What Are You Watching Now

@kelly said in What Are You Watching Now:

Watched the live action version of Bleach. It was pretty good.

Better than the anime? I didn't like the anime.

It depends on what you didn't like about the anime. It is a movie, so it doesn't drag on the way the anime did. It doesn't have as much posing and rhapsodizing. It is clearly an homage to the anime though, so many of the same themes come through.

wirestyle22

@kelly said in What Are You Watching Now:

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Watching Now:

@kelly said in What Are You Watching Now:

Watched the live action version of Bleach. It was pretty good.

Better than the anime? I didn't like the anime.

It depends on what you didn't like about the anime. It is a movie, so it doesn't drag on the way the anime did. It doesn't have as much posing and rhapsodizing. It is clearly an homage to the anime though, so many of the same themes come through.

I didn't like how formulaic the combat/story was and I think they could've cut a lot of the content and made the show better for it.

JaredBusch

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Watching Now:

@kelly said in What Are You Watching Now:

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Watching Now:

@kelly said in What Are You Watching Now:

Watched the live action version of Bleach. It was pretty good.

Better than the anime? I didn't like the anime.

It depends on what you didn't like about the anime. It is a movie, so it doesn't drag on the way the anime did. It doesn't have as much posing and rhapsodizing. It is clearly an homage to the anime though, so many of the same themes come through.

I didn't like how formulaic the combat/story was and I think they could've cut a lot of the content and made the show better for it.

You realize that this was anime was originally a serialized manga in the Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine? It then became popular and was converted to anime right? A very typical weekly manga to anime.

It is about as typical as it gets when it comes to serialized shōnen stories. Ranma 1/2, Bleach, Naruto, DBZ, Full Metal Alchemist, Attack on Titan, etc.

wirestyle22

@jaredbusch said in What Are You Watching Now:

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Watching Now:

@kelly said in What Are You Watching Now:

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Watching Now:

@kelly said in What Are You Watching Now:

Watched the live action version of Bleach. It was pretty good.

Better than the anime? I didn't like the anime.

It depends on what you didn't like about the anime. It is a movie, so it doesn't drag on the way the anime did. It doesn't have as much posing and rhapsodizing. It is clearly an homage to the anime though, so many of the same themes come through.

I didn't like how formulaic the combat/story was and I think they could've cut a lot of the content and made the show better for it.

You realize that this was anime was originally a serialized manga in the Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine? It then became popular and was converted to anime right? A very typical weekly manga to anime.

It is about as typical as it gets when it comes to serialized shōnen stories. Ranma 1/2, Bleach, Naruto, DBZ, Full Metal Alchemist, Attack on Titan, etc.

and yet both iterations of Full Metal Alchemist were way better than Bleach. Bleach was just a crappy show IMO

JaredBusch

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Watching Now:

@jaredbusch said in What Are You Watching Now:

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Watching Now:

@kelly said in What Are You Watching Now:

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Watching Now:

@kelly said in What Are You Watching Now:

Watched the live action version of Bleach. It was pretty good.

Better than the anime? I didn't like the anime.

It depends on what you didn't like about the anime. It is a movie, so it doesn't drag on the way the anime did. It doesn't have as much posing and rhapsodizing. It is clearly an homage to the anime though, so many of the same themes come through.

I didn't like how formulaic the combat/story was and I think they could've cut a lot of the content and made the show better for it.

You realize that this was anime was originally a serialized manga in the Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine? It then became popular and was converted to anime right? A very typical weekly manga to anime.

It is about as typical as it gets when it comes to serialized shōnen stories. Ranma 1/2, Bleach, Naruto, DBZ, Full Metal Alchemist, Attack on Titan, etc.

and yet both iterations of Full Metal Alchemist were way better than Bleach. Bleach was just a crappy show IMO

You are comparing totally differnet things and calling one crap without even knowing why.

FMA was a monthly manga, written by the author to intentionally cover social and moral issues.

Bleach was a weekly manga written by the author because he liked drawing monsters and supernatural stuff. His previous serialized manga was something about zombies.

They are not supposed to entertain the same crowd.

Then of course, knowing you and your predilection for injecting your morality into everything, of course FMA would resonate with you.

wirestyle22

@jaredbusch said in What Are You Watching Now:

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Watching Now:

@jaredbusch said in What Are You Watching Now:

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Watching Now:

@kelly said in What Are You Watching Now:

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Watching Now:

@kelly said in What Are You Watching Now:

Watched the live action version of Bleach. It was pretty good.

Better than the anime? I didn't like the anime.

It depends on what you didn't like about the anime. It is a movie, so it doesn't drag on the way the anime did. It doesn't have as much posing and rhapsodizing. It is clearly an homage to the anime though, so many of the same themes come through.

I didn't like how formulaic the combat/story was and I think they could've cut a lot of the content and made the show better for it.

You realize that this was anime was originally a serialized manga in the Weekly Shōnen Jump magazine? It then became popular and was converted to anime right? A very typical weekly manga to anime.

It is about as typical as it gets when it comes to serialized shōnen stories. Ranma 1/2, Bleach, Naruto, DBZ, Full Metal Alchemist, Attack on Titan, etc.

and yet both iterations of Full Metal Alchemist were way better than Bleach. Bleach was just a crappy show IMO

You are comparing totally differnet things and calling one crap without even knowing why.

FMA was a monthly manga, written by the author to intentionally cover social and moral issues.

Bleach was a weekly manga written by the author because he liked drawing monsters and supernatural stuff. His previous serialized manga was something about zombies.

They are not supposed to entertain the same crowd.

Then of course, knowing you and your predilection for injecting your morality into everything, of course FMA would resonate with you.

It's the quality of the writing and story development that makes FMA a better show. Saying an author liked monsters and the other had a more complex idea with a purpose doesn't change the quality of the product. You can have a story about monsters that is developed well. Bleach just isn't.

As far as me injecting morality into "everything", you have that outlook because you treat people like shit and I have a problem with it.

JaredBusch

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Watching Now:

As far as me injecting morality into "everything", you have that outlook because you treat people like shit and I have a problem with it.

See, I don't treat people like shit.
But I do not put up with people trying to push bullshit, and most people don't like being called out on their own bullshit.

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Watching Now:

It's the quality of the writing and story development that makes FMA a better show. Saying an author liked monsters and the other had a more complex idea with a purpose doesn't change the quality of the product. You can have a story about monsters that is developed well. Bleach just isn't.

Of course what one person likes is subjective and will be different to the next person.

But you are injecting your bias clearly here by stating FMA was "more complex" when it is not. It is simply about a different subject. Bleach was a drastically "more complex" story by some measures. By those measures FMA was utterly simplistic.

wirestyle22

@jaredbusch said in What Are You Watching Now:

I do not put up with people trying to push bullshit

Has anyone ever told you "It's not what you say but how you say it"? I don't care that you challenge what I think. I actually appreciate the way you look at things a lot of the time as it provides me with clarity or at least a different point of view. The entire point of me being here is to learn. It's how you do it that is the problem. You and @coliver think similarly (my opinion) and he does not treat people the same way you do. Try comparing some of your posts to his sometime, even in the same threads articulating the same concepts. If you truly weren't treating someone poorly you'd attack the concept/idea, not the person.

@jaredbusch said in What Are You Watching Now:

Of course what one person likes is subjective and will be different to the next person.
But you are injecting your bias clearly here by stating FMA was "more complex" when it is not. It is simply about a different subject. Bleach was a drastically "more complex" story by some measures. By those measures FMA was utterly simplistic.

I'm interested to hear your opinion of what was more complex about Bleach, so when you have the time please expand on that.

momurda

I think we can all agree both are better than the objectively terrible Attack on Titan

wirestyle22

@momurda I liked the first season but I get the impression that they didn't know where they wanted to go with it. I also liked the first portion of Bleach though before they went into the spirit world.

DustinB3403

@momurda said in What Are You Watching Now:

I think we can all agree both are better than the objectively terrible Attack on Titan

AoT is a pretty good show, but it takes a lot of getting used too.

DustinB3403

@wirestyle22 said in What Are You Watching Now:

@momurda I liked the first season but I get the impression that they didn't know where they wanted to go with it. I also liked the first portion of Bleach though before they went into the spirit world.

The Bleach movie on Netflix is spot on for the very first few chapters, they hit every detail. Worth watching for sure.

As for the arch. . . yeah it kind of killed itself.

wirestyle22

@dustinb3403 said in What Are You Watching Now:

@momurda said in What Are You Watching Now:

I think we can all agree both are better than the objectively terrible Attack on Titan

AoT is a pretty good show, but it takes a lot of getting used too.

I'm giving it some time.