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scorptatious said:
Both series are awesome for me.

I do have much more of a nostalgic attachment to the 2003 version though, it was my gateway into anime that wasn't stuff like Pokemon or Digimon.

I do kinda prefer the ending to the manga (and by extension Brotherhood) simply because I wanted all these characters that I grew to like so much to be happy. And I got just that.



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This theme right here. This will never leave me.
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This song is such one of forbidden knowledge. It's foreboding while also a little tragic, and any time it's used it instantly puts me into the scene.
 
Dunno if this is an unpopular opinion or not, but I really prefer Hirohiko Araki's older artstyle (Baoh, early Jojo) to his current works. It's far less technically impressive, sure, but I just feel that there was so much more life and character in his drawings before he focused on making everyone look like a Parisian model. I noticed aswell that the faces were distinct and stylised in his earlier works, with less focus on making them look beautiful than on showing emotion and making them look unique. his recent illustrations are beautiful, but to me his manga panels fall flat.
I re-read Baoh recently after I found a few issues in a charity shop and It's so much more fun to me than the more recent Jojo.
 
admiral said:
Dunno if this is an unpopular opinion or not, but I really prefer Hirohiko Araki's older artstyle (Baoh, early Jojo) to his current works. It's far less technically impressive, sure, but I just feel that there was so much more life and character in his drawings before he focused on making everyone look like a Parisian model. I noticed aswell that the faces were distinct and stylised in his earlier works, with less focus on making them look beautiful than on showing emotion and making them look unique. his recent illustrations are beautiful, but to me his manga panels fall flat.
I re-read Baoh recently after I found a few issues in a charity shop and It's so much more fun to me than the more recent Jojo.
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i have to agree. although i love that akari is finding his style, it just ends up making the character's look samey and bland by a design standpoint.
 
admiral said:
Dunno if this is an unpopular opinion or not, but I really prefer Hirohiko Araki's older artstyle (Baoh, early Jojo) to his current works. It's far less technically impressive, sure, but I just feel that there was so much more life and character in his drawings before he focused on making everyone look like a Parisian model. I noticed aswell that the faces were distinct and stylised in his earlier works, with less focus on making them look beautiful than on showing emotion and making them look unique. his recent illustrations are beautiful, but to me his manga panels fall flat.
I re-read Baoh recently after I found a few issues in a charity shop and It's so much more fun to me than the more recent Jojo.
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Araki's early works (Buso Poker, Gorgeous Irene, Cool Shock BT, and Baoh) have a really classic style to them that reminds me a lot of Shotaro Ishinomori. I really like his early stuff but he had a really big issue with properly depicting objects in 3D space. His character art overall was really great, he nails signification really well and you do get a distinct sense of his style, but whenever he has character art in conjunction with a proper background he struggled to make them click together. Looking at his old stuff does make me wonder what his style would've evolved into if he hadn't started taking notes from Fist of the North Star.
 
Syaoran Li said:
I'm thinking of rewatching the 2003 anime of Fullmetal Alchemist for old time's sake.

FMA 2003 was my favorite anime when I was in middle school, and I'd stay up every night it would air on Adult Swim to watch it.

As heretical as this may sound, and I have said this before, but I vastly prefer FMA 2003 to Brotherhood. While Brotherhood is more faithful to the manga, I simply prefer the story and setting of the first anime over that of the manga. Not to say that Brotherhood is bad, because it's actually a fairly decent show. But it feels more like a generic shonen when compared to FMA 2003.

Though I did hate it in the early 2010's when Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood came out and everyone was shitting on the first anime solely because it didn't follow the manga completely. That got old pretty quick.
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Heretical?fans to this day like to yell at each other to see which is better(that reminds me when JesuOtaku shat on Brotherhood and its fans,as if he had any moral ground to do that,like a good lolcow...)
Both are on Netflix,so it's the best time to rewatch them now
 
Brother and I are halfway through Blood Lad (not hard to do, what with it being 10 episodes), and I have to say, I thought it was going to go one way, but it's the complete inversion of what I expected. Not bad, not bad at all. I'm digging the dub on top of it as well, so it's overall a pleasant surprise.
 
One Piece 893:
Man, Katakuri is officially one of my favorite OP characters now. He is so similar to Luffy in so many different ways.

That CoC clash was awesome too. This fight will be amazing in the anime!

The recent announcement that Tomokazu Sugita (VA for Sakata Gintoki & Joesph Joestar) voicing him is basically perfect casting.
 
neural said:
One Piece 893:
Man, Katakuri is officially one of my favorite OP characters now. He is so similar to Luffy in so many different ways.

That CoC clash was awesome too. This fight will be amazing in the anime!

The recent announcement that Tomokazu Sugita (VA for Sakata Gintoki & Joesph Joestar) voicing him is basically perfect casting.
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I came to say the exact same thing about the guy.
 
Steamboat_Bill said:
What you see in the first photos is actually Tezuka's parody of the Syncro-Vox technique used in Clutch Cargo. (And yes, the show did air in Japan.)
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Holy shit, there's a name for that? It was a thing? I thought Let It Die just came up with it to contribute to how weird the game was.

REGENDarySumanai said:
The mangaka did serve in the JDSF.
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My review of Gate:

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Manah said:
Holy shit, there's a name for that? It was a thing? I thought Let It Die just came up with it to contribute to how weird the game was.
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Oh, yes, it was a thing, and that was the official patented name for it as well. It was only ever used seriously in Clutch Cargo and a few other cartoons from the same studio before largely becoming a joke. (It does survive in some places; e.g. the SpongeBob opening.)
 
So I decided to go take a stroll down memory lane and look up an old website I used to go on as a kid for anything Cardcaptors, Winx Club, and Pokémon-related called "Michael's Favorites" to see if it was still up and:
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Oh God, he's still stuck in time. And I'm a bit weirded out that he's still fixated on Winx Club, like I get he's a collector and stuff and he's quite informative, but...
 
Kari Kamiya said:
So I decided to go take a stroll down memory lane and look up an old website I used to go on as a kid for anything Cardcaptors, Winx Club, and Pokémon-related called "Michael's Favorites" to see if it was still up and:
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Oh God, he's still stuck in time. And I'm a bit weirded out that he's still fixated on Winx Club, like I get he's a collector and stuff and he's quite informative, but...
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Now that brings back memories...
 

I was always amazed by the happy- and cheerfulness of the opening theme given the massacre the anime turns into.
 
Fuck yeah, my bro came home from Half-Price with the Azumanga Daioh boxset. Looks like the perfect time to do a rewatch.
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I've not actually seen Azumanga Daioh. I might give it a try when I'm done rewatching Fullmetal Alchemist and Cardcaptor Sakura.
 
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