Fullmetal Alchemist and Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood... which one do you like?

"Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return. To obtain, something of equal value must be lost. That is alchemy's first law of equivalent exchange. In those days, we really believe that to be the world's one and only truth." - Alphonse Elric (Fullmetal Alchemist) 

Fullmetal Alchemist vs Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood, which one is better? What is Fullmetal Alchemist and Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood? Both of them are based on the same story but  end differently, they have same main characters but some characters are different in each anime. They are both about two boys, who lost their mother and did everything they can with learning alchemy to bring her back. One night they decided to try Alchemy's worst taboo... the Equivalent Exchange. Edward lost his right arm bringing his mom back, while Alphonse the youngest brother lost his whole body. Scared out of his mind and bleeding horribly out of his right arm, Edward Elric grabbed an amour near by than wrote an alchemy symbol on to the armor with his own blood, bringing his brother's soul back... sacrificing his left leg. They set out traveling looking for a way to bring their bodies back to normal, looking a thing called the Philosopher Stone. They meet weird people called Homunculus, known as the deadly seven sins and they are out for the philosopher stone too. The only way they could travel was for Edward to be the dog of the military, they called him Fullmetal. Will they be able to get their bodies back? Will Ed be forever the dog of the military? Who will get the philosopher stone first, Ed and Al or the homunculus? Find out in either anime, Fullmetal Alchemist and Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood!

(This is Fullmetal Alchemist)

(This is Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood) 

(The older brother, Edward Elric)

(Younger brother, Alphonse Elric his body trapped in armor)

(Younger brother before he lost his body)

(Childhood friend of Al and Ed, Winry Rockbell)

(Lt. Riza Hawkeye, works with Roy)

(Colonel Roy Mustang, this is Edwards boss)

(The symbol of the homunculus, 7 deadly sins)

To me Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood is better because Roy and Riza have more roles in the Anime, those two are my favorite characters. In Brotherhood they add more roles and is more based on the manga, the regular anime is somewhat based on the manga but its not as close as Brotherhood. That is why I love Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood more, also it has more new characters than the original. I would suggest watching both, but for me I rather watch Brotherhood. There are only a few parts in the original I like. I don't want to be a huge spoiler, so I am being as detailed as I can. I suggest watching the original then brotherhood next. Hope you enjoy both animes they are really good! 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fullmetal_Alchemist

http://fma.wikia.com/wiki/Fullmetal_Alchemist:_Brotherhood

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Love Mysteries? Love Crimes? Love Detectives? Then This Anime is For You!

Love CSI, NCIS, or Criminal Minds? Are you looking for an anime that involves killers, mysteries, and detectives? Then Detective Conan is for you! Detective Conan (also known as Case Closed that is the American version) is about a young teenager named Shinichi Kudo (or American version Jimmy Kudo) who is a famous detective, one day Kudo goes on a case and ends up getting caught by the Black Organization. Which who tried to kill Kudo but failed as they used a mysterious drug that shrank his body down to a 2nd grader. The drug was called APTX 4869, it was designed to have cells kill themselves and leaves no trace in the humans body that took this poison.

Japanese- Shinichi Kudo

American- Jimmy Kudo

Japanese and American- Conan Edogawa. 

Kudo got the name from two famous mystery writers; Conan Doyle and Edogawa Rampo. Conan now lives with his childhood friend Ran Mori (also known as Rachel Moore in English) with her dad who is a really bad detective. They call him Kogoro Mori (English name Richard Moore), ever since Conan has been staying at the Mori home, Kogoro  has been solving thousands of cases, thus giving his title The Sleeping Sleuth. He became a good detective because Conan keeps knocking him out with a tranquilizer wrist watch and using his voice-changing bow tie. Conan is staying at Kogoro's home thinking it would lead him to the Black Organization and getting his body back to normal.

Japanese- Ran Mori      Japanese- Kogoro Mori

English- Rachel Moore     English- Richard Moore

(Conan using tranquilizer watch)

(Conan using voice changing bow tie)

Conan has to keep his identity a secret or the Black Organization will find out, then go kill everyone he cares about including... his love for Ran.  Only five people know his true identity; Hiroshi Agasa (also known as Professor Agasa, English name Hershel Agasa), Yusaku Kudo (Shinichi Kudo's father, English name is Booker Kudo),  Yukiko Kudo (Shinichi Kudo's mother, English name Vivian Kudo), Heiji Hattori (English name Harley Hartwell), and Ai Haibara (The creator of the poison, English name Vi Graythorn, real identity Shiho Miyano). No one else knows, his identity even Ran. Ai is the same as Conan, she was a member of the Black Organization but escaped by taking the same pill as Shinichi, the pill she created. She now goes to school with Conan and the Detective Boys (friends of Conan and Ai who go to the same school with), she stays at Professor Agasa's house to create an antidote for Conan so he can return normal and finish off the Black Organization. Will Conan get his body back? Will he be able to tell Ran his feelings for her? Will the Black Organization be destroyed? Find out in the continuing series of Detective Conan!

                Japanese- Ai Haibara         Japanese/ American- Shiho Myano 

English- Vi Graythorn       Code name: Sherry    

Japanese- Heiji Hattori

American- Harley Hartwell

Japanese- Hiroshi Agasa

American- Hershel Agasa

                   Detective Boys                       

            Japanese- Ayumi Yoshida   Japanese- Genta Kojima    Japanese- Mitsuhiko Tsuburaya

                   American-Amy Yeager   American-George Kaminski     American- Mitch Tennison

                                           Japanese- Yusaku Kudo      Japanese- Yukiko Kudo

American- Booker Kudo   American- Vivian Kudo

They have alcohol code names
Some of the Black Orginization members:

Japanese-Jin, American- Gin (the guy with blonde hair)

Japanese- Berumotto, American- Vermouth (the blonde haired woman)

Japanese- Wokka, American- Vodka (the guy with dark glasses)

Japanese- Kyanti, American- Chianti (red hair girl)

Japanese- Korun, American- Korn (guy with sniper rifle)

(It use to be on adult swim but not anymore)

http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/Korn

http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/Chianti

http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/Vodka

http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/Gin

http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/Vermouth

http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/Shinichi_Kudo

http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/Conan_Edogawa

http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/Yukiko_Kudo

http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/Yusaku_Kudo

http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/Ran_Mouri

http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/Kogoro_Mouri

http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/Ai_Haibara

http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/Ayumi_Yoshida

http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/Mitsuhiko_Tsuburaya

http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/Genta_Kojima

http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/Hiroshi_Agasa

http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/Heiji_Hattori

http://www.detectiveconanworld.com/wiki/APTX_4869

Love MMORPG? Ever heard of VRMMORPG?

It use to be Bleach, One Piece or Naruto being the biggest hit in Anime. Just came last year was a new anime called Sword Art Online. People are probably going to wonder what is a VRMMORPG? An VRMMORPG is Virtual Reality Massively Multiplayer Online Role Playing Game. It hasn't been invented in real life but it has in the anime Sword Art Online, it was a huge thing that was invented by a man named Akihiko Kayaba. He invented the Nerve Gear, once the person puts it on his/her head they can enter a virtual reality game, they move around freely without controls just by laying on their bed, if they want out of the game they slide their right or left hand (which ever the person sets it on in settings) down they can; log out, go in to their item bag, friends list, map, and whatever else is programmed in the game. Sword Art Online was invented by Kayaba in the year 2022 along with the Nerve Gear.

(Picture Above is Akihiko Kayaba, the inventor of Sword Art Online and the Never Gear.)

(This is the Nerve Gear)

Thanks to Kayaba's greatest invention, people around Japan bought one. The Never Gear never reached outside of Japan so it never reached the United States. A beta tester who tested this game is named Kirigaya Kazuto, but in the Online World he is known as Kirito. One day him and a whole bunch of people had the Nerve Gear and the game Sword Art Online, that day Kayaba sent everyone back to level one and told everyone they cannot escape this game until they defeat all 100 levels. If they die in the game, they die in real life. It was a chance a lot of people took. The game Sword Art Online is a Medieval Era, they join guilds, battle in armor, have knights and tons of weapons. The only thing different is that they battle monsters and in the real world that never happened. Will Kirito succeed in defeating Kayaba's evil game or will he fail and its game over for him in the game world and in real life?  

(This is Kirito also known as Kirigaya Kazuto)

Here is a video of what Sword Art Online is mainly about:

http://www.swordart-onlineusa.com/

The begining of Mangas in Japan!!

In Japan comic books are consider Mangas, in America it is called comic books. A man named Hokusai, was the first man to create a manga. After having just a couple of comic strips, mangas improved over the years. They used woodblocks back then to make the manga, now we use actual paper. Art was huge in Japan, it still is. I love Japanese art, to me it is peaceful. That is why I love it. It was more of a stage-play, two dimensional drawing, it was because they were knew at it. I am too and artist and I wasn't that good either, but more and more practice I got better. Here is improvements of different mangas over the years:

Here is the first Manga:

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Here are two others that people will know. See the difference on how much people's art have improved! 

See the difference, I love the detail in them! It takes a lot of patience and practice to become a good artist!

http://www.matt-thorn.com/mangagaku/history.html