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lavasplashin · 6 years

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thoughtts on fullmetal alchemiste

ty cuzz!!!

god where to start um

The manga’s fucking perfect and I really wish more would be serialized as monthly 60-page chapters because reading that while it was coming out was infinitely more satisfying than ~19 pages a week!!!!! And it gives the creators so much more time to achieve what they need to!!

Story-wise I fell head over heals in love with it in 8th grade and it will always be one of the best stories I’ve ever read. If someone hasn’t gotten the chance to check it out yet….. im sorry i dont care who you are, If you like stories at all this one is a MUST. YOU GOTTA!!!! And most likely the manga is the best way to absorb it?? And Arakawa’s art is incredible like ofc.

And then theres the animes!!!!! which i got a LOTTA OPINIONS ON

For simplicity i’m gonna refer to the original anime as just “TOA” for simplicity.

first i’ll say, anybody who ever tells you that brotherhood is 100% better than TOA is a bastard. A foolish bastard.

Someone might think this is my nostalgia speaking but even recent first time watchers have agreed with me here:

First, Al’s dub voice is great in brotherhood but he’s my actual fucking son in TOA.

But more importantly:

The entire set up arc (like half of TOA/maybe 13 eps of brotherhood) is SIGNIFICANTLY better in TOA. There were serious pros and cons to the weird timing of TOA and the manga coming out simultaneously!!

The cons are pretty well-known. The anime caught up too fast and had to finish the story entirely differently than the manga (I’ll talk about that in a sec).

The pros re: following the manga storyline!! are that it had the chance to take it’s time on every introduction. We get to know each character in depth before things Really start to pop off and it’s done brilliantly, because they didn’t even know what was to come at that point, and they sure were not in a rush to get there.

The earlier parts of FMA are what have made it so iconic. The story of Al and Ed and their mother, every military character’s intro and Nina, Hughes, etc etc all made FMA what it was. Then the later parts just put all of the beautiful set up into motion & eventual collision.

This is why I highly recommend that people watch the first 20 or so episodes of TOA, and then start watching brotherhood from the SECOND episode or a little bit after that. Mostly BECAUSE ep 1 is just bad (most of all because it has a major spoiler IN ONE OF THE FIRST SHOTS that was never intended to be given away like that oh my god). But also because it’s good to see the difference in the other episodes, and since they are extremely concise it doesn’t take long to get through them at all. And then!!! you can just watch the rest of Brotherhood.

Anyway. That is a really strange way to do it that no one else has the energy for probably but I’ve been taking this route with my roommate who has never seen it!! and it has been really really good so far. I do gotta say this probably wont work if you havent watched it and you dont have anyone watching it with you that’s already seen it. That would probably be rather confusing so… might have to throw this theory out otherwise. i dont know i dont know…

Sorry that was a confusing explanation, but the point is, manga plot: first 20ish eps of TOA good, ep 8 or so on of brotherhood good.

The simplest option might be to just watch all of TOA and then Brotherhood if youre willing and want both stories?

TOA still has an interesting story that I enjoyed before I read the manga, but I gotta admit it’s not nearly as extravagant or impressive. I do still own conqueror of shambala on dvd though and i will never get rid of it.

If anyone is curious, my experience was TOA+shambala in 2007/8 (mostly dub) –> the manga until it ended –> kinda spiteful abt brotherhood because people shit talked TOA –> binged brotherhood (dub) in like 2014 and realized i was horribly wrong and that it was fucking beautiful save for the beginning.

I’m sure other people had great experiences however they first consumed the story, but tbh i cant imagine any other way because there are so many weird differences between all 3!!

Regarding the actual story of FMA, I cant say much of anything. It’s quite actually perfect and people really just gotta read/watch it and have their own experience with that.

Personal favorite characters: Alphonse (HAVE seriously considered naming a child after him… dont @ me), Ling yao (my old url was lingaring specifically because i love him so fucking much it hurts dude), Envy (not as much until i watched brotherhood for some reason?? brotherhood just made me fall in love with him as a character and he might be my actual fav character arc), and wow every single god damn female character. Like. damb. Maria, Olivier, Winry, Riza, Izumi like. holy shit. thanks Arakawa for my life.ANYWAY this got really long so I’m gonna stop while it’s an ok place to stop.

I could talk about specifics in the story a lot more but I will save that for another day.

#forgive my sentence structure but i couldnt spend too goddamn long on this i got other shit to do rip #fma #jotarora #imtalkin #thanks for reading my essay lol

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