Things I have watched lately
Apr. 24th, 2009 05:33 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kutsuwamushiAndo Natsu (DramaWiki)
Ando Natsu dreams of becoming a patissiere, but fate leads her to a traditional Japanese confectionery, where she becomes the owner's apprentice.
It's light, feel-good, and ultimately pointless fluff, shot with a lot of soft focus on a set that looks like it was built in a school gymnasium. There are touching backstories and speeches about making things from the heart and so on.
Nothing is particularly new or interesting about it except the Japanese confectionery angle. My guess is that the manga it's based on was better, in order for it to become popular enough to spawn a live-action version.
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
This is a remake, not a sequel, of the Fullmetal Alchemist anime.
The series has only just begun, but I'm already diappointed. The writers have made the classic adaptation mistake: they forgot that how a story is told is as important as what the story is. You can't throw a bunch of plot points at your readers and expect them to have the same impact as if they were put in a well-developed story.
Specifically, in the original anime, the costs of alchemy, especially when combined with things like ambition and hubris, were revealed over time. We knew that alchemy could be sinister almost at once, but the true scope of it only became clear as the series progressed. In this version, it feels like most of it is crammed into the first episodes.
I hope that this will change later. It could be that the writers are trying to communicate the basics of the story before moving on to manga events that weren't covered in the first anime. I'll keep watching until I find out.
Ando Natsu dreams of becoming a patissiere, but fate leads her to a traditional Japanese confectionery, where she becomes the owner's apprentice.
It's light, feel-good, and ultimately pointless fluff, shot with a lot of soft focus on a set that looks like it was built in a school gymnasium. There are touching backstories and speeches about making things from the heart and so on.
Nothing is particularly new or interesting about it except the Japanese confectionery angle. My guess is that the manga it's based on was better, in order for it to become popular enough to spawn a live-action version.
Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
This is a remake, not a sequel, of the Fullmetal Alchemist anime.
The series has only just begun, but I'm already diappointed. The writers have made the classic adaptation mistake: they forgot that how a story is told is as important as what the story is. You can't throw a bunch of plot points at your readers and expect them to have the same impact as if they were put in a well-developed story.
Specifically, in the original anime, the costs of alchemy, especially when combined with things like ambition and hubris, were revealed over time. We knew that alchemy could be sinister almost at once, but the true scope of it only became clear as the series progressed. In this version, it feels like most of it is crammed into the first episodes.
I hope that this will change later. It could be that the writers are trying to communicate the basics of the story before moving on to manga events that weren't covered in the first anime. I'll keep watching until I find out.
