Forum - View topicHey, Answerman! [2005-12-02]
|
Goto page 1, 2, 3, 4 Next Note: this is the discussion thread for this article |
| Author | Message | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
Joe Mello
 Posts: 2311 Location: Online Terminal |
|
|||
|
Well, Season 0 is a less tame than the main 250-episode drag. Of course, I almost have to cite the incident where spoiler[Yami Yugi is able to get a fugitive to set himself on fire using vodka and a lighter.] Of course, the series' focus is more on other games than just cards, so that allows for a bit more creativity in the scenarios.
And the episode of FMA that was just recently shown on AS had a lot of filler. |
||||
|
||||
|
Sakura Shinguji
Posts: 197 |
|
|||
|
While it does seem awfully wasteful for Geneon to create special edition packaging that makes the keepcases the individual discs come in redundant, at the same time it's not like we're paying anything extra for those keepcases so I'm not entirely sure if it's such a big thing to worry about. Granted, there's the issue of not being able to have the artwork around (and I'm as big a cover art whore as there ever was, unless it's horrendously ugly like those wonderful Boys Over Flowers covers Viz dug out from under a rock somewhere), but at least with Stellvia, Geneon was conscientious enough to put the front cover art (which is really all most of us want when we talk about good cover art) on the thin packs in the tin.
I'll readily admit, though, that I like gimmicky stuff like the Stellvia tin and the DVD Books for R.O.D the TV and Kyo Kara Maoh! and the series digipak for Requiem from the Darkness, so feel free to dismiss my rambling justification. 
Also, the way I see it, it's like getting great keepcases for free. Lord knows Bandai and their replicators have been amazingly unable to use keepcases of decent quality for their discs for the past couple of years now, so it's good to have replacements. |
||||
|
||||
naushika
 Posts: 32 Location: pallet town |
|
|||
|
Haha. That David Hasselhoff photo made me laugh. But I've seen worse. Try David Hasselhoff covered with "strategically-placed puppies" while he's stark naked.
 Yup. There exists such a photo. Anyone know what I'm talking about? Its quite disturbing... 
|
||||
|
||||
Haru to Ashura
 Posts: 617 Location: Termina |
|
|||
Now we want to see a Gemsbok. And a Chinese Leopard. And Let's throw in a peacock or two, just for good measure. Teasing, just teasing. Good read as always.
|
||||
|
||||
UltimaShadowfax
 Posts: 288 |
|
|||
|
Yeah . . . I can remember a couple episodes in FMA that didn't have anything to do with the main plot and/or was filler between segments that followed the manga.
|
||||
|
||||
|
Advent_Nebula
Posts: 932 Location: Colorado |
|
|||
|
I have my eye on that Robotech boxset.
Zac, is their a limit to how many captions we can send in? |
||||
|
||||
|
Zac
ANN Executive Editor
 Posts: 7912 Location: Anime News Network Technodrome |
|
|||
Nope, no limit at all. But I do encourage you to send your captions in a single email, rather than flooding my inbox with a million messages. Still, no matter how you do it, I read each and every entry. |
||||
|
||||
PantsGoblin
 SubscriberEncyclopedia Editor  Posts: 2969 Location: L.A. |
|
|||
|
Sweet! Thanks for the puppies!
 I wasn't expecting that.
|
||||
|
||||
|
Maceart
Posts: 76 |
|
|||
|
For your information, Manwha is also Mandarin for "comic books".
|
||||
|
||||
|
Advent_Nebula
Posts: 932 Location: Colorado |
|
|||
I'll keep that in mind, thanks Zac. |
||||
|
||||
cherry_blossom
 Posts: 7 Location: FL, USA |
|
|||
|
I despise dogs. More kittens please.
That is all. |
||||
|
||||
|
Ohoni
Posts: 3421 |
|
|||
|
Yeah, I have to say, if you actually watch the first series of Yugioh before passing judgement on it, you'll find that he spends very little of the time playing duel monsters (most of it is simple games of chance), and the themes are considerably darker, with the outcomes of the fights leaving his opponents quite dead, quite mad, or quite souless. Now they could certainly edit a lot of that out with talk of "shadow realms" and whatnot, but left intact it was certainly much more serious and demented than the average later episode. I don't feel any particular need for them to bring it over though.
|
||||
|
||||
penguintruth
 Posts: 8501 Location: Penguinopolis |
|
|||
|
Although there is very little filler in FMA, there is some filler. The first "filler episode" is probably the Psiren episode. Although, the Elrics do get the tip about Zenotime from Psiren, and that leads to two-part mini-arc with the Tringam brothers. The second is episode 26, "Her Choice", the episode with Paninya, the girl that can fire a rocket from her auto-mail leg. Completely pointless, and actually the single black splotch on an otherwise brilliant series. Then there is the Lust episode. Nothing important there. The whole disease outbreak isn't even really explained - how did the homonuculi create that? And then there's the Roy episode, but that has important actions in it between humorous scenes (and at the end), to give it a point. After that, I can't think of any other filler episodes.
FMA: 4 filler episodes. Cowboy Bebop gets some flak for being "too episodic", but you have to look at what the series is about - bounty hunters. They live from bounty to bounty, and so their very lives are episodic. There is an underlying story arc about Spike's past, but there's really no "filler" per se. The series is mostly a series of stand alones about the antics of the Bebop crew. Nobody ever accuses Lupin III of having "filler". |
||||
|
||||
shadow_guyver
 Posts: 307 Location: Tokyo, Japan |
|
|||
|
NOOOOOOO! I demand the immediate return of kitty pictures! Kitties are by far the cutest.
Anyway, I really wish I could make jokes for that Robotech picture, but nothings coming. Sigh. |
||||
|
||||
|
exukvera
Posts: 8 |
|
|||
|
You' ve forgotten about FMA episode 37. Three hilarious little stories about Mustang's troupe without any link to the main story.
|
||||
|
||||
 |
All times are GMT - 5 Hours |
|
|
|
Powered by phpBB © 2001, 2005 phpBB Group