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[GaimeGuy]

The first of 1000000000 awesome bradley moments, coming right up

 

[ThatObviousUser]

Awesome-yet-butchered opening of the night #3!

 

[Seda]

We get a new (but shortened) opening and ending next week.

 

[Schadenfreude]

A show about Bradley's exploits would be cool.

 

[GaimeGuy]

YAY BUTCHERED STORY

 

[Seda]

Oh hello Bradley and Armstrong

 

[Schadenfreude]

She has no insides, Ed. Blood puke will happen.

 

[Moaradin]

Is it me or does this animation look way worse than the original FMA?

 

[GaimeGuy]

TIME FOR ASS KICKING

 

[Seda]

*_*

 

[Schadenfreude]

Oh Armstrong. Why you so funny?

 

[MetatronM]

Is it me or does this animation look way worse than the original FMA?

It's just you, since that's wildly false.

 

[Moaradin]

It's just you, since that's wildly false.

I dunno... I just got done watching FMA and this looks pretty cheap in comparison.

 

[Seda]

I love Bradley's voice

 

[ThatObviousUser]

We get a new (but shortened) opening and ending next week.

Period > Hologram > Golden Time Lover > Again > Rain

Nico Touches the Walls is usually god-tier. <3 Have had Diver on constant listen for over a month now.

 

[Schadenfreude]

Shit. Bradley is scary.

 

[Schadenfreude]

Holy fuck.

 

[Seda]

goddamn

 

[Snacks the sober sea lion]

The art quality and direction in Brotherhood is notably better in quite a few instances, but the fight scenes are fewer and not always as well-animated. Although maybe part of that is due to 2003's wacky animu camera shake.
I think it's really weird when people accuse Brotherhood of having too many fight scenes, because the original series shoehorned them in all over the place.

Spoilers:

Spoiler

They WERE his friends.

 

[Seda]

 

[MetatronM]

I dunno... I just got done watching FMA and this looks pretty cheap in comparison.

Brotherhood tends to have more simplified and stylized environments in favor of tons of sequences of sakuga animation.

The first FMA series has exactly one sequence that I can recall that can hold a candle to any of Brotherhood's best animation, and that's the Ed vs. Greed fight in episode 32 that lasts, like, 20 seconds.

I do think it's safe to say that Brotherhood's animation is of much less consistent quality, though. It spikes at extremely high levels, much higher than the first anime ever achieves, but it balances this by stylizing things and cheaping out in other areas and limiting animation in down times.

 

[GaimeGuy]

King motherfucking Bradley

 

[Azure J]

Period > Hologram > Golden Time Lover > Again > Rain

Nico Touches the Walls is usually god-tier. <3 Have had Diver on constant listen for over a month now.

Wow, I agree with this ranking completely. The funny part is, none of t he songs are bad to be ranked like that, just that the best songs are too good.

I'd do an ED tier list but all I remember is that Lie, Shuunkan Sentimental and Let It Out are top 3 in that order. I forget the other two.

 

[Schadenfreude]

Coldblooded. Also, how does all the blood not mess up Al's seal?

 

[VariantX]

How the hell does having someone killed inside of you feel? Serious nightmare fuel right there.

 

[Schadenfreude]

How the hell does having someone killed inside of you feel? Serious nightmare fuel right there.

Ask someone who's had an abortion or miscarriage?

 

[ThatObviousUser]

Wow, I agree with this ranking completely. The funny part is, none of t he songs are bad to be ranked like that, just that the best songs are too good.

I'd do an ED tier list but all I remember is that Lie, Shuunkan Sentimental and Let It Out are top 3 in that order. I forget the other two.

Nice! Agreed about none of the opening songs being bad.

For me it's:

Let it Out > Shunkan Sentimental > Uso (Lie) > Ray of Light > Tsunaida Te (the rap one)

Let it Out just touches my soul in a way few other songs have, ever. I listen to it when I feel down and the feels don't stop flowing. I also listen to this rendition every so often... so good. Loved the animation on the ending itself, too. Really liked it thematically and was a perfect counterpoint to Hologram (which also had awesome animation.)

Shunkan Sentimental gets similar feels points but in a different way. It ALWAYS pumps me up. It also had the best segues from the endings of episodes into the song of the actual series.

Uso is cool and I dug the style of the animation but it didn't have enough to really hook me.

Ray of Light was good in parts, kind meh in others.

The rap one was OK until the actual rapping.

 

[Snacks the sober sea lion]

Ask someone who's had an abortion or miscarriage?

Weeeellll, those don't generally result in a bloody explosion and psychological tentacle rape. So we still won't know.

 

[GaimeGuy]

"It was sort of like this -_-~>~>"

 

[Azure J]

"I'll be back girl, and when I come back, this eye better see dem draws off."

Bradley in a nutshell.

 

[Schadenfreude]

Weeeellll, those don't generally result in a bloody explosion and psychological tentacle rape. So we still won't know.

lol

 

[Kalnos]

aw shit, Waltz for Venus. That's like my favorite Bebop episode, now I feel like I have to stay up till 5

 

[Seda]

Greed is chained up and impaled by four swords and still gives no fucks.

 

[Schadenfreude]

Envy was going Blanka.

 

[ThatObviousUser]

Weeeellll, those don't generally result in a bloody explosion and psychological tentacle rape. So we still won't know.

It does, just not in the way you're thinking of...

 

[GaimeGuy]

Going out like a boss

 

[That Dude John]

Ed and Al's teacher is kinda hot. There, I said it.

 

[ThatObviousUser]

Ed and Al's teacher is kinda hot. There, I said it.

She's OK but I'd be scared that she'd puke blood on me while we were doing stuff.

 

[Schadenfreude]

Greed is such a crazy bastard.

 

[GaimeGuy]

AW it's selim ^_^

 

[Seda]

Even when he's chained up, impaled by four swords, and dropped into a pool of lava, Greed remains cocky.

 

[Azure J]

Ed and Al's teacher is kinda hot. There, I said it.

I don't know anyone who'd disagree. Also, holy shit this series continues to shock me in retrospect. What kind of mind comes up with this shit?

 

[ThatObviousUser]

This scene is soooooooooooooo creepy on rewatch.

 

[Schadenfreude]

The son of Satan.

 

[GaimeGuy]

LIIIIIIIIIIIIIIING

 

[Snacks the sober sea lion]

I don't know anyone who'd disagree. Also, holy shit this series continues to shock me in retrospect. What kind of mind comes up with this shit?

Some Japanese lady.

 

[Seda]

Next week we meet the show's worst character, and some of the best additions.

 

[Schadenfreude]

Huh. What's up with the sneak peek? Time for Cowboy Bebop.

 

[lazybones18]

Next week we meet the show's worst character, and some of the best additions.

Aww come on, May's not THAT bad

 

[Azure J]

Some Japanese lady.

Funny thing is if you saw her recent stuff, you'd wonder if it's the same person doing it (outside of the human interaction parts, she's still S tier there).