[Official] Anime/Manga Thread

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Do you still enjoy watching anime? It seems that when weight out, there's more negative then positive points coming from you about anime.

Now I don't mean this to call you out on anything. I'm just merely interested for the answer to this question :)

I don't think I can say I enjoy watching anime that was released in the past 2-3 years that much. It's not "me growing up" that makes me dislike most of the anime. Watching just ~250 shows and realizing how many plot devices and cliches are used makes me a dull, negative reviewer. The anime in the past two years have been rehashes of 80s or 90s anime and the sci-fi genre isn't that interesting because most of them are crazy shows like TTGL and Code Geass. I can name the number of anime series I actually enjoyed watching that were released in the past two years (Nodame Cantabile, Spice and Wolf and Ponyo just to name a few). For the past year, I've been reading more manga than watching anime and some are actually thoroughly enjoyable. There were amazing series and movies that were nothing spectacular story wise, like Summer Wars and Darker than Black. 2008 till now features amazing animation techniques that were eye candy. Too bad, I can't say the same for the stories and narration of most of them.

TL;DR: I love the anime and manga art genres. Most of the anime in the past 3 years? Not so much.

By the way, don't you think the fights in FMA:B are getting a bit too tiring and absurd? The manga so far spent the last six volumes on random fights from the mountains to Central HQ and throwing in some random transmutation circle conspiracy theories just for fun. I really wish the mangaka didn't send Ed and Al North. The manga was a 9-10/10 until that arc.

Grand Master

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Where is FMA?

What? Fullmetal Alchemist.

Where? MangaTraders for the manga or interwebs for episodes.

Why? It's a decent shounen series with some Seinen sub plots in a cool fantasy world with art that breaks from the typical lanky, metrosexual male lead and a whiny, squirrel type female lead.

How? Read or watch it.

:rofl:

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^It kinda comes over as if watching anime become a job for you, instead of watching series to have a good time while watching them.

No, I'm not getting tired of the fights in FMA:B and I'm also don't think that they're absurd. They all belong and fit well into the story. Just like those "random" transmutation circles which aren't just for fun. Why do you wish that Ed and Al didn't head up north?

Of course plots and certainly cliches will often looks similar. You don't only see this anime or manga's but also in cartoons, comics, books, films, real live series, etc, etc. There's no way around that fact.

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^It kinda comes over as if watching anime become a job for you, instead of watching series to have a good time while watching them.

No, I'm not getting tired of the fights in FMA:B and I'm also don't think that they're absurd. They all belong and fit well into the story. Just like those "random" transmutation circles which aren't just for fun. Why do you wish that Ed and Al didn't head up north?

Of course plots and certainly cliches will often looks similar. You don't only see this anime or manga's but also in cartoons, comics, books, films, real live series, etc, etc. There's no way around that fact.

I don't see it as a job. If it was one, I would be spending 8 hours a day on it, analyzing anime series in alphabetical order while creating a anime wiki similar to TVTropes.

Did you not get slightly irked when all the former enemies of Ed start collaborating like one big, happy family? I mean seriously. The guy, whose race was almost entirely wiped out by State Alchemists, is now playing tea cup parties with Ed and the Flame Alchemist. Nothing got to me more when Ed was in the north and they were greeted by Sloth and somehow all the best alchemists of the State were completely blind to the fact that someone was digging a tunnel around an entire country! The whole thing capped off the absurdity when Ed's dad is revealed as a slave who was controlled by an evil gas and all of a sudden two doubles appear! Where did fair trade go in that situation?! He then turns to Jesus and the whole scene where he walks on water with alchemy while approaching Pride made me wonder whether the mangaka started to seriously get into Christianity and Abraham symbolism even though she illustrates Ed as being a strong atheist.

However, my criticisms are only about these arcs. The others were magnificent and kept me riveted.

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I don't see it as a job. If it was one, I would be spending 8 hours a day on it, analyzing anime series in alphabetical order while creating a anime wiki similar to TVTropes.

Did you not get slightly irked when all the former enemies of Ed start collaborating like one big, happy family? I mean seriously. The guy, whose race was almost entirely wiped out by State Alchemists, is now playing tea cup parties with Ed and the Flame Alchemist. Nothing got to me more when Ed was in the north and they were greeted by Sloth and somehow all the best alchemists of the State were completely blind to the fact that someone was digging a tunnel around an entire country! The whole thing capped off the absurdity when Ed's dad is revealed as a slave who was controlled by an evil gas and all of a sudden two doubles appear! Where did fair trade go in that situation?! He then turns to Jesus and the whole scene where he walks on water with alchemy while approaching Pride made me wonder whether the mangaka started to seriously get into Christianity and Abraham symbolism even though she illustrates Ed as being a strong atheist.

However, my criticisms are only about these arcs. The others were magnificent and kept me riveted.

See, that bit of text underneath the spoiler tags proves you don't understand the reason why they're working together. It's one of the key things during this whole anime which you don't understand :p Even the Homonculus don't understand it. Also, Ed and the rest couldn't have known about the tunnel at all if you ask me. Someone who's digging turns up so they should come to the conclusion about some huge tunnel?

The point about Hohenheim is kinda far fetched imo. You're reading to far into things, things which don't have a deep reason by behind it :p

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See, that bit of text underneath the spoiler tags proves you don't understand the reason why they're working together. It's one of the key things during this whole anime which you don't understand :p Even the Homonculus don't understand it. Also, Ed and the rest couldn't have known about the tunnel at all if you ask me. Someone who's digging turns up so they should come to the conclusion about some huge tunnel?

Too far fetched IMO. Enemies coming together to fight an enemy. I do understand why they're butt buddies but it makes me question why such a story path was chosen instead. Maybe I was expecting the same mature tone FMA had in the beginning rather the tournament style fighting it's currently featuring with each Homonculus being one stronger than the other.

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Too far fetched IMO. Enemies coming together to fight an enemy. I do understand why they're butt buddies but it makes me question why such a story path was chosen instead. Maybe I was expecting the same mature tone FMA had in the beginning rather the tournament style fighting it's currently featuring with each Homonculus being one stronger than the other.

Instead of what? There's no other storyline in this or whatever.

Anyways, I just wanted to know if you still enjoyed watching anime :p

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