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[JoshuaFH]

So, apparently I'm not going back to watching Giant Robo. Instead, I'm watching Macross. The original 80's Macross.

I'm up to episode 15 or something, and it's turning out to be very very good.

[Mindmaker]

Anybody seen the Fate/stay night anime, OVA or movie?
It does look interesting...

[Haspen]

Anybody seen the Fate/stay night anime, OVA or movie?
It does look interesting...

Saw few episodes of the anime. It's...

Well. Imagine some kind of jRPG made into anime with some strange plot about 'playing' and fighting each other for some golden Holy Grail.

Damn, it was long ago since I watched, my memory got borked :v

[Patchouli]

Anybody seen the Fate/stay night anime, OVA or movie?
It does look interesting...

If it's anything like the VN...

It's not that great.

[Mindmaker]

Well it got my attention, since I haven't seen any interesting anime with sorcerers and mages yet.
Probably going to start with the OVA, since it's said to be a recap of the anime.

[tehc]

I played the VN ages ago and then watched the anime by Deen, and while the anime was still better than most, it was nowhere near the quality of the VN. The movie is quite good though, but you'd need to watch the anime first to understand what was going on.

The prequel, Fate/Zero, is coming in fall, animated by ufotable (the ones behind Kara no Kyoukai). It's based off the light novel written by Urobuchi Gen (he wrote Saya no Uta and Madoka). It's going to be fantastic.

[Mindmaker]

Would the OVA be enough? Or does it cut to many corners, when recapping the original anime?

[Sean Mirrsen]

Just recently finished watching Irresponsible Captain Tylor...  I still can't stop laughing at some of the things he's done - and after an ending like that, I'm already unsure if those things weren't some kind of Obfuscating Stupidity ploys. A very enjoyable series.

[tehc]

Would the OVA be enough? Or does it cut to many corners, when recapping the original anime?

I've not got the slightest clue, since I haven't watched the OVA. But from checking, the Fate/Stay Night OVA recap is 2 hours long, which would mean it has a hell of a lot of corners cut from the Fate/Stay Night anime which is over 9 hours long, which already had some corners cut from the VN which can be much longer. I wouldn't recommend it, either watch the 24 episode anime and then the movie, or just play the VN.

[ToonyMan]

Game 6 of Higurashi (Tsumihoroboshi) has started to get really good now.  I'm not sure if I'll do the same thing I did when I finished game 5 of Higurashi, but we'll see.

Yeah I would have to say VNs (at least for the WTC series) are a lot more thought-provoking and interesting then their animated adaptions.  As Leafsnail said, the anime is "a psychological series without the psychological".  The animes are cool to see after reading the series just to see somebody's rendition of it though.  I don't know about the manga adaptions of Higurashi, but they're probably good like the Umineko ones.

The manga adaptions are a good chose if you want a lot more detail, but also a visual way to see everything.  At least, from what I've read of Game 1 of Umineko the manga adaptions do the VNs a lot more justice.

[Leafsnail]

The manga adaptions are a good chose if you want a lot more detail, but also a visual way to see everything.  At least, from what I've read of Game 1 of Umineko the manga adaptions do the VNs a lot more justice.

But there's no music.  Someone needs to introduce mangas with Youtube links.

[ToonyMan]

The manga adaptions are a good chose if you want a lot more detail, but also a visual way to see everything.  At least, from what I've read of Game 1 of Umineko the manga adaptions do the VNs a lot more justice.

But there's no music.  Someone needs to introduce mangas with Youtube links.

They might as well just drop us into the world and story itself.

[Interus]

Game 6 of Higurashi (Tsumihoroboshi) has started to get really good now.  I'm not sure if I'll do the same thing I did when I finished game 5 of Higurashi, but we'll see.

Yeah I would have to say VNs (at least for the WTC series) are a lot more thought-provoking and interesting then their animated adaptions.  As Leafsnail said, the anime is "a psychological series without the psychological".  The animes are cool to see after reading the series just to see somebody's rendition of it though.  I don't know about the manga adaptions of Higurashi, but they're probably good like the Umineko ones.

The manga adaptions are a good chose if you want a lot more detail, but also a visual way to see everything.  At least, from what I've read of Game 1 of Umineko the manga adaptions do the VNs a lot more justice.

I never really saw the VN's for Higurashi, but I think I read all the mangas(there's just sooo many, I can't be sure) and most of them were pretty good.  A couple weren't great, but that could have been because I read them so incredibly out of order.  And a couple were just awesome, particularly the first one I read, which I think was actually something like the 6th or 7th.  But I couldn't get into Umineko at all for some reason.  I've watched the first storyline of the Higurashi anime, and I wasn't really impressed by it. 

I kinda stumbled across one of the segments randomly, that's why I read them out of order.

[Leafsnail]

I never really saw the VN's for Higurashi, but I think I read all the mangas(there's just sooo many, I can't be sure) and most of them were pretty good.  A couple weren't great, but that could have been because I read them so incredibly out of order.  And a couple were just awesome, particularly the first one I read, which I think was actually something like the 6th or 7th.

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So uh... you knew who the culprit was and almost everything else when you read the earlier arcs (since arc 7 has the big reveal)??  That's gonna significantly damage any kind of horror/ intrigue from them.

[Interus]

I never really saw the VN's for Higurashi, but I think I read all the mangas(there's just sooo many, I can't be sure) and most of them were pretty good.  A couple weren't great, but that could have been because I read them so incredibly out of order.  And a couple were just awesome, particularly the first one I read, which I think was actually something like the 6th or 7th.

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

So uh... you knew who the culprit was and almost everything else when you read the earlier arcs (since arc 7 has the big reveal)??  That's gonna significantly damage any kind of horror/ intrigue from them.

Maybe?   Spoiler about what I do and don't know, but still in vague terms.

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I probably didn't read the big reveal one if that's the case, because I still only have clues as to what happened.  Some knowledge about the girl's brother that made the question arcs frustrating, and this idea that the spirit is responsible.  One thing is that I didn't know about the twin sister until I read the relevant question arc, and it was like the 4th one I read.  I'm guessing the 7th arc is like, THE one I'm missing.  Is that where the school blows up?  There's a couple arcs that take place in the future that are pretty cool, and they both mention the town being abandoned after an explosion at the school, but I never read that one.