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Hey,

Started watching FMA: brotherhood, how does it fit in with the original series as I'm sorta confused with it all now.

Stelly
 
Stelly said:
Hey,

Started watching FMA: brotherhood, how does it fit in with the original series as I'm sorta confused with it all now.

Stelly
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FMA:Brotherhood is a retelling of the story, in a manner which is closer to the manga than the original anime series. There is no link between the two series other than the source material.
 
ANDARIAL said:
Pics? or we will say you spent the whole weekend watching animé :D
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There's some pictures here now in the Anime and Manga gallery ... their a bit fuzzy due to the battery needing charging on my camera which meant that the anti-shake functionality automatically turned off. I may post some replacements if/when I get time (and sort out wall scrolls etc ...)
 
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Haha Fair play. Makes my physical collection look TINY.
Perhaps I'll have caught you up in a few years! I don't tend to read much Manga so at least I dont need space for that. May eventually have a shelf devoted purely to S&W stuffs however :D
"I'm Otaku for S&W" haha
 
ohhh that looks tidy :)
But for how long ehh :D
What is with that ghettoblaster ,looks about 4 foot long:eek:
edit:Just been having a look through your holiday snaps of Japan ,looks very picturesque are flowering cherry trees that abundant ?or were they something that caught your eye?
And where is the section on Akihabara?:D
 
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Werewolf said:
That is a nice collection, and very nicely displayed :)
I wish I had the room to put more of my discs out.
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Ta, it's not 100% how I would like it but that would require a larger room, (and hence bigger house), and some £££ for display cabinets to get the rest of the figures on display properly ... I've probably got around 5 or 6 more large figures (including those two I mentioned by email the other week ;)) as well as some more nendoroids and quite a few figmas (the rest of the main characters from MoHS S1 and the main cast of Lucky Star off the top of my head). Of course if I could afford the bigger house and display cabinets then there is also my rather large anime/manga/figures want list which would require quite a bit more storage space :)

Fortunately at the moment I have a spare room which is only used when people come to visit so that's where I have the majority of the collection.

ANDARIAL said:
ohhh that looks tidy :)
But for how long ehh :D
What is with that ghettoblaster ,looks about 4 foot long:eek:
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That's why there's the bits of free space on the main shelves ... to allow for some growth. Previously it would be arrange everything tidily and then as soon as you got something new then there was nowhere to put it ... particularly on the manga side. Most of the ongoing manga I'm collecting at the moment is in the small bookcase with the nendoroids on which has space for more volumes as they appear.

I'll have you know that that ghetto blaster is ~18 years old (and is only ~2ft long). It's just there in case I want to identify a track really (and I have nowhere else to put it)

Hmmm .... just thought, it doesn't include the collection of A__a artbooks which are on the coffee table downstairs either ...
 
ANDARIAL said:
edit:Just been having a look through your holiday snaps of Japan ,looks very picturesque are flowering cherry trees that abundant ?or were they something that caught your eye?
And where is the section on Akihabara?:D
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Each time I've been out there it's been April and cherry blossom season ... you do see a lot of them around, either odd trees or areas where there are many together, (e.g. all along the river in Matsumoto or in Ueno park), as well as a lot of plum blossom, but we did tend to specifically go to places where there was a lot of blossom too. It is quite amazing to see at times.

No Akihabara pictures section because (a) shops tend to have large signs saying no photos, (b) it's quite busy so hard to get a good shot and (c) to busy shopping to take pictures ... have to get your priorities straight! ;)
 
Certainly does look like a very nice place with all the cherry blossom stuff. Really would like to take a trip over there sometime. (funds/time permitting :D)

How easy is it to actually get around for a foreigner anyway? I knew a few guys from Uni who went over Xmas for a week or two, they said they managed to get around ok.
 
Demoniser said:
Certainly does look like a very nice place with all the cherry blossom stuff. Really would like to take a trip over there sometime. (funds/time permitting :D)

How easy is it to actually get around for a foreigner anyway? I knew a few guys from Uni who went over Xmas for a week or two, they said they managed to get around ok.
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If you stay in the Shinjuku area and fly into Narita I recommend the Airport Limo Bus service to get into Tokyo. It's not cheap (nor are any way of getting into Tokyo from the Airport) at 3400Yen but it's easy and as we were at the Keio Plaza we got dropped right at our hotel.

Getting around Tokyo is very easy once you figure out how to use the various underground and light rail systems. There are a few gotchas, e.g. there are several different companies running underground routes so a ticket for one part of the system isn't valid on another, but with a little time to think about it beforehand to see how it all hangs together it ends up being very easy, (despite it's complexity I'd say it's as easy to get around as London). I did study the system in a bit of detail and look up how to use the ticket machines, gates and how the ticketing worked before the last trip so I was prepared to use the system. There are good websites which will give you routes and ticket costs around the system. Language on the Tokyo system is not an issue either. (Note that from experience you can't put more than 200Yen in 10Yen coins into an underground ticket machine at one time :D)

If you want to go wider afield then the bullet trains are fairly easy to use with notices and announcements in English as well as Japanese. The underground in some other cities isn't as well signed in English as Tokyo so it's a good idea to get used to it in Tokyo first before trying it elsewhere. They are still pretty easy to use though. The buses in Kyoto are supposed to be quite easy but I never tried them.

You can get passes for the underground in Tokyo for a day or week but personally i found it easier, and cheaper, to buy tickets as needed and think through where I wanted to go ... both due to the different companies making things more difficult and due the simplifications of just looking at maps and walking to other nearby stations on other lines instead of trying to go straight from one to another.

For example, one day I strolled from the hotel and caught the Oedo subway from Tochomae to Akabanebashi. Strolled from there up to Tokyo Tower. From there I walked up to Kamiyacho and took the Hibiya line all the way up to Ueno to go to the National Science Museum. After that it was the Hibiya line back down to Akihabara (exit 3, just keep going straight and you'll come out by the Akihabara station taxi rank). Shopping and lunch (UDX building for the latter) there. Instead of catching the subway from there next I wandered up to Suehirocho and jumped on the Ginza line round to Shibuya for the afternoon before getting the Yamanote JR line back to Shinjuku (at rush hour :eek:).

The only time I had a real issue was when I went to Nakano (to go to some anime/manga shops) and I couldn't work how to get into the underground station to get back. Fortunately I could get into the rail station though so could get back to Shinjuku (although I did have to try and ask someone if this was the train to Shinjuku (in very weak pidgin Japanese)). I did struggle to find an entrance to the underground line I wanted in Kyoto but that was due to poor signage.

But if you look lost people will help you. I've been handed English subway maps in Tokyo (I was happily looking at the Japanese map at the time working out where I wanted to go). My Dad got _very_ lost in Osaka and a kind person not only helped him buy a ticket and made sure he was on the right subway train but also was going to the same destination so helped him exit the station there too. One of my colleagues went to Tokyo at the start of the year and got really lost and again (alcohol was a factor), where over here you would be yelled at for not have the right ticket or getting the way, their group was just helped by normal salaryman.

Away from the major cities language can be more of an issue but I never had any real issues in the cities I was in (and my Japanese vocab is probably ~30-40 words and the only Kanji I know is "English subtitles" ;)). Not being able to communicate well is half the fun and as long as you smile, nod and apologise a lot then everything is usually fine. Japanese people do do English at school but unless they use it for work they can be very shy at attempting to use it, (or in the case of one of our waitresses very proud and giggly that she'd managed to correctly say "Thank you").
 
Finished re-watching Manabi Straight this evening ... fun little series, with a nice OP and background music. A moralistic, very much about how it's fun to work together towards a common goal and the art style is a bit different ... generally a nice watch.
 
Ah, just watched Black*Rock Shooter, been waiting for it for a long time.

Wasn't sure what to expect really, and I still don't really know what I think of it :p

Huke's artwork is amazing though.
 
I've just finished episode 4 of Maria S3 :)

I'm really, thoroughly enjoying the whole thing (I still keep thinking of Rei as Yoshino though), and I see what memyselfandi meant about the humour coming out more as you know the characters.
Sachiko of S2/3 seems a much more relaxed character than at first :)
On slight side note, I had to chuckle at the choice of some of the music in episode 4, I was thinking "I'm that sounds oddly familiar but surely not.." as what i'm sure is the cancan music played at one point :D

One last episode tonight, then onto S4:) (and then Mai Hime) (backlog clearing...i hope)
 
Werewolf said:
I've just finished episode 4 of Maria S3 :)

I'm really, thoroughly enjoying the whole thing (I still keep thinking of Rei as Yoshino though), and I see what memyselfandi meant about the humour coming out more as you know the characters.
Sachiko of S2/3 seems a much more relaxed character than at first :)
On slight side note, I had to chuckle at the choice of some of the music in episode 4, I was thinking "I'm that sounds oddly familiar but surely not.." as what i'm sure is the cancan music played at one point :D

One last episode tonight, then onto S4:) (and then Mai Hime) (backlog clearing...i hope)
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Sachiko does definitely lighten up as the story moves on, which isn't just the writing changing, it is what is supposed to happen. Yoko tells Yumi back in season 1 how Sachiko used to have many tutors and one of the reasons she made her her souer was so she would have to drop all that and hence become more normal. This rehabilitation continues as she interacts with Yumi more and more (there is an explanation given but not for another dozen episodes :))

Episode 4 of S3 .... that's the sports festival isn't it? .... very funny in places; Yumi's handling of Sachiko, Shimako's reaction to her father, Sachiko wanting to meet Yumi's parents and Yumi then meeting Sachiko's father :D

You are right about the music ... :)

I need to finish Mai Hime at some point, I got a replacement for my broken disk 6 the other day so I can now ...
 
Aye, ep4 was the sports day/festival, and you're dead right about the humour, especially as you say Yumi quietly calming Sachiko down (and Yumi's expressions at times, especially when Yoshino suggests she calms Sachiko down the second time, or when Yumi is trying to work out who Sachiko's dad is).

Episode 3 was also rather good, I got the impression (although it wasn't said/shown) that the mystery club lads may have had a whack from Gensuke (Sachiko's fiancée) for their treatment of Yumi (they all looked like they had been hit/slapped on one cheek and I can't magine Yumi ever doing that).
But that was an understandable mistake, Yumi does look very much like her brother under the right circumstances :D
 
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Aye, ep4 was the sports day/festival, and you're dead right about the humour, especially as you say Yumi quietly calming Sachiko down (and Yumi's expressions at times, especially when Yoshino suggests she calms Sachiko down the second time, or when Yumi is trying to work out who Sachiko's dad is).

Episode 3 was also rather good, I got the impression (although it wasn't said/shown) that the mystery club lads may have had a whack from Gensuke (Sachiko's fiancée) for their treatment of Yumi (they all looked like they had been hit/slapped on one cheek and I can't magine Yumi ever doing that).
But that was an understandable mistake, Yumi does look very much like her brother under the right circumstances :D
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Oh yes, it definitely looked like Kashiwagi had given them all a good slap(*) ... I can't see Yumi doing it given the last scene we saw with her in the room.

(*) given that it's him he's hardly going to have punched them ;)
 
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