Skimmed the first few chapters, and it's just the manga digitally colored and reformatted. Which I am glad about, because the original is a masterpiece. Hope this helps introduce a bunch of new...
Skimmed the first few chapters, and it's just the manga digitally colored and reformatted. Which I am glad about, because the original is a masterpiece.
Hope this helps introduce a bunch of new people to this! This is one of the greatest stories I've read in any medium. I remember watching the ending of the second-to-last episode of Brotherhood, and it hit me how genuinely "perfect" this story is. Tight storytelling, amazing characters, fantastic pacing and terrific balance of tension and humor. Never felt too dark despite the heavy themes of human experimentation, and never felt super silly or weak. Just a rare true 10/10 experience all the way through.
I’m probably a minority on this, but I usually find the colored pages in tankobon to be really annoying. They can look amazing but they usually distract from the things I like about the black and...
I’m probably a minority on this, but I usually find the colored pages in tankobon to be really annoying. They can look amazing but they usually distract from the things I like about the black and white art and can clash really hard with the mental image I have built up.
The only example where I don’t seem to mind it is in Sailor Moon and other “girly style” manga. I imagine it’s probably because they have a more established aesthetic.
I get what you mean with the clash. My brain likes to interpret brown as red. Then you get basically all of Wano in One Piece, where all the characters have their hair shaded black. Made a big...
I get what you mean with the clash. My brain likes to interpret brown as red. Then you get basically all of Wano in One Piece, where all the characters have their hair shaded black. Made a big shock when one little girl turned out to have bubblegum pink hair. Meanwhile I will forever be surprised to see Ciel from Black Butler with bluish-black hair instead of light brown.
Personally I find it more jarring when reading a manga and finding a grayscale version of a color page though. The grayscale shading is just so different from the rest of the crisp, black-and-white panels.
But there's also going to be a difference between manga canon colours and other media canon colours, or even story canon. Take Sailor Moon for example....
But there's also going to be a difference between manga canon colours and other media canon colours, or even story canon.
Buncha picture there. Rei/Mars and Ami/Mercury are both good girl types with Japanese black hair, but in the manga they're coloured as Purple Blue and Black-blue respectively, whereas Hotaru/Saturn has truly black black hair. Anime colours use a kind of black with highlights cell shading system.
Point is: imagine their hair whatever you think best and don't let the official media deter you ;)
The Sailor Moon anime got pretty close. I'd say that's more a result of the coloring styles/techniques used for the mediums than different colors. Now, compare that to Hunter X Hunter... Colors...
The Sailor Moon anime got pretty close. I'd say that's more a result of the coloring styles/techniques used for the mediums than different colors.
Speaking of both Togashi and Naoko, my no proof crazy fan theory is that Togashi is super flexible with his colours to make it easier for Naoko to "hand in his homework" for him lol
Speaking of both Togashi and Naoko, my no proof crazy fan theory is that Togashi is super flexible with his colours to make it easier for Naoko to "hand in his homework" for him lol
Twenty years ago at this time, the original run of the anime had wrapped up with a cliffhanger and I was eagerly awaiting Conqueror of Shamballa to see what would happen in the finale. This series...
Twenty years ago at this time, the original run of the anime had wrapped up with a cliffhanger and I was eagerly awaiting Conqueror of Shamballa to see what would happen in the finale. This series was my first foray into the world of Bittorrent. That, GitS: 2nd Gig, and Samurai Champloo made 2004-05 an incredibly exciting time for pirating -ahem- acquiring anime from the grey market.
Now, before I gush about how obviously superior Brotherhood was, I just want to say that one thing I really liked about the pace and build-up of the original series' first season is that it made the shock and loss of that one beloved character (you know who I'm talking about) truly devastating. I had time to get invested in the world before they ripped that person away. What's more, it made me feel that if they could take that person away, maybe nobody was safe. It just added a level of tension and gravity to the unraveling conspiracy that I personally enjoyed. The only knock I could ever make at Brotherhood was that it rushed all of that into just ten episodes.
Jumping forward four-ish years, I had just seen You Can (Not) Advance. Look, it was good; I don't deny that, but I'm a crotchety diehard for the original Evangelion. So when I heard that Brotherhood was rebooting the Fullmetal series, I thought "Aw man, but the original was already so jiff-jeffin' good. No, I didn't read the manga, but why bother to redo an already interesting story?"
Why? Economies of scale.
I humbly apologize for my arrogance. The build-up and proportions just kept getting greater and greater! The original anime is what you'd get if Game of Thrones didn't suck so much in it's last two seasons. Brotherhood is what you'd get if GRRM would finish his books in a satisfying manner and then HBO made the last however many seasons necessary to tell it. So, I know exactly what you are talking about with that second-to-last episode. I remember gripping my laptop, sitting practically upside-down on my couch with anxiety. It was just that good!
I rather wish Brotherhood was able to capture the slower pacing that allowed for these heightened emotions..... Actually I can think of two characters' departure that hit super hard, especially in...
I rather wish Brotherhood was able to capture the slower pacing that allowed for these heightened emotions.....
Actually I can think of two characters' departure that hit super hard, especially in the first series. Well three if you count the first one differently....
But, faster pacing is more the norm now, and also a lot of us have already seen these events. So, not complaining.
So many things from that series will forever live in my head rent free, but yeah you're right not too dark and never revels in dark for darks sake. (Unlike some other cursed series I won't name)...
So many things from that series will forever live in my head rent free, but yeah you're right not too dark and never revels in dark for darks sake. (Unlike some other cursed series I won't name)
Author also wrote Silver Spoon, a slice of life about kids going to post sec education about farming life and nutritional science in all its glory. Super wholesome A+
I swear there's a quote from her in one of the volume endnotes about how the story was meant to be entertainment first and foremost. I think it was in reference to her occasionally drawing some...
I swear there's a quote from her in one of the volume endnotes about how the story was meant to be entertainment first and foremost. I think it was in reference to her occasionally drawing some more comedic faces in serious sequences. That line really influenced my own writing philosophy, I always try to find a balance in tone so that a story isn't too heavy.
Skimmed the first few chapters, and it's just the manga digitally colored and reformatted. Which I am glad about, because the original is a masterpiece.
Hope this helps introduce a bunch of new people to this! This is one of the greatest stories I've read in any medium. I remember watching the ending of the second-to-last episode of Brotherhood, and it hit me how genuinely "perfect" this story is. Tight storytelling, amazing characters, fantastic pacing and terrific balance of tension and humor. Never felt too dark despite the heavy themes of human experimentation, and never felt super silly or weak. Just a rare true 10/10 experience all the way through.
I’m probably a minority on this, but I usually find the colored pages in tankobon to be really annoying. They can look amazing but they usually distract from the things I like about the black and white art and can clash really hard with the mental image I have built up.
The only example where I don’t seem to mind it is in Sailor Moon and other “girly style” manga. I imagine it’s probably because they have a more established aesthetic.
I get what you mean with the clash. My brain likes to interpret brown as red. Then you get basically all of Wano in One Piece, where all the characters have their hair shaded black. Made a big shock when one little girl turned out to have bubblegum pink hair. Meanwhile I will forever be surprised to see Ciel from Black Butler with bluish-black hair instead of light brown.
Personally I find it more jarring when reading a manga and finding a grayscale version of a color page though. The grayscale shading is just so different from the rest of the crisp, black-and-white panels.
But there's also going to be a difference between manga canon colours and other media canon colours, or even story canon.
Take Sailor Moon for example.
https://the-avocado.org/2020/06/15/manga-worth-reading-sailor-moon/
Buncha picture there. Rei/Mars and Ami/Mercury are both good girl types with Japanese black hair, but in the manga they're coloured as Purple Blue and Black-blue respectively, whereas Hotaru/Saturn has truly black black hair. Anime colours use a kind of black with highlights cell shading system.
Point is: imagine their hair whatever you think best and don't let the official media deter you ;)
The Sailor Moon anime got pretty close. I'd say that's more a result of the coloring styles/techniques used for the mediums than different colors.
Now, compare that to Hunter X Hunter... Colors can vary heavily between the 1999 anime and 2011 because Togashi apparently chooses cover colors based on his mood. Kinda funny to see how several female characters (and Hisoka) basically swapped blue and pink hair between versions.
But yeah, I agree preference is ultimately up to the reader (as long as the colors aren't super plot-relevant like Ed's gold hair and eyes).
Speaking of both Togashi and Naoko, my no proof crazy fan theory is that Togashi is super flexible with his colours to make it easier for Naoko to "hand in his homework" for him lol
Twenty years ago at this time, the original run of the anime had wrapped up with a cliffhanger and I was eagerly awaiting Conqueror of Shamballa to see what would happen in the finale. This series was my first foray into the world of Bittorrent. That, GitS: 2nd Gig, and Samurai Champloo made 2004-05 an incredibly exciting time for
pirating-ahem- acquiring anime from the grey market.Now, before I gush about how obviously superior Brotherhood was, I just want to say that one thing I really liked about the pace and build-up of the original series' first season is that it made the shock and loss of that one beloved character (you know who I'm talking about) truly devastating. I had time to get invested in the world before they ripped that person away. What's more, it made me feel that if they could take that person away, maybe nobody was safe. It just added a level of tension and gravity to the unraveling conspiracy that I personally enjoyed. The only knock I could ever make at Brotherhood was that it rushed all of that into just ten episodes.
Jumping forward four-ish years, I had just seen You Can (Not) Advance. Look, it was good; I don't deny that, but I'm a crotchety diehard for the original Evangelion. So when I heard that Brotherhood was rebooting the Fullmetal series, I thought "Aw man, but the original was already so jiff-jeffin' good. No, I didn't read the manga, but why bother to redo an already interesting story?"
Why? Economies of scale.
I humbly apologize for my arrogance. The build-up and proportions just kept getting greater and greater! The original anime is what you'd get if Game of Thrones didn't suck so much in it's last two seasons. Brotherhood is what you'd get if GRRM would finish his books in a satisfying manner and then HBO made the last however many seasons necessary to tell it. So, I know exactly what you are talking about with that second-to-last episode. I remember gripping my laptop, sitting practically upside-down on my couch with anxiety. It was just that good!
I rather wish Brotherhood was able to capture the slower pacing that allowed for these heightened emotions.....
Actually I can think of two characters' departure that hit super hard, especially in the first series. Well three if you count the first one differently....
But, faster pacing is more the norm now, and also a lot of us have already seen these events. So, not complaining.
So many things from that series will forever live in my head rent free, but yeah you're right not too dark and never revels in dark for darks sake. (Unlike some other cursed series I won't name)
Author also wrote Silver Spoon, a slice of life about kids going to post sec education about farming life and nutritional science in all its glory. Super wholesome A+
I swear there's a quote from her in one of the volume endnotes about how the story was meant to be entertainment first and foremost. I think it was in reference to her occasionally drawing some more comedic faces in serious sequences. That line really influenced my own writing philosophy, I always try to find a balance in tone so that a story isn't too heavy.
I really loved Silver Spoon. The OP theme song for the anime was from Goose House, which was a real bonus for me. 😀