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Shelf Life - Brotherhood of the Wandering Pants

Your FMA:Brotherhood review gives me the impression you haven't watched that much anime. Wow, it has symbolism. /golfclap. And yes, it does have stock characters.

I...yeah, I guess I'm cool with that. In fact, I don't even think that's the first time anyone's said that!

I watched Fullmetal Alchemist hit-and-miss, but I've been more faithful with Brotherhood. I may be off-base here, but Brotherhood seems to do a lot less navel-gazing than FMA. It could have been my luck, but every time I turned on FMA, Ed and Al were on the island.

I like the addition of Lin and May. They both had some pretty sweet fights, and they keep the action rolling along. Also, I like how Lin spoiler[treats his bodyguards, whose names I can't recall at this moment, especially the female. He protects her after she sacrifices her arm to let them escape the homunculi. Very honorable of him.]

Sea Lion wrote:

I watched Fullmetal Alchemist hit-and-miss, but I've been more faithful with Brotherhood. I may be off-base here, but Brotherhood seems to do a lot less navel-gazing than FMA. It could have been my luck, but every time I turned on FMA, Ed and Al were on the island. I like the addition of Lin and May. They both had some pretty sweet fights, and they keep the action rolling along. Also, I like how Lin spoiler[treats his bodyguards, whose names I can't recall at this moment, especially the female. He protects her after she sacrifices her arm to let them escape the homunculi. Very honorable of him.]

The first FMA is infamous for adding a ton of navel gazing, in the original manga Equivalent Exchange is pretty much used as how the magic system works with you needing say a ton of lead to make a ton of Gold, in the first anime this was changed into a philosophy that the Elric Brothers believe in and it is talked about constantly. In particular the final confrontation of the main villain is 30 seconds of fighting, two minutes of Ball Room dancing, and the rest is them talking about Equivalent Exchange.

Oh and if you think I am joking about Ball Room Dancing taking up more time than Ed fighting Dante I am not.

I really should just get off my ass and watch El Hazard already. This place recommends it to me often enough. I just keep getting confused with all the material that was released for it.

A more technical question about the El Hazard Wanderers release: How many discs is it on? 4, like the old Pioneer release? 5, like many other Nozomi collections of 24-26 episode series?

I would rather not call 30 bucks at Rightstuf tricky to get, it's somewhat expensive but it's not like they're asking 40-50 bucks for it.

Both the original El Hazard and Tenchi Muyo OAVs make for another fascinating example of some of the most popular anime titles in America once upon a time now being out of print and somewhat tricky/expensive to procure.

...call it mediocre, but then lighten up and pretty much just say its "nothing special" but worth a watch if your into vampires. so is it one or the other? Mediocre, or just nothing special?

: of moderate or low quality, value, ability, or performance : ordinary, so-so