It's a damn good series Kalyx. Have you seen Gurren Lagann yet?

Yes. It's fuckin hype and epic.

Been reading Psyren. Pretty good stuff.

Ok, so what is the difference between Full Metal Alchemist anime and manga? Heard the anime isn't as good?

Should I just watch Brotherhood, since it's an actual manga adaptation.

I'd say watch Brotherhood first and then watch FMA later if you're up for it. The differences are quite noticeable. For example, Brotherhood has way more elemental alchemists than FMA does.

Original Fullmetal Alchemist anime = really just uses the idea from the manga and tells its own tale. It stays true to the manga up until about episode 25.

Brotherhood = 99% recreation of the manga. Also, the ending to Brotherhood/manga is waaay more sappy than the original anime.

Which is better in your opinion?

I think Brotherhood just barely squeezes pass the original, but I love them both.

Could have sworn he was in more than one, but I think I'm confusing it with one of the other dozen things I've seen him in recently.

Yeah, seriously. Hot.

Doesn't hurt that production of FMA outstripped the manga.

FMA is good on its own. I haven't started Brotherhood yet, so I can't talk about that, but FMA is definitely worth it.

Honestly Fignuts, watching both won't hurt. They're both pretty damned good.

Dunno how many already knew about this, but I just found it today:

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Star Blazers live action

Currently watching:

School Rumble
Last Exile
Ergo Proxy
Gurren Lagaan
Gundam Wing

So YouTube only has 18 eps. of Fullmetal...Brotherhood. Just when it was really separating from the old series, pulling me into the story. The 'Oroboros Gang' seems more villain-like this time. Greed's gang... :(

Is it wrong to consider Envy's design 'cute'? I hate myself.

:heart: animecrazy.net even though it can be a pain at time.

http://www.animecrazy.net/fullmetal-...herhood-anime/
Also Fullmetal Alchemist: The Blind Alchemist (OVA) is being uploaded.

Thanks, but I'm attached to the English cast.

You cry watching cartoons?

Hahahaha, I'm legitly laughing out loud.

I read BDC's posts now, but I rarely reply due my conclusion that there's not much about him worth taking serious. I noticed you tread down a similar style of his but I let you slide because I like you and you have more substance per posts. But you're driving down that lane.

So I'm not gonna teach you the difference between cartoons and anime, or explain myself as to why I emotionally engage certain shows and movies, because I like you. I like you more than I want you to understand me or anime or whatever.

Just can the 'cool kids' act, it's unattractive.

Ok, what exactly is the difference between cartoons and anime?

Way I see it not all cartoons are anime, but all anime are cartoons.

And that's fine. It's really not worth explaining. I just rather you not do the "Cool kids are into this, geeks are into that" sort of deal. That's all really.

Listen, I'm not trying to start an arguement with you or something and it's no "cool kids" act.

I honestly find it funny someone would cry watching cartoons. Then again I'm totally not into anime so it might be a thing of me not getting it.

That's fine. We're cool here.

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Um wow.

Was on a major anime binge not too long ago, I had a big stockpile of shows put away & pretty much watched them all in one shot. All Purpose Cultural Catgirl, couple volumes of Sgt. Frog, Shopping Arcade Abenobashi, Bamboo Blade, Karin, Suzuka, Hell Girl, Trigun, Haruhi Suzumiya, Red Garden, and Azumanga Daioh for about the 5th time. I have Red Dwarf coming for Christmas so I'll be switching over to that come Dec. 25 XD.

Also watched all of the liveaction Sukeban Deka movies, including the porno :naughty:

and also

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Don't insult excalibur. His legend dates back to the 12th century.

Oh never me.

Soul Eater's equal parts awesome and retarded. The awesome carried me through, but jesus, there was a lot of dumb in it too.

Though hearing Excalibur say "Fool!" often cracked me up.

Noted. Never watched it but I will samples its juices sometime.

I didn't get into Soul Eater until the middle of the Maka vs Chrona fight. That's when I started liking it more.

Damn, Soul Eater is fucking tits.

Heard sooo much about Soul Eater, still havn't gotten around to watching it tho. :-\ Currently in the middle of Rin: Daughters of Mnemosyne, thanks to the badass "65% off Anime on BluRay" sale Amazon is running.

It's just really absorbing, and turns the entire shounen genre on it's ear.

Also, Medusa might be my favorite anime villain ever.

will have to check it out once the price drops.

You could get netfix streaming for 8 bucks a month. It's on their watch instantly library.

aaaaaaaaand finished it. Awesome show. BUT...


http://img3.lln.crunchyroll.com/i/sp...98696_full.jpg

...I'll be seeing that in my nightmares for quite a while.

Complete a 12eps series about some super-spy chick who shoots bullets out of her boobs. It was okay.

Watch Grenadier. She carries her guns in her boobs, among other things.

Sengoku Basara is amazing. Will have to watch the whole series.

Me too, I only watched the first one, then I'll wait a while before I watch Sengoku Basara II.

Yes it is.

Everything by Studio Ghibli is good. Well everything I've watched

Spirited Away
Howl's Moving Castle
Naussica of the Valley of the Wind (Beware, it has Shia Lebouf.)
Princess Mononoke
Kiki's Delivery Service
My Neighbor Totoro
Castle in the Sky

So not going to lie here, High School of the Dead is pretty fucking amazing.

Just watched the ending of the Aizen arc in bleach. When I read it in the manga it seemed anti-climactic. Not so in the anime. Guess the animation and music added that extra touch it needed, because it really did feel like the epic ending it needed.

Though I still think Gin should have successfully killed aizen and become the big bad himself, since he had a stronger connection to ichigo. That was my one beef with aizen. As great a villain as he was, he didn't have that connection to ichigo like previous rivals like byakuya or ulquoirra had. In fact, it feels like they threw that "aizen's experiment" thing in there as a hasty way to establish more heat between them, but it just felt forced.

I feel that it was MORE anti-climactic in animated form :-\

It would seem next week finishes of the Aizen arc completely, and then it's more filler. The first one is Kon as Karakuraizer and then the following week, someone takes over Soi Fong as Squad 2's Captain.

What? Soi Fong isn't dead. Why are they doing this?

She needs to heal obviously.

Nonsense. She barely noticed losing an arm in the fight.

Considering Yamamoto is still in the manga with only one arm, that's why I'm assuming it's a filler. Despite Yamamoto being immensely stronger.

Yeah, I watched like one episode of that. Didn't care for it.

BDC, watch Gantz.

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Favorite anime characters

Android 17 and 18

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Future Trunks

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Videl

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Mr. Satan(Hercule)

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BPF, we really need to broaden your horizons if those are your favorite characters guy.

What the hell...was that?

So is Brotherhood a sequel series to Fullmetal Alchemist? I'm thinking it is.

No.

Interesting

It speed runs the first half of the original anime then goes on as the manga dictates. I actually kinda like the first anime better so far (I'm only 16 or so eps in the new one). But I love FMA and any opportunity for new material is good for me.

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I need some good anime, preferably dubbed.

Serious? Fun? Drama? Action?

Between Netflix and HuluPlus, I've barely used my 360 for gaming at all in the last couple months. Netflix has Robotech and Mysterious Cities of Gold, Hulu with the entire Fist of the North Star. Childhood magic happening right now.

Been watching FLCL for like the 73542352 time.

Love it so much.

If you like FLCL, you might like Magical Shopping Arcade Abenoboshi Fignuts.

I still have no idea what FLCL is about

It's about puberty, tbh.

I seriously want to destroy anything and everything that is Axis Powers Hetalia. Absolutely sick of this gay ass shit.

I started Death Note the other day and it really hasn't caught my attention. I want to watch FMA Brotherhood but they changed Al's voice and it really turns me off for some reason.

What? I think Vic is still doing his voice. Nothing changed.

Not only am I a Power Rangers nut, I notice things like that. And I read credits. :)

Yeah right. If you were you would've known that Goseiger came after Shinkenger.

I said Al, who is the younger brother. Vic does Ed.

:(

Come on, mate. You're nitpicking Kalyx. That's gotta be a new low. That would be like Sascha and Fallen Angel arguing who was gayer.

Oh yeah. That threw me off for a few episodes, too.

And I'm used to Al doing the Law of Equivalent Exchange speech for the intro instead of this generic older white guy narrator who needs to relax a little.

Once you get past old ground you get used to everything. It blows past the first anime's episodes double speed. I counted. It stuffs two to three of the first anime's episodes into one or two. By the 20s you'll get new ground - if you didn't read the manga, I guess. I didn't so it's all new for me.

"Movie Edition"

I didn't even notice they changed voice actors for Al in FMA and Brotherhood, guess I didn't really pay attention. After doing some reading, looks like they had no choice since the kid that did his voice hit puberty.

I will continue to do that cause he claims to be such a power rangers nerd. WHICH HE ISN'T!

Bet he can't name all the Super Sentai footage that was used for Power Rangers.

After I visit the Power Rangers Wiki, filled with great information for the casual or hardcore Power Ranger fan (*wink*), I'll accept your challenge!

Only anime I can remember watching long enough that did voice changing was Dragon Ball Z and that was due to the long gap of time in getting the 2nd half of the series shown on tv.

I forgot if it was due to another studio taking over the series or the contract on the original voice actors had ended during the gap and it wasn't renewed.

It's also better paced and starts off better, IMO.

The only problem I have is trying to watch it so quickly after seeing the first.

Really? You want to be known as a bigger PR obsessive than Kal?

Should I put a bullet in you now?

I snickered, since you sought to lecture me on stuff I already knew from Wikipedia, after both directly referencing the fact you were lecturing me on AND the fact that I had just been reading Wikipedia on the matter.

I know the PR Wiki is different, but it's a similar MO.

PR Wiki is betterz.

I doubt anyone who's touched a woman cares.

You care if you want to know who's to blame for that one Halloween episode. grrrr

Like I said. Nobody who's touched a woman cares.

I touch womenz. I touched one yesterday. The check out line was cramp but still...

I have a friend who only likes his women with 2D boobs. Explains his fetish for Noel Vermillion.

Send him down here so I can take him to Tootsies and pray the gay away.