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|View Poll Results: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood - Total Series Rating
|Perfect 10
|9 out of 10 : Excellent
|8 out of 10 : Very Good
|7 out of 10 : Good
|6 out of 10 : Average
|5 out of 10 : Below Average
|4 out of 10 : Poor
|3 out of 10 : Bad
|2 out of 10 : Very Bad
|1 out of 10 : Painful
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|2011-02-13, 00:12
|Link #41
Giga Drill Breaker
Join Date: Jan 2009
i gave this a 9, they followed the manga well until the end, my only complain is that it has only few fighting scenes across 64 episodes, but to be fair most BONES anime are like that the action scenes are very well animated but they are only few
|2011-03-08, 13:48
|Link #43
Hey, I forgot to post here my AWESOME SPECIAL REVIEW
Bold letters refer to names of series or characters. If you dont get it, it aint my fault.
The king is dead. Long live the king!
I never imagined saying that about one of my tops in a span of less than 10 years, much less for a remake. Yet life is full of surprises and behold, I now have this ranking exactly where the previous version stood.
If you happen to be paying attention to remakes, you may notice that most of the times they feel inferior to the original series. The feeling of excitement is not there because you already know the story. Yet, in this situation we had not JUST a remake but a far more close to identical adaptation to the source material, which is of course a manga. You see, the first series was made when the story was still mid-way and thus had to resolve to an original timeline, which ended up having no relation to the manga. Which is not a bad thing if its done right. It could always stop when it covered all the material at the time, or it could turn to the usual solution all milking fighting shounen run off to at the drop of a hat. Killers Fillers, the dreadful monsters that murdered Rurouni Kenshin, Inu Yasha, D Grey Man and turned all the others from Viagra to sleeping pills. Well, the first series wasnt that purist but all things considered it had a pacing than made all action/adventure up to that moment to look like retarded snails crawling on our faces, covering us with disgusting saliva and still claiming to be entertaining.
Anyways, if I could describe the main differences between FMA (henceforth A) and FMAB (henceforth B) those would be that the later has much faster pacing and an overall more complicating and engrossing story that ends in a far more satisfying way.
ART & SOUND SECTIONS: 8/10 (A gets 9 for being more detailed)
I wont write too much here; I care very little about these sections to begin with. The production values were great in A and still are in B. High amount of detail and fluidity, with very well drawn backgrounds and character figures and a rather high amount of well-made cinematics as atmosphere building. There are some sloppy scenes with lots of still frames and the SD slapstick moments may feel overdone. Also the backgrounds and the characters are in various cases rather run down, simplistic, done with low quality filters or in overall with less attention than in A. But these are not damaging the whole that much. Also, the way all modern anime are made today I am even willing to consider the complete lack of erotic humor and nude to be a major plus too. Almost everyone is drawn handsomely and there is a token loli and mascot critter for the mainstream fans but even those are still not presented as a freaking brothel that distracts you from the actual story and character immersion. Banzai! Also, the series blends in various cultures and nationalities and yet it does not feel disjoined as it usually does in anime that throw in ideas at random. There is uniformity and a good excuse for everything looking the way they do. Voice acting and music score remain amazingly good although I will never whistle to their tunes.
STORY SECTION: 9/10 (A gets 7 for the incomplete story and the annoying fillers)
Imagine you, wanting to go get a beer from the fridge. How much time would it take to do that? Assuming you are not living in a huge villa, tied to a pole and/or all doors and windows are locked, it would take around 5 seconds. Now imagine Frieza telling you that your beer will explode in 5 minutes yet 5 hours later, the beer is still intact. Time generally flows in slow motion in anime and not only because the characters cant shut their traps for a change. Fillers, dragging, looping, flashbacks, internal dialogues and a million different excuses to make you incapable of drinking a simple can of beer in less than 24 episodes. B dared to skip all that crap and go straight to the point. You want a freaking beer? You freaking get it in the same episode.
That aside, the actual story is ingenious and really full of deep shit you would never expect in an average show. I know most anime are full of interesting ideas and concepts but very few actually manage to do something with them. Most just throw them in as extra shock value and poor excuses to show off as smart or mature and do a sappy job with them. Beats me what the fuss was all about in anime like The book of Bantorra or Karas. The main story is about finding a magic trinket to gain back lost body parts and even resurrect the dead. But as the story goes on, it is no longer about that. It is about the meaning of life itself in a way and how each one pursues happiness or perfection in his own personal way. Its not a unique premise; its like that in other series like One Piece for example. But over there the objective is unseen and impersonal to the point of not caring about it after awhile. Plus, it reached a gazillion episodes and no exposition of what the hell is going on with it was shown. No more!
Moving along, almost everything in this series is excused. Yes, its a series where people use magic to turn water to wine and dirt to spears; yet the inner workings of such a thing are excused to a basic level of understanding. They even offer some scientific explanations to excuse it even further. So, when Ed uses alchemy to soften the diamond-hard shield of an enemy he makes sure to explain how carbon works to make that possible and not the DBZ type of excuse My Power Level is bigger than yours. Furthermore, although alchemy looks in practice a lot like chakras and jutsus in Naruto, the superpowers are never overused to a point where a character is defined only by his special move. Plus, there is actual strategy in battles here, unlike there where 99% of the so called tactics is making clones of you and exchanging places with a log.
Finally, there are various side stories and they are all resolved in the end. No open endings or half-baked solutions, like in most series or even the A itself. All of which in far less than 600 episodes, most of which are dead time. So yeah, it is a masterful work that is glitched at some points by the way the plot may or may not move too fast or too slow and the emotional impact on you may or may not be as strong as it should have or whatever.
Many viewers complained how B goes much faster than A and loses a lot of the emotional impact the old series had. I wont deny this but it still dwarfs the fact of not having fillers popping every now and then. No matter which episode you watch, you actually see progress that does not fit in a single sentence (using a hundred and is a cheap move; does not count). In a few words, the pacing of B may feel too fast (or too slow if you so much want to bitch at it no matter what) at times but it is done in a way to both tell the story and offer time for immersion without allowing you to stroll around the house waiting for something to happen. Fans of the old series still find it less exciting and seem to miss the simple fact that the effective duration of B is far closer to 100% that A. And I happen to prefer the term faster to the term half-dead.
Also, even though I love even the original timeline A went for, I must admit it was full of unexplained motivations. Why couldnt the homunculi leader (in A it was a woman) make the philosopher stone herself the second time? Why did she killed all those looking for it when in fact she wanted it to be made? What did the homunculi want? How would they turn human again? Why did they keep their human remains around if it was killing them? And stuff like that
Finally many disliked the ending as they found it too normal and simple. Well I am sorry for not seeing Al throwing galaxies to Father, who has created a 11-dimensional black hole or something. The themes were fine, the resolution was reasonable and the final battle was long and exciting. Not being epicly epical epic epicness in terms of explosions is not a minus.
Oh and by the way, I keep receiving these feedbacks about having the story too high at marks because I compare it only with shounen series. Well, with what should I compare it too? The Iliad or the Romance of the Three Kingdoms? Its an action/adventure anime and its the best in overall in this regard. Giving it any less for following the tropes of the genre (in a very good way I must say) is like blaming a comedy for making me laugh. Yes, its less serious than Legend of Galactic Heroes and people in it clap hands and shit changes to chocolate mousse. As I said, the inner workings of all that are well excused and the effective duration is close to perfect, so let it be already.
CHARACTER SECTION: 10/10 (A gets 8 for the unclear motivations of the villains and the addition of useless filler characters)
I will tell you something that is not a secret or anything, yet very few seem to be aware of. A good character is not only about good looks. You get tired of that pretty fast. It doesnt take more than a few years for a pretty chick in some anime to lose its appeal by the next pretty chick that comes out in a newer series. You hear than Queens Blade?
It is more about an interesting personality; it is harder to get over a colorful persona. But eventually even that happens one day anyway. Sorry Lina Inverse; its not my fault you are so flat in more areas than your chest.
That is when you look for truly memorable characters. Those who have a goal they strive to achieve and progress towards it. Now, the word progress is something most have a really wrong image about. Son Goku gets blond, oh look, he is now different. Uzumaki Naruto changes a blouse after four years, oh look, he has changed a lot.
Bullshit; they are the exact same people as before. They didnt get smarter, wiser, or more careful in their actions.
So this is what makes FMA cast so great. The all mature as characters. From the most superficial detail such as changing clothes, down to the core, like personal impressions of something, goals in life and deep stuff like that. In a span of merely ten episodes you get so much progress that most series out there cant even see with binoculars and neon light arrows flashing above the target. So the FMA cast has all the elements of a great cast. You like pretty boys and girls? Sure, lots of those. Do they have quirky behaviors? You bet! Do they mature, grow older, wiser, smarter? Uh-huh! Do they have variety in all that or are they all slight variations of one another? Nobody is the same! Did most of them appear out of thin air? Nah, they all have backdrops excusing their place in the story. And do they all get their issues resolved at the end? Yup! Code Geass air-filled sex dolls, eat my dust; lol.
Self-realization is very powerful for most and that can lead to some very emotionally powerful moments. Not to mention how many of the cast is actually killed and never returns back to life with some shmuck way. This is in fact a core difference with the older series, where even the dead could return to life as easy as peanuts. Over here, if you are dead there is no Jesus raising from the grave. They may yearn for it all the time but it never happens. That is what makes this version a far more mature and solid one.
Another thing is how even small fries end up affecting the story. It usually is about the powerful few protagonists doing all the hard work as the rest of the world just eats pop-corn and watches them fight. Well no sir, not here. In this story even the meekest of characters actually does something. They may not all have an army behind their backs, super laser beams to level those who oppose or Geass eyes to convince others of how cool they are. Yet they actually do something! From digging trenches to stall the enemy, to secretly gathering information about his weakness, to even taking up arms when they cant take this shit any longer. Heck, the villains themselves need to resolve to deception all the time exactly because they know they cant just openly terrorize them no matter how powerful they are. Now THIS is what I call an interesting all-round cast. Marvelous! Nothing alike that parade of cardboards that is Bleach or Naruto.
I will not deny that some characters like Envy and Sloth were far more detailed and colorful in A but B can easily counter this by having double as many characters, most which also develop on their own, while leaving aside all the filler characters that offered nothing more to it.
VALUE SECTION: 10/10, ENJOYMENT SECTION: 9/10 (A gets 9 and 8 for all the reasons stated above)
I admit that it had boring parts or was partially not as emotional as the first series. It is still almost entirely captivating and a fine example of how great action/adventures should be made in less than 600 episodes. It is almost a crime not to place this in the top adventures of all times. Replay value is very high, as there are so many events and character motives that there is no way to remember them all in one go. Plus, it will show how awesomely planned out every event was made to be since the beginning. It is nothing alike the average shounen out there, brimming with fillers, dragging, ass-pulling and random power-up panaceas. If Dragonball created the golden formula of a successful shounen series, then FMA transmutated it into a marvelous crown, full of jewels and decorations, fit only for itself and those rare few who can only hope to mimic half of its glory.
Extra section. Comparison of episodes between old and new series in correspondence to the manga. Yes, I have no life
B=episode in FMAB, A= episode in FMA, M= manga chapter
|2011-05-08, 04:22
|Link #44
Guy on the Couch
Join Date: May 2011
Location: Australia
I give this remake of FMA a 10 considering that they've followed the manga much more closely, resulting in a more compelling story revolving around themes of alchemy, mixed with character ambition and goals, the meaning of life and such under Arakawa's direction of course. I truely like it for the new presentation of the manga content as I felt the manga was good and this adaptation felt very close to it. Characters are developed all well and logical in progression so I have no problems there.
There are certainly a few problems, particularly the first 13 episodes leaving a pretty rushed and misleading impression of the same introductory content as the first series. For example, Hughes development felt pretty rushed and I sort of cared less what happened in result compared to the first series. However, this was only the beginng and as such, it's not until the series diverges into the new, not seen in first season, manga content that really upped the ante of the series by a lot in quality from storytelling to characters.
Again, actionwise, the series does it well, being pretty balanced and tactical with enough variety of alchemy spells and action skills in fights. While presentation overall, is excellent even though I felt the facials of the characters did feel a bit too rounded and a little lacking detail for my liking. Otherwise, FMA:B is a top favourite of my anime list for sure.
|2011-05-17, 22:16
|Link #45
~Official Slacker~
Graphic Designer
Join Date: Aug 2010
Location: Xanadu
Age: 24
I'm going to give Brotherhood a 10/10 simply because I'm a sucker for animes that remain loyal to manga (even though sometimes setting course off the manga is good as well depending on the idea)
|2011-05-25, 21:45
|Link #46
Honyaku no Hime
Join Date: May 2008
Location: In the eastern capital of the islands of the rising suns...
I'm giving it a 9 simply based on the two anime series (nothing to do with any kind of manga influence)
Call this an 'anime only' review, which meant I wasn't bitching and whining with the first series cause it didn't follow the holy book of the manga.
I wasn't constantly comparing about which frames got animated and what didn't, nor did I care about any of all of that randomness.
I took all the hits, surprises, blows and mindfucks (and boy were there some) as they came for both series, hence this is my impression
Well for one, the first series was the first, I knew no better with the manga storyline, so the world, the homoculous' the theme and pace of the series was fine with me. Not to mention as the first released, it etched an eternal spot in my heart that, the excitement and rush of it all couldn't be replicated with Brotherhood. Brotherhood was like coming back to a loved family, seeing the guys all over again, this time in a completely different adventure.
Brotherhood for me in its own self was amazing though. Now I know why Arakawa never shows her face ever, she's a pure sadistic bitch who puts her characters through Hell and suffering no human should endure. They all mentally breakdown, they all are pushed within inches of their lives, they all see absolute despair, but that's what made the show sweet when we see the sheer willpower and strength of human beings (I beleive her message was to somepoint).
It's inspiring in that sense, and something I do give credit for. A very complex plot, twists beyond anything and alike many deep throught out, sucessful stories (well FMA1 had more of this nuance), we see that the lines between 'good and evil' aren't so clear cut.
Life is not that simple.
It's a 8/9 from me, based on the fact it got waaaay too Evangelion like at the end, I joked with my mate when I was done with the series saying:
"So wait, at the end of this all, it was about a black dude who had beef with a white dude and so, sought to destroy humanity just to get some freedom?! Yeah, I'd rather have the 1st series overall message then, than this, lol"
Another aspect was no matter how hard I tried, the characters from Xing really didn't leave an impression on me. Perhaps because unlike Scar's race, there was no historical link or introduction to their world, I was disconnected with it and didn't care if they were there or not (of course she created them for them to play their part).
But the 4 of them (exc the panda) didn't do it for me.
On the otherhand, it was lovely to see more of Scar's people, race, beliefs and teachings evolve throughout the series that led to them playing their part in the final battle.
Perhaps a 9 was too giving from me since I'm besotted with Ed anyways, lol.
8.5 would be accurate, but as a show in itself, it definitely is an amazing series, an amazing world and storytelling from an incredibly talented individual.
Makes me glad to have been part of it all as part of the anime scene from 2003-2010
|2011-09-15, 15:06
|Link #48
Senior Member
Join Date: Dec 2008
The beginning of the serie (the 15-20 first episodes) were a bit dull due to having watched the first season (which, as it expanded and took its time on them, managed to make them more interesting).
But once the series bifurcated and we could see this one filling its shoes, MY it was just GREAT.
This serie as a bit of it all : action, emotion, plot, twists, production values, cast and the like.
It managed to have the component of so many shows, but without falling in many usual traps, and managing some large achievements (like having a HUGE cast and still not abandonning half of it into irrlevance). The last arc was just EPIC and one of the most satisfying of any serie.
It may not be my absolute prefered show, but it's the one that is the "best rounded" so to speak, having no actual glaring flaw that grate my nerves, and managing the feat to be what so many would like : being great of its own and still potentially pleasing to everyone.
I give it a 9 for outstanding quality.
|2011-10-19, 18:28
|Link #49
Senior Member
Join Date: Oct 2004
Age: 29
first off, i have never read the manga and have only watched the 2003 FMA anime adaptation and the movie.
ok, at least bones kept true to their word it would be a faithful anime adaptation to its original source. there were many things i was not content with, and some of it is due to how the author wrote the story. i saw the whole 'uniting countries together who were once at war with each other' the moment they revealed ishbal, xing, and drachma (which i get the feeling they will never have a peaceful diplomatic relationship with amestris). i've read and watched many movies and books using that same plotline over and over. i tried to endure it too when mustang was gathering allies to attack central via coup d'etat. again, i saw that coming a mile away. there was no suspense for me until i fully watched the last 2 episodes. i had to skim through episodes, and my inner thoughts were "uh-huh. yup. ok i knew that was going to happen. next! ohhh, fight scene. ok. next!".
as for the anime adaptation itself, there were some episodes i watched all the way through and felt sometimes, if not most of the time, the music was not used or controlled properly in certain scenes or felt out of place. most people underestimate how music can have a major impact during certain scenes. episode 26, for example, was a very powerful scene due to how it was silent until edward popped back out with the ED playing in. again, very powerful.
there is more i would like to write about, but i will end it right here. i have very mixed feelings about the whole thing due to how long the author took to gather allies (snooze fest to me), and various other things. it left a very sour taste in my mouth, so to speak. maybe, as how this board says it, it was not my cup of tea. so i will not give it any rating.
|2011-11-30, 21:26
|Link #50
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2010
Age: 27
Its still not doing it for me. Im probably going to get crap for this, since its heretical to say anything bad about it here, but I still dont see how this anime is supposed to be this nigh-perfect, criticism-immune work, thats supposedly the pinnacle of the medium. When I break down the various constituent qualities I can name several anime that are better than Brotherhood. Brotherhood may make it into my top 100, but theres no way that I agree that its anywhere near as good as everyone says it is.
A lot of people prefer this rendition because it follows the manga more closely, but then if I wanted to read the manga, then Id read the manga. A straight adaption of a manga can be great in its own right, but generally, it has to add something in terms of music or animation quality in order to fully utilize the animation medium. In that regard, Brotherhood isnt anything special. Any anime that features an original soundtrack composed by Yuki Kaijura or Yoko Kanno, such as Madoka, Kara no Kyoukai, Eureka Seven, FMA 2003, Noir, or Cowboy Bebop, far outstrips it in that category. For Brotherhood, I cant even remember any tracks and its only been one month since I watched it. I can remember many of the tracks from Naruto, despite its fairly unremarkable soundtrack, and I havent seen that anime in eight years.
Rating: Below Average
Animation has always been an extremely subjective category, but were going to claim that Brotherhood is objectively better than anything else, as many in the fanbase would, than we might as well go into it. At least as far as my tastes are concerned, FMA 2003, a series that outages it by five years, is far more aesthetically pleasing. Brotherhood doesnt really do anything special or abstract in terms of its animation style, as Madoka does, and its production value isnt outrageously high as in Fate Zero. The animation seems to be average.
Rating: Average
World Building
The world building in Brotherhood is admittedly above average, though then again, so was FMA 2003s, though I actually preferred the world building in the later. Likewise, the world building in Twelve Kingdoms and in the combined Nasuverse canon is far better than that found within Brotherhood, in that, like the Potterverse, you could literally fill additional books with information on the world alone. This is, nonetheless, one category in which Id view Brotherhood in being far above the average, which is why it gets its own category.
Rating: Above Average
Story and Characters
The story really didnt impress me that much. So, a teenager organizes a rag tag team of misfits to fight against an antagonist attempting to become a god. That sounds like the plot of every JRPG that I grew tired of several years ago. If it didnt impress me when I played Final Fantasy VII back in 2003, then it certainly doesnt impress me now. On that topic, God forbid, Sephiroth is actually a better villain than Father is. It makes me feel dirty even implying that Sephiroth is a good villain, but at least his characterization in Crisis Core moved him beyond being interesting simply because he walked through a wall of fire as his theme music played in the background.
Father doesnt have even that. He has no sympathetic qualities to relate to, so his status as a fully developed 3-dimensional character is non-existent. But thats okay. Some villains are interesting simply because of the dread that they inspire. Father doesnt even have that. He isnt the kind of character that you love to hate, like the disgustingly evil villain, Vidal, of Pans Labyrinth. He isnt charismatic like Heath Ledgers portrayal of the Joker. He doesnt even inspire small children to stand in awe at how cool he is like Darth Vader. Hes just sort of there.
So Father wants to gain unlimited power, while killing a large amount of people in the process? Big deal; get in line. Why should I care? Watching television, reading books, and playing video games, I go through several villains who want to kill a lot unanimous red shirts. I dont even remember most of them. At least your average, hackneyed, Final Fantasy villain does something to the protagonist to make it personal. Father just sits around on his throne for most of the series, before deciding that hes motivated by one of the most clichéd goals in Japanese fiction. He almost came off as a Designated Villain because I Just. Didnt. Care. About him. Thats kind of bad, since a lot of people would say that a good story is created by a good antagonist or conflict. Can you imagine the Dark Knight without the Joker? The Lion King without Scar? Star Wars without Darth Vadar? Well, I can, and its horrible. Heroes are typically passive while villains drive the plot, so if you have a boring villain who sets up a boring conflict for the hero to fight against, then the result is predictably boring.
Rating: Average (Just adapt Tales of Symphonia or Final Fantasy 6 and youd get the same level of quality)
Below Average Music + Average Animation + Above Average World Building + Average Story = indisputably, the best anime ever made? LOL Whut?
I think the more extreme members of the fandom need to get off their high horse and accept that their high opinion of the show is subjective. Either that or watch more anime. As for me personally, though, Im rating it as an above average shonen. No more, no less.
|2011-12-10, 18:40
|Link #52
Senior Member
Join Date: Jan 2007
Anyway, not that I care enough to try and change your opinion of the series, but, while I agree that Father was a fairly underwhelming villain, there were, you know, other characters, many of which received plenty of multi-dimensional characterisation and sympathetic qualities. Seemingly basing the entirety of your assessment of the story and cast's merits on a single character seems just a tad bit flawed, wouldn't you say?
Also, and this is just a side comment, I find it slightly amusing how you scoff at stories where the heroes try and stop the would-be gods antagonists yet sport a Xenogears avatar.
|2012-01-11, 02:42
|Link #53
Senior Member
Join Date: Sep 2010
Age: 27
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|2012-02-11, 21:38
|Link #54
Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2007
I don't want to get in an argument over someone's opinion because an opinion cannot be wrong or right. Of course It's the whole a series is "overrated" because I personally don't like it.
However everyone has a right to think FMA is not as good as fans claim. I however do personally think it is one of the best series ever made. And yes that is a very personal statement as the series means a lot to me. It's more the manga for me than Brotherhood as I was a fan of the manga long before Brotherhood came about. I am extremely happy Brotherhood exists though to introduce more people to the manga storyline.
I followed many many long ongoing series (not just manga/anime wise but also TV series & book wise) and I was always let down in the past. FMA is the one series that never let me down, right to the end I was in love. Does that make me a fangirl? Of course yes it does. But it's not because I have not seen or read enough other series.
I had a large sampling of fiction from anime to manga to literature to critically acclaimed film even starting from the silent era. I love fiction but yes FMA is special to me. That doesn't mean I am going to tell people they are wrong for not thinking it is the best series for them if it is for me because that is a largely personal statement & everyone has their own personal reasons for loving a piece of fiction and no one should tell them they are wrong or they haven't sampled enough other series. It also doesn't mean because I love FMA I don't have strong affection for other pieces of fiction. But my love for FMA is just in its own special place.
And because this is getting long this is something I wrote back on October 3rd 2011 about some of my feelings for the series. Again it pertains more to the manga but since Brotherhood follows the same storyline I hope it alright to post it here:
Spoiler for Ending Spoilers:
Last edited by Kirarakim; 2012-02-11 at 21:54.
|2012-04-29, 13:59
|Link #55
The Lost Lamb
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: in Darkness
Animation Quality: 8
Voice Actors: 9
Script: 10
Soundtrack: 10
Editing: 10
Enjoyment: 10
Emotional Involvement:8
Overall: perfect 10
first i din't like how FMA ended on a very incomplete note ,but when i saw brotherhood it was total remake with great continuation and great ending,
basically there is every thing in this series fantasy,comedy action,adventure...etc
everything required for a perfect series
it's characters are great ,everyone has it's own reasons to fight
there were unpredictable twists and turns in the story
and i really liked how they deduced the alchemy scientifically ,it showed how intelligent the alchemists were
the ending was awsome with no loose strings and a complete story
in the end,edward's golden words kept echoing in my mind
"there is no lesson learnt without pain,
but when u have conquered the pain,
you will gain something stronger than anything else,
a FULLMETAL HEART"
|2012-05-06, 03:47
|Link #56
Junior Member
Join Date: May 2012
Location: Rockford, IL
Age: 24
Animation Quality: 9
Some of the best animation I've ever seen in anime. So much definition, a lot of contrast and vibrant colors, and fast, fluid, awesome action!
Voice Actors: 10
I watched this in English, and it is one of the best English dubs I've ever seen. Every character had so much emotion, you believed it. It's part of what made it possible for me to care for the characters. You felt so much emotion in all of their voices.
Script: 9
Amazing script. Characters were made believable partly because of how good this script was. Characters always held life lessons to tell, and told them with emotion, and in a way where you could get the idea. When anything was explained, it was easy to get. Barley ever was anything left to make you confused.
Soundtrack: 8.5
The music score within the scenes in the anime was usually very good, but it didn't vary too much, and one or two tracks were kind of "Meh..." But, mostly, the tracks were great and added a lot to the emotion when placed with major plot points in the show. But the openings and endings were all great! Usually, with an anime, there's some bad ones - a lot actually. But all these songs were amazing! Really emotional. Very powerful. My favorites are Again, Hologram, Let it Out (the best one, and one of my favorite anime songs ever), Period, and Shunkan Sentimental.
Editing: ?
Never read the manga, so I wouldn't know.
Enjoyment: 10
This anime, I have enjoyed so much, it's almost unfathomable! I LOVE this anime, down to my soul! Enjoyed it the whole way through! Never was a dull point, and the pacing wasn't too fast or too slow! I was interested all the time!
Emotional Involvement: 10
This anime, maybe even more so than my favorite anime, Dragon Ball, has made me feel so much for the characters, and the events happening in the show. I am a 17 year old boy, but I cried like a little kid at so many points during the show! Like I've said, this show is so emotionally powerful, it's crazy! I always felt for the characters so much! They were all great characters. I was glad to have felt for them.
Overall: 9.5
This anime is just amazing. Nearly flawless. This anime will always hold a special place in my heart. <3
|2012-06-09, 11:15
|Link #57
Join Date: Jun 2012
Location: That I truly Don't know
Age: 25
The series was massively well put, I don't know why people don't like it. The series was truly great, it reminded me of how our world today is mostly based off of sinister things that this series has in store for us all.
|2013-06-30, 20:41
|Link #58
Demon Hunter
Join Date: May 2013
Location: Ente Isla
10 , Simply a Masterpiece
Art . 10. i have nothing to say
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It could stand a little more swash, and maybe an extra buckle or two, but Everyman Theatre's staging of "The Beaux' Stratagem" provides a diverting close to the company's first season in its new home.
The space itself has a starring role, thanks to Daniel Ettinger's colorful set. It gives the large cast, vibrantly costumed by David Burdick, plenty of room to romp in, and considerable romping is called for in this Restoration comedy from 1707 by George Farquhar.
The original play does not see the spotlight these days. Everyman is using an adaptation recently fashioned by farce master Ken Ludwig (his hits include "Lend Me a Tenor"), based on a draft started in 1939 and left incomplete by Thornton Wilder.
This streamlined version of "The Beaux' Stratagem" whittles things down from five acts to two. A few characters have been jettisoned, renamed or reworked. The net result preserves and, I think it's safe to say, improves upon the plot.
At the heart of that plot there are still "two gentlemen of broken fortunes," as Farquhar's original text has it, who become male gold diggers. In the English town of Lichfield, they get more than they bargained for, encountering scoundrels and fakes, as well as beguiling prospects of the opposite sex.
Directed by company head Vincent M. Lancisi, the amiable Everyman production is short on the element of surprise, the sort served up so imaginatively in the Center Stage production of a later 18th-century comedy, Richard Brinsley Sheridan's "The Rivals," a couple years ago.
Much of the expository first act feels draggy, despite periodic musical bursts of Handel set to a disco beat. It's not helped by belabored attempts at humor, such as some shtick with luggage hauled upstairs.
Other things get drawn out later on. The sword-fighting scene starts to look forced; the dance episode (Farquhar inserted one before the final curtain, as in baroque operas) would be more charming at half the length.
Those reservations aside, there is much that clicks smoothly and amusingly here. A visual flash of women hiding in a china cabinet pays off nicely, for example, and a recurring sonic element involving attraction-at-first-sight moments among various characters gets increasingly witty.
Assured performances are the rule. Danny Gavigan proves especially effective as Jack Archer, one of the two determined beaux, this one pretending to be the servant of his buddy Tom Aimwell (Yaegel T. Welch). Gavigan puts a spirited spin on text and nimbly embraces the physicality of the role. And he clicks tightly with Megan Anderson, whose dynamic portrayal of Archer's love interest, the unhappily married Kate, is a major asset.
Clinton Brandhagen staggers winningly through the role of Kate's persistently under-the-influence spouse, Sullen. Welch's Aimwell is as not dominant a figure as it should be, but the actor has abundant gusto and gets in some fun business in the second act. Katie O. Solomon does vibrant work as Aimwell's romantic target, Dorinda.
Kathryn Kelley gives the whole production a delightful lift each time she flutters onto the stage as Lady Bountiful, the self-proclaimed doctor with a tendency to reach for the saw first, ask questions later. Stephen Patrick Martin is effective as the duplicitous Gloss.
James Whalen smoothly darts between the roles of Sullen's servant and Kate's aristocratic brother. Dorea Schmidt is engaging as Cherry, daughter to the tricky innkeeper Boniface, played by a well-padded Bruce Randolph Nelson. He gets the real chance to shine, though, as the French cleric Foigard, delivering one of the drollest comic outings of the season.


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The Bridges: Children, Languages, World Project strives to expose children to less commonly taught languages and culture through play, games, crafts, stories, puppet shows, and interactive activities. Exploratory programs in Arabic and Persian are led by IU students, some of them native speakers of their respective languages.
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DURHAM, N.H. - Aline Thomas is leaving nothing in the tank as she heads toward the end of her senior year. Competing at the 2008 NEICAAA Outdoor Track and Field Championships, Thomas paced the Engineers to 14th in the team standings after thundering to Institute records in the shot put and hammer throw.
Thomas has improved her marks steadily all season, but Saturday's performance was easily the best outing of her career. Thomas topped her standing school record in the hammer with a toss of 164'7". Netting third place in the event and tops among all Division III competitors, Thomas may have solidified her spot at the NCAA Championships with the result. Capping the afternoon with another impressive showing, Thomas broke Princess Imoukhuede's 2002 record in the shot put with a throw of 43'10.75". Breaking the previous record by one-quarter of one inch, Thomas finished sixth against the field. In both events, she currently ranks among the top 15 in Division III.
Thomas wasn't the only MIT athlete to enjoy a record-breaking meet. In what appears to be a weekly occurrence, junior Andrea Bradshaw shaved a little more time off her record in the 800-meter run. Although she finished outside of the scoring, Bradshaw completed the circuit in a program-best 2:16.89.
The Engineers had a few "near records" during the meet as well. Margaret Leibovic ran 12.75 in the 100m dash while Jacqui Wentz authored the program's second-fastest time in the steeplechase with a personal record of 11:07.63.
MIT secured the remainder of its points in the pole vault, where Emily Hwang tied for sixth with a clear of 10'11.75". Senior Leanne Veldhuis also performed well, but missed qualifying for finals by one spot in the 400m hurdles after a time of 1:05.55.


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Judge makes ruling in Exxon Valdez case
A federal judge on Wednesday refused Exxon Mobil Corp.'s request that he declare government efforts to seek additional cleanup funds related to the Exxon Valdez oil spill a violation of a consent decree.
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A federal judge on Wednesday refused Exxon Mobil Corp.'s request that he declare government efforts to seek additional cleanup funds related to the Exxon Valdez oil spill a violation of a consent decree.
U.S. District Judge H. Russel Holland, in a written order, said the federal and state governments haven't formally presented any claims. He said the possibility that they might doesn't create any hardships for Exxon.
The matter stems from the 1989 Exxon Valdez disaster, which resulted in 11 million gallons of oil being spilled into Prince William Sound.
Lawsuits brought against Exxon by the governments led to a $900 million settlement and 1991 consent decree that resolved claims related to natural resource damages. But the decree included what's known as a "reopener" clause that would allow the governments to seek additional work for restoration projects.
Attorneys for Exxon, in a court filing last year, said the consent decree released the company from further financial obligations related to clean-up work. They said the governments in 2006 demanded payment of $92 million, in line with the reopener clause, for "nothing more than a plan to resurrect the clean-up of the oil spill that was declared complete by the governments" years earlier.
Despite filing a claim with Exxon, the governments still must file with the court to enforce the claim, and they haven't taken that step yet, said Seth Beausang, an assistant attorney general for the state.
He said studies are being conducted and others being considered, to determine the feasibility of doing additional restoration work in Prince William Sound.
Holland urged all parties to resolve the matter quickly themselves if possible.
But "at this juncture, it really is up to the Governments to decide what they want to do, and simply waiting out the Governments imposes no particular hardship on Exxon," the judge wrote.


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Hollywood Up And Comers Recognizing That The Big Gatekeepers May Be More Of A Threat Than Silicon Valley
from the fighting-the-status-quo dept
Gina Hall is a young Hollywood filmmaker who reached out to me and some others in Silicon Valley to begin this discussion, recognizing that perhaps the MPAA's claims don't match up with her best interests:
I feel like the solutions proposed from Hollywood establishment just might be in favor of the status quo rather than helping up-and-comers. Call it a hunch. So while industry bosses are distracted with their fight to sustain the old business model, I figured it might be a good time to start a series of conversations between the tech sector and young Hollywood to make some sense of the seismic shift happening in the industry.There are a few quotes from me in that article, in which she notes that it really does seem like the tech industry is coming up with all the cool stuff that actually helps young filmmakers today -- from tools (like cheaper cameras) to services (like YouTube) to ways to monetize (like Kickstarter). Old Hollywood? Not so much:
Masnick's M.O. is disruptive innovation -- or as he describes it "how we get cool stuff." Creating cool stuff -- honestly, isn't that what most of us get in the business to do? The problem is, Hollywood isn't responsible for creating enough cool stuff these days (especially locally) to keep us all employed. A lot of the cool stuff is now coming from the tech sector with Hollywood standing idly by. In conversations with those employed with the studios, production companies and agencies around town, I've heard projects worked on self-described as "lame," "derivative," or the backhanded compliment: "Meh, at least it'll make money."I'm looking forward to her continuing series, showing that the tech industry and young Hollywood are very much in alignment. The only real problem is with the legacy players in the business who are just looking to keep making money the way they used to, without actually changing with the market.


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We are a small (but fast growing) Australian technology company whose founders are passionate about delivering quality solutions to customers around the globe. We provide web development and related services via our two distinct (yet closely related) businesses - twoloaves and toastyhosty. twoloaves is a professional services company offering web programming, design and consulting services, while toastyhosty is our web hosting offshoot providing the full complement of web and email hosting to small and medium businesses.
Our customers come from a wide range of industries and backgrounds, all of them looking for technology solutions. We're primarily targeting a professional business audience, but would like to retain a sense of fun and quirkiness in providing quality solutions to these customers.
We are looking for matching logos, primarily for twoloaves (our parent company) but also toastyhosty (our web hosting arm). Show us your vision by choosing one of the logos to design, or go ahead and provide concepts for both.
Remember, we're looking for the best design -- two so-so concepts don't automatically beat a fantastic design for one or the other. We'd look forward to working with the designer to provide the other logo, or providing a bonus if that is done as part of your submission.
We prefer the twoloaves and toastyhosty logos to be somewhat similar, that is they should be easily recognizable as part of the same business.
twoloaves and toastyhosty were named after the founders' shared love of bread and bread-related products, not as an attempt to reference biblical themes. It would be desirable to include some toast or bread in the logos themselves to clearly get this message across.
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Lindsay Lohan Gets Another 'E! True Hollywood Story'
Lindsay Lohan leaves a cell phone store after doing a bit of shopping on Friday (February 17) in Beverly Hills, Calif.
The 25-year-old actress will be featured in a new E! True Hollywood Story, airing this Monday (February 20) at 8 p.m.
"She was dealing with the break-up of her mother and father, which I think was very painful for her. She was also helping her mother raise the three other children. She was the bread winner; she was the one that was helping support her family. And then her father got into the problems he got into. It's a lot of pressure and it's very hard for someone at such a young age to have to deal with," Lindsay's former commercial manager, Mike Heller, told E! about the mounting pressure over the past few years.
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This is one of the reasons why it's better to go through the Valentine tree if you're going for the British Heavy line: the Valentine can unlock both 6 pdr guns and the first 75mm to carry over to the Churchill, making the Churchill grind much easier.
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The problem is when you finally unlock and mount the best gun the churchill can mount you'll find that the match maker will start putting you in matches with much, much better tanks (mostly tier 7's) so you'll never ever feel like you have an even footing and are less likely to be of any use to your team.
I gave up and sold mine in the end.
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I ended up dispersing the crew to my Black Prince and Cromwell. The annoying thing was I couldn't transition the whole crew cause the Churchill I has 2 gunners and no radio man ..
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I believe so, after I fit mine with the vickers canon (I think?) I suddenly became one of the lowest tiered tanks in pretty much all of the matches onward.
I've pretty much dropped the entire British line altogether as its pretty barren and they aren't really that much fun to play which is a shame as I really like a lot of them in real life.
Which reminds me, I wonder why isn't there a Sherman or Tetrarch in the brit line ? as they where used by the British as well and the Russian tech tree includes a few British tanks
That said I think I'll keep my Valentine as its a good tank when you invest the time to train the crew and fit the best equipment.
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That said, I like my Churchills, both the I and VII. Sure they don't have the advantages that my American tanks have, but they seem pretty much tailored to my personal playstyle. And the Churchill I is my current money tank for this weekend with the +70% credit gain.
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My luck with the matchmaker seems to depend on the hour... during the Eastern Standard Time evening, I'll have matches in my topped-out PzIV that put me all over the list. At stupid hours of the morning when it's even late in Pacific Time, the player count drops and I'm stuck in matches with angry hardcore Tier 7s.
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Battle: Malinovka ("Camp" Malinovka) -- Outcome Good!
How can a battle on this awful map ever be good? Because we had 2 scouts that circled "No Man's Land" for a few seconds while we pounded their positions.. By the time the scouts went down, we had gotten 1 Heavy, 1 Medium and 1 TD.
Whole team congratulated the scouts on an excellent job, one of them even got a "Patrol Duty" medal. Highlights the seldom appreciated duty of the scout!
Now, with morale high and camaraderie focused on getting a win for our poor deceased scouts, my rallying call for a uniform advance simultaneously up both sides of the river and the hill were heeded. We crushed them! I topped the XP charts, but just barely, it was a pretty even contribution by all. Heck, nearly 40% of my XP came from sighted damage too!
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South Coast, eventually everyone is dead except for a big Soviet TD on their side and a medium-tier heavy on ours. Our heavy pulls off a nice flanking maneuver around a hill and gets a great spot perpendicular to the TD. All he has to do is shoot once and it'll be a win.
Instead, whether by accident or design, he bumps the TD with his tank and both of them explode.
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That said I never tried downgrading to see if it made a difference I just sold it and bought the T49.
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Fought one of those AT-15 TDs in my Pz38nA. Well, not directly. I was trying to spot against it and a KV at the same time, and it got kinda interesting.
In the end the AT-15 was tracked and surrounded by maybe six tanks, and it still took a ton of concentrated fire to crunch through its armor. It's bad when you're shooting straight into its back and your shots are bouncing.
Incidentally, I'm running springs, vents, coated optics for the 38nA. Thinking I might pull the optics and leave the third slot empty, like it was before, so I can trade in a camo net or binocs. Was using optics because my scouting method tends toward Leeroy Jenkins, but a couple things occurred to me today... one, I really tried to think during an M3 Stuart scout run, and lived. Two, I drove within 75 meters of a 38nA that presumably had good camo skills and a net, and almost didn't see the guy. Fortunately he was asleep at the wheel. Anyway, the 38nA can hide pretty well... it's just that its survivability when spotted is pretty bad, but I think I can handle stopping for three seconds at a time once in a while.
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After dropping three straight games in a week, including a disappointing 3-1 at-home loss Tuesday against Wilsonville, the Hood River Valley High School varsity boys soccer team had to regroup for what was expected to be its toughest match of the season.
The boys traveled Thursday to face the undefeated, defending state champions and Oregon's No. 1 ranked 5A school, Woodburn.
Coach Jaime Rivera calls the 4-4 tie a huge win for the Eagles, now 3-3-1 overall and ranked fourth in the state at 5A.
"After Tuesday's game, we were really in need of a solid showing," he said. "We started out in similar fashion, however, and found ourselves in a hole early on."
At halftime the team was down 3-1, and the Bulldogs scored a fourth early in the second half to up their lead.
"When we play well we can hang with any team in the state, which I think we proved last night," Rivera said. "We were down by three goals with about 20 minutes left in the game. The boys calmed down and started playing how we play best."
Four goals from four separate HRV players (Giovanni Magana, Cemiel Buursma, Jose Muro and Chris Cardenas) brought the game to a tie.
"It was a very special game for the team," Rivera said. "I've never seen anything like it. Even though we tied, it was a huge win for us."
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Missing Man Identified as Body Found Last December
Today, a mother in Oklahoma watches for a package carrying her son's remains. She's tracking its path using a shipping number as the container makes its way across the country to her home. Inscribed on the package are words she asked a Humboldt County funeral director to write down. The message addressed to all who handle the remains of Austin Cade Brown simply says, "Mama requests that you handle this package as if he were your own son."
The mother, 69-year-old Vicki Anderson, who asked those words be written on the package last talked to her 41-year-old son one year ago on December 13, 2016. Even though he was homeless, Vicki said he never went long without reaching out to her. "My son called no matter what," she said. "Austin had problems and I know that….He had addiction issues, [but] it wouldn't be more than 10 days that he would go before he called me. It doesn't matter what he was doing."
When Christmas came and went last year, she was worried sick. "I knew something wasn't right," she said.
Vicki didn't have a lot of money but she was determined. "…I got hold of two women I found on Facebook. They worked with the homeless [in Humboldt County]." Vicki explained her concern about her son to the two local women and "they made posters and put them all over McKinleyville, Arcata, and even Eureka asking him to call home."
He never did.
For the next 11 months, Vicki worried and wept. "He's my youngest," she explained. "I lost my oldest when he was nine to an accident. I kept thinking it can't happen here again."
She also did what she could. She entered him into NamUS, the National Institute of Justice's National Missing and Unidentified Persons System. She worked with the Nor Cal Alliance for the Missing and reached out to the news media including us.
"I called the Public Information Officer of Humboldt County Sheriff's Office and formerly entered him missing in…January," she told us.
The two women who helped Vicki, Megan and Annie (who didn't want their last names used), confirmed they had searched for Austin throughout the last year. However, though Annie put her phone number on the flyers and posters no one reached out to her. "I never got one call from anyone," she said.
But Austin was familiar to many. "A lot of people did know him," Megan explained. "Most [street] people we talked to recognized him. Everyone really liked him."
But Annie said that when they dealt with people in authority, "I'd get concerned that [Austin's disappearance was] not considered as important because of his lifestyle."
As the year slowly unraveled, Vicki said she cried almost every day. Sometimes she heard terrible stories that she didn't know if she believed they were true or not. At one point, a woman who had known Austin told Vicki that he had been murdered, "In June, I came across an address that I had sent [Austin] some Christmas presents," Vicki said. She found a number and called. According to her, the woman there exclaimed, "I thought you knew. Someone shot him and threw him off the [Samoa] bridge."
Vicki called law enforcement and told them what she had heard, but they reassured her that they hadn't found any bodies that fit Austin's description.
Eventually, the Thursday before Thanksgiving, Vicki got a call from the Humboldt County Coroner's Office. An officer told her that the DNA from a body that was found on December 26, 2016–13 days after she last heard from her son–matched Austin's.
Vicki said she felt "sick..just sick…I suffered for 10 and a half…11 months knowing he was in trouble. When I was out there begging for help, he was there …Girl, they had him there the whole time."
Lt. Mike Fridley of the Humboldt County Sheriff's Department confirmed that the body found on December 26, 2016 near the Ma-le'l Dunes was Austin Cade Brown. Fridley said that Austin's body was "pretty decomposed–all it was wearing was shoes and socks."
He explained that though an autopsy showed Austin died from "cold water drowning" his body was "pretty well decomposed–no teeth, no fingerprints."
The agency sent off DNA in January, Fridley said. They didn't get results back until late November. Then they were able to match the results with Brown.
Fridley pointed out that the DNA is sent to a lab that is clogged with cases. He said, "A rush takes six to eight months."
Since she got the news about her son, Vicki has been struggling. In part, this is because she would never see Austin alive again, but also because she is frustrated by how long it took for her to learn of her son's death after his body was found.
"We need a change," she said her voice choked with tears. "People are waiting years to hear…to find out what happened to their children…People are missing their children."
Vicki said she doesn't really blame the local Coroner's Office, "I know how hard it is to do jobs like that," she said. But, she would like to see changes in the system to help the families.
"This is a horrible system," she said. "Something isn't right…We can't do anything about how this was done for Austin," but she has a list of changes she'd like to see made to help families in the future.
- She'd like for the DNA process to be sped up
- She'd like a better system for connecting those who are missing with the unidentified bodies that are found
- She'd like better communication between the Coroner's Office and the advocates for the missing.
- She'd like the Coroner's Office to enter unidentified bodies into NamUS.
- She'd like those deceased family members who have been identified sent home sooner.
- She'd like to see more sensitivity training for both law enforcement and the Coroner's office in how to deal with the families of the missing and she'd like for them to get support to integrate their training into their workplaces.
But most of all, she said, "I want some perceptions changed of those who are homeless…People have no idea who is out there on the streets and why."
Vicki said she would like to tell Austin's story so that people's hearts "open to those who live outside the norm… Addiction is not a disease…It is a symptom of the state of our society… ."
She would like people to show more compassion to each other. "Handle everyone you see on the street as if they were your own son and daughter," she pleaded. "Don't get cynical and detach so much that you don't have a heart anymore."
When she spoke to us on the 28th, she said, "[Austin]'s not home yet. He's still sitting in the Coroner's Office. We won't have peace until he is home." But today, Vicki's watching as the package moves across the country from Humboldt County to Oklahoma. "When he gets home to me, he can rest in peace," she said. "He'll not be cold or hungry anymore."
[Vicki and Austin's first names were used throughout the story at the request of Vicki]
UPDATE December 1: Austin is home.
Earlier Chapters:
- Dead Body Found on the Shore in the Ma-le'l Dunes Area
- Body Found on Manila Beach Was a Young Male, Says Sheriff's Office
- Tattoos and Sneakers Are Clues to Identity of Drowned Man
- Somebody's Son is Missing