OGW is the more famous one, and the one people bring up all the time when they bash Summer Wars. The other one is a 20-min pilot from before even the series. It's great because it has little plot, no strained ties to the TV canon and it focuses intently on atmosphere.
The future he talked about being from sounded completely dystopian. Things like baseball were gone and he was surprised to see so many people together in one place I guess I just figured he was from a distant future. Maybe I read into it wrong.
Well this was a decent filler, until the ending when it got dumb dumb dumb dumb dumb
so the girl you love isn't dead she lost her memory and has been with you the whole time you just didn't notice it. NO YOU'RE LYING ARRGHALJFIOANLFUAIL *gets killed*
I did like how this episode helps to establish Ed and Al as good guys who can't turn a blind eye to those in trouble. That's about it though
Ren Kouha is amazing and definitely second best character after Judar. Having him voiced by Hakkenden's Shino was like the greatest treat in this season so far. Pleased tons over and his sword is so huge. Great personality, action, and silly antics. And the way he can woo everyone. I hope he wont meet a bad end ever.
Song wise they added more vocals to the Dance Bizarre song it seemed, the lady vocalists quite into the song.
Did the Translator have a slip of the mind or something, first time Ive ever seen Magnoshutatt for the place. Quite sure even in the show they had never referred to it as Magnoshutatt before.
The future he talked about being from sounded completely dystopian. Things like baseball were gone and he was surprised to see so many people together in one place I guess I just figured he was from a distant future. Maybe I read into it wrong.
I liked the change to the actual state alchemy test, it did a good job of explaining why Al didn't become a state alchemist and made the test feel more like a test and less like a formality. The scene of Ed and Al helping give birth was... bizarre
Also I find it weird how Ed still doesn't have full control over his ability to do alchemy without a circle. That's always been one of his defining traits in the series so for him to not have it just seems odd.
Apparently Roy has the same VA as in Brotherhood but it sounds different, like he hasn't found the right voice for the character yet.
The train hijack scene was awesome, though I feel like Bald looks a bit too much like Bradley. The introduction of Hughes was hilarious, and seeing the interactions between Roy's team was great.
Considering people saying how the scene in episode 7 of
Nina being turned into a chimera
was more emotional in 03 then in Brotherhood I feel it's nostalgia. The scene is equally as powerful in both versions and the manga. There are differences but I don't feel it makes one more or less powerful emotionally then the other, they're just different. The actual reveal scene and Ed's confrontation are pretty much identical in all 3 formats, it's how the final scene plays out that changes.
In 03
Military police break in to stop Al, they arrest Shou and take Nina away to test her. Ed tries to save Nina from becoming a science experiment and she escapes running into Scar who destroys her. Ed then comes across the blood splatter and freaks out
In brotherhood/manga
Ed leaves the house planning to report the truth, he angrily shouts why his power couldn't help him to save one girl. Meanwhile Scar enters the house and kills Shou for straying from the path, chimera nina walks up to her father and cries that daddy is hurt before Scar gives her a mercy death
Both scenes give a pretty powerful scene for Ed, one might argue the shock scene in 03 is better then his frustrated yell in the manga/brotherhood. However the 03 version doesn't have the powerful scene of Nina crying
over her father despite what he did to her
.
I can't really say if one is stronger then the other, both are equally good and equally different, they both work in their version of the story and simply swapping scenes between versions wouldn't make one better or worse then the other.
I've been meaning to ask for a while, but is Utena a dark mahou shoujo? There's transformations and magical powers and stock footage and monsters of the week, so it kinda seems like it might be.
I've been meaning to ask for a while, but is Utena a dark mahou shoujo? There's transformations and magical powers and stock footage and monsters of the week, so it kinda seems like it might be.
Uuuuh sort of. It depends how you define Magical Girl series I guess? You got the transformation and ENORMOUS amounts of stock footage, but it's person of the week, not monster of the week, and thematically it borrows more from shojuo romance 'n stuff (I think. Not a genre I'm that experienced with).
Actually, it's funny that you brought up Heidi, because another World Masterpiece Theater anime series, Anne of Green Gables, just had a BD-box announced for Japan.
So after a long while, I decided to continue watching this.
Don't really remember why I stopped, because the female MC snarking and inner monologue are so hilarious.
Y is rotten and she's proud of it. The revitalization of manga/doujins was entertaining and those letters would not surprise me if some fans actually wrote something similar to a author.
So after a long while, I decided to continue watching this.
Don't really remember why I stopped, because the female MC snarking and inner monologue are so hilarious.
Y is rotten and she's proud of it. The revitalization of manga/doujins was entertaining and those letters would not surprise me if some fans actually wrote something similar to a author.
Considering people saying how the scene in episode 7 of
Nina being turned into a chimera
was more emotional in 03 then in Brotherhood I feel it's nostalgia. The scene is equally as powerful in both versions and the manga. There are differences but I don't feel it makes one more or less powerful emotionally then the other, they're just different. The actual reveal scene and Ed's confrontation are pretty much identical in all 3 formats, it's how the final scene plays out that changes.
In 03
Military police break in to stop Al, they arrest Shou and take Nina away to test her. Ed tries to save Nina from becoming a science experiment and she escapes running into Scar who destroys her. Ed then comes across the blood splatter and freaks out
In brotherhood/manga
Ed leaves the house planning to report the truth, he angrily shouts why his power couldn't help him to save one girl. Meanwhile Scar enters the house and kills Shou for straying from the path, chimera nina walks up to her father and cries that daddy is hurt before Scar gives her a mercy death
Both scenes give a pretty powerful scene for Ed, one might argue the shock scene in 03 is better then his frustrated yell in the manga/brotherhood. However the 03 version doesn't have the powerful scene of Nina crying
over her father despite what he did to her
.
I can't really say if one is stronger then the other, both are equally good and equally different, they both work in their version of the story and simply swapping scenes between versions wouldn't make one better or worse then the other.
You make very good points. As you suggested, it most likely is nostalgia. When the show came out in the US I was very young [early teens] and I hadn't yet watched the first anime that turned me into a crying wimp [Wolf's Rain]. So that was probably the most emotionally invested I had been at a scene in any anime. Well not counting the final episode of Cowboy Bebop.
I didn't shed a single tear for Goku's multiple deaths in DBZ. Unlike every kid in my school.
