Current anime/animation experiences

[amanuensis1]

I have given Fullmetal Alchemist (the original series) three episodes, and that's one more than I gave Bleach, and it doesn't have me, so, I'm stopping. I will give the new version of the series a try.

And I had thought 07 Ghost had me with the first episode--military-in-training BFF boys! Lost amnesiac royalty! He-killed-my-dad revelations!--but then episode two changed the setting and started inserting the supernatural stuff in handfuls, and that's a story I no longer care about so much.

Who was it who asked me to check out Soul Eater? I watched the first episode. It's cute and well-done! But it's not dark enough to hold me. (No, I can't explain why something needs to be "dark enough" and yet I can't get enough of Chi's Sweet Home/Chi's New Address. The rest of you are free to tell me why.)

Those of you gleeful that I'm watching Avatar, I've finished the first season and am squee-dancing as I wait for more discs to arrive. It's wonderful.

Back to mainlining Hikaru no Go. I've read the manga and am reliving the joy and tears all over again now that I'm watching the anime. (The manga's so huge I can't even remember how some of this s**t goes down and I'm on the edge of my seat every episode. That's a series.)

Comments

[eskimosatan.livejournal.com]

I'm having the same problem getting my Husband to watch Full Metal Alchemist and I have to admit, the first few episodes aren't very interesting. The further you get into it, the better it gets. I actually started about halfway through, because I saw it on television and went back to watch the beginning.

[amanuensis1.livejournal.com]

I have a hard time with "Oh, it doesn't get good until halfway through/the second season/etc." If it's not fantastic from the first, why should I bother when there's so much else out there that is fantastic from the first? But I might give FMA a little more time. I do like the premise, it's just that eps 2 and 3 started belaboring the things we already knew.