Ah ... being a major fan of the original series, I'm sort of worried about the remake now. Going by how FMA:B started out, this might end up having a similar problem at the start.
One of the strong points of the first anime that it managed to add more to the story to grant it more depth than it's manga counterpart, but if they intended to make this more faithful ...
Then again, it's sort of obvious that they would go the remake route. The original series had already concluded ... twice actually, and then gone on to make the Greed Island OVA's which had an unfortunate release schedule as well, so there wasn't really room to start from that end point.
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My only hope and or potential gripe is if they draw the new series in the same Yugioh-esque style of the previous final season...The earlier seasons were super gritty, which was great...The last season, while still entertaining, was more of a kiddie card game...I hope this new series will embrace the darker tone of the first seasons...
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I didn't mind the designs as much as I did the obvious drop in quality from the series and the first OVA. The Greed Island OVA's looked very, very bad in general.
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^The second season when Kurapica turns...I'd put that up against anything in shonen-fighter...Yu Yu Hakusho is still better IMO for varying reasons (One being it has perhaps the greatest villain of alltime in Shinobu Sensui--who it seems Geinen Ryodan's character design was lifted from in some ways--the other reason being it actually concludes), but Kurapica vs. the Spiders arc had some of my biggest holy $hit moments in all my shonen watching days...
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I think that Kurapica's storyline was among the most engaging and tense stories I had ever watched on television in general, not just Shonen-fighters. In the genre, from what I read it is par none the best portrayal of an avenger I had seen in a shonen magazine/show. I liked the show well enough before, during the exam arc (also among the better exam arcs I've read, with many memorable parts) and Killua's retrieval and what not, but it was Kurapica's not turning away from his path of vengeance, going as far as he did and doing what many authors shy away from making his archetype do ... not to mention that at that point (the fight with Uvogin specifically) the anime officially became better than the manga. It had always had a better edge before, but after that fight concluded, there was no doubt that the show had managed to improve considerably on the original.
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I'd say YuYu is a big step up from a show that, while I loved, it's final impression is that of Noah Kaiba's CG card game world in yugioh...Chapter Black has that beat IMO...
I do hope this new show isn't as upbeat and aesthetically pleasing as the last series and OVA...HxH is best with the darker tone...
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It feels weird to actually understand what you mean by this. I mean I actually agree with you, but that's not really my reason for disliking Greed Island
Now, YYH vs. HxH ... Honestly, while YYH has a soft spot in my heart, and the Black Chapter being a really good story, I just liked Kurapica more. It was the high point of the series at that point, both in the quality of the story and animation. YYH, for all it's good points, still had some things I though were pretty dumb (the revelation at the end of the Black Chapter arc for one) and I thought that it peaked at the Dark Tournament really, so every thing else was a step down in my eyes.
As for the dark tone, I think that the show was honestly just good at handling all it's tones, from the light hearted to the touching (Gon saying he doesn't need to know who his mom is made me cry back then, and still gets me a bit teared from how powerful it was) to the serious and grim ones. I think the show generally went from being really good to really great once the focus shifted more towards Kurapica's story, but before that I thought that the more memorable moments happened to be the ones where Gon countered all the darkness of the situations he was in rather than the dark nature of them.
But for all it's worth, I think YYH still has the better music.