Like because the story was foundationally tragic, the writers just found the saddest route they could go… even Scar being in love with Lust’s original… it got too sappy. After that, if you want to see the different direction the 2003 anime took it, finish up the series.Honestly, this series are terrible. The worst is they were oozing potential, but just never went anywhere beyond their gimmick. Amestris’s is different, since father is so alchemically powerful, Alchemest there actually just leech off his latent ambient energy. )I’ve liked all versions/seasons of this show. Since I watched it on TV, the cliffhanger experience was intense -- when each episode ended my sisters and I shouted “No! Somit ist sie keine Fortsetzung. I call it The Chrono cross effect, where you go from having a small cast of well done and explored characters, to a huge cast of cardboard cutouts.Brotherhood/Manga ed: naive child who believed he could get everything he wanted if he tried really hard and nothing bad would ever happen to good people, nobody needs to die, I’ll protect them all! No lessons learned, bad guys gone and now everyone has a happy ending.On top of that, 03 has blatantly better scene composition, foreshadowing, and pacing, most notably with the characters who died, as they were given the time to be actual characters the viewer just expected to be a part of the series from then on, as opposed to being introduced and killed off in the same episode.Brotherhood also skimps out on the extremely important beginning, which establishes ssoooooo much, assuming people were already familiar with it… Which many who saw the show, were not.So, yeah, FMA is literally the only anime I have come across I feel is superior to its manga, and thus, superior to the anime that directly follows it.When comparing FMA and FMAB, I totally forgot that Ed had such traumatizing experiences in the ’03 version. I had feelings towards the characters and their trials in the 2003 version. Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood. Plus I feel like Hohenheims story was also much more interesting to me in FMA: B. For that reason I believe it should be seen first. I will try not say which one is “better”, but point out the key differences and leave the decision up to you.First thing is first: this is a great show for anime newbies. Brotherhood has almost no character development, the vast majority of characters are exactly the same at the end, as they were when they were introduced. The 2003 version had a main theme “Song wise, there is a variety of Jpop and Jrock, of male and female artists of different styles. Barry the butcher is at large and kidnaps Winrey, Ed screws up and winds up Barry’s next victim, tied up, his automail disabled, the powerful alchemist is now just the child that he is, at the hands of violent brutal death. A far greater consequence than what he had to deal with in brotherhood.On top of that, the fundamentals are just better in 03 than in the manga.In FMA 03 Alchemy is bound by ‘equivalent exchange’ which turns out to be a take on the laws of conservation of energy…. But in brotherhood, they skip it to make it more logic, they make the first epispde with ice alchemy and other basic alchemy. Also, they try to ease the dramatic moments with gags way too much and too soon.The 2003 is incredible nostalgic to me but brotherhood is definitely the better version. Afterall human still looking for an answer of how the world is created, so I don’t mind if the plot wasn’t well explained in FMA. Backgrounds were nicely drawn, and action scenes were smooth. The very real concept of making something potent out of almost nothing is fascinating. Thank you for explaining.Two reasons why I want to watch the original fma is because my brothers who are way older than me watched it along with other great animes that aired in the philippines in early and late 2000s and wanted to know what it felt like watching the shows they used to love. Could you expand on what you mean?Just why?
Like because the story was foundationally tragic, the writers just found the saddest route they could go… even Scar being in love with Lust’s original… it got too sappy. After that, if you want to see the different direction the 2003 anime took it, finish up the series.Honestly, this series are terrible. The worst is they were oozing potential, but just never went anywhere beyond their gimmick. Amestris’s is different, since father is so alchemically powerful, Alchemest there actually just leech off his latent ambient energy. )I’ve liked all versions/seasons of this show. Since I watched it on TV, the cliffhanger experience was intense -- when each episode ended my sisters and I shouted “No! Somit ist sie keine Fortsetzung. I call it The Chrono cross effect, where you go from having a small cast of well done and explored characters, to a huge cast of cardboard cutouts.Brotherhood/Manga ed: naive child who believed he could get everything he wanted if he tried really hard and nothing bad would ever happen to good people, nobody needs to die, I’ll protect them all! No lessons learned, bad guys gone and now everyone has a happy ending.On top of that, 03 has blatantly better scene composition, foreshadowing, and pacing, most notably with the characters who died, as they were given the time to be actual characters the viewer just expected to be a part of the series from then on, as opposed to being introduced and killed off in the same episode.Brotherhood also skimps out on the extremely important beginning, which establishes ssoooooo much, assuming people were already familiar with it… Which many who saw the show, were not.So, yeah, FMA is literally the only anime I have come across I feel is superior to its manga, and thus, superior to the anime that directly follows it.When comparing FMA and FMAB, I totally forgot that Ed had such traumatizing experiences in the ’03 version. I had feelings towards the characters and their trials in the 2003 version. Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood. Plus I feel like Hohenheims story was also much more interesting to me in FMA: B. For that reason I believe it should be seen first. I will try not say which one is “better”, but point out the key differences and leave the decision up to you.First thing is first: this is a great show for anime newbies. Brotherhood has almost no character development, the vast majority of characters are exactly the same at the end, as they were when they were introduced. The 2003 version had a main theme “Song wise, there is a variety of Jpop and Jrock, of male and female artists of different styles. Barry the butcher is at large and kidnaps Winrey, Ed screws up and winds up Barry’s next victim, tied up, his automail disabled, the powerful alchemist is now just the child that he is, at the hands of violent brutal death. A far greater consequence than what he had to deal with in brotherhood.On top of that, the fundamentals are just better in 03 than in the manga.In FMA 03 Alchemy is bound by ‘equivalent exchange’ which turns out to be a take on the laws of conservation of energy…. But in brotherhood, they skip it to make it more logic, they make the first epispde with ice alchemy and other basic alchemy. Also, they try to ease the dramatic moments with gags way too much and too soon.The 2003 is incredible nostalgic to me but brotherhood is definitely the better version. Afterall human still looking for an answer of how the world is created, so I don’t mind if the plot wasn’t well explained in FMA. Backgrounds were nicely drawn, and action scenes were smooth. The very real concept of making something potent out of almost nothing is fascinating. Thank you for explaining.Two reasons why I want to watch the original fma is because my brothers who are way older than me watched it along with other great animes that aired in the philippines in early and late 2000s and wanted to know what it felt like watching the shows they used to love. Could you expand on what you mean?Just why?