#time to rewatch fmab again

[ahbogman]

help him

#just finished my rewatch of fmab and im feeling so many things #time to start from the beginning again i guess #my love for edward elric knows no bounds #i really like how this pose came out! #i fully colored this as well but i liked this version better in the end #fma #fmab #fullmetal alchemist #fullmetal alchimist brotherhood #ed elric #edward elric #fma fanart

[ozlices]

again by yui my absolute darlingest beloved no other op even remotely compares to you not even the other brotherhood ops ur so perfect

#fmab #fma #mine #rewatching fmab bc it's been too long & we need the soul cleanse & i actually cry every time w again it's just so good man #also let it out is THE best anime ending of all time. it playing during trisha's speech is absolutely perfect & my fav scene #in the entire series #ungh ilysm brotherhood #arakawa hiromu my beloved ty for my life making this series

[mintleflower]

Remember them... I made clearer feral refs for my friends' convenience

#my art #fma #fmab #royai #roy mustang #riza hawkeye #fullmetal Alchemist #fullmetal Alchemist brotherhood #rewatching fmab again and wow #oh lordy lord #truest fan since 2018 #that might be a lie i cannot tell when I watched it for the first time #it's been a long long time let me tell you that #mintleflower

[dragon-zena]

golden time lover by sukima switch will always be famous. to me

#i know we all love again by YUI but my lord golden time lover eats so hard #watch me rewatch fmab and scream cry throw up etc

[bootlickerhawks]

damn the peeps in the youtube comment section weren't wrong, i do feel empty after finishing hxh

#cami watches hxh #now i wanna rewatch the show from the start again hfdkjfs #the only other show that has ever managed to evoke that urge in me is fmab #ig it's time to read the manga and then be tortured by hiatus #cami.txt

[demonicdeviation]

my routine anxiety spikes are coming back, lovely 

#they havent been a thing for me in nearly 2 years #but I guess I just hit a fog in my life currently and am Not Doing Well #Im trying to push myself more but I currently am and have been running on low #my current anxiety fixation is fmab bc I all but finished the show in like 4 days by watching it as I drew. 60 episodes in 4 days #it took me a month to finish it when I was 14 and it enraptured my brain for long after #but things just dont stick in my brain like they used to anymore #and its making me anxious in a sad kind of way #anyway I'm going to wait a bit to rewatch 03 like I did my first time round #if I force myself to let fmab soak in then maybe it'll hold onto me #I'm also trying to draw more again #to have more ideas that I can bring out of my braian #*brain

[ionaciao]

i wish i can experience brotherhood for the first time again

#fmab #it’s not the same rewatching it again #like i love it but oh my god imagine watching it for the first time

[salvidida]

Everything about Scar's treatment in Brotherhood sucks so bad, but there was something specific that has been bothering me for awhile. I hadn't been able to quite put my finger on what it was since watching FMAB for the first time recently (as a lifelong 03 fan). So I rewatched FMA 03 again and it finally clicked what it was that further upsets me about Brotherhood regarding Scar, besides the more obvious imperialist propaganda and racism:

The Elric's relationship to him.

Now obviously Ed's racism towards Scar in Brotherhood is pointed out frequently enough, but it doesn't stop there. It's the way that Brohood Ed is incapable and fully resistant to ever bridging that gap besides a deeply uneasy allyship-of-convenience. Al is also fully distant from Scar, besides their mutual antagonism in the earlier arc. And nothing more is really explored here between these characters.

And I didn't realize how much I valued the way 03's Scar, Ed, and Al contrast, overlap, mirror, battle, and support one another. Their fates and goals are inseparable. Alchemy's impact on the Elrics' lives is reflected with Scar's life and his brother's, as well as their familial relationship to their own brothers; many point out the similarities between 03 Scar and Al, with some noting how Ed and Scar's brother match each other. And the way the Elrics here are more able to engage with the harsh realities that inform Scar's choices and actions versus that of their place as Amestrians, and for Ed as an active member of the military who, despite wanting to cling to his principle of never taking a life, at times can see Scar's point of view and even, with reticence, sympathize with him (Al even more so).

There are layers to the relationship across these three characters. The tension and humanity that arises is a driving force in revealing the dialectics of this show. It's to the point that Al and even at times Ed defend Scar when talking with other characters towards the end of the show, and they even ultimately owe their lives to him (the philosopher stone and grand arcanum that allowed both Ed and Al to live, and for Al to regain his body). And the bond between the Elrics help Scar to forgive his brother, to speak aloud that he loves him in his final moments, before triumphantly accomplishing his goal against the Amestrian military, saving the remaining Liorans, and saving Al from becoming Kimbly's final bomb.

And there are other moments, such as Scar helping Al in Lab 5, telling him he sees his unmistakable humanity after Al helps him save Ishbalan refugees. Scar attempting to help Ed in Lab 5 after he refuses to sacrifice the prisoners for the Philosopher Stone, because he sees the humanity in Ed too, the humanity that can resist merely being a ruthless military dog and scientist. The way Scar treats Al almost like a little brother of his own, and when he mentions that Ed and his older brother share the same kind eyes- said at a time when Scar still harbours ill feelings for his brother's taboos and his sacrifice; which becomes all the more poignant when he forgives his brother before creating a Stone passed down to the Elrics. Scar mentions having sworn off specifically targetting state alchemists post-Lab 5, and this feels like his way of sparing the Elrics of his wrath, even as he holds fast to fighting against an oppressive system with necessary violence. The material here is rich for analysis and appreciation! It doesn't settle on more digestible, black-and-white character archetypes and plot conveniences.

There's a reason why the final outro for 03, where it flashes across four deceased characters who mattered to the Elrics, includes Scar. The man is in the ranks of Trisha, Nina, and Hughes! This isn't a mistake, the writers are intentionally showing the indelible impacts of these people who they cared about.

But with FMAB, it's exceptionally flat here and entirely derogatory. Ed hates Scar, and the narrative treats him as wholly right to do so. Scar needs to repent and reform to the side of his genociders, and never shall these characters interact or converse beyond putting a stop to Father. Scar was nothing more than a vehicle to reach his murdered brother's alchemic research, and an example to be made of any radical who so much as raises a finger against the State. All three of these characters want nothing to do with each other, and that's about as far as we get with them. In Scar's own words, he's nothing more than the 'ooze' (the poison) that arises from military conquest, and by the end of the show it's clear that, even with Scar saving the entire country that destroyed his life, to the Elrics, he will always be that 'ooze'.

In Brotherhood Scar committed what the Elrics clearly considers to be the ultimate sin: he killed Winry's parents, and no matter the circumstances surrounding that event, no matter what else changes, no matter which mass murderers, monsters, and genociders the Elrics can sympathize with, humanize, befriend, and forgive, Scar will never be anything more than an unforgivable murderer. The best everyone gets here is moving on and living seperate lives. Nothing more.

The fact that Ed openly wishes he could beat the shit out of Scar, he verbalizes as such while Winry patches him up and Miles lectures him about the value of reforming the military regime to include more racialized people for its imperialist complex. And the big mercy Ed in this moment offers to Scar is... Not kicking the shit out of him after all.

The juxtaposition between these adaptations, the cold hatred of FMAB versus the entangled, poetic antagonism and comradery of FMA 03 makes experiencing the former anime so depressing. Until watching Broho it never dawned on me just how much I truly appreciated the complexities between Scar and the Elrics in 03. Finding Scar's Earth counterpart at the end of Shambala wasn't just a fun cameo: it feels like a road that leads back to an ally.

At least now I have something I can more consciously enjoy whenever I revisit 03, while articulating yet another reason why I can't stand Broho.

#fma #fma 03 #fmab #this def needs editing but its late and i wanted to get my thoughts out there #the antagonism and humanity and comradery of 03 is achieved with so much subtlety and skill #it never ceases to blow me away #eta: ok so i spruced up the post a bit. this is still a bit of a messily written meta but eh #also i'll probably reblog this later on with further analysis and examples of how 03 handles the Scar-Elrics bond

[everyones-least-favorite-bard]

waugh! @solcarow got my ass 10 fandoms/10 characters/10 tags

ty for the tag beloved <3333

1) orv - gotta be han sooyoung my evil terrible wife with her big horrible evil heart

2) dc - hiiiii minhkhoa khan helloooo horrible awful emotionally repressed man get his as in therapy stat!!!! i want to put him in a microwave

3) star wars - anakin skywalker <3 little tragic figure babygirl i would like to make him commit more crimes actually i think he didnt do enough

4) ace attorney - PENIS WRITE!!! FREAKZOID OF A MAN

5) jjba - basic bitch answer but kujo jotaro!!! marine biology loser boy he is my princess i put him through incalculable horrors

6) fmab - edward elric my darling boy. my son. i miss him i need to watch fmab again (<-watched fmab not three months ago)

7) gekkan shoujo nozaki kun - its gotta be hori masayuki man. believes hes the most hinged but is in fact perhaps the most freak of them all. but tbh you could say that about any of the main cast, ,,

8) great pretender - LAURENT THIERRY HORRIBLE HORRIBLE TRASH MAN I HATE HIM HE SUCKS HE OCCUPIES INCALCULABLE TIME IN MY THOUGHTS

9) sandman - (i am aware this overlaps w dc shhhhh it counts i swear) death. i rewatch ep 6 of the show like once a week minimum.

10) hxh - gon! love that lil guy im putting him in a petri dish and studying him with a microscope

gyeaugh 10 tags. uh. @buqbite @controlaltdelete-my-existence @toast-of-eden @kuroko99 @harpieisthecarpie @rusquared @clockwards @noparg @not-a-kelpie @macaronijail06 dont feel obligated to participate it is merely A Game beloveds

#the hell that was coming up w people to tag #mein gott. mein fucking gott #tag game

[offlineblues]

GET TO KNOW THE BLOGGER ASK GAME

tagged by @pocketsonny ♡ thank you!

i ramble on too much, so i'll make it a read more! here goes~

TAGGING in advance (if you want)

@armos @fleury @saltiestcoconut @gntk

Last Song

i've been listening to MMBN's OST for around 2 weeks straight. i would really like to play this game soon, since i bought the collection on sale for 50% off~ (looks at @pocketsonny who keeps nudging me to play as well by talking excitedly about it)

Net Battle and Fire Field are so good...

Favorite Color

i really like gray the most, i think. i really like rose pink, lavender and lilac purple, flowery yellow, and soft blue and mild green a lot as well! something like this?

i also love the colors of the sunrise, the sunset, and the galaxy

Last Movie / Show

the last movie i saw became my favorite movie! i watched it with @xx-moonluster-xx and @duelofai !

i had a lot of fun. Nausicaä's messages of decay and rebirth were so wonderful. also i love the gentle giant bugs and the extraordinary fantasy world they created (it was so beautiful and the OST is so good too)

otherwise, i've been rewatching FMAB in a group with 3 people after 12 years. it used to be my favorite series a long long time ago, so i'm really happy to watch it now that i'm older and understand the world from another perspective (and thus, understand and resonate with the grim reality this series often times presents)

Sweet / Spicy / Savory

Relationship Status

spicy, definitely! savory is always good! i'm not the biggest fan of sweet!

@armos and i celebrated our 10 years dating anniversary in January!!

Last Search

Current Obsession

definitely not the movie and show official art above—

this will be random, but, lots of people on twt have been posing and dressing up the new plush Yusaku, so i've been itching to see them in new and fun ways. isn't he adorable? i just want to squeeze him (shows you mine i bought for my partner)

additionally, i've been playing a lot of Blue Rescue Team again lately (i have almost 500 hours on record) because i'm trying to recruit them all! it's a bit of a task, though. there's tons of 1% encounters and they can take a long time to get lucky and join you. (pictured: me recruiting all 1% encounters at once in Howling Forest somehow)

#i wrote this all out and then the app crashed and i lost all my progress so here i am typing it again #caroblogging

[swordcreature]

People I’d Like to Know Better!

hehe i got tagged by @aerynwrites so ty i love these muahahah

Last song: verbatim by mother mother

Favorite Color: purple (p much all shades hehe)

Currently Watching: rewatching FMAB for the millionth time

Last Movie/TV Show: hellboy (the 2004 version of course <3)

Spicy/Savory/Sweet: i have the biggest sweet tooth and it's my biggest character flaw

Relationship Status: married

Current Obsession: BG3 (gasp!), runescape, bluey (i'm a child do not judge me), kingdom death

Last Thing I googled: i'm exposing myself here but it's totally @forgeofthenine's fault - "lorum piercing"

tagging some moots: @waterdeeply, @killerpancakeburger, @arctophyllax, @underdark-dreams, @northlandcleric, @dark-and-kawaii, @forgeofthenine (ik you were tagged once but i'm doing it again hehe), @cherryphobe, and anyone who sees this because i want to know you ALL (of course if tagged pls do not feel obligated to do this!!!)

#tag games #worm things #about me????

[actuallyidontgiveadamn]

Really out of nowhere but I rewatched some of fma03 eps and im gonna rant

I'm just so done with smiling politely saying that fma03 and fmab are both great sorry i cant anymore. Just no

So if you in love with fmab im warning you it probably won't be a good read for you, so feel free to ignore this, block me or idk read this and give it a thought

0. I really dont understand the glorification of manga over anime adaptations. Like people who are making the adaptation are not artists and creators themselves? What makes mangaka better than others and absolutely indisputable, seriously?

1. 'Oh no long introduction and fillers' that actually allowed for Hughes' character development before his death. Seriously if i mention his death among my homies I'll get lots of faces clearly going through some ptsd level flashbacks, it was that impactful. I still need to take a breather when im rewatching before diving into that ep.

2. Nina. Yet again got more time to grow on us and thus aquired higher trauma inducing levels.

3. Ishval massacre and aftermath are WAY MORE VISIBLE in fma03. First of all Ishvalans are depicted as human beings, and not some background, and we get lots more on their sufferings, raids on camps, racism towards them, etc etc etc

4. Scar. Oh boi how do i even go about this. So without raging much about that beefy obviously wrong dude who got 'sense' bitten into him and started working with the oppressing gov in fmab, we have a wronged and tormented survivor of a genocide, who was justified in his vengeance and rage, was depicted as an attractive person of color despite his antagonistic role and was seriously almost cheered on in his actions by the narrartive. His interactions with his people and his moral dilemmas made his character possibly the deepest and most thought out one in the series.

5. The Rockbell doctors being killed by their own government. That's a waaaaay more interesting and damning detail on our government affiliated protagonists than just dumping their murder on a delirious patient.

6. Homunculi had their own will and desires and a way more developed story arc that had a huge impact on protagonists' morals. Being created by the humans who were desperate to bring back their loved ones and both parties are getting tormented by it?? Characters strongly driven by their own goals and staggered by their relations to their creators vs some indifferent goons in fmab. Just compare Sloths and their impact on the stories and protags.

7. Final conflict being a fight with god and his intricate plans in fmab, versus final battle vs a selfish pretty much usual person who had thrown everyone under the bus in pursuit of immortality. Adds so much more desperation flavor. Suddenly your hero journey doesn't end in epic battle for the sake of the mankind, as you would like it to be. It's just to oppose one awful person with too much power and zero care about anyone else. That's raw and that's way more plausible and relatable in our mundane lives.

8. Overall darker tone and themes of the fma03.

9. MUSIC. I dont remember a single track from fmab, but i went really out of my way in my teenage years to find internet access and pirate fma soundtrack and cry listening to it

10. ART. Sorry but don't tell me fmabs flat colors are anything to 03's soft tones and lighting

So yeah sorry, but I'll take the dark and gritty tragedy over just another shounen with doubtful messages each and every time

#fma #fma03 #fma 2003 #anti fmab

[gayleviticus]

*disclaimer: i still dont remember shit about fmab

i think a little bit of both? i like fma 03! roy, so i guess i wouldn't mind seeing more of him, although the amount we got i thought was perfect for the role he played in the story. but then again, because there was more roy in fmab they couldn't write him like a miserable bastard all the time bc that would not engage the viewer so they gave him "he's so cool and badass'' moments. i think thats what was irritating me the most. fma 03 roy knows what he is and so does the story and they will not forget it even for a second. the weight of the roy's actions hangs over him pretty much every time he is on screen. meanwhile fmab just sometimes... forgets. or ignores it bc it doesn't fit the scene or they want a cool fight scene. in a way i find fma 03 roy more likeable BECAUSE he always remembers and feels that weight, because what sort of person is fmab!roy that he can just forget, even for a moment?

i found out on tumblr that apparently in fmab it was scar that killed winry's parents?? i did not remember that at all and i don't know how that works, but it seems baffling to me. the fact that fma03!roy killed winry's parents is literally my favourite thing about him. It really drives home the consequences of his actions and makes the world small and personal

also, bc of eds development in fma03 by the end, him and roy become equals in a way fmab!roy and ed never do. i love the understanding that is between them, but also that there is still distance between them after they reach it.

right right that makes sense. even the fact we don't get a scene where winry reconciles w Roy over it (or even confront him at all iirc? I'm second guessing myself here but I'm pretty sure it was planned for cos and doesn't actually happen) denies him any kind of relief there. it's very messy and complicated - you don't get a nice happy sentimental forgiveness moment, but we also don't get a moment of righteous indignation at Roy for what he did.

and yeah, in interests of charity and also not caring enough abt fmab to actually rewatch it and meaningfully dissect it I'll say scar killing the rockbells probably works for fmab etc but 03 going with 'actually this guy is pretty justified on the whole' for a character set up as scary terrorist religious fundamentalist is a very interesting take and transferring that crime to Roy instead makes a lot of sense

#fma 03 #tumblr no naku koro ni answer arcs

[illustratina]

Some Riza Hawkeye redraws. Ultimately I want to draw Royai but I want to get a feel for the characters in my style first. Royai is one of my absolute fave ships from my absolute fave anime. Riza and Roy are also two of my all time fave characters. Recently rewatched FMAB with my brother and now I'm obsessed all over again. Hope you like my Riza ♥️

#riza hawkeye #fullmetal alchemist #fullmetal alchimist brotherhood #fmab fanart #fmab #fma brotherhood #Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood #royai #royai fanart #riza x roy #black hayate #ibispaintx #ibis paint brush #redraw #my art #digital art

[cobaltin]

finished rewatching both fmab and fma (2003) back to back again (i am so sane about fma i promise) and while i love both animes i ultimately really prefer fmab. i’d say overall the vibe of fmab is a more hopeful approach and is really less darker than fma (2003). When i watch fma (2003) i just feel like there’s more desperation and suffering and in the end this despair doesn’t really bring the characters anything. I feel like they don’t gain anything and suffered all of this to lose everything in the end (which don’t get me wrong really goes well with the messages i think the show tries to convey about equivalent exchange and it not being a thing etc etc but still). There are some issues i got with the 2003 version with the script sometimes where it feels really convenient at times but it’s really a minor thing ?

I’d say this is really much more of a personal preference, in general i prefer an ending where i feel like the characters are rewarded for their adventures and learned something and evolved a lot which is where i think mangahood really shines. The 2003 characters all learned important lessons and evolved of course, but i don’t feel like they got rewarded and received something that matched all their efforts and suffering. but then like i said it’s really a personal preference

#fma #rant #not talking about the CoS movie since i haven’t watched it since forever and don’t remember it much #also not mentionned but i do prefer fmab bc we got the xing characters #ling yao my beloved #also the barry the chopper ep really messed me up i genuinely felt so bad after that episode omg

[spocks-evil-godmother]

I am rewatching FMAB again and getting maybe 80% through the story and remembering that the last time I watched this I didn't know that Netflix was going to the next episode before showing plot-significant post-credit scenes. RIP to college student me having trouble following transitions between episodes and not understanding anything at all

#mitch pitch #fmab #mitch watches things