In terms of vibes, FMA 2003 > FMA Brotherhood. Cooler aesthetic, music, style, and animation!

Just finished chiyafuru. s*** was pretty good

Watched the promised Neverland. Pretty cool. Don't enjoy sister krones design and it's taking me out of it.

Went online and the amount of people being intellectually dishonest about it are disappointing.

Orange ending is the weirdest thing to me

I read Au Haru Ride and I liked the art and the story was cute but idk what the girl wanted, she kept playing with the emo dude like just decide b****

Steins Gate 0 is very bad

I love FMA 2003's vibe, the story really is the strongest part for me so I prefer Brotherhood but if they had the fully canon story in 2003 I wouldn't mind

Elaborate? It's been 2 hours

I just fast forwarded all the boring parts and watched the important matches. s*** was pretty good.

nah I’m on episode 16 now. gonna finish the rest of s1 tom.

Wow this special episode was awful. I don't care if they'll do another season, I'm really pissed.

First off the editing and script for this were very on the nose and obnoxious. I was like "huh??" the entire episode as they kept dumping exposition and information at me and very quickly became numb to everything going on.

It's cool that they confirmed that their friends are now back to life? Because it wasn't clear from the previous episode, I thought they were still dead but their spirits were freed or whatever.

You'd think by how the last episode played out, that this would be the episode that Ai fights the big bad, instead it was just Neiru bullshit and the conclusion is the same, that Ai will be fighting the big bad but this time for Neiru.

They spiraled it into a dumb sci fi plot and even made it more like the Evangelion ending (the series ending) because apparently that's how you can end a story without any resolution.

There's still no closure for Rika and Momoe which I knew they couldn't fix. Also bringing the girls back to life means that it's not about dealing with grief and survivors guilt because look they're back to life! So what did they learn, what is the character arc? It screams unfinished.

I think the entire Neiru plot is very stupid. Ironically, they should let this anime die.

I'm also pissed at how they told Koito's story. Ok she had an unexplained mental illness. The way they told it made it seem like it's her fault for committing suicide or whatever.

Which boring parts?

that’s the problem w this show.. THERE ARE NO BORING PARTS

@lilkuya we shouldn’t have pushed this one back so far

You baited me. I think it's great too

Need new Baki season already

Odd Taxi ep was crazy great show

Man something about hearing Naruto Openings/endings that gets me emotional af that s*** was my childhood

Lmao

Steins gate 0 is f***ing awful

what the hell was that wonder egg episode

i want my 20 minutes back

will probably start it by the weekend no more delays

Dang don’t scare me with the new WEP episode fellas…. I been waiting for it for a while

Agree to disagree, I found Okabe to be much more bearable in 0.

why tho, yall gotta post some explanation of what you dont like it looks like you're all constantly baiting when you just post "show bad"

My impression of Steins;Gate 0 is that it tried to restore the feeling of Steins;Gate, it's structured exactly like S;G but executed worse.

S;G has a slow paced first half transitioning into a fast paced, dramatic second half. The reason we needed this is for character building and world building, and having the tone shift from lighthearted and funny to dramatic and dark is effective. At this point we're already familiar with the characters and have a connection to them, and it's shocking to see them in such a dramatic situation, so we're now very invested into the plot.

S;G0 also has a slow paced first half, but this time it's gloomy and depressing instead of lighthearted, we already know most of the characters and the new characters aren't as exciting and interesting. It might've been because I watched it weekly, but usually in these episodes there isn't much plot going on, except for a cliffhanger in the last 3 minutes. So it's gloomy instead of funny, and there's also very little going on narratively and the characters who aren't Okabe or Maho had nothing to do.

When S;G0 got to its dramatic peak, it was more interesting but also felt more contrived than S;G. There's a fine line you can walk on with a time travel narrative. Obviously time travel isn't real and doesn't make sense but as long as it doesn't break the story's rules it's ok. S;G0 didn't break the story's rules but the final episodes felt very silly.

First of all, the cat girl and the transgender girl suddenly becoming powerful warriors when he goes into the war future was silly. The Kurisu lookalike that isn't Kurisu's daughter but just happens to look like her makes no sense other than to torture Okabe and confuse us. The blonde scientist villain reveal was predictable. Okabe's plan to repeat his actions 1000 times or something like that felt over the top. So he was discouraged from doing this kind of thing before but now it's ok?

I also see Steins;Gate's ending as a more complete, deserved ending. It didn't "need" Steins;Gate 0 and thematically it's just a detour. He ended up reaching the same conclusion in both stories, but this time he reached it slower.

What do I like about S;G0? I like the world and characters, but that was already created in S;G. Maho is a good new character. The AI plot was cute, I wish it had a better tie into the narrative but it was interesting, I liked it.

Edit: I forgot to say that the second half of S;G0 isn't as effective because you now expect it to get dramatic and dark. It also doesn't develop Okabe's character at all because you've seen him become serious and heroic before so it's not surprising when he does.

honestly the worst part of SG;0 is just how inconsequential it feels. Like gone is the mystery and allure of the first half that SG built up that made the stakes and the characters so effective. Instead SG;0 operates on the assumption we already know everything so it uses that as a way to just use lazy fan service and exposition to set up its alternate story. There wasn't a single thing I got out of SG;0 honestly. It was nice to be back in the world I guess, but it just felt like someone on the outside looking in the whole time.