Are FLCL Alternative and Progressive movies?
Yes
5.5%
11
No
85.6%
172
I don't care
9.0%
18
201 votes
| I woke up this morning to find that Alternative and Progressive had both changed to "6/1" on my list and are now considered movies. They had limited theatrical screenings in Japan, but can you really call them movies? They have a clear episode structure. What do you guys think? |
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| Probably because both were intended to be made as movies over in Japan, but were edited down in their lengths as such to be made into a TV series format over here in the states. Crunchyroll did the same thing with the Digimon Tri movies as each one was edited into parts that are considered "episodes". Honestly, I could care less how it's done as this seems to be a minor issue for me compared to MAL's insistence at using the original Japanese names of anime which usually makes it a chore for me to figure out which titles I want to edit for my Anime List. |
| As much as I 100% know they're made of episodes, I'm not going to argue with MAL using the Japanese format as the official database entry. ggultra2764 said: Probably because both were intended to be made as movies over in Japan, but were edited down in their lengths as such to be made into a TV series format over here in the states. Crunchyroll did the same thing with the Digimon Tri movies as each one was edited into parts that are considered "episodes". Going off of Digimon, if I were to insist that they call these OVA series, by the same token I would have to insist that the 3 Digimon films they pulled from for the American Digimon movie be listed as a single entry. So yeah, these are quite clearly episodes, but it doesn't bother me much. |
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| I honestly they should've stayed as TV. I know they had a theatrical run in Japan, but the US got this far earlier, on TV and as 6 individual 20-minute episodes. I dislike this change... a lot :/ |
| I feel like this needs to get the Afro Samurai treatment. Afro Samurai was a 5 episode series in the west, and put together into a movie in Japan. MAL lists both as separate entities. Need to do that here, because I didn't see no FLCL movie. |
| Yeah, this change is a huge pain in the ass for no reason. |
qwertyMrJINX said: I feel like this needs to get the Afro Samurai treatment. Afro Samurai was a 5 episode series in the west, and put together into a movie in Japan. MAL lists both as separate entities. Need to do that here, because I didn't see no FLCL movie. Afro Samurai aired on Japanese TV too, before it even got the movie, that's why it has 2 entries. |
| MAL's database system is number 1 bullshit, aside from silly stuff like this where it's now impossible to track which episode I'm actually on, it's extremely annoying to convert split-cour series from their actual listed episode number into MAL's bogus system. It's inconsistent too when considered in the context of long running shounen series that could realistically be considered multiple "seasons" based on actual production schedule and market themselves as such. The worst part is MAL's Manga database already has a solution for this type of problem, allowing users to track progress based on either Chapter or Volume, I have no idea why they couldn't apply a similar concept to something like this. |
bbobjs said: MAL's database system is number 1 bullshit, aside from silly stuff like this where it's now impossible to track which episode I'm actually on, it's extremely annoying to convert split-cour series from their actual listed episode number into MAL's bogus system. It's inconsistent too when considered in the context of long running shounen series that could realistically be considered multiple "seasons" based on actual production schedule and market themselves as such. The worst part is MAL's Manga database already has a solution for this type of problem, allowing users to track progress based on either Chapter or Volume, I have no idea why they couldn't apply a similar concept to something like this. I agree with this 100%. Split cours as separate entries is ridiculous especially considering it noticeably skews the rating of the later season(s) of any given show. Also, now it looks like it took me 6 months to watch a "movie"... smh. |
| Makes no sense to me... But MAL has it's own rules and reasoning on things. |
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Musi13 said: I agree that the best solution would be two different listings, referring to the other as an alternative version. (heh) Absolutely agree. By the way, does anybody know if there is any minor differences (e.g. plot details, scene drawings etc.) between original TV airings and these Japanese movie variants? Because I haven't had an opportunity to watch the movie variant (like very most of us I suppose). |
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| This is stupid they're clearly shows and I have a strict rule against including movies on my list (since I'd rate them in a totally different way than I would with shows) so now I'm forced to take both shows off my list for the sake of consistency even though I watched them and everybody agrees they're shows not movies. I'm crossing my fingers My Anime List changes this but I highly doubt they will they probably had Digimon Tri on the mind when making this change. |
bbobjs said: Couldn't have said it better.MAL's database system is number 1 bullshit, aside from silly stuff like this where it's now impossible to track which episode I'm actually on, it's extremely annoying to convert split-cour series from their actual listed episode number into MAL's bogus system. It's inconsistent too when considered in the context of long running shounen series that could realistically be considered multiple "seasons" based on actual production schedule and market themselves as such. The worst part is MAL's Manga database already has a solution for this type of problem, allowing users to track progress based on either Chapter or Volume, I have no idea why they couldn't apply a similar concept to something like this. |
| It wouldnt work as a movie. The episodes are meant to be just that, episodes. It could work as a movie if edited the right way but thats not how it is now. So im against it but if edited right, its fine. Thats all i have to really say about it |
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| votes speak for themselves. what was mal management thinking? this doesn't bode well with me... |
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| I spent 6 weeks watching this on Toonami at 30 minutes a piece. That's not a movie. |
| I've only been on MAL since it broke in summer, but c'mon MAL, this is so obviously not a movie. |
Neko-Hoshishima said: bbobjs said: MAL's database system is number 1 bullshit, aside from silly stuff like this where it's now impossible to track which episode I'm actually on, it's extremely annoying to convert split-cour series from their actual listed episode number into MAL's bogus system. It's inconsistent too when considered in the context of long running shounen series that could realistically be considered multiple "seasons" based on actual production schedule and market themselves as such. The worst part is MAL's Manga database already has a solution for this type of problem, allowing users to track progress based on either Chapter or Volume, I have no idea why they couldn't apply a similar concept to something like this. I agree with this 100%. Split cours as separate entries is ridiculous especially considering it noticeably skews the rating of the later season(s) of any given show. Also, now it looks like it took me 6 months to watch a "movie"... smh. I don't agree with FLCL 2 and 3 being listed as movies but the "split cour" argument is largely invalid. MAL does the correct thing there. Sites like Crunchyroll are the ones that are wrong. They'll lost Season 3 episode 1 as "Season 3 episode 49" or some stupid crap like that. MAL is fine most the times but not when things aired first in the US. |
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