As a fan of the Anime, god knows how many times ive watched it, Tagalog version, all the way to the Animax dubbed, and the funimation dubbed version of netflix.
It is such a great adaptation of the anime. I'm even surprised with the level of special effects this show had. It wasn't cheesy, it was great. It was still believable and somewhat grounded. The CGI was great, probably better than DC's CGI!
The only letdown was the filipino version would have been more epic if they used the filipino names. If that was the case, i'd watch it in filipino first. So yes, the filipino version uses the japanese names. No Eugene or Alfred here!!!
The fight scenes were great. 5 hours just went by quickly. No boring parts!
a lot of easter eggs thrown in, btw. Fans of the show will definitely catch the references!
Don't expect this to be true to the source material, that is impossible. This is a live action adaptation. I know you'd be missing a lot of the side characters that we all love like Chui, but we all know cuts have to made somewhere.