secret origins of the high five

[wednesday_10_00]

ジェフリーは片手を上げ、同様にしたキットの掌にそれを打ちつけた。

Geoffrey lifted his hand and struck it against Kit's raised palm.

You guys, pop quiz time!

When would you guess the high five was invented?
A) 1970s
B) 1950s
C) 19th Century
D) 16th Century


TRICK QUESTION. The question is not "when was the high five invented" but "when would you guess the high five was invented" so the answer is anything other than FIVE HUNDRED YEARS AGO IN ENGLAND because who would think that.


(Just for the record, Wikipedia says it was the late 70s. The high five is the same age as me! We were BFFs growing up.)

Anyway: this book is a really nice breather, coming after 12 books (TWELVE BOOKS) of pain and angst, with more sure to come in the upcoming battle. The first couple chapters with Vicente's POV were almost painfully boring for me, but at least he got to be cute with Alonso for a minute. (PS I really wish the author would stop teasing me with Alonso/Vicente and Kit/Nigel. Like, either get them together or stop making them be so freaking adorable.) There's also a chapter of Juan POV (also boring), but the rest of the book was almost sickeningly sappy with Geoffrey and Kaito interactions. At one point Kaito says "I'll never leave you again, even if you get sick of me!" and Geoffrey says "IMPOSSIBLE, I'll be the one sticking to your side until you're sick of me!" and I'm sitting here thinking, "I'm pretty sure the readers will get sick of you first?" but not for a long time because TWELVE BOOKS. The other characters, though, they will totally get sick of it. In fact, they were sick of it in this book, hilariously so. I think my favorite was when Kit was like *AHEM* and Kaito just ignored him.

(TWELVE BOOKS, you guys. I can't even believe I put up with that crap.)

Comments

[mangaroo.livejournal.com]

What I love is that the 21st-century character in this time travel book didn't paradoxically introduce the high five 390 years early. It was Geoffrey, who would clearly love to spend some time being rough and tumble in Adventure Time.

[wednesday-10-00.livejournal.com]

I was actually wondering if Kaito taught Geoffrey the high five and I just forgot about it (it has been a long series). Or it happened off-screen or something? But A) Kaito is not a high five kind of person, and anyway B) when would he have taught Kit? Maybe Lily taught them. I mean, technically she would have left the 20th century before the high five was invented, but at least that's a small enough anachronism that I can accept it as a tiny mistaken detail. (Unlike high fives in the 16th century, which is just silly.)

Geoffrey would make an awesome Adventure Time character, though, haha.