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Xagor
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Thank you very much for that info.
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Official FUNi Rep
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As Charred Knight stated:
UK-based visitors to the FUNimation video portal (www.funimation.com/video) will be temporarily unable to access our content. We are in the process of opening the video of each series which is approved for streaming in the UK and this will take additional time to complete. Again, this is only temporary and we fully intend for these series to return for our fans in the UK. |
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penguintruth
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Funimation is still several weeks behind in their streaming. It's unacceptable after them stating they would have a new one every week. Even considering the issue they had, they should have had the others ready and released them a few at a time if necessary. Otherwise, they might as well give the license to a company who can handle it (though, to be fair, I doubt we'd even be getting this free streaming if it were a company like Bandai or ADV).
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Dune
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Oh good- Funimation just uploaded three episodes for today.
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Ohoni
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I do agree that they rushed this one and it should have been more. What they should have done is taken the Rush Valley episode, made it 1.5 episodes (adding in the few elements that were cut), and then tacking on the "mom flashback" material and the first bits of the "reunion" into the end of that one. Then they could spend this whole episode more on the island and Dublinth.
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dtm42
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I think episode twelve was far and away superior to the equivalent episode in the first season. The violence was toned down, with Izumi assuming a more motherly role because of it. This is most obvious when she doesn't beat up the boys before she hugs them at the end; that was most appreciated. It's not like her punching them could make them suffer anymore than they already were inside. Cutting out the worst parts on the island (like being attacked by Izumi's husband) was also welcome, as was Izumi all-but apologising for not warning the boys earlier.
Although the way the flashbacks were handled was sort of disconcerting, overall this episode was still excellent. |
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penguintruth
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dtm42, it was never Sig who attacked the brothers, it was Mason, who works at the shop with the Curtis'. Also, that part was very important, because it pushed them to their limit that much more, and made them more willing to do what it takes to survive, even when somebody is actively trying to prevent that.
Anyway, after watching episode 13 streaming as it aired, I'm pretty frustrated. Speeding through the Greed arc is a huge mistake, since it's, in my opinion, the best portion of the entire story. They're really pushing my buttons with their speedy pace, especially since the Greed arc isn't exactly the same in the manga, so it's not just old material they're cutting through. At least the new Greed was decent, even though I still prefer Suwabe. |
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Westlo
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That 30 sec CM for the second "season/cour" of Brotherhood definitely got me pumped up for some new material.
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penguintruth
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After seeing it subtitled, it's official. This the worst episode of anything FMA I've ever seen.
Greed and his gang are balloonish looking chumps who get their asses handed to them too soon, along with Greed. They missed the entire point of the order in which Edward and Izumi goes to the Devil's Nest, cut out Edward's visit to the Southern military headquarters, and sped through some of the most pivitol material in the entire series. I want to vomit all over this show at this point. I know Bones is eager to get to the new stuff, but you don't mess with my favorite arc and favorite character, damn it. Well, apparently you do, if you're Bones. Really, they treated this like a joke. I don't want to drop this show, but Bones isn't making it easy for me to stay with it. |
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cutemi2
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I wish i could watch them all, but the Filipino dub version of the new anime in Japan is being broadcast
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RhymesWithEmpty
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That's pretty much exactly what I've been thinking for the entirety of these past 2 episodes. The whole Dublith arc is one of my favorite parts as well, so I know I'm very biased when I say this, but I think their speeding through the material is more detrimental than it's ever been at this point. So much so that I wish they'd just said "screw the inconsistencies between the 1st half of the 1st series and the manga, let's just cut straight to the new material without any recap." I think it's pretty clear where the budget in this episode went. And yes, the fight scenes are very flashy, but even they didn't feel like FMA to me. Before it always felt like there was a certain weight to them, they felt realistic in spite of how much they clearly weren't. Now it just feels like "WOOOH YEAH SUPER COOL CRAZY FIGHT SCENE ACTION TIME WATCH OUT!" I think somebody else said it earlier - they're trying way too hard to make this series feel "epic." This isn't Gurren Lagann. And I actually thought Gurren Lagann was kind of overrated, myself, so, yeah, I guess it's just not geared towards me at all. I can excuse the over the top fight scenes and all of the overblown SD comedy bits that I've complained about before, though, I just plain don't like the way they have things play out. I'm still praying that this ceases to be a problem once they reach the totally new material and hopefully slow the hell down, but even on the verge of it as we are, things are still like, bam bam bam, Al's captured...now Ed's here! Greed's pretty tough...Ok, nevermind, he's chump change! Want to feel any emotion about any of this? Too bad, we're not gonna stop long enough to let you! And you know, I get that part of it might be because I already know what's going to happen, but that's definitely not all of it, and this show can't keep falling back on that excuse. The 1st series' episode where Ed fights Greed was actually on last week, and I've seen it countless times, but it still gives me chills, every time, so I definitely believe that it's still possible to tell this story dramatically to great effect, but they seem to have totally given up on it, or else just don't know how to do it. And I don't think simply staying true to the source material is going to save them - even a wonderful story can be made terrible if told poorly. It doesn't feel real or authentic, it just feels contrived and sped-through. Which is ironic, because it seems a lot of people like that the manga doesn't feel contrived, and is set in a very expansive universe, leading it to feel very authentic. If I was just going off of this anime, I would not get that at all. That isn't to say every single part of this episode was terrible - there were some good parts, but they were all cut short and totally undermined by something else that was done exponentially worse, imo. I liked the music, I'll say that. |
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Maidenoftheredhand
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I agree that this was absolutely the most disappointing episode. Lior wasn't that great either but in the scheme of things Lior isn't as important as the Greed arc since it is more of a side story.
And while the Greed arc isn't even close to my favorite in the story, I still love it like I love every arc so to see it handled this way was very upsetting. I don't want people to judge the manga story off of something like this because it is so much better. Yes you can get the main idea of the plot from this episode but when you take away all the details you take away the heart. And don't even get me started on how they cut so many of Al's scenes. I liked how the chapter showed that although did get kidnapped he wasn't helpless and he had a lot of spunk. You could hardly tell from watching this episode because once again they gave Ed most of the scenes in the episode (I love Ed don't get me wrong but I love Al just as much and I don't want to see Al's scenes sacrificed). Also because they cut the Greed and Chimera scenes so short is anyone even going to care what happens to them next episode. Although it's minor I also wish they didn't breeze through the introductions of Roy's subordinates. I've noticed that they've been cutting a lot of their parts (with the exception of Havoc and Riza scenes). But I like that while they are still minor characters we get to know Breda, Falman, and Fuery in the manga. They are more than just names and faces but again you would hardly know from this series. I am still going to give them the benefit of the doubt that things will get better once we get to the manga only material (so I won't drop the series because of one set back) but on an episode basis I was not happy with this episode at all. But seriously adapting almost an entire volume into one episode. Who came up with that brilliant idea? |
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Flik
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For every person that complains about Brotherhood, another person will say they liked it.
I enjoyed episode 13, just as I have been enjoying the series as a whole. It does not bother me that they cut out some of the story or fast-forward through it to get more caught up with the manga. You guys act like the sky is falling. |
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Shadowrun20XX
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I like greed too,but we got's to get the show on the road here.Have you guys read up to chapter 96 of the manga? spoiler[There is more Greed to be had in the future.Once Homunculus sticks Ling with Greed]You guys are comparing it to harshly with the first version.Let it go. |
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Ohoni
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Wow, your vehement passion over it made me reread the relevant manga portions and I'm not seeing that they cut all that much from this episode. The shorted the conversation with the general, and didn't fully "introduce" the subordinates, compacted the scene with the lizard man, removed Greed's "intro", removed Al's attack on Greed, and then they combined the scene with Ed/Greed with the Izumi/Greed one.
I think the changes tightened the pace up pretty well, with very little of importance lost. Now, there are elements that probably should appear elsewhere in the story eventually, rather than being discarded completely, but this episode held up quite well on it's own merits, I thought it was an awesome episode before coming on here with all you gloomy Guses. With the way they've been shuffling material from here to there, I think it's a bit early to say that the material you wanted to see is gone forever, it just might appear in some different form later. |
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