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Rate the latest Anime you watched.
Nodame-chan:
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--- Quote from: Nodame-chan on August 31, 2012, 09:40:16 AM ---I have yet to watch Brotherhood. But original FMA was one of my personal favorites for a long time. And I believe Brotherhood must be good as well.
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I'm not saying it's bad, I'm questioning whether it's the best series ever though.
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Oh I don't say it's the best, but it's certainly one of the bests (original FMA, cant judge Brotherhood yet).
It's hard to decide which is the best series ever. Tastes vary so for every individual best is unique.
At this certain point my best anime is Kara no Kyoukai. However my ultimate favorite is Naruto.
Ashall:
I think it's still a pretty hot debate on which adaption is better. Sure Brotherhood follows the manga for the last half but the beginning is such a slap in the face to a fan of FMA. Basically covered 30+ episodes of the original in 11 episodes. No the original wasn't drawn out or tedious to watch; that much is cut out. I bawled when Hughes died in the original and cried even harder when Mustang finally shed tears for his best friend. In Brotherhood you could care less, that's how bad the character relationships and how few their interactions are. Plus super important scenes were skipped like Greed escaping the prison. Now he is magically in Dublith.
Apparently according to fans it gets better but so far the original one that doesn't follow the manga plotline at the end is so much better. Maybe I'm biased since I've seen and like the original. Once you start Brotherhood you'll see all the things I'm talking about. The reason it's rated so high is because it looks better, it follows the manga so it has to be better, and I'm guessing anime just wasn't as popular back in 2003.
Again maybe I'm just biased.
Xycolian2332:
Ano Natsu de Matteru
8/10
Really cute RomCom with some drama mixed in.
Nothing really special about this series but it left me feeling all warm and fuzzy inside sooooo... yeah.
datora:
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• Hells | Hells Angels
Ummm. Holy fuck. :o This defies description in many ways. I left a semi-review in the comments, so you can check on that, too.
I'm gonna go with a 9 out of 10. Yep. I think that's a pretty solid 9.
t3h Good:
• Animation & design: it's wild, borderline experimental. We have stuff like Dead Leaves, Panty & Stocking w/ Garterbelt, Mind Game and Aachi wa Ssipak (to name a few) to give you an idea, but I liked this better for several reasons. Quality improvement using modern techniques, but also quality improvement by using modern animation advances more effectively and less obtrusively. The set is very, very rich: I stopped a number of times just to admire the enormous detail flashing by.
• Story: it actually has one, fucked up as it is. Kinda of hard to be sure about that through a large portion of the movie, but bear with it. There is one, and it's pretty good. If the title & description haven't made it clear, it's pretty sacrilegious and brutal with biblical themes ... I consider that a plus, although some folks might not. Great balance of humor, drama & WTF. Sometimes I get pissed when a slapstick fart joke gets inserted into a dramatic theme & takes all the shine out of the moment. Never felt that way once throughout Hells.
Others:
• It does a bit of ass-pulling. I mean ... the whole story really is. But, some scenes just suddenly switch tracks so sharp & hard that it leaves you with a meh feeling. Takes away some of the character sympathy because suddenly there's lost connection in continuity from how they were developing and nowbamsuddenly it's a new story from a different plot.
• Tough to follow. It's very full and chaotic and very fast-paced. So, especially with subs, prepare to have to stop & rewind occasionally. It's easy to get very saturated with detail and five layers of events happening all at once. The constant switch-up in plot twists gets tiring because there is so much of it ... but, that is also part of the point of this story: life changes every few seconds and predictability is both over-rated and a stagnant life.
• There's a bit of a Coming-of-Age/ Oh-Grow-the-Fuck-Up-Already and Walk-It-Off theme. Will Power Über Alles, you-just-need-to-try-harder ... It gets a bit over-motivational and uses a heavy, lecturing hand to slap silly school children into being persevering Japanese Master Race types. It's good as far as it goes ... just a bit over-played, especially toward the end when you are mentally exhausted from trying to collate a lot of sensory overload. Point made, could we please get on with the story? 'K thx!
Also: if you've not seen this short yet, this a very entertaining & blasphemous 15 minutes of your life that will earn you an eternity in Hell:
• Judas & Jesus by Olaf Encke & Claudia Romero
I thought of this a lot while watching Hells, just on general principal of bizarre retelling of biblical mythology.
donald1:
Ben-To
7/10
it was entertaining enough to get me to the last ep. more than i can say about a few others i've seen. basically, it's about fighting for the last few bento which get put on sale late at night. like, actual fighting. i was wondering where the cops were the whole time since all the participating chars beat the STUFFING out of each other just for a leftover bento. nice twist at the end tho, but then they un-twist the twist and things proceed as usual.
i would have rated it higher, but there is no real deep storyline, and a lot of it was preeeety predictable after the fisrt 4 eps.
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