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Lone MacReady II said:
So which one is the best knights of the zodiac series? I'm interested after all the talk about it.
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That generally varies based on your tolerance but at the very least here's the least controversial take possible:

  1. Original comic: The one that started it all. Set in the late 80s, it's about the modern Saints, young teens who trained to be able to channel amazing powers with their bare hands and wield sacred armors known as Cloths, all in the name of the Greek goddess Athena. The story itself focuses on a small group of Bronze Saints [lowest rank], primarily on Seiya, a hot-headed teenager who only cared about finding his sister, who he was separated from years ago. There are a few oddities, like a man who has 100 sons with about 90 women and training to be a Saint letting you look like you're in your late 20s while being 18, but eventually it fully changes gears into being about the conflict between Athena and the other Gods, namely Poseidon and Hades, who are all about murderdeathkilling humanity for their sins.
  2. Original animé: Honestly better than the comic in a lot of ways, despite stopping early since they didn't get to the Hades arc. Most people who are fans of this one like it because the character designs are on point, often better than what Kurumada tried to do and the soundtrack is awesome. It also includes an extra arc based off one of the movies, where the Saints go to Norway to beat up vikings.
  3. The Lost Canvas: I am going to admit, right now, that I'm actually not good at talking about this because I legit do not like Lost Canvas due to art style preferences, but as was pointed out before, people generally prefer this take on the story, so I am referencing it anyway. It's based off a statement by Hades at the end of the original story where he recalled that the Saint who stopped him in the last Holy War was also a Pegasus just like Seiya - and the story goes deep on this flashback, describing the friendship between the previous incarnations of Athena, Pegasus and Hades, and how things went horrible as well.
Every other version will have flaws of its own, and it doesn't help that some of the recent works have been... well, just for a summary, three of the most recent series are Episode G Requiem [where everybody is dead because the Primordials - the guys who are two tiers above the Gods - have decided to wipe humanity], Meiou Hades Iden [which is focused on an alternate world where another Hades and another Athena are actually trying to avoid a Holy War and they all went to school together] and Rerise of Poseidon [where Poseidon's generals were revived and given 24 hours to stop a meteor from crashing on Earth and killing everyone]. This franchise just goes places, and not all of it is good.
 
Georgio Cocklord said:
Any recommendations for fan servicy manga along the lines of 100 girlfriends who really really love you? I want to get into the seinen ecchi/harem thing, the stuff which twitter calls problematic
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I'd recommend Tenchi Muyo. Dude winds up having kids with all of them in the end.

There's also Sekirei, which is a battle harem.
 
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Georgio Cocklord said:
Any recommendations for fan servicy manga along the lines of 100 girlfriends who really really love you? I want to get into the seinen ecchi/harem thing, the stuff which twitter calls problematic
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Murcielago isn't a romcom but its still a great manga with great action and great character designs. Think Hellsing with a lot of yuri. In the first chapter you see a yuri sex scene. There's a ton of fanservice in almost every chapter.

The only issue is that you're gonna have to fish for the official volumes online (check nyaa) because nobody is scanlating the manga.

EDIT: If you want a good look at what you're getting into, take a look at one of the MAL reviews calling it problematic.
This manga is the Mount Rushmore of internal-misogyny. It depicts women as perverts, manipulators, victims, crazies, and cold-blooded killers. Worst of all, it’s mostly toward their gender. I stopped reading after chapter 22. An event occurred, which made my jaw drop. It ruined a female-only space that seemed like a lesbian utopia.

Without spoiling too much, there’s much female-on-female crime that happens in this manga. There’s no “sisterhood” at all. The female x female crime isn’t depicted realistically either. I understand that women are catty towards each other, but they are rarely, if ever, homicidal. They fill this manga with Yuri scenes, so it wants us to believe that the women are in love with each other, but then chapters later, women are butchering each other. I am a Yuri fan. I love females, and I love it when females get along and love each other. This manga allured me with its Yuri-Ness. However, I was left shocked and disappointed. I would not recommend to any wholesome Yuri fan out there.

If you are a yuri fan, you love it when girls are romantic. There is no room for homicidal maniacs in yuri works, especially when women commit a crime against their fellow women. If you do not mind the crime/horror aspect, then this would be the manga.
Reviewer’s Rating: 1
 
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Lone MacReady II said:
So which one is the best knights of the zodiac series? I'm interested after all the talk about it.
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I wouldn't recommend because it really isn't good. But the best place to start is the original manga or the first anime series (then the sequel ovas), also go with subs if you only speak english because english dub is so terrible it would curse a latino of he listened to it.

The manga artstyle isn't bad per se but every fight is the same shit, the anime changes his art style in favor of Michi Himeno/Shingo Araki and it is way better.

Just avoid the american 3D series for the love of god
Lone MacReady II said:
So which one is the best knights of the zodiac series? I'm interested after all the talk about it.
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I wouldn't recommend because it really isn't good. But the best place to start is the original manga or the first anime series (then the sequel ovas), also go with subs if you only speak english because english dub is so terrible it would curse a latino of he listened to it.

The manga artstyle isn't bad per se but every fight is the same shit, the anime changes his art style in favor of Michi Himeno/Shingo Araki and it is way better.

Just avoid the american 3D series for the love of god

Another reason for my hate of Episode G, this is a normal page of the manga, yes, in color. As you may imagine it is shiny, too shiny, Megumu Okada does this in EVERY SINGLE PAGE

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How the original art makes the shiny armor
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How a spinoff art style does it:
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Now episode G artist:

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And this is when the whole series was in color, in the previous series was in black and white AND HE STILL DID IT.

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As you can imagine, this didn't look good at cheap manga paper scanned in the 00s. The last volume I had no idea of what was happening because of the poses and shiny stars were all I could read until someone years later redid the scans (this very page is from the new version)

Megumu okada is the worst mangaka I ever saw, because he isn't one, he is an illustrator, he doesn't have an ounce of idea of what manga should be and how to make it.

(This motherfucker did an EIGHT PAGES SPREAD, NOT 2 OR 4, 8 PAGESSSSS)
 

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Registration said:
Another reason for my hate of Episode G, this is a normal page of the manga, yes, in color. As you may imagine it is shiny, too shiny, Megumu Okada does this in EVERY SINGLE PAGE
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Dude, fix your images, they're asking me to log in when I'm already logged in.
 
Thos season's overly dramatic suicidal isekai looks promising. (No longer allowed in another world)
 
Guess who got a copy of Escaflowne on blurayyyyyyyyyyyy
Anyway shit is confusing cause there's two separate bluray discs for 9 episodes. One is the original Canadian with kirby morrow my beloved and the other is a new dub with Texas ppl.

Not sure the difference.....Anyway I like the show. I'm only on episode 2. The character designs are actually pretty cool. Doesn't bother me in the least and I wish more anime could do this type of design, noses and all.
 
Scarlett Johansson said:
Not sure the difference
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FUNi version is the director's cut. I dunno what the director's cut looks like tbh, not sure if my Bandai Anime Legends copy is director's cut too (the dub audio apparently doesn't sync up if it is, I just haven't noticed or if I did, it was years ago since I last watched, don't think it was).
 
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Kari Kamiya said:
FUNi version is the director's cut. I dunno what the director's cut looks like tbh, not sure if my Bandai Anime Legends copy is director's cut too (the dub audio apparently doesn't sync up if it is, I just haven't noticed or if I did, it was years ago since I last watched, don't think it was).
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So I looked it up. The first 9 episodes there are a few minor changed or extended things but it isn't like LOTR level uncut stuff.
 
Finished reading one of the first Ultraman manga, quite fun action series. I think it is funny that he has a moving mouth in the manga and not in the tokusatsu. It is quite weird stuff

This monster was the reborn version of the battleship Yamato.
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Another Random said:
That generally varies based on your tolerance but at the very least here's the least controversial take possible:
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Does the first anime at least ""end"" in some way that is acceptable despite it not adapting the whole manga? I don't mind anime only endings so long as they conclude major beats instead of leaving you hanging.
 
Ok Anime KF, I have only watched Miyazaki's version of Lupin the Third, should I try other animes for Lupin? Open to siggestions.
 
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