AWKWARD ZOMBIE

Can someone tell me what is going on in Durarara? Is it something that I need to watch from the first episode?

yeah probably

it has a lot of characters and a lot of shit gets thrown your way pretty quickly so it can be confusing

the anime makes mikado out to be the main character too

Also, a lot of episodes show one character's perspective with lots of background stuff going on that's explained in the next episode.

So don't be confused when it flips back in time from one episode to the next and a few things seem like deja vu.

That author... A manga about ski-jumping with mature content like that.... He needs some help, man.

Also, I bought Blue Exorcist volumes 4, 5, and 6 the other day. I finished volume 4 last night, and it is very different from the anime since the anime decided to go for a 26 ep and done series.

That is EXCELLENT. But still, such mature content in a sports manga is ridiculous.

so the FMA 09 anime is kind of ehhh. they consolidate so much stuff that you lose a lot. though i don't like the 03 anime much, either.

back to the manga it is.

Well for one, they made Brotherhood begin in such a way to cater to the fans who already watched the first anime. Everything's super fast in the beginning for about the first 13 episodes and then it slows down to flesh out the manga's story.

The manga has weird-booty translations sometimes. Like, Xerxes is Czellksess or something in the Viz translation, and the Fuhrer is the president. I like the Brotherhood dub because they translated it a lot better than the manga.

AGREED OH MY GOD.

You do not no how much mental pain I went through when reading those volumes

Though it isn't as bad as early episodes of the 2003 series calling Riza "Liza", as in short for Elizabeth.

And they called Liore "Riole" once, seriously

i use scanlations

i only saw part of the 03 anime and didnt care much for it. but both of them kinda messed up my absolute favorite arc, which is the original greed + chimera arc. also the part with izumi when ed and al see her again.

i just feel like animes dont have the same depth the manga has. of course, the mange is well over 4000 pages, so there's... a lot more to it

Clyve, what's wrong? Are you getting too invested in a manga and now you're having an emotional breakdown?

Clyve, holy shit, what're you reading? Are you okay?

It is too late Blitz, she has entered the Anime Zone. She is too far gone and will reach Critical Weeaboo in less than 2 hours.

At least it's not as bad as when I started watching Gurren Lagann

I blew up the forum with that, I did

I believe that several members are still suffering from weeaboo radiation sickness from that, Sandwich. They need a steady diet of Batman media to remove it.