[ SECRET POST #2207 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2207 ⌋

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Comments

[velvet_mace]

Eh, I already read the manga so there was no point in watching brotherhood. It's like getting two different editions of the same book with a different cover.

[diet_poison]

I mean to each their own, but isn't the point of a lot of manga to tell the same story in a different medium?

Lots of people like that. I mean you don't have to, but it almost sounds like you're confused as to why people do...

[(Anonymous)]

Well, the mediums aren't that different. They are both visual. One has frames, the other moves. One you can zip ahead pretty quickly, the other you are pretty much stuck at the pace they set. It's not like a book, where you don't get to see what is going on.

I guess I don't really see enough of a difference between a panel by panel, word by word moving recreation of something I've already experienced. If anything Brotherhood left stuff out without adding anything in. I know some people must enjoy it, but, no I really don't see the point.

[velvet_mace]

-- Argh. Stupid DW logged me out.

I guess what I mean to say is that it was so faithful that I knew everything that was going to happen, all the jokes, all the dynamics, what every character looked like, what all the places were like. There is no surprises. It's like I'd already seen everything before. There just wasn't enough new stuff to entice me to devote the time and energy in watching that as opposed to simply picking up the manga again and rereading it.

[diet_poison]

ah, I didn't realize that was you

I replied to you below

[diet_poison]

...I just realized that in the comment you replied to I wrote "manga" where I meant to write "anime" whoops

Anyway, I haven't seen Brotherhood specifically, but I enjoy anime as a manga adaptation because it adds a lot to it for me. I like having voices, music, sound effects, seeing the way people move, etc. It just makes the whole thing a richer experience for me.

I guess what I'm saying is you don't have to like it, but a lot of people do so I'm confused as to why someone would be confused that people like it. I guess?

[velvet_mace]

I really enjoyed the first anime, because it gave me the voices and the movement, but it also gave me other things: like the fact that where the manga tends to be rather emotionally dry and distant, the first Anime was pretty viscerally emotional. The mother episode and Nina expecially just got to me. That's the one thing the manga was rather lacking: emotional depth. Despite everything going on, it was told in a kind of a jokesy light-hearted tone, or as rather straight up adventure, rather than as horror, even when some things are really, really quite horrifying.

I was excited to see the Mother episode of Brotherhood after the disappointment of the Cornello episode (which pared the story down to 22 minutes and somehow removed any sense of tension from the situation.) But where every scene in the first anime had an emotional theme: joy, pride, love, fear, sadness, determination, terror, pain, pity, and it all came together to drive home how much it all meant. But in Brotherhood, the scenes were very bland and unemotional: Kids walking home from school talking about stew. And the ones after were also rather "fillery" Winry and Riza talking about how nifty automail is.

I got to the end of the episode and realized with a shock that far from being touched, I was bored at what should have been one of the key, dramatic, motivating episodes. I wouldn't have been if I were fresh to the plot, but I already knew the plot. There was no suspense to be had from that.

Also, I guess I don't see anime as being a richer experience than manga. They each have their story telling assets but one isn't better than the other and neither is particularly better at conveying this story.

[diet_poison]

Well, I never said anime was objectively richer or better. I just said it was to me. I'm not sure why we are really debating this since I've already made it clear that it's fine if you don't agree. But I enjoy anime more and we have a different preference that that's okay.