All the Manga!
Mar. 21st, 2012 12:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
lydamorehouseShawn got me a subscription to Shonen Jump for Solstace. This has been great, except... Shonen Jump is going digital and the first time I tried to access it via the iPad, I discovered it had flash and got frustrated. Turns out... there's an app for that. So I downloaded the free VIS app and now... now... I CAN HAVE ALL THE MANGA.
Life is good. I'm especially pleased that there's a library of free Manga for me to sample. I just read and (secretly) enjoyed "Absolute Boyfriend." What a hoot!
Also, despite my experience with "Cry of the Chimera" I've continued Fullmetal Alchemist. This is a good show, no question. Though, my problem persists, and has actually gotten worse. There's an actual scene with a stillbirth which I could have done without (Ed and Al's sensei,) but... sometimes I wonder why books, movies, TV shows that are tragic always get rave reviews. Do things have to be depressing to be considered serious? That irritates me.
On the flip-side, I kind of like all the military corruption stuff. The whole Ishballian rebellion/camps, etc... is kind of intense. In fact, sometimes I think they should go there more directly and not back off. I sort of wanted Mustang to have to kill everyone in his search for Scar. But, rounding everyone off to a camp in the South is sufficently evil, so that works for me.
And then there's the happy-werid interlude. Can someone explain that to me? Why is it, right after we discover something really nasty (usually specifically) about Mustang that the next episode treats him lightly with over-the-top humor? It confuses me.
Life is good. I'm especially pleased that there's a library of free Manga for me to sample. I just read and (secretly) enjoyed "Absolute Boyfriend." What a hoot!
Also, despite my experience with "Cry of the Chimera" I've continued Fullmetal Alchemist. This is a good show, no question. Though, my problem persists, and has actually gotten worse. There's an actual scene with a stillbirth which I could have done without (Ed and Al's sensei,) but... sometimes I wonder why books, movies, TV shows that are tragic always get rave reviews. Do things have to be depressing to be considered serious? That irritates me.
On the flip-side, I kind of like all the military corruption stuff. The whole Ishballian rebellion/camps, etc... is kind of intense. In fact, sometimes I think they should go there more directly and not back off. I sort of wanted Mustang to have to kill everyone in his search for Scar. But, rounding everyone off to a camp in the South is sufficently evil, so that works for me.
And then there's the happy-werid interlude. Can someone explain that to me? Why is it, right after we discover something really nasty (usually specifically) about Mustang that the next episode treats him lightly with over-the-top humor? It confuses me.
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Date: 2012-03-21 06:09 pm (UTC)The original FMA series has a bittersweet ending; the good guys basically win in the end, but (spoiler protection) Rq naq Ny raq hc ba frcnengr jbeyqf -- Rqjneq ba bhe Rnegu va gur yngr 1920f naq Ny fghpx ba Nzrfgevf. Gurl qba'g trg onpx gbtrgure hagvy gur SZN zbivr "Gur Pbadhrebe bs Funzonyynu"..
FMA: Brotherhood, and the Manga, are Good Ending. The first anime was done long before the manga was complete so it goes off on a (creator-sanctioned) alternate continuity.
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Date: 2012-03-21 06:24 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2012-03-21 06:52 pm (UTC)But Brotherhood, especially once it gets rolling, is probably the better of the two; if I could take the beginning of the original FMA series and tweak it to fit into the beginning of Brotherhood, which very much compresses the beginning (because, I suspect, the first series had already done it and done it well), THAT would be the perfect FMA series