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MarshalBanana
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Without even looking at who was reviewing this, I was able to work it out just by looking at the score.
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Ulinox
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Doesn't even include the movie? Not much of a collection then is it? Brotherhood beats this by a mile and a half anyway.
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Greed1914
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I would guess that the movie wasn't included because that received a blu-ray re-release quite some time prior to this set, so Funimation might have figured that people buying this already had the HD version of the movie. The MSRP is high, but I got my copy for significantly less than MSRP at Right Stuf.
I'm quite pleased with how the upscale turned out. Given when the show was made, I wasn't sure how it would turn out, but since FMA is my favorite anime, and since the show was big enough to warrant some extra attention from Funimation, I decided to get it. The art book is just as Hope said, high enough quality that it could be sold on its own. |
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Sahmbahdeh
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Great review, Hope. You really nailed why this show was, and continues to be, one of the best fantasy anime ever made.
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Angel M Cazares
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A very solid and complete review.
For a Funimation release the MSRP is high, but someone like Aniplex USA would easily have charged $500 MSRP. |
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Kurai_Seraphim
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How do you not include the movie in such a massive product?
You could skip it for Brotherhood given the movie doesn't fit anywhere or matter in the slightest to the plot, but the movie for the original FMA is the ending. |
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Aura Ichadora
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I would love to get this set, as it does look gorgeous, but I did fear that it would be too massive to sit on my shelves. I have limited space as it is. :p
I'm not too turned off by the fact the movie isn't included; I have the original release that is autographed by almost all of the main cast, which makes it more of a collectible to me than just having it included in a set like this. |
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Ambimunch
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I got this set on day 1 and didn't regret it. This show is history, and history I lived through. I enjoy FMA 2003 more with each re-watch as I get older. Brotherhood did not nearly have as much of a cultural impact as FMA 2003. And for it being a 2003 show, the art and animation still surpasses a lot of things released today.
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meiam
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While I do think that brotherhood is better, there were a few things that the 2003 release did better in my opinion. Like the Rose side of the story was a lot more interesting and the homunculi had a bit more impact with there back story.
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peace-of-hope
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I have this set and what I did, since I also have limited shelf space, is took out the rigid box (it houses the digipaks) and the artbook, and put them on my shelf. I've got the rest of the printed goods in the suitcase until I can frame them, and I set the suitcase on top of my shelf and put my FMA figures on top of it. The movie had a recent re-release and the new cover and style on that matches the standard edition for the FMA Blu-ray. |
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WashuTakahashi
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I want this SO BADLY. But it's really hard to justify the price when I already own the entire series on individual discs, the majority of which are signed by VAs. To anyone complaining about the price though, imagine the good ol' days when you had to buy it disc by disc...I think I got a few discs at 25, and a few closer to 15, so saying all 13 discs were about 20 bucks comes out to $260. It's available for cheaper than that on Rightstuf. I'll probably get it eventually, assuming they don't stop selling this version anytime soon. If I didn't already own it I would have pre-ordered it in a heartbeat.
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DangerMouse
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Yeah, I'm glad I picked it up when it came out and kept an eye on the price before preordering since I wasn't sure it would get discounted like that so that was cool. |
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ARC-1300
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although i find brotherhood far superior,i'd be a fool to pass this up. looks so damn good. not a fan of the price,but ill make an exception.
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MadHi
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FMA 2003 is one of my favorite anime. It's a near-perfect series in my opinion including the movie and any flaws pointing out is even less than nitpicking for me.
According to my sources this collection is region locked and only works with A. Can someone please confirm its region compatibilities? I pray to God this collection gets a European release soon if it's not compatible with region B. Last edited by MadHi on Wed Dec 09, 2015 7:22 pm; edited 5 times in total |
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EnigmaticSky
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The thing is that when it's perpetually less than MSRP, MSRP doesn't really mean anything. It's continually sold for less than that and should be judged at that number. I'm not denying that the set is nice, but it just isn't "as much as a new PS4" nice. As an anime fan, the anime is the most important part, and that is like $30 on bluray at the moment. I'm not a collector of fine boxes, so that isn't too much of a plus, although if it's like $5 for an art box I sometimes go for it. They may look nice on a shelf, but they're meant to store the show, and this one's frankly a bit gaudy. The rest is printed stuff, essentially a really nice artbook split across a few different items. It's nice, but it's not "10x what you can already get the series for" nice. I mean as a huge anime fan and collector with plenty of limited editions, the show is the part that matters, I'm an anime fan, not a trinkets and paper goods fan. Why do those inflate the price so much? Especially when you look at each item and price only what you would buy alone if it weren't in the set; I doubt too many people would find the "textured envolope" unforgettable. The series is $30, I can see buying an artbook of a series I love like FMA for maybe another $40. That's an awful lot of bloat, especially given the opportunity cost of what else that money can go towards. It doesn't even have the concluding movie... I will say at least there are multiple options, and the show itself was fantastic back when I watched it. I'll probably give it another go, since I really haven't seen it since back when it aired on adult swim. I'm curious to see how it holds up to Brotherhood; I recall feeling like Brotherhood was stronger overall, but that spoiler[the original really handles Hughs way better, and makes you care about his death far more]. Also there was the guy that got tricked into buying fool's gold in Brotherhood that showed up out of nowhere, they didn't even bother with that part. Otherwise though my memories of how they compare are pretty nonexistant, it had already been a while when I watched brotherhood, so I might marathon them during the holidays while I'm off work. |
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