Fullmetal Alchemist
| Brotherhood's history/lore is better, characters are well written and they have depth, the story's more concise, and the mangaka/brotherhood does a better job of presenting the themes and messages to us. Towards the beginning of the second half of the 2003 anime, i feel like the writing got a little messy. But eh, both are really good in their own way. |
SuperRed said: mecharobot said: Brotherhood is a generic shounen adventure that offers absolutely nothing to someone who has already seen a dozen of them. Bullshit. ^ QFT. BH for me, 2003 was a huge clusterfuck (especially near the end). And I don't even really commend 2003 for its "dark atmosphere". I mean yeah, it was there but it's not like BH didn't have any of that either. The story itself was still pretty serious. I actually liked BH's humor, thought it added to the entire experience. I might have to re-watch 2003 again, I really didn't like it at all (beginning wasn't so bad). But I loved everything about BH. |
jreginald said: SuperRed said: Bullshit. ^ QFT. BH for me, 2003 was a huge clusterfuck (especially near the end). And I don't even really commend 2003 for its "dark atmosphere". I mean yeah, it was there but it's not like BH didn't have any of that either. The story itself was still pretty serious. I actually liked BH's humor, thought it added to the entire experience. I might have to re-watch 2003 again, I really didn't like it at all (beginning wasn't so bad). But I loved everything about BH. What about Nina's death and Hughes death? You really thought the 2003 didn't do a good job? |
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iteukiiz said: Both are really good. But I have a bias towards FMAB because EVERYONE keeps telling me how much better FMAB is than FMA. I've already finished FMA and it does seeem to lack a little bit of something. I've just started FMAB (only 4 eps in orz). So, really, all I can say is that both are good. But many others would probably say FMAB >>> FMA. You saw one filler episode and three mediocre attempts to cover the originals material faster. Hold your horses |
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| Watch the original, and then watch Brotherhood, so you can appreciate Brotherhood more. The original is by no means bad, but Brotherhood is just on another level, and watching the first will make you appreciate Brotherhood more. |
| Just saying my piece Brotherhood introduced a large number of cast members, many of whom didn't get all that much development, and most of the characters from the original got the shaft (with the exceptions being Winry, Riza, and Scar, and I don't particularly think his story in Brotherhood was any better or worse than the original). A longer plot does not a better one make. One that is more epic does not a better plot make. Presentation is a big deal, and FMA not only looked and sounded better, it had consistently good pacing through the entire length of the show. Brotherhood was a fumbling mess, it started off in a massive rush that left some of the most poignant parts of the story feeling underwhelming and disappointing (which, it's important to note, means this show CANNOT stand on it's own and nearly depends on viewers having watched the original in order to do the manga's story justice), and most of the second half was a big, long, drawn-out exercise in frustration where it took way too long to do anything. I think pointlessly slow pacing is FAR worse filler than an occasional, useful filler episode here and there. It technically advanced the story more, but I HATE crawling at a snail's pace. It's arguable that Brotherhood's story/plot was better. I think it comes down to what you like at that point: do you prefer a grand plot at an epic scale with a group of characters who are all predictable and clearly good or bad (with Scar being the only source of real "gray area" development), or do you prefer a story that brings you closer to the characters and their relationships (again excepting Winry and Riza with Ed and Mustang respectively) and shows people with a whole lot more "gray area" in their morality and the choices they make, and how the whole plot is centered around the price of sacrifice for making major mistakes. In this case, I preferred the latter, possibly because I've seen plenty of stories with the former and am perhaps getting a little too familiar with them, while FMA had plot elements that are much less common, particularly in anime. Anyway I still have both of these rated a 9 and the manga on my favorite manga list, so meh. It's good to enjoy both |
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| Original is better. Better art style, more cinematic, more cathartic, more mature atmosphere, better explanation of world mechanisms and hell of a lot better soundtrack. Not to mention, the original's version for the homonculi were a million times more profound and intriguing, I would also say that the original had more character development for the main leads. The large supporting cast in Broho ended up being both a plus, yet at the same time, a hindrance to it's quality. Really, there were so damn many of them! So much so that Ed and Al themselves felt like side characters by the end of it all. Whereas in the original, all of the characters who actually mattered got adequate screentime and were fleshed out to their fullest. And finally the shock value and more gritty tone. Not to say that Broho wasn't dark, but the forced shoe-horning of humour just made the whole thing seem a lot more lighthearted and cutesy. Whereas in the original, whatever little semblance of humour there was basically vanished by the second half. And this goes without saying, but that one scene in Episode 50 of the original was one of the most intense and shocking moments I've seen in anime history. |
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