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oatmealaddiction · 14 days

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Okay but the weirdest thing about the whole "Brotherhood is better you should skip 03" discourse that's become commonplace now, it sort of forgets the world Brotherhood came out in and why you should watch the original Fullmetal Alchemist. When Brotherhood came out, the original Fullmetal Alchemist was one of the most beloved and most watched animes of all time. Brotherhood assumes you the audience have already seen it because of course you have, everyone has seen it, so it skips important information and speeds the story up because it doesn't want to bore you with things you already know. Have you ever wondered "hey why does the first episode of Brotherhood kind of suck, and why am I being introduced to like 50 new characters, and why are they acting like I know what the hell an alchemist is?" It's because Brotherhood thinks you've seen 03.

The first 7 or so episodes of Brotherhood constitute dozens of chapters in the manga, and the first 25 or so episodes of the original Fullmetal Alchemist. The Nina Tucker episode in Brotherhood, in FMA 03 takes up nearly three episodes. Yoki gets a backstory in 03 and it's genuinely one of the best episodes and taken directly from the manga and Brotherhood glosses over it because: duh, you've already seen it. And so if you skip the original you miss out on dozens of really great character building episodes like Ed and Al meeting Hughes for the first time and getting to spend a whole episode helping him free a train from terrorists, or Ed and Roy having a duel that expands on the relationship they have, or episodes where the brothers just help out random people in towns before the major story gets going.

The original also paces itself quite a bit better than Brotherhood and is more in line with the mangas storytelling. In the manga we don't find out about The Gate until nearly two dozen chapters in, and the same goes for the original anime. Like, that's a twist reveal in those stories, and it's weird that the most watched series is the one where they tell you all about The Gate in the first two episodes because they assume you've already seen the original show.

What's more, people don't know that Hiromu Arakawa helped write for the anime while she was still in the middle of writing the manga, and as a result was inspired to write scenes in Brotherhood that the anime did first. That scene of Edward getting impaled by a falling beam? Directly inspired by a similar scene in the original anime. There's a lot of little instances of that and they're great when you can recognize parallels and things in Brotherhood that are direct references to the original anime, but people don't notice any of that anymore. Because the original anime is just an automatic skip these days, and it's a bummer because people don't realize what a giant it was back before Brotherhood was released. They treat it as *bad,* not realizing it was one of the most beloved anime of its time and the problems people take issue with have a lot more to do with personal taste than any kind of actual flaw in the writing. Brotherhood was never meant to dethrone it, and the original anime was always supposed to be part of the viewing experience which is why those first few episodes of Brotherhood are so fast paced. So like, please stop telling people Fullmetal Alchemist 2003 is a skip, or it's bad, or you don't need it because Brotherhood is better. Regardless if you think Brotherhood is better or not, the original wrote Brotherhood's check. It was huge, it was beloved, and Brotherhood is *banking* on the knowledge you've seen all of it and loved it. And trust me when I say there is so much to love about the original series. It's still my favorite branch of the FMA franchise, and it's worth your time, I promise you.

#Fma 03 #FMA #fullmetal alchemist #Fma:b #fullmetal alchimist brotherhood #fma brotherhood #Legitimately though the original is so fucking good #The music alone makes it worth the watch #Also the art direction is better fight me #mild spoilers

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0ketlyn-s · 3 months

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Brotherhood AU

(by me and @tea0w0stache) (Branch n Clay design by @elijah-doodle)

"ket, how sane are you rn?" me:

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ramshackledtrickster · 1 month

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A couple ac fundraising commissions @madamestrella and @minpage respectively!

Apologies for not posting as frequently, but just letting people know sketch commissions for fundraising for Palestinian causes is still going on :))

#assassins creed #assassins creed 2 #ezio auditore #assassins creed brotherhood #assassins creed origins #bayek of siwa #my art #fanart #commissions for palestine

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kozukeneo · 2 years

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Riza 💥💥

#original art #fullmetal alchemist #fullmetal alchimist brotherhood #fmab #fmab fanart #riza hawkeye #roy mustang

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sivsii · 8 months

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messy roy & riza color thumb/sketch

#fullmetal alchemist brotherhood #fullmetal alchemist fanart #royai #roy mustang #riza hawkeye #fmab #original art 2023.#I haven’t posted in months I’m so sorry lol #Working on wrapping up a couple of commissions but *hopefully* the art funk is finally starting to wear off

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blackandwhitecircus · 3 months

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#original post #fullmetal alchemist brotherhood #fullmetal alchemist #fma #fmab #riza hawkeye #royai #roy mustang #that's my twitter

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saturnaous · 1 month

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Accidently cooked up a silly little au the other day that I am very much enjoying gonna. talk about it under the cut because4 the FUCKING WORMS

OKAY so basically. literally everythign is the same except for the fact that. Ed got entirely yoinked instead of Alphonse. I dunno why that happens but. It does because I say so. Anyways. So this basically mean that Ed gets bonded to an armor instead of Al, and because I desperately wanted the secondary set of Armor to see some light I thought it would be funny to bond Ed to that instead. I haven't fleshed everything out, but as I'm working on that I wanna add a few of the different things in here just because. And I still might tweak things if I think it doesn't make sense. - Al lost his arm first, then traded his tongue and his eye to bond Ed to the armor, making him effectively mute. He's learned ASL and Ed has to translate for him a lot. Although in my hcs Al is a foodie so like. major bummer for taste buds. He likes fun textures and stuff though. I gotta figure out what problems this poses though so we'll figure that out. - Al most likely is going to go into being a state alchemist just for the fact of staying somewhat close to the storyline and stuff. and I don't know, insert random reasoning in here. Yeah - just a little design note. uhmmmmm I thought the cross thing on Ed's head/helm was cool and I had the bright idea of like "hey what if I put the emblem like. through the cross yk" and I might not do that. But at the moment it looks cool to me. so yeah. I'M STILL TOYING WITH THINGS. . . I have to figure out what happens and designs and stuff. but yeah. I think that covers. what I have for now. p sick. scuttles away

#uhmmm. fuck I'm not entirely sure which things to tag bc I've been referencing the manga for a lot of this. but fuck it we ball #fmab #fma brotherhood #fma manga #fma #fullmetal alchemist #fullmetal alchemist brotherhood #fma au #alphonse elric #edward elric #yeah lets go with that #Spenxer Lou Art #lou is an artist #Honestly this is. kinda like a role swap a little but. But not entirely. and probably not too original but I'm having fun #Anyways. I have to say that the first time I realized there were two sets of armor #It literally never left my mind I've been constantly wondering like what would happen if al was put in the other one idk #But then I accidentally made this AU in the shower where Ed gets yoinked instead of Al #so then I was like HOLY FUCK I CAN YSE THE EXTRA SET OF ARMOR #which. holy fucking hell. I've literally have two single fucking panels to reference from. which is hell. but I fucking love it #anyways. uhm. yeah teehee

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navstuffs · 9 months

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civillains when bumping into ezio, causing him to roll into the floor: MOVE OUT OF THE WAY!! ARE YOU STUPID?

civillains being shoved/hit by bayek of siwa: YES SIR SORRY SIR I APOLOGIZE FOR THE INCONVENIENCE, THANK YOU FOR BUMPING INTO ME, HAVE A GREAT DAY SIR

#ezio auditore #bayek of siwa #assassins creed #assassins creed origins #ezio auditore da firenze #ezio trilogy #assassins creed brotherhood #assasins creed 2 #I LOVE EZIO but bayek!!!!!!!!!!!!!! is everything!!!!!

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boohoocthulhu · 9 months

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👀 Sneak peek

#fallout #fallout oc #fallout original character #fallout 3 #fallout 4 #original character #sneak peek #what’s this?#new art?#😈#brotherhood of steel #11 hours #pls help

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weeb-polls-with-pip · 3 months

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Autistic Anime Boys Side A Round 2 Match 8

Propaganda:

Ed -

"Hyperfocus ability (thinking specifically of that one scene where he gets so into studying at Tucker’s house he blocks out all other noise), alchemy special interest, hypersensitive (about height lol), more that I can’t think of atm."

Rui -

"he makes robots for literally everything. he's the director of THE silliest stage troupe there is. he built a robot with revolutionary AI and countless features that are Completely Unnecessary just because his best friend has/had(?) social anxiety and No One Talks About It."

#tumblr polls #autistic anime boys poll #original poll #edward elric #fma #fmab #fma ed #ed fma #fullmetal alchemist #fullmetal alchemist: brotherhood #rui kamishiro #kamishiro rui #project sekai #prsk #proseka

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sally-mun · 2 years

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Character Redesign: Kayla-La

So I know I already posted a couple previous versions of Kayla-La, and normally I’d add a further update to that post, but honestly it’s gotten so long that I want the current version to be at the top of a new one. Besides, a fresh post for Kayla seems like a good way to kick off the wrap party!

There’s not a TON of change here, so no worries on updating your mental image or anything. Mostly I fixed up how I drew her spines, now that I have more experience with drawing other echidnas in the story; I didn’t realize it at the time, but her original spines came out looking very hedgehog-y, kind of like Amy’s spines. It just really didn’t look right, so I decided that you guys were owed a more accurate design sheet and touched it up. Beyond that, I fiddled with some of the text, particularly to add in a comment about how I see her fur color (as that’s something I apparently do now, even though I’m kinda bad with colors).

Other than that, not much more to say that I haven’t already said before! More character art and other fun Season 1 stuff coming up shortly!

#Sallymun Shows #Brotherhood: Origins #BH:O #character designs #season 1 wrap party

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cuchufletapl · 11 months

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