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Yeah, it's a good anime adaptation. It captures that atmosphere, humor, and action known from the manga, offering good animation that holds up well even today, to be frank (especially during more dynamic scenes or sequences featuring martial arts in action). It also adapts the story really well, even if there are minor differences here and there that don't ruin the overall experience or tone. I mean, at least when it comes to the parts that cover the original manga's story. Like many long-running shonen anime from the past, the original Dragon Ball anime has a lot of filler. They're enjoyable, but in a way they might disrupt the pacing known from the manga if someone expects the anime to flow as closely to the manga as possible (like Dragon Ball Kai following the manga more closely, compared to Dragon Ball Z). That being said, they also flesh out the original story and some side characters more, so it's not like they're just there to add more numbers to the episode count. It's definitely worth checking out. Not only because it's a fine piece of anime history, but because it's simply a fun show that many people who have grown with and only with DBZ usually omit.

Dr. Slump is a remake. It has fewer episodes and, from what I read long ago, is not only more faithful to the source material but also to its humor and pacing. There were some visual changes compared to the previous anime. The most significant was Arale's hair color, which I have to admit was bizarre when I first saw it for the first time, haha. Apart from that, the color scheme was improved in various aspects, and the overall art style was modified to better align with trends popular in the 1990s.

The original Dr. Slump anime from the 1980s (Dr. Slump & Arale-chan) not only had several times more episodes than its remake, but it also apparently took more liberties with the source material (I can't verify it at the moment, because I'm not familiar with the original manga), incorporating fillers, anime-original gags, and a different general pacing of the whole show. When it comes to "how much source material is in the 1980s Dr. Slump anime?", I can't say for sure. Like I mentioned before, I haven't read the manga yet, and I only read about differences between these two shows long ago. But yeah, I definitely plan to pick up the manga one day. One more thing I'd like to note is that although it's been ages since I watched both series, I have stronger nostalgic feelings towards the 1980s anime, therefore if I were to re-watch one of these two shows, I'd watc the 1980s version, heh. I particularly liked its vibe, art style, and comedy. It's not that the remake was notably worse; I simply remember preferring the original.

Regarding your question, hmm... If you don't plan to read the manga, but would like to see something that's more faithful to it, instead of facing the perspective of watching around 250 episodes featuring a lot of fillers, and you don't mind Arale's hair color differing from the one known from manga covers, then I say you can give the version from 1990s a try. Otherwise, the 1980s anime is the way to go, to be honest. Sure, it has a lot of episodes, as many series created back then had, it might differ from the manga (at least according to people whose posts I read many years ago), but I think it's funnier to watch as a show, not to mention iconic original cast and, of course, Arale-chan's iconic purple hair color, lol. Speaking about the voice cast, I watched both shows dubbed, but the 1980s version, if you decide to watch it subbed, is full of well-known Japanese voice actors, including Mami Koyama voicing Arale-chan.

So, while both versions have their pros and cons, and neither can be called ideal, I'd recommend the 1980s version.

Seems to be real common in long running series. Gintama and Fairy Tail (the OG not the current PoS) both ended weakly after 300+ episode runs. It's like the writers put so much effort into keeping a series going, they lose all sight on how to make one end in a satisfying manner.

It might take a long time for me to get to the end though. I don't watch it every day. Usually just on days where there is nothing else going on. And I'm not quite half through yet.

Their loss, our gain. I originally saw the first 50 episodes many years ago and just recently found there was soooo much more. I fell in love with it all over again. Everything about it is so goofy, how could anyone not love it? So my current reason for existence is to complete all 350+ episodes.

Damn I just realized how this sounds haha

Unfortunately there's no delulu husbando, I'm the delulu one XD

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I enjoyed both arcs, though I'd be lying if I said the second was superior to the first, haha. I found it solid and fun, but not quite as strong as the first half. Perhaps I'm biased, since I finished the manga long before the anime movie came out. I'd always hoped to see it animated, but I never expected the adaptation to look this good! :D

That said, the second half, as anime-original content that creatively expanded on the manga, was very enjoyable. I wouldn't mind seeing another season or a movie featuring, for example, another area of that world.

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I highly recommend watching Sand Land. I can't guarantee you'll like it, of course. But personally, I really enjoyed it. The manga was already fun to read, and the movie adaptation was very good, but the episodic series elevated both to even a higher level.

Sand Land is an adventurous story filled with funny gags, wholesome moments, and cool-looking action scenes. All of this is beautifully presented with stunning CGI animation and art - some of the best I've ever seen. When you combine this with the excellent direction, Sand Land becomes something definitely worth checking out.

And if you're a fan of Akira Toriyama's work, it's definitely a must-watch!

Let me know when you give it a try! :D

I had lots of fun watching it even though, objectively speaking, it can be considered an Attack n°1 knockoff and the melodrama was a bit dumb sometimes. It does have a couple of explicit scenes, the kind of stuff that was normal to see in older anime.

Not sure how I'd rank the matches in One Outs, but I can guarantee that the second half of the manga that wasn't adapted in the anime is still amazing.

In terms of looks and wits absolutely, but their personalities are quite different (one more serious, the other more outgoing as you can see in the screenshots).

The most important difference compared to the first time is that I read the manga instead of rewatching the low quality s1, which helped me realize it was so good right from the start. HxH might have higher highs but also lower lows, I've gotta admit that some of the crtiicisms made by "Huntrash x Garbage" spammers on the forums are justified, even if of course I see them as minor issues. WT relies on a solid foundation more than on "hype moments" and it is the absolute king of strategic battles, which is the decisive aspect for me. The manga might be the best way to experience it due to a mediocre s1 and I'd also say it benefits from spending more time on some panels to notice every detail, but s2-s3 are well done and the penultimate episode of s3 in particular is one of the best animated episodes in a battle shounen.

I reread the first part of the manga before watching AnJ 2 and I enjoyed it even more than I remembered: you can really feel it's a sports manga written when the genre with all its tropes wasn't a thing yet. The anime felt like the same thing as the manga but worse, I definitely prefer Oniisama e... as a work of animation (also because a girls drama is more suited for the limited Japanese animation than most sports).

I mean, I already explained why realism is necessary for this particular work and in this particular area; it's trying to make statements about human nature and morality, both of which are innately rooted in reality. You can't have a moral statement about "evil" or "who is the real monster" without referring to reality. The show also sells itself as realistic with its entire style and setting.

As for originality, it's hard to be original, so I don't mind if something isn't totally original. But as I said before, talking about who did what first is besides my main point that the ideas at play here are rudimentary and not fleshed out, IMO. The idea that a villain was highly motivated by some form of abuse/betrayal from his parental figures is not that interesting or edifying of an idea by itself. If the show actually did the work to flesh out his thought process in a way that makes sense and doesn't require us to fill in the gaps, that would be like writing the actual essay instead of writing the prompt for the essay. It's like we could be having a conversation about a topic and we just make some superficial, broad statements, and leaving it at that, instead of going into more detail. And this is all within the context of my stance that Johan just doesn't seem to be that great of a villain because his extremity, combined with the lack of detail/explanation around him makes him seem one dimensionally evil, because his brand of evil isn't something specific. Other villains will do a lot of killing but they have a specific, understandable rationale for it, wherein they're not just killing for the sake of killing but killing as a means to an ends. I suppose you could argue Johan kills as part of his plan too but there are a bunch of cases where it wasn't necessary AND he is almost always killing it as if the killing itself is enjoyable to him, without the show telling us why he would find it enjoyable. It's part of his supposed philosophy that life has no value but that in itself doesn't give him a reason to kill people. It's like saying rocks have no value and then going out of your way to destroy rocks. Even if Johan's rationale was fully explained, that would only meet the baseline for character writing. Only then can I evaluate whether or not he's the best villain or whatever.

Btw I was always wondering about this, since you have listed your top 250 in order on your profile, do you go and change every single number when you find a new favourite?

Like Imagine a show went into your 47th place tomorrow, do you change every number from 48-250 to match it, or have you set up some sort of algorithm or something along those lines that somehow that does it for you?

Yeah I pretty much agree with everything you said here. I just find the fact that they actually showed the dialogue and made it work impressive. Even monster left it to the imagination. Which isn't bad, It's just that Id:invaded is the only case of them actually pulling off showing something like this. At least it's the only one that I know of.