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-Full Metal Alchemist or Samurai Champloo?which one to collect?

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Minitokyo » Forum » Anime & Manga Fora » General Anime & Manga Talk  -Full Metal Alchemist or Samurai Champloo?which one to collect?

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there are two greatly anticipated anime DVDs coming out this year: Full Metal Alchemist (Feb. 8) and Samurai Champloo (Jan. 11). however, IF YOU CAN ONLY CHOOSE ONE, which would you start collecting? lets analyze a little before you start buying:

Full Metal Alchemist
PROS:
-most popular anime on
Cartoon Network
-great story & characters
-wonderful artwork

CONS:
-starter set costs more ($50)
-50+ episodes to collect
(approx. 13 DVDs/each $30)
-music not as great

Samurai Champloo:
PROS:
-made by Watanabe (Creator of Cowboy Bebop)
-fantastic music
-starter set costs less ($30)
-20+ episodes to collect (approx 8 DVDs/each $30)
-lots of samurai action

CONS:
-not as popular or mainstream as FMA
-artwork not as good

Full Metal Alchemist, I'd say. But they both will be pretty expensive to collect considering that it seems there will only be two episodes per disc (or at least that's truth with the first DVD.) That's kind of a rip off, but I really want to see Full Metal Alchemist.

I'll evenutally get to collecting Samurai Champloo, but FMA is top priority right now.

totally fma! that show is the coolest! i like heard that hiphop music or something is used in samurai champloo. i dont even like hiphop! fma has a beautiful story with colorful animation. the only thing im worried about is that once i start collecting the DVDs, its gonna turn out to be like 400 bucks! i better break open my piggy bank ^_^

Totally Samurai Champloo. That show is so great. ^^
And Kandle, I have to disagree with you. I enjoy the artwork much more than the art in FMA.

i agree with pAdamsk on the part about the artwork. Samurai Champloo is the DVD im going to start collecting on january 11th. ive been waiting for another masterpiece by watanabe (maker of cowboy bebop) and this is going to be the next big thing. im betting though, that alot of people are going to say FMA. but hey, bebop wasnt as popular as first either. in fact, FMA kinda (no offense to FMA fans) reminds me of Pokemon. you know, people adventuring to other places. helping towns on the way; dull jokes here and there; and less and less action as the show progresses. also, in my opinion, its going way too far with 50+ episodes in the series. id stick with Samurai Champloo's 20+ DVDs (less to buy).

Full Metal Alchemist in my own opinion. Samurai Champloo is ok, but it's not really on my top anime list.

I'll go for Full Metal Alchemest hands down!!

i haven't seen enough of fma to judge, so i'll just go with samurai champloo since i've seen more of that one. haha. ^^; but, even if fma is more popular, i would dread to see the dubbed version of samurai champloo. =___=;; no offense to dub lovers. i don't take as much interest into fma because like said, it has a lot of episodes and samurai champloo(for the most part) gets more to the point and doesn't really drag along with the storyline. even if some of the episodes weren't needed in the anime, i still enjoyed it because they didn't do it every so often. ^^; plus i love the animation in samurai champloo, it doesn't at all seem rushed. ^^ to me at least.

samurai champloo, suckas! once i hear about watanabe making a new show, ill come runnin! this show reminds me of cowboy bebop, one of my favorite animes. come on peeps, it has hip hop music and samurai! how can you go wrong! i KNOW that alot of chumps out there are gonna pick the cutsey wutsey alchemist crap. but hey, cowboy bebop started at the bottom of the bottle too. it mixed jazz and futuristic cowboys and nowbody liked it at first. i expect the same for samurai champloo. thats why im buying the DVD, no doubt.

FMA i think sicne i've seen it more.. looks awsome but i do'nt know..... :-P about samuria shampoo

full metal alchemist because its a great show!

definatly full metal alchemist !

I love both animes! But I'd go with Samurai Champloo. Shinichiro Watanabe is a friggin genious! And I have to differ with you, I like the artwork of Samurai Champloo more and the characters are just awesome (like Bebop).

But FMA has a tremendous plot, the story is very, very interesting. But still, if I had to collect one I'd go with Samurai Champloo in a heartbeat.

=) samurai champloo is they way to go and i would have to agree with the other people certainly FMA has a plot but its been dragged out for 50+ episodes T_T and some episodes is just plain boring (ducks and dodges flying objects) while on the other hand samurai champloo has a great story with great humour with awsome artwork =) so if i was to get my money's worth i'll go with samurai champloo

Full Metal Alchemist would be my pick.

I would have to say Fullmetal Alchemist then again iv never seen Samurai Champloo. But even if I did id most likely chose FMA anyways. Why? Cause it owns thats why. XD

is not being popular in the main streem really a con? is being the most popular on ctn, really a pro? i mean..whats that have to do with how much you actually like the show?....wait a second...further more..why are you polling us? its not a popularity contest...just chose the one you like...or, if your like me, and like both of them, but are poor as hell, then chose champloo....

uh, to actually answer the question at hand, i liked both shows alot, but have only seen the first few fma epps, so i would have to choose champloo, at least untill i have seen a little more fma

Quote by claudiusi agree with pAdamsk on the part about the artwork.

Thank you. And I noticed a couple other people noting that Champloo's artwork was better, in their opinion. (Because on matters of art style, it's all about personal opinion)

Of course, in the end it's your own decision, whichever you choose. I just don't see either of the CONS listed for Champloo actually applying, unless how mainstream an anime is really effects your choice. ^_-

FMA most likely i didn't like SC enough to buy it anyway

Samurai Champloo. Why? Because FMA is crap. If you've seen the whole series you would agree it had a lot of potential but didn't bring it out. For one thing, the end could and should of been lessed rushed, and more complete.

Samurai Champloo hasn't all been released yet, but just watching it thus far, it has been exiting every episode. That anime is awesome and super funkie. Even makes me like the music. Quality stuff.

Anyhow, If it's about the money, if you're going to buy something just make sure you have enough to buy as it's released. You would hate to have run out of money before buying the last DVD :P

after reading all the opinions (so far) i am leaning a little towards Samurai Champloo. does anybody else want to have a say in this?

Definitely FMA!!!
Samurai Champloo was SO badly animated, and the music was horrendous....

I've never seen Samurai Champloo so I can't really say that I'd buy it. As for Fullmetal Alchemist, I'd buy the entire series...but I'd probably only watch the first half of the series to watch Hughes in slow motion XD

FMA! Champloo's not done yet!

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