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Dom Cruise said:
Avoid Brotherhood altogether though? Because ehhhh, I'd still like to watch it someday out of curiosity, though not before I read the manga.
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Honka Honka Burning Love said:
2003 FMA is shit, Watch Brotherhood it has an ending that doesn't make Dragonball Z deaths look meaningful.
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FMA 2003's first half is great, which is the part it shares with the manga (that Brotherhood had to fast forward through, resulting in a jumbled mess). Also, near the end, FMA 2003 makes much better use of two specific characters, and I feel it's worth watching just for them. The ending, and the villain, are edgy methhead garbage.

Brotherhood's advantage is it making sense. Brotherhood's villain and ending you've seen if you ever watched a cartoon with a plotted ending - not great but serviceable, more likely to have resulted from a board meeting than a human imagination. As an adult, the only reason I cared is I watched the 2003 series and dreaded a similar clusterfuck. That said, there are secondary characters worth caring for.

Also trains.
 
Dom Cruise said:
Avoid Brotherhood altogether though? Because ehhhh, I'd still like to watch it someday out of curiosity, though not before I read the manga.
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Think of it like this: If you prefer darker storylines and characters/villains with considerable depth to them, stick with the 2003 series. If you’re more a fan of straightforward action and comedy (ala a typical shounen), watch Brotherhood.

Bias aside, you may just want to watch it anyway. It’s the only way to know for certain whether you’ll actually like Brotherhood and the direction it takes. I thought I’d like it after all the hype but ended up dropping it after only a couple episodes. The manga’s story just isn’t my cup of tea.
 
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Just watch Silver Spoon. The artstyle will probably fit the tone of a slice of life comedy show better, and most of the characters sort of look like characters from FMA anyway.

Also you get to learn how Japanese people farm.

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Atatata said:
Just watch Silver Spoon. The artstyle will probably fit the tone of a slice of life comedy show better, and most of the characters sort of look like characters from FMA anyway.

Also you get to learn how Japanese people farm.

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It's a great manga that is filled to the brim with FMA's brand of humor, mixed with in-depth knowledge about agriculture. Following it was absolute hell though, since Arakawa kept taking hiatus after hiatus as the manga approached the end of its run.

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Another bi-week period, another Spy x Family chapter.
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I'm not a huge fan of Anime, but a friend of mine finally got me to watch Steins;Gate, which I enjoyed very much. From what I understand, it's closer to the normie end, which might explain why I enjoyed it. It had its "trope-y" moments, but it wasn't inaccessible to me. It also had the right amount of Japanese "cheese" in the romance department, which I admit that I like. A few questions for the experts:

  1. Do I have shit taste for liking it?
  2. Is it worth playing the game(s), since I've finished the first season?
  3. Should I watch Steins;Gate 0?
 
Based_Papa_John said:
I'm not a huge fan of Anime, but a friend of mine finally got me to watch Steins;Gate, which I enjoyed very much. From what I understand, it's closer to the normie end, which might explain why I enjoyed it. It had its "trope-y" moments, but it wasn't inaccessible to me. It also had the right amount of Japanese "cheese" in the romance department, which I admit that I like. A few questions for the experts:

  1. Do I have shit taste for liking it?
  2. Is it worth playing the game(s), since I've finished the first season?
  3. Should I watch Steins;Gate 0?
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1. No. It's a good blend of interesting ideas and likable characters.
2. Only for watching the alternate routes endings (though from what I understand the show incorporated most of the routes but not their endings).
3. I didn't hear good things about the anime adaption, the game is pretty alright though.

Edit: Not related, but I don't want to double post. Ishuzoku Reviewers is out, be prepared to massive amount of sperging from anime lolcows and toxic fandoms.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
1. No. It's a good blend of interesting ideas and likable characters.
2. Only for watching the alternate routes endings (though from what I understand the show incorporated most of the routes but not their endings).
3. I didn't hear good things about the anime adaption, the game is pretty alright though.

Edit: Not related, but I don't want to double post. Ishuzoku Reviewers is out, be prepared to massive amount of sperging from anime lolcows and toxic fandoms.
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That’s the anime about two adventures going out to fuck all the different species of females there are, yeah?
 
Safir said:
if you ever watched a cartoon with a plotted ending - not great but serviceable, more likely to have resulted from a board meeting than a human imagination.
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Funny how it is the 2003 Anime that was the board meeting ending and Brotherhood was the one come up by the actual writer of the manga in that case. Of course handing the main characters the macguffin halfway through the series with no idea what to do after that doesn't help.
 
A chapter from Mieruko-chan.
A girl who can perceive the world of ghosts, but refuses to acknowledge them out of fear of what they might do to her.

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Are we doing new manga recommendations?

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Here's one I've been reading, The Night Owl Witch by Shin Hotani. It's about Maya, who claims to be a witch, and Mameyama, who is a manga artist. They're two lonely women who met when they both shared a hospital room and who now talk to each other late at night from their bedrooms via voice chat.

I mainly started reading this because I'm a big fan of the manga Flying Witch by Chihiro Ishizuka, a manga artist who has only been putting out a new chapter once every few months lately (although, when she does put out a chapter, it's usually on the longer side, around 25 to 30 pages, and the background art is very detailed so I can live with her sporadic pace). I wanted to find another magical slice-of-life comedy and The Night Owl Witch very much fits the bill. It's even more low-key with its magic than is Flying Witch.

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Only 10 chapters have been scanlated thus far so it's a quick read but, if you only want to read one chapter to get a general feel for the series, chapter 3 is the best place to start since it flashes back to how they met.
 
 
I'd recommend Jigokuraku.
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Its about a bunch of criminals on death row being forced to go to a forbidden death island to find the secret elixir of immortality (all are accompanied by executioner guards to make sure they don't run). Made by an assistant to Fire Punch (which I'd also recommend).
 
Lol fucking crunchyroll. Some of the shit I see there is so cringy I almost want to just give up on the place entirely.

Review for Seton academy
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sasazuka said:
Are we doing new manga recommendations?

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Here's one I've been reading, The Night Owl Witch by Shin Hotani. It's about Maya, who claims to be a witch, and Mameyama, who is a manga artist. They're two lonely women who met when they both shared a hospital room and who now talk to each other late at night from their bedrooms via voice chat.

I mainly started reading this because I'm a big fan of the manga Flying Witch by Chihiro Ishizuka, a manga artist who has only been putting out a new chapter once every few months lately (although, when she does put out a chapter, it's usually on the longer side, around 25 to 30 pages, and the background art is very detailed so I can live with her sporadic pace). I wanted to find another magical slice-of-life comedy and The Night Owl Witch very much fits the bill. It's even more low-key with its magic than is Flying Witch.

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Only 10 chapters have been scanlated thus far so it's a quick read but, if you only want to read one chapter to get a general feel for the series, chapter 3 is the best place to start since it flashes back to how they met.
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How is Flying Witch anime?
 
jellycar said:
How is Flying Witch anime?
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I enjoyed the Flying Witch anime but the manga's much further along now with some characters that had yet to be introduced in the anime like Sayo, a witch in the grade above Makoto at the same high school, and the Harbinger of Summer, who takes the form of a handsome foreigner who Nao seems to have a crush on.

Certainly, some manga chapters benefited from being animated, especially the sky whale chapter which seemed like it could be something straight out of a Hayao Miyazaki movie. For the most part, the anime followed the manga very closely, only shuffling around a few chapters and with very minimal padding.
 
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