Mike Dungan said:
Just to broaden this thread a bit, who are some of the other left-handed characters in anime?

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Well, there's a whole lot of lefties in manga...

Flipped manga, that is. /images/graemlins/happy.gif /images/graemlins/happy.gif

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I both hoped and dreaded that Mitsuru Adachi's Touch manga would get licensed back in the '90s so we could see all those left-handed batters running to third.

[Mr. Nail Bat]

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Mike Dungan said:
Just to broaden this thread a bit, who are some of the other left-handed characters in anime?

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Yuri from Dirty Pair Flash.

[Nozmo]

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Mike Dungan said:
Just to broaden this thread a bit, who are some of the other left-handed characters in anime?

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Yuri from Dirty Pair Flash.

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This question has come up at rec.arts.anime.misc from time to time (I just unearthed the thread that started on 29 Dec. 2000 -- even longer ago than I thought! There's been at least one other since...) They came up with a fairly long list of characters, actually, but two things are clear:

There are very few lead characters who are left-handed; and

the proportion of leftie characters in manga and anime is much smaller than in the real human population ("officially" given as around 10%, but many people have suggested that the percentage of people born left-handed may be at least 30%, with most of them "trained" out of this "behavior"...).