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On November 16 2012 08:29 Elem wrote:F/Z is good but eh...there are better things that got rec'd imo. Out of the ones rec'd I strongly support: Legend of the Galactic Heroes Kaiji Denpa teki na Kanojo Darker than Black Black Lagoon Bebop is overrated as hell, and FMA Original is vastly superior to Brotherhood, especially considering the anime you listed that you enjoyed. Brotherhood takes out a lot of enjoyable parts from the original, not counting that the plot is different (didnt have issue with plot) Edit: Some other ones that I think would work: Casshern Sins Ergo Proxy Paranoia Agent or just pick a Madhouse show at random. :p just works as well.
Note that Elem is probably the only person in existence who has that opinion about FMA original.
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Thanks for all the expertise, guys. I think you hit the nail on the head concerning my interests. I will definitely be diving into Ergo Proxy, Fate Zero, Darker than Black (only 1st season? : P) and Black Lagoon. Thanks for all your help! (And sorry for derailing the thread)
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Not really a derailment, was interesting-ish. Should be glad some people decided to not just spam link the rec chart.
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On November 16 2012 09:11 Elem wrote:
Not really a derailment, was interesting-ish. Should be glad some people decided to not just spam link the rec chart.
Would've done it if I had seen it in time.
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On November 16 2012 08:57 PencilZerg wrote:
Thanks for all the expertise, guys. I think you hit the nail on the head concerning my interests. I will definitely be diving into Ergo Proxy, Fate Zero, Darker than Black (only 1st season? : P) and Black Lagoon. Thanks for all your help! (And sorry for derailing the thread)
OVA and season 2 of Darker than Black is.... watcheable but I think it's better if you didn't. There's a decent Darker than Black manga you could read after watching it though.
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On November 16 2012 08:57 PencilZerg wrote:
Thanks for all the expertise, guys. I think you hit the nail on the head concerning my interests. I will definitely be diving into Ergo Proxy, Fate Zero, Darker than Black (only 1st season? : P) and Black Lagoon. Thanks for all your help! (And sorry for derailing the thread)
DtB Season 2 is vastly superior
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On November 16 2012 08:53 Sentenal wrote:Show nested quote +On November 16 2012 08:29 Elem wrote:F/Z is good but eh...there are better things that got rec'd imo. Out of the ones rec'd I strongly support: Legend of the Galactic Heroes Kaiji Denpa teki na Kanojo Darker than Black Black Lagoon Bebop is overrated as hell, and FMA Original is vastly superior to Brotherhood, especially considering the anime you listed that you enjoyed. Brotherhood takes out a lot of enjoyable parts from the original, not counting that the plot is different (didnt have issue with plot) Edit: Some other ones that I think would work: Casshern Sins Ergo Proxy Paranoia Agent or just pick a Madhouse show at random. :p just works as well. Note that Elem is probably the only person in existence who has that opinion about FMA original.
I'll !support Elem. It has more 'adult' themes and it's overall darker and more adventurous. Brotherhood is more shounen.
Also, Highschool of the Dead is one of the worst anime I've ever had the misfortune of getting recommended.
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On November 16 2012 13:12 youngminii wrote:Show nested quote +On November 16 2012 08:53 Sentenal wrote:On November 16 2012 08:29 Elem wrote:F/Z is good but eh...there are better things that got rec'd imo. Out of the ones rec'd I strongly support: Legend of the Galactic Heroes Kaiji Denpa teki na Kanojo Darker than Black Black Lagoon Bebop is overrated as hell, and FMA Original is vastly superior to Brotherhood, especially considering the anime you listed that you enjoyed. Brotherhood takes out a lot of enjoyable parts from the original, not counting that the plot is different (didnt have issue with plot) Edit: Some other ones that I think would work: Casshern Sins Ergo Proxy Paranoia Agent or just pick a Madhouse show at random. :p just works as well. Note that Elem is probably the only person in existence who has that opinion about FMA original. I'll !support Elem. It has more 'adult' themes and it's overall darker and more adventurous. Brotherhood is more shounen. Also, Highschool of the Dead is one of the worst anime I've ever had the misfortune of getting recommended.
Never seen the Brotherhood but I've seen the original. I really enjoyed the first one due to what you said, it was more 'adulty'.
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On November 16 2012 13:41 Sickkiee wrote:Show nested quote +On November 16 2012 13:12 youngminii wrote:On November 16 2012 08:53 Sentenal wrote:On November 16 2012 08:29 Elem wrote:F/Z is good but eh...there are better things that got rec'd imo. Out of the ones rec'd I strongly support: Legend of the Galactic Heroes Kaiji Denpa teki na Kanojo Darker than Black Black Lagoon Bebop is overrated as hell, and FMA Original is vastly superior to Brotherhood, especially considering the anime you listed that you enjoyed. Brotherhood takes out a lot of enjoyable parts from the original, not counting that the plot is different (didnt have issue with plot) Edit: Some other ones that I think would work: Casshern Sins Ergo Proxy Paranoia Agent or just pick a Madhouse show at random. :p just works as well. Note that Elem is probably the only person in existence who has that opinion about FMA original. I'll !support Elem. It has more 'adult' themes and it's overall darker and more adventurous. Brotherhood is more shounen. Also, Highschool of the Dead is one of the worst anime I've ever had the misfortune of getting recommended. Never seen the Brotherhood but I've seen the original. I really enjoyed the first one due to what you said, it was more 'adulty'.
The original has more character depth I guess? And alot of characters are developed more in the original than brotherhood. The start of the original is also far superior then then brotherhood. But the original just falls flat in the story. Brotherhoods story is amazingly well done. The pacing of the show is great and more characters get to shine in brotherhood. If you dont care too much how well a story is put together but like drama then ya I can see people liking the original better. But brotherhood is a shining example of "epic" done right.
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Brotherhood had a much more cohesive story. I preferred it even though it was silly and annoying at times.
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Both are good which is why it can be argueable but in general, most people will say brotherhood is better. I would say 70% of people will say brotherhood is better.
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FMA original was my first 50 episode marathon. Ah how I wish I still had the stamina of my youth.
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On November 16 2012 15:20 EchOne wrote:
FMA original was my first 50 episode marathon. Ah how I wish I still had the stamina of my youth.
It must suck to be old.
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About Fullmetal Alchemist, I'm at episode 22 in Brotherhood. Honestly it's mainly been boring thus far, I got immersed in the original far more easily. I think the start has been way weaker. I do believe that it's going to become better and I'll get to finishing it eventually but yeah ... I really think they should have been able to do something differently with the beginning.
On November 16 2012 15:20 EchOne wrote:
FMA original was my first 50 episode marathon. Ah how I wish I still had the stamina of my youth.
Hmm I think Muv-Luv Alternative had me reading for 2 days straight with no sleep, I also watched a ton of Gintama episodes in a row. No idea why, after 130 episodes I still found it to be mostly meh.
So I finished reading Katahane the visual novel...
http://vndb.org/v22
Note, very minor implied spoilers.
The main reason I started this was because it's pretty much the only translated, proper(not porno) shoujo-ai visual novel I've found and I was curious about how they'd do it. I really wonder why there aren't more of them. And well... It's about some theatre play and It's seperated in 2 parts, Shirohane and Kurohane, with Shirohane being the main story and Kurohane being the flashback of the events the play is based upon.
I thought that the setting had some very good ideas but they didn't expand upon them enough. The dolls are of course the main point of interest here and I thought that this was done pretty well, also the drops and their functionality were interesting. Would love to read a different sort of a story in a similiar setting. Maybe I'm greedy but I feel like they introduced numerous small things and didn't really expand upon them enough which kind of bothers me.
Honestly, the Shirohane story was quite boring most of the time. I had to take several relatively long breaks because it just wasn't that interesting. It didn't help that the "protagonist" Wakaba was incredibly annoying and the worst kind of a tsundere. I used quotes because the VN switches perspectives very frequently so it in reality has multiple protagonists but yeah... The Shirohane / main storyline wasn't that great, though towards the end it admittably became better. Doesn't change the fact that most of it was really boring.
The characters in Shirohane were quite meh, the only main character I really liked was Angelina, who I thought was a really good character. Cero and Wakaba were both really bleh, I guess the rest were mediocre...
Luckily enough, the game wasn't entirely composed of Shirohane. I'm not sure whose idea it was to make the flashback far superior to main game but whatever... I thought that Kurohane was really really good, it had better soundtrack, the storyline was interesting, it had good characters, i especially liked Ein alot. Kurohane would have been worth reading even as a stand-alone.
Oh finally, the shoujo-ai / yuri? I thought that that was done pretty well in Kurohane even though it seemed slightly rushed, still the general theme there was really good. Not as good in Shirohane in general but there were some parts that I really liked and it still was very interesting to see yuri/shoujo ai not done as pure hentai and it actually made me read through the scenes, whereas I usually tend to skip. As for the hetero scenes, I skipped them all...
Overall I think that Kurohane saved this VN, I really really liked it. Would probably give 9/10 or 9.5/10 to Kurohane and maybe... perhaps 7/10 to Shirohane? I honestly don't think I've ever been as disappointed after having a flashback end and getting back to the main storyline as I was with Katahane.
Oh and even though it's a pretty critical "review", if you can get through a boring theater story at least up until when Kurohane begins and especially if you're interested in shoujo-ai/yuri, it's still going to be an interesting read, especially as it's very very difficult to find proper shoujo-ai VNs in English.
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Wow I didn't think Shikyo actually watched anime.
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On November 16 2012 13:41 Sickkiee wrote:Show nested quote +On November 16 2012 13:12 youngminii wrote:On November 16 2012 08:53 Sentenal wrote:On November 16 2012 08:29 Elem wrote:F/Z is good but eh...there are better things that got rec'd imo. Out of the ones rec'd I strongly support: Legend of the Galactic Heroes Kaiji Denpa teki na Kanojo Darker than Black Black Lagoon Bebop is overrated as hell, and FMA Original is vastly superior to Brotherhood, especially considering the anime you listed that you enjoyed. Brotherhood takes out a lot of enjoyable parts from the original, not counting that the plot is different (didnt have issue with plot) Edit: Some other ones that I think would work: Casshern Sins Ergo Proxy Paranoia Agent or just pick a Madhouse show at random. :p just works as well. Note that Elem is probably the only person in existence who has that opinion about FMA original. I'll !support Elem. It has more 'adult' themes and it's overall darker and more adventurous. Brotherhood is more shounen. Also, Highschool of the Dead is one of the worst anime I've ever had the misfortune of getting recommended. Never seen the Brotherhood but I've seen the original. I really enjoyed the first one due to what you said, it was more 'adulty'.
I think Mustang mercilessly burning somone to ashes is pretty adulty.
I dont see how peoples idea of "adulty" is a relatively more psychotic Kimbly (if at all really) and the kids Mommy issues that went all Pet cemetary.
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On November 16 2012 15:48 Shikyo wrote:
About Fullmetal Alchemist, I'm at episode 22 in Brotherhood. Honestly it's mainly been boring thus far, I got immersed in the original far more easily. I think the start has been way weaker. I do believe that it's going to become better and I'll get to finishing it eventually but yeah ... I really think they should have been able to do something differently with the beginning.
Yeah, up until the point where the stories diverge, the original was better. However, that's because Brotherhood packs like 40 episodes of the original into just 15 so of course it isn't going to be as good. Beyond that point, Brotherhood is way better, and that's the bulk of the series. Unfortunately, it makes FMA kind of hard to recommend. Do you tell people to just skip the original, watch both series back to back, or what?
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finished watching Mirai Nikki recently
enjoyed it for the most part other than the male protaganist being a whiny, useless bitch most of the time
the other characters around him were at least interesting enough
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First FMA is superior to the Brotherhood season. Elem isn't the only one who thinks that. Less shounen, slower pace, feels more realistic than Brotherhoods over-the-top fights. Not that I'm a huge fan of either but anyway...
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Oh my goooddd, I just learned of the steins; gate movie that's being made, I am unbelievably hyped for this!
Edit: PencilZerg, definitely watch Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann!
probably my favorite anime.
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