(May as well comment here instead of on the other post. ^^)
Some of the chronology you're wondering about is a "take your best guess!" kinda thing, but here's my extrapolation (bearing in mind that Rin gets about 90% of my fannish analysis of this series ^^):
--Rin was pushed out the window early in vol. 7 (possibly late vol. 6, depending on when Haru found out about it), going by the assumption that Haru would not have been so casual in vol. 6 if all that had been going on behind the scenes. Shigure and Hatori are talking about it by mid-vol. 7, and then by vol. 8 she'd broken up with Haru, which happened at least a little while after she was hospitalized. YMMV on how much long she spent thinking about it; different translations give slightly different impressions.
--slightly fuzzier is when she was locked up. I believe it was shortly after New Year's, because Kureno doesn't seem the type to put off watching something like the DVD of the Cinderella play, and he calls Tohru after seeing it. Rin doesn't run into Ren immediately after seeing their conversation, because she's wearing different clothes, but the fact that she's still steaming mad about Kureno making Tohru cry when Ren finds her makes me think it was very soon after that. So, probably sometime in early January. She doesn't stop to think about what Ren tells her, immediately goes to look for the box, and is caught and locked up.
--She's locked up until at least late March, and possibly early April, because she graduates high school in absentia (and her hair is cut off at that point, so fairly late in her imprisonment). The new school year has started by the time Haru goes after Akito, unless Rin's school and Kaibara have slightly different schedules.
I can't quite go for the idea of the anime handling the chronology better, exactly (not when they broke the timeline threads so seriously at the end by taking several storylines completely out of context), but Tohru's explanatory comments on the time of year etc. certainly do help.
Other than that, Shigure and Akito's relationship is definitely an interesting one. ^^
And unfortunately, Tokyopop's site doesn't have release dates past vol. 20 yet, so it wouldn't surprise me if the series carries slightly into next year. :/ I suspect the whole series is translated by now, and possibly even adapted, but there's usually quite a gap between adaptation and publication.
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2008-06-02 08:58 pm (UTC)Some of the chronology you're wondering about is a "take your best guess!" kinda thing, but here's my extrapolation (bearing in mind that Rin gets about 90% of my fannish analysis of this series ^^):
--Rin was pushed out the window early in vol. 7 (possibly late vol. 6, depending on when Haru found out about it), going by the assumption that Haru would not have been so casual in vol. 6 if all that had been going on behind the scenes. Shigure and Hatori are talking about it by mid-vol. 7, and then by vol. 8 she'd broken up with Haru, which happened at least a little while after she was hospitalized. YMMV on how much long she spent thinking about it; different translations give slightly different impressions.
--slightly fuzzier is when she was locked up. I believe it was shortly after New Year's, because Kureno doesn't seem the type to put off watching something like the DVD of the Cinderella play, and he calls Tohru after seeing it. Rin doesn't run into Ren immediately after seeing their conversation, because she's wearing different clothes, but the fact that she's still steaming mad about Kureno making Tohru cry when Ren finds her makes me think it was very soon after that. So, probably sometime in early January. She doesn't stop to think about what Ren tells her, immediately goes to look for the box, and is caught and locked up.
--She's locked up until at least late March, and possibly early April, because she graduates high school in absentia (and her hair is cut off at that point, so fairly late in her imprisonment). The new school year has started by the time Haru goes after Akito, unless Rin's school and Kaibara have slightly different schedules.
I can't quite go for the idea of the anime handling the chronology better, exactly (not when they broke the timeline threads so seriously at the end by taking several storylines completely out of context), but Tohru's explanatory comments on the time of year etc. certainly do help.
Other than that, Shigure and Akito's relationship is definitely an interesting one. ^^
And unfortunately, Tokyopop's site doesn't have release dates past vol. 20 yet, so it wouldn't surprise me if the series carries slightly into next year. :/ I suspect the whole series is translated by now, and possibly even adapted, but there's usually quite a gap between adaptation and publication.