Glass half full or half empty?

[taotrooper]

1. So new FMA anime on the works

On one hand, I'm not bitter enough to say it's going to suck enormously regardless of how they do it. On the other, I've been brokenhearted enough by anime of my favorite things (incidentally, it wasn't Hagaren itself but XXXHOLiC what kicked me in the nuts the most) not to going to be jumping for joy if/when they say it's based on manga. It could bring good things and funny scenes, perhaps, but BONES does have a history of putting cactus juice in their screenwriters' drinking water. So, I can't be sure they're not going to screw it up, but I'm not grinch enough to be sure so soon it will be screwed up. Benefit of the doubt and all.

(And I'll be sort of pissed if they do an almost flawless adaptation of the manga but it doesn't become as liked as the first series (or more). Or people don't watch it because they've already seen one FMA anime, or try to boycott it because it's not Edward And Alphonse's Most Excellent Gypsy Adventures In Nazi Germany. Urgh.)

2. So new Slayers anime gets C&D'd

I guess this means no relying on LJ to know when clandestine subs will come out, right? GodDAMMIT, I hate it enough when we foreign fans are screwed up by American licenses. But it's even more annoying if it's not even licensed yet to begin with! The levels of paranoia are just so high. I don't know about you guys, but I'll pretty much check illegal torrent sites once or twice a week in hopes to see a sub or resort to slow-as-hell Spanish fansub groups if it doesn't work. I'm not bothering with raws and text translations. I'm multitask, but not that desperate.

Comments

[haro.livejournal.com]

Oh gosh if the new FMA anime is a fantastic adaptation and people like the old series more I will be so peeved.

But it's even more annoying if it's not even licensed yet to begin with!

Well if it's like most of the other not-licensed-yet C&D situations, the Japanese company asked them to send it out for them because they're wanting to crack down on it over there as well. The Japanese anime industry isn't doing that well lately either. *shrug*

[etrangere.livejournal.com]

2. So new Slayers anime gets C&D'd
So that's what's going on? :( I was wondering why I couldn't find the lattest subs. That sucks mightily.

[stormbringer986.livejournal.com]

I'm looking forward to the new FMA series, but I really hope it turns out as good as I'd like it to be. If the studio gets halfway through and then drops it in favor of another project, I'll be so pissed off.
As for those fools who cling to the original anime and swear nothing can be better, I'll just ignore them. The original anime is pretty good, but really the manga is so much better.

[hamsterfactor.livejournal.com]

I'm almost 100% positive I'm gonna boycott it because a) it's not printed on paper and b) BONES makes it.

Good enough reasons for me. It's part of my new policy: when in doubt, ignore it.

[solesakuma]

Spanish fansubs sometimes are faster than English ones (no, seriously! and then I went and watched the English one and it was more or less the same, so the translation didn't suck that much). But the grammar/spelling mistakes drive me crazy.