Category: Reviews
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Fullmetal Alchemist: Top 10 Reasons the Manga Is Better
The 2003 anime Fullmetal Alchemist is a pretty good show, and Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood is a great show, but neither of them could beat the manga they’re both based on. Welcome to my list of reasons the manga is better. For this list I will focus mainly on why the manga is better than the…
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Why “Fullmetal Alchemist 2003” is NOT Better Than the Manga
As far as I am aware, there have been three adaptations of the manga Fullmetal Alchemist by Hiromu Arakawa: an anime in 2003 that had little in common with the manga, another anime in 2009 that adapted it quite faithfully, and a live-action movie in 2017 that we shall not speak of. In spite of…
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My Little Pony: The Movie – Review
I recently watched My Little Pony: The Movie. My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic is my favourite episodic cartoon, surpassed only by flowing epics like Avatar: The Last Airbender and Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood. The characters are deep and complex, the setting is interesting, and the morals are—with the exception of some bad episodes—great. It’s no…
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Why the Live-Action “Fullmetal Alchemist” Movie Is an Abomination
In my last article I reviewed a movie based on a manga I love. The movie was an abomination. I didn’t go into the details there because it would have taken too long, but here I will examine the first few minutes of the film. Why only the first few minutes? Because the rest of…
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“Fullmetal Alchemist” (2017) Movie Review
Fullmetal Alchemist (2017) is a live-action movie based on a manga/anime epic. I very much doubt I need elaborate, as the simple fact of its existence almost guarantees it to be awful. That said, I will elaborate. The manga Fullmetal Alchemist by Hiromu Arakawa is a masterpiece, as is the 2009 anime based on it…
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“Fullmetal Alchemist 2003” Anime Review
I guess it’s time for me to talk about Fullmetal Alchemist 2003. This should be interesting. In my last article I showered a fantastic manga with praise. That manga is Fullmetal Alchemist by Hiromu Arakawa, and in 2009 it was adapted into a sixty-four-episode anime called Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood, considered by many to be the…
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“Fullmetal Alchemist” Review
For the longest time I was never able to really get into graphic novels of any kind. Even as everyone I knew raved about the latest Batman issue, I just couldn’t force myself to be interested in looking at panel after panel, bubble after bubble. Obviously I’ve always loved reading traditional novels with sentences and…
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“Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole” Movie Review
What can I even say about Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole? It was based on some great books, but sadly Zack Snyder directed it. All Snyder’s films are bad—only one even approaches being watchable—and this children’s film continues the trend. In my last review I praised Kathryn Lasky’s Guardians of Ga’Hoole series,…
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“Guardians of Ga’Hoole” Book Series Review
I was really surprised by these books. You see, I made the mistake of watching a film called “Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga’Hoole.” The film was awful, and I made the mistake of assuming that the book series the film was based on would be just as bad. Later that year, another…
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“Fifty Shades of Grey” Book Review
I used to think A Game of Thrones by George R. R. Martin was the worst book I’d ever have the displeasure of reading. That was before I was introduced to Fifty Shades of Grey by Snowqueens Icedragon (yes, that’s really her pseudonym). This fan-fiction based on Stephanie Meyer’s laughable The Twilight Saga makes Meyer…