Since the bandwagon for this has appeared...

[Captain Cadaver]

Not sure about specific albums. since I only listened to his songs when in the car with someone who had the CDs. Whichever ones has Skeletons in my Closet and Bagpipes from Baghdad on them.

 

[Spiral-Force]

Whichever ones has Skeletons in my Closet and Bagpipes from Baghdad on them.

The highlighted words are from his song "Cleanin' Out My Closet", which is from The Eminem Show. "Bagpipes from Baghdad" is from Relapse.

 

[ahill1]

Do you think the HxH anime is worth the watch? I'm sure you've been asked about it, but coming from someone who's read the mango twice, will it still be worth the grind of watching like 100 episodes (or whatever it is)?

I'd recommend watching the 1999 version until its end (which is on Greed Island) and then watch the 2011 version from there, which has done greatly on Chimera Ants.

Honestly, the Genei Ryodan arc in the 1999 version is a master piece, better than the 2011 version in a lot of ways I'd say.

 

[Captain Cadaver]

I'd recommend watching the 1999 version until its end (which is on Greed Island) and then watch the 2011 version from there, which has done greatly on Chimera Ants.

Honestly, the Genei Ryodan arc in the 1999 version is a master piece, better than the 2011 version in a lot of ways I'd say.

I'd say it's better to stick to only one anime for the watch, since the way in which both studios use artistic qualities for their tone is so different it'd cause tonal whiplash if you were to jump ship from one adaption to the other for one watch. The 1999 version uses it's art style for a balance of the light and dark tones of the series. The 2011 anime meanwhile, has it's style reflect the tone of the arc. Hunter Exam and Greed Island are primarily bright and vibrant to reflect the light tone, Zoldyck Family is mainly dreary to reflect the atmosphere of the family, Yorknew and Chimera Ant are primarily given dark shades to reflect their tone compared to the other arcs and Election Arc is kind've mixed. In that regard, 1999 has more stability in it's art being multi purpose, whereas Madhouse's take on art allow for the scenes to hit with more emotion.

If one were to watch both anime, it'd be best to do so separately other than mixing them up for a watch due to this. That, and the Yorknew Arc of the 1999 would be the only one I'd say warrants going out of your way to watch (and even then, just the scenes with Kurapika for the most part). Hunter Exam was pretty average in retrospect or slightly decent, whereas Greed Island's plot remained very flawed regardless of the art of both anime improving it, so watching them in the version that has the lower episode count for them (ie. the 2011 version) is the best option overall. Also, the way in which the 1999 version cut out the latter half of the Hisoka VS Kastro fight was absolutely jarring and ruined what role it had in the plot.

 

[Spiral-Force]

If you were a YouTuber, what kind of content would you put out?

 

[Captain Cadaver]

If you were a YouTuber, what kind of content would you put out?

Most likely reviews on Manga/Anime, novels, TV/films and whatever other topics of fiction catch my interest, such as talking about certain aspects of story building or tropes.

 

[ahill1]

Fair enough, although regarding the Hisoka vs Kastro fight, do they also have it in the 2011 anime? As far as I remember (there's a while I have watched it) they also cut it out, and the fight was just displayed in its entirety in the manga. Am I mistaken?

Also, the way they handled some moments of the Hunter Exam seemed pretty unnecessary, right? Like Gon and Killua doing a race at the end of the first exam, in which they were arguing at the end who won... They just attempted to make the whole thing more light hearted than it was intended to be, with Killua looking way more docile both in his behavior and design in the 2011 version. Killua's design mainly seemed to have improved by the Chimera Ants, but it's still disgusting how he did look in the first arcs, plus the add of infantile scnenes like the aforementioned one really annoyed me.

I always preferred the 1999's take on the whole Hunter thing, in which the whole system seems more like a rustic/rural thing compared to the modern and livened up tone given in the most recent version... I don't know how Togashi intended it to be, but I have always liked more how there was an overall obscure atmosphere inlaid in the 1999 version, whereas everything seems in general considerably more "happy", "colored", light hearted in the new one, which doesn't give the series the same good old vibe I used to feel when watching the old anime... Everything seems structured better, as far as the first episode and the whole soundtrack playment as soon as Gon says something interesting.

I dunno whether I am allowing nostalgia to kinda influence my feelings since I have watched the 1999 version first, but I am sure I am not alone here as I see many ppl complaining the same points. What do you think?

 

[Captain Cadaver]

Fair enough, although regarding the Hisoka vs Kastro fight, do they also have it in the 2011 anime? As far as I remember (there's a while I have watched it) they also cut it out, and the fight was just displayed in its entirety in the manga. Am I mistaken?

They showed the entire fight in the 2011 version.

Also, the way they handled some moments of the Hunter Exam seemed pretty unnecessary, right? Like Gon and Killua doing a race at the end of the first exam, in which they were arguing at the end who won... They just attempted to make the whole thing more light hearted than it was intended to be, with Killua looking way more docile both in his behavior and design in the 2011 version. Killua's design mainly seemed to have improved by the Chimera Ants, but it's still disgusting how he did look in the first arcs, plus the add of infantile scnenes like the aforementioned one really annoyed me.

If anything, I found their approach to Killua made the change in tone with his character once he started to show his true assassin tendencies made the twist of this juxtaposition in appearance and ability far better. One of the main appeals of the series is being a subversion of the typical Shonen structure and having an overly light hearted appearance really sells in the subversion aspect. Very much in the same manner as One Piece's goofy art style helps make it's more surprising scenes such as the genocide of Ohara or Marineford in general even better.

I always preferred the 1999's take on the whole Hunter thing, in which the whole system seems more like a rustic/rural thing compared to the modern and livened up tone given in the most recent version... I don't know how Togashi intended it to be, but I have always liked more how there was an overall obscure atmosphere inlaid in the 1999 version, whereas everything seems in general considerably more "happy", "colored", light hearted in the new one, which doesn't give the series the same good old vibe I used to feel when watching the old anime... Everything seems structured better, as far as the first episode and the whole soundtrack playment as soon as Gon says something interesting.

I dunno whether I am allowing nostalgia to kinda influence my feelings since I have watched the 1999 version first, but I am sure I am not alone here as I see many ppl complaining the same points. What do you think?

Well, as I've already mentioned, the 1999 version indeed has more ambiguity to it's tone. If we're talking about comparison to Togashi's use of tone, the 2011 version does a far better job as an adaption, seeing as how his art tends to have a childish appearance for the most part in all arcs apart from Zoldyck Family, Yorknew and most of the Chimera Ant Arc, as well as often having scenes of it deforming for comedic purposes.

Overall, I'd still say I prefer the 2011 version as a whole in pretty much 90% of it's comparable categories, but I can see why some would prefer the 1999 version. It's one of the rare cases of two pieces of media's comparison being genuinely more about difference in approaching tone and personal preference in direction than one being definitively better than the other.

 

[Fantastische Hure]

lemme take u back to way-back when...

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[Captain Cadaver]

lemme take u back to way-back when...

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[youtube]PgueRxgnCt4[/youtube]

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[youtube]gHUvO-CR1DM[/youtube]

Two of the best tracks from the Pokemon anime indeed.

 

[Fantastische Hure]

lemme take u back to way-back when...

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[youtube]PgueRxgnCt4[/youtube]

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[youtube]gHUvO-CR1DM[/youtube]

Two of the best tracks from the Pokemon anime indeed.

You know that CD has a-lot of the tracks of the PokéMon anime over the years. One solely for music from the video-games. And then another CD with all original Anime compositions.

That YouTube channel has all tracks from both CDs on there, even as play-lists.

They even have rare stuff that was only like used once in the anime. Like this short sample of "Tears after the Cloudy Weather" which only I believe only played once in the episode when Ash battled Brock for the second time. Sadly only what was in that episode is that and there's no extended version, but that's the way it is.

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[GreatSaiyaman123]

Have you watched the Star Wars movie series? If so, how would you rank the movies?

 

[Gin]

What do you think about this soundtrack?

By far my most favorite DBZ ost ever and i pretty much prefer the English Ost over the Japanese but this one song is better imo.

[youtube]Lm77VCkf_do[/youtube]

 

[ahill1]

Fair enough, although regarding the Hisoka vs Kastro fight, do they also have it in the 2011 anime? As far as I remember (there's a while I have watched it) they also cut it out, and the fight was just displayed in its entirety in the manga. Am I mistaken?

They showed the entire fight in the 2011 version.

Also, the way they handled some moments of the Hunter Exam seemed pretty unnecessary, right? Like Gon and Killua doing a race at the end of the first exam, in which they were arguing at the end who won... They just attempted to make the whole thing more light hearted than it was intended to be, with Killua looking way more docile both in his behavior and design in the 2011 version. Killua's design mainly seemed to have improved by the Chimera Ants, but it's still disgusting how he did look in the first arcs, plus the add of infantile scnenes like the aforementioned one really annoyed me.

If anything, I found their approach to Killua made the change in tone with his character once he started to show his true assassin tendencies made the twist of this juxtaposition in appearance and ability far better. One of the main appeals of the series is being a subversion of the typical Shonen structure and having an overly light hearted appearance really sells in the subversion aspect. Very much in the same manner as One Piece's goofy art style helps make it's more surprising scenes such as the genocide of Ohara or Marineford in general even better.

I always preferred the 1999's take on the whole Hunter thing, in which the whole system seems more like a rustic/rural thing compared to the modern and livened up tone given in the most recent version... I don't know how Togashi intended it to be, but I have always liked more how there was an overall obscure atmosphere inlaid in the 1999 version, whereas everything seems in general considerably more "happy", "colored", light hearted in the new one, which doesn't give the series the same good old vibe I used to feel when watching the old anime... Everything seems structured better, as far as the first episode and the whole soundtrack playment as soon as Gon says something interesting.

I dunno whether I am allowing nostalgia to kinda influence my feelings since I have watched the 1999 version first, but I am sure I am not alone here as I see many ppl complaining the same points. What do you think?

Well, as I've already mentioned, the 1999 version indeed has more ambiguity to it's tone. If we're talking about comparison to Togashi's use of tone, the 2011 version does a far better job as an adaption, seeing as how his art tends to have a childish appearance for the most part in all arcs apart from Zoldyck Family, Yorknew and most of the Chimera Ant Arc, as well as often having scenes of it deforming for comedic purposes.

Overall, I'd still say I prefer the 2011 version as a whole in pretty much 90% of it's comparable categories, but I can see why some would prefer the 1999 version. It's one of the rare cases of two pieces of media's comparison being genuinely more about difference in approaching tone and personal preference in direction than one being definitively better than the other.

Fair enough. I can't argue against those points since they delve into preferences of course, but even though the approach of Killua's character at the beginning could have brought more shock when his true identity was revealed, I think it's easy to argue the always mysterious tone given to him in the 1999 scenes (that is, that he was more than just a simple kid) would trigger the interest of the audience on figuring what's up with him, as well as his story, much like peopke were always eager in seeing Doflamingo's origins being expanded upon when he was introducced as kind of a mysterious character and with a rather big influence over the World... even though the shock of him being in reality an assassin and therefore trained to take out lives would come up as a shock, the build up to that instance was made considerably better in the older version of the anime... and when reading the manga, such approach to Killua's character since the beginning was arguably what Togashi intended, as far back as his design matching much more his 1999 version, as well as lack of infantile and light hearted scenes like the ones added in the 2011 anime, although granted that Killua also showed somewhat of "childish" behaviour when, for example, wishing to exploit the airoplane they were on... which can't be helped since he is in essence a child, even though trained to kill...

...which also goes back to the conflict he had with his brother in the end of the arc, in which things like Killua's true nature as an assassin vs the will of making friends and having fun around the world inherent to a child are brought into play and handled considerably better in the 1999 version I feel, even moreso with the Illumi's soundtrack played at the background, which gives (at least to me) a better feeling of what the characters were through at that moment... and the inlaid obscure/'kinda sad' atmosphere would always come into play in moment likes this, which is why I don't nearly feel the same thing/the same excitement when watching the 2011 version... but yeah, it's more of a subjective outlook on the whole thing.


Speaking about Fullmetal Alchemist, which anime do you think was handled better, the old one or the new one, named "Brotherhood" if I am not mistaken

 

[Captain Cadaver]

Have you watched the Star Wars movie series? If so, how would you rank the movies?

It's amongst my favourite franchises, though moreso for the Expanded Universe stuff since the only films I can consider to be that good are the original trilogy.

#1 - The Empire Strikes Back
#2 - A New Hope
#3 - Return of the Jedi
#4 - Solo
#5 - Revenge of the Sith
#6 - Rogue One
#7 - The Phantom Menace
#8 - The Clone Wars
#9 - The Force Awakens
#10 - Attack of the Clones
#11 - The Last Jedi

What do you think about this soundtrack?

By far my most favorite DBZ ost ever and i pretty much prefer the English Ost over the Japanese but this one song is better imo.

[youtube]Lm77VCkf_do[/youtube]

One of the best tracks in the series. Wouldn't class it as the absolute best track, since Kikuchi did produce a few masterpieces, but it's up there. Glad that FighterZ is going to have it as DLC.

Speaking about Fullmetal Alchemist, which anime do you think was handled better, the old one or the new one, named "Brotherhood" if I am not mistaken

FMA:B >>>> FMA 2003. Once the old anime stopped following the manga plot, it introduced a lot more plot holes and misused characters abhorrently, such as Al going from the deuteragonist and a rational, smart individual to being written as an annoying brat and having the focus shafted from his brotherhood with Ed to Ed's friendship with Mustang. Proof that Studio Bones can't do a good story unless they have the material fully provided for them.

 

[Keedounan]

What about Roy Mustang and Father from FMA ?

 

[Captain Cadaver]

What about Roy Mustang and Father from FMA ?

Mustang succeeds in grabbing the audience's attention from his introduction and initial actions due to his proactivity in wanting to move up the ranks and has enough facets to his personality depending on the situation to seem real, going from a cool badass in scenes such as taking down the criminals on the train to being presented as a goof during the scene where he tries to use Flame Alchemy on Scar in the rain. Once Hughes dies, Mustang's character starts to really develop into a well rounded one. We start to see his true care for his subordinates such as his plan to evacuate Maria, as well as his flashback with Hughes during the Ishvalan War showing the true motives as to why he truly desires to gain more power. Moreover, we start to see Mustang's desire for revenge bring his character down a darker route, going to it's peak during his confrontation with Envy in which we both see the rage that's been building up to this moment fully displayed and his ultimate decision to spare Envy from torture fully encapsulating the main theme of what makes one human. Despite this, the moments up to this point in between his revenge plot help present him as having more than just a one track mind, with moments such as his conversations with Grumman or the scene of him flirting with Olivier presenting him as a very realistic and believable character.

8/10

Father is a character with some interesting aspects such as his creation and backstory making him a somewhat sympathetic villain. He started off as a very low level form of life and through his intelligence and desire to become better managed to come close to his desire to become a god of sorts. However, if not for this he would be quite a typical supervillain, hiding behind his minions until the finale and constantly ranting about his superiority. His execution made him a decent, interesting villain and what could be seen as Cell done right, but I wouldn't say he had enough going on with his personality or development to be classed as a top tier villain.

6/10

 

[GreatSaiyaman123]

It's amongst my favourite franchises, though moreso for the Expanded Universe stuff since the only films I can consider to be that good are the original trilogy.

#1 - The Empire Strikes Back
#2 - A New Hope
#3 - Return of the Jedi
#4 - Rogue One
#5 - The Phantom Menace
#6 - Revenge of the Sith
#7 - The Last Jedi
#8 - The Force Awakens
#9 - The Clone Wars
#10 - Attack of the Clones

RotS would be in between TPM and RO if including Expanded material, since the TCW TV series makes Anakin's turn slightly more believable.

I'm surprised you have ranked Episode I so high. Although i've only watched episodes IV and V most people says The Phantom Menace is the movies that sucks the most from the franchise.

 

[Gin]

Attack of the Clones is far worse imo

Top 10 South Park characters?

 

[GreatSaiyaman123]

Do you think Bobba Fett was a pointless character?