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Hey bro, I see you finished FMA:Brotherhood. What'd you think? I noticed you gave it a 10/10, so you apparently didn't stay bored with it. :P

Apparently you didn't see my rating for it. Idk, at first I was enjoying it, but after the 3rd episode, it felt like the only reason why I was watching it was to just finish it and be done with it. The concept was pretty good, I love survival genres. However, I felt the execution was horrible.
The main character, despite being the top 10 in the world, was one of the dumbest protagonists I've ever seen. Honestly, this serious reminded me of SAO, only SAO was better. There was one moment in the series where Sakamoto did an intelligent action, which was during the beach scene where he avoided the remote bombs. Aside from that moment, and his ability to radar cancel, he was absolutely useless. He was oblivious to even the most simple of concepts. Everything that was painfully obvious had to be explained to him. Literally, everything. His title was just for show. Maybe his character changed from the manga to the anime, but in the anime, he's one of the worst protagonists I've seen.
The show was trying to be tactical by explaining everything and trying to outsmart everyone, but really, there is no strategy to speak of. Just simply throwing the bombs would have yielded better results. The bombs are shown to have a ton of destructive power, but yet the constantly blow up in people's faces and they walk it off unscratched. Then, suddenly from the same explosions, they randomly get wounded. It's inconsistent and was annoying. Additionally, the girl was horrible. I thought maybe she'd be a decent character at first, but no, she's just a damsel in distress who provides soft-core fan service.
The last episode killed me. The one handed lady, from throwing 1 bomb, completely threw off the antagonist when they were on the roofs, and he instantly turned tail when he obviously had the advantage. Then, one handed lady gets blown off of the roof from a close-range bomb, and drops her bomb near her too, then bam, she's completely fine without a scratch. Then she goes to kill the antagonist after the protagonist "outsmarts him", and then she doesn't even kill him. After all the shit she went through, "nah, I still love him. Fuck the plot". Which reminds me, when the protagonist avoided death, why did he not reveal himself or do ANYTHING until it was clear he survived? He even just walked out casually in front of his opponent without a plan stating "here I am, take me".
There was just too much unnecessary and forced drama in this show, riddled with pointless actions and ideas. One of the reasons I enjoy hunter x hunter so much is because every action or motive, despite what the intent is, is thought out extremely well and holds meaning, sometimes even too much so. Even though the motives consistently change and the characters fail in their goals a lot, it is always clear what needs to be done and every action the characters do feel powerful and have purpose. There is absolutely none of this whatsoever in Btooom. I honestly don't see why people like it so much. At least in SAO the protagonist, while generic, wasn't bad. Sakamoto is literally the worst protagonist I have seen, even more than Yuki in vampire knight, who was also next to useless.

So, I decided to start Shinsekai yori, and ended up watching it in one sitting, lol. It was pretty good, though I got pretty pissed when Maria left. She was one of my favorite characters and I hated the reason why she left, considering I wasn't very fond of Mamoru. When I found out what Squealer did to Maria, though, I just about lost it lol. I still can't get over it haha.
The only part I didn't really like in the anime was the couple pairings right after the summer camp. I mean, we have both Shun and Sataru having feelings for Saki, and Saki having feelings for Shun, and then BAM, Shun and Sataru get together. I Mean, WTF? I was fine with the relationship, it was just so not what I was expecting. Actually, more like the complete opposite of what I was expecting. However, the Saki x Maria pair wasn't as jarring for me since they actually did show that they were really close before the 2 year skip. Right before Maria vanished I started to seriously like the relationship between Saki and her, and then BAM, plot development. Dammit.
I think it was really cool how they did the character relationships in this series. I went in expecting them all to die, but they still were able to make me feel for the characters (except Mamoru). When I first saw the Fiend, I was like "YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!". And then when it wasn't Maria, I was all "FUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU!" Dammit man. Lol.
Anyways, yeah. Good show. Thanks for the recommendation.

Nevermind, I found Rec after some searching, lol. And I guess Avatar isn't on here because it's western, but it's still an anime and it has its own clubs on here and stuff, so I'm still a bit baffled.

R.E.C. and the Avatar series, to name the ones on the top of my head. Also, I dropped Cowboy bebop because I was just bored by it. I was told by a lot of people that it was really good, and then the first few episodes were super underwhelming and bland to me. I enjoy series that hook me on the first few episodes, and C.B. just didn't cut it for me. I guess I expected too much, and it just kinda ruined it. Apparently, though, I stopped right before it got good, so I may try it again sometime.

Damn, I was close. 115 completed with 26 on hold for one reason or another. There were also a few that weren't on the site and I'm sure I've forgotten like 10-20 other animes I've watched. Oh well. Time to catch up and beat you. :P

I agree (minus the angel beats part) its nice to have a more boyish drama (less crying but still touching) every now and then. Im 15 now. I watched clannad when i was 14. That show ruined my grades for 8th grade (i have straight A's now) because i would watch it really late at night and wouldnt be able to stop. I still draw dango's on my homework and write "Kurunado" (Clannad) in kanji or whatever style of writting it is. THAT WAS MY FIRST KEY ANIME AND I WILL TREASURE IT ALWAYS. i really want to learn japanese so i can watch the REAL show and play the visual novel. I know im a nerd but dont worry, i dont look like one. #SelfRespect

I actually kind of liked that part. Because Sorata finally made up his damn mind about which girl he likes. I like the part where Mashiro was standing on the opposite side of the tracks, and with the train stopping in front of them.. it leaving only for Sorata to find that she wasn't there. Man that made me a panicked a bit.

The part where the gaming company sent a request letter to Mashiro for her art services. That was forced.

I just like the whole thing. I like the world, the way new things are introduced into the world and how it changes. There's some action in episode 11 and 12.

To each there own I guess. I liked it. I found it very interesting.

I'm glad to hear it keeps it's quality for the whole run. I think the reason it might be so underrated is because of Viz's crappy US release. They dubbed the whole thing in English, aired it on TV, released the first 15 episodes on DVD and then just stopped releasing it. Because of that, it never even got a worldwide release. It's also a shame because it's a really good dub. It feels very natural and free flowing. Which is pretty rare for an English dub.

You don't like Inferno Cop anymore? Well honestly, I don't what say. Seriously, my mind's a blank. I can't think of how I should respond.

I finally got around to watching Monster. I know it was quite a while ago, but I'm glad you reccomended it to me. Two episodes in and I can already see it becoming one of my favourites

hahaha, exactly my thoughts! xD
but yeah, she kinda annoys me. I mean, yeah, you lost your memory but does every word that leaves your mouth gotta be "Eh?" or "No... I..." >.< and why didn't she try to swim up? or at least try?
it was like: "Oh, the boat broke, the water is flowing in, oh i'll just run to the endge of the boat and.. ooops I fell. Now watch me not trying to save my own life..."

lol, it's so crazy, this anime! xD

Well, you can add games to the library yourself, but the website is still in its early forms. It's not very good at the moment, but it's at least something. I kind of manually search for games on MAL and the video game list site. The site will probably improve with time though.