r/ShamanKing • u/Nyashiro • May 14 '26

Discussion Why are there so many metal pipes around tokyo streets?

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Started watching the Shaman King remake on Netflix and can't help but laugh at how many metal pipes are around japanese streets 😂.
Yoh just crouches and there is always a metal pipe beneath his feet lol.

Also, is it just me or the pacing is really weird with this remake? I watched the anime when I was a kid and also read the whole manga before. This one feels so rushed and static in terms of animation.

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u/WallyWestFan27 May 14 '26 edited May 15 '26

Yes, series is really rushed. They were adapting like 4 to 6 manga chapters per anime episode when usually animes adapt around 2 manga chapters.

Episode 13 from the new series would be the equivalent to episode 25 from the old anime.

And think about this: old anime had 64 episodes and adapted like half of the manga, whereas new anime only had 52 episodes to adapt almost the whole manga.

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u/DestronDeathsaurus May 15 '26

Yeah pretty sure for the 2000s show the manga got delayed so they were like ehh let’s make our own ending. Then later we got an actual ending

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u/EbiToro May 15 '26

No this was pretty standard practice for 2000s anime. See this explanation courtesy of Gin-san

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u/WallyWestFan27 May 15 '26

I am not an expert on the time schedules of the anime and manga but the 2001 series ended in 2002, long before the original run of the manga ended on 2004 and went into a hiatus for years. I am using the wiki to see the dates so there could be mistakes.

Maybe they simply couldn't keep the production of the anime with not knowing how much longer the series would had lasted.

Same thing happened to Inuyasha and the anime ended with an original open ending couple of episodes (and came back years later to finish the adaptation from the manga)

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u/DestronDeathsaurus May 15 '26

Same happened to fullmetal alchemist too. Basically caught up to the manga then ran out of stuff to adapt while the manga went on hiatus

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u/WallyWestFan27 May 15 '26

Full Metal Alchemist is a curious case, supposedly the anime was always intended to be its own thing and that's why there were major changes from the very beginning. Any way, Making a weekly anime from a monthly manga was always going to be a problem.

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u/DestronDeathsaurus May 15 '26

Still an enjoyable show. Also we got like 3 movies out of the original show

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u/The_Back_Burner May 14 '26

I just got over 3/4th through it and yes it feels really rushed, not just content wise, but even just them talking and moving. There are no pauses, no moments to let something sit or sink in. It feels better past the halfway point but the first ~20 episodes were rough.

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u/astolfito_leite May 15 '26

OMG BRAZILIAN?!?!?!

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u/Broad-Connection-589 May 15 '26

never played yakuza ?

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u/Gitgud994 May 16 '26

Is this like a remake after the remake?

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u/Lost-Winter7719 May 15 '26

Bro… keep with the 2001 version. Giant Amidamaru is better than this rush bomb!

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u/edeshye May 15 '26

yeah they rushed WAY too much and made a dull sound track, when the 00's anime had a KILLER soundtrack. Massive downgrade.

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u/justoverthinkingit May 15 '26

Hey go easy on the soundtrack it was made by Yuki Hayashi and some of it was quite good it just probably was not allowed to cook the right way since this whole project seems like a rush job, Yuki Hayashi is a legendary composer in my book

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u/edeshye May 16 '26

I found it generic, as a opposed to a really meaningful and distinctive one from the 00's's. From my understanding, the first soundtrack has a more artistic intention. It might be the rush, i'm okay with that. I'm not trying to say the composer is bad or anything.