Which version of FMA do you anons prefer? Manga/Brotherhood or 03?

Personally I feel both versions do certain things better than the other so its hard to pick one over the other

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DRVrwJeZlHs

Brotherhood was funnier

>>279918717
true, Armstrong in particular was great

>>279918583 (OP)
Sex with Lust
Simple as

>>279918583 (OP)
>shonenslop
stop watching anime for children

>>279920296
which version of lust thoughbiet

>>279920502
>DUHHH IM A GAY FAGGOT WHO ENTERS THREADS THAT DONT INTEREST ME DUHHH DUHH DUHH DUHHH

>>279918583 (OP)
brotherhood really rushes the earlier arcs but I still prefer it by far. once the original diverges from the manga it turns into complete and total bullshit.

funny!
also its one guy who identifies as a dual spirit "female" making daily threads of this forgotten slop that got surpasses by frieren in every way.

>funny!
>also its one guy who identifies as a dual spirit "female" making daily threads of this forgotten slop that got surpasses by frieren in every way.

>>279920502
I'll have you know that 03 is dark and mature and seinen on the level of Monster, not kiddie trash like Demon Slayer

Brotherhood is probably the better show overall but I personally prefer 03. Pretty much every scene shared between the two shows is done much better in 03 by virtue of not trying to rush through it as fast as possible. Also I don't think anyone would disagree that the homunculus had a much more interesting origin in 03 compared to Brotherhood.

>>279918583 (OP)
brotherhood's story is actually consistent in quality so that one
03 has better tone, directing, and art design though

>>279924362
I lole both

>>279918583 (OP)
03

>>279918583 (OP)
Manga, neither anime is good.

>>279918583 (OP)
The same fucking thread again and again and again.

>>279918717
>funny

>>279918583 (OP)
Brotherhood because Bradley was so fucking cool

>>279918583 (OP)
Hughes is the best character in the series. 03 gives him the most screentime. Therefore, 03 is superior.

>>279928818
Hughes was cool, but in what world is he the best character? Or a better question, why?

>>279929177
>in what world is he the best character?

>>279918583 (OP)
'03 is the ONLY one worth a damn.

>>279918583 (OP)
03. It's divergences from the source material are usually more interesting than what would later be revealed in the manga itself (see: origin of the homunculi) that being said when it goes off the rails it does so hard (see: Frank Archer) and people tend to completely forget about the filler in the earlier half that is really ass. Oh also lets not forget what the fuck was that movie? Might rewatch it I haven't seen it in over a decade.

>>279918583 (OP)
2003 since it's more atmospheric and darker like Monster while Brotherhood is more like Demon Slayer, just a generic action cartoon with unfunny humor aimed at kiddies and worshiped by stupid ass redditors

>>279930213
Shut the hell up, gay pedo.

>>279930246
Sounds like projection, given how brotherhood fags want to fuck Selim

>Sounds like proje-ACK!!!

>>279930315
>no argument, just deflecting at a false flag
Just face it, you people don't have a leg to stand on. Even most of this thread agrees 2003 was better. Fact is that 2003 WON. Even most maltards have ditched brotherhood for Frieren, you're like the Japanese soldier continuing to fight WW2 decades after it ended. The only legacy brotherhood left behind aside from being overhyped cringe was resulting in the coining of "Fullreddit MALchemist" as a pejorative to describe you retards

>>279930388
The direction in that scene was peak, as it was in the rest of 2003. It led the story to feel more like a seinen

>>279930388
>Fact is that 2003 WON

No one talks about it at all and when they do it's to say that it's the non-canon version you don't need to watch because Brotherhood exists. This will never change.

>Even most of this thread agrees 2003 was better
You can't read.

> coining of "Fullreddit MALchemist"
Nobody says this other than you.

>>279930388
>le protagonist dies... but not really!
peak writing

>>279930503
>le revenge... bad!
Peak writing

>>279930388
>The main character dies but gets revived in the very next episode
2003 actually has the most overdone shonen trope out of both series

>>279930522
if anything it was unbridled rage bad, which it is if you aren't a dumb shonentard

>>279930388
Why do you keep posting this video? Edward doesn't even die it just makes the series look bad

>>279918583 (OP)
What would be the best for a newfag?

Peak art direction

>>279930522
A guy who wants to lead the national being a walking, unchecked murder-machine whose possible more lethal than the Wrath they're trying to overthrow, would in fact, be a bad thing in the world of the story!

>>279930599
03 is probably more appealing to normies. brotherhood has wacky japanese humor which can only be appreciated by seasoned viewers

https://youtu.be/k6b87ZXPuso?si=jMMD9sZIOf9wQM1c
This only scene is deeper than the whole Mangahood.

>>279918583 (OP)
Brotherhood. 2003 went completely off the rails.

>>279930684
Filtered maltard

>>279930692
I can keep going with 2003's OC retardation if you'd like.

>>279930769
Hey remember that character from an early arc who was supposed portray a theme of being able to stand up for yourself and overcome past hardships much like the Elrics did? Yeah, that fuck that noise. Let's turn her into a traumatized mute with a rape baby because this is a DARK and MATURE anime, you guys.

>>279930664
>even when our eyes are closed, theres a whole world out there that lives outside ourselves and our dreams
fucking chills, man

>>279930849
Also filtered

>>279930599
Watch until episode 7 or 8 of 03 but skip episode 4 because it's non-canon filler, and then start over from Brotherhood. BH rushes some beginning stuff because they assumed everyone watching it would have seen 03 and didn't want to spend too much time on it.

>>279930636
>brotherhood has wacky japanese humor which can only be appreciated by seasoned viewers

It really doesn't.

>>279930849
But that literally is dark and mature, just like Monster

>>279930877
just read the fucking manga at that point

>>279930881
It's not just that it's "mature" like Monster, it also has that classic early 2000s animation while Brotherhood is more modern and soulless, FMA 03 and Monster are almost contemporaries after all, with the latter only coming out in 2004. Also compare it to Kino's Journey (2003) or Haibane Renmei a bit earlier (2002). God what a soulful era of anime

>>279918583 (OP)
Manga has actually deep characterizations of the various people Edward interacts with, which is important because it's a story about him growing up and truly dealing with his immature hubris. Even the short jokes exist to deliver a very important message and gauge his maturity, as he ultimately stops getting worked up over them. Most characters represent particular personality archtypes which hammer against his ego and the end of the manga is ultimately the resulting synthesis of all these interactions and how they shape his perception.

>>279930970

>>279930941
early 2000's is literally the era when anime looked the ugliest though. sure FMA managed to look fine but these are exceptions

>>279930983
No it was soulful and made artistic use of a still novel technology, you probably call ADHD zoomer slop like JJK and Solo Leveling "peak" because they have flashing colors and images

>>279930941
https://youtu.be/LOi0Lo3qxig
Brotherhood is literally darker and better animated.

>>279931018
no anime looked best in the 80s and 90s
but yes modern anime does look better than early 2000s shit

>>279931024
Lol. lmao even

>>279930881
Hey now, don't rope Monster into this lame-ass, 15 years-long pissing match. Monster has a normal adaptation.

>>279931112
Left looks like shit. So much drama for just putting his hands on the ground.

>>279931262
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>>279918717
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>>279918583 (OP)
Manga/Brotherhood, although 2003 did had some superior moments und feels.

This >>279932164 is a retard and suffers from some kind of hard autism.

Hey guys, i liked the FMA manga and both adaptations, should i read Silver Spoon? Is it good? And does it have a satisfying ending? I heard Arakawa got sick so she had to end it prematurely but idk HxH should have also ended years ago and it's still going.

bump

>>279930983
Nah.

>>279918717
This. Also it has a higher MAL score so obviously it's better.

>>279918583 (OP)
The original has a much stronger first season but then completely shits the bed once it ran out of source material. Ending up on
>MUH NAZIS.
might possibly the worst anime ending I've ever seen.

Brotherhood gets infinitely better once it diverges from the original. And its ending is coherent and solid.

>>279935060
have you actually watched this anytime in the past decade
its animation is atrocious

>>279935060
Is this show worth watching? I could never tell if it becomes anything more than a story about a guy addicted to porn. But it has a high rating so I assume its plot goes somewhere

>>279935231
It's simplistic and manages to look human, unlike newer anime that relies on computerized effects.
Whenever people say "2000s anime looks trash" they always seem to forget Bones and Gonzo.

>>279918583 (OP)
FMAB, because 03 is fanfiction and already has some weird anime shit like the incestuous fujobaiting between Ed & Al, as well as Ed & Envy, and even pedo Ed and Mustang.

It also goes woke by trying to make a literal Nazi Germany allegory and boiling the conflict down to “brown people good, whites bad!”

Meanwhile Brotherhood is simply kino, free of wokeslop as well as weird anime tropes such as pedo and incest, it’s what all anime should try to use as the standard.

>>279935571
>FMAB, because 03 is fanfiction and already has some weird anime shit like the incestuous fujobaiting between Ed & Al
Where?

>“brown people good, whites bad!”
How?

>>279935416
Gonzo used CGI whenever they could though and NHK was chock full of traditionally drawn QUALITY too

>>279935646
>Where?
Anon hasn’t watched the 03 movie I see…

>>279918583 (OP)
2003 is superior but it ran out of material. It's not like the material FMA:B worked with was awe inspiring but it feels more complete.

>>279918583 (OP)
I don't even know what version I watched, they're all so similar that trying to figure it out confuses me and makes me think I've seen both even though I only watched one.

>>279931112
Even in comparisons like this I don't have a clue which one I saw.
Got any like this but for the scenes with the dog? Maybe watching that in full would settle it for me.

>>279918583 (OP)
I was actually going through the SA FMA03 thread from back when it was airing and saw something funny.

You obviously don't want to have a discussion. Don't make these threads if you don't want to discuss things. This isn't a place to advertise dumb ideas.

>>279928601
Bradley was basically a slave

>>279937749
There’s nothing wrong with modern female mangaka though? They’re always pumping out some interesting stuff like Houseki no Kuni or Fumetsu no Anata e

>>279918583 (OP)
>03?
03 was a very typical early 2000s anime. Broterhood feels like a more cohesive experience.

>>279934925
Silver Spoon is a very different work from FMA. It's a slice of life and one of the best SoLs out there. It didn't end prematurely. Arakawa had to take care of sick family so chapters came out slower and there were multiple hiatuses, and the story kind of rushed through the third year. But it does have a real ending. The ending does seem to be how Arakawa always intended to end it.

>>279937749
Can you tell FMA was written by a woman? Like how you can tell Inuyasha was a Shonen manga written by a woman. Not in a bad way, just different sensibilities.

>>279930624
honestly that's the least of it. the whole country was minutes away from being destroyed and roy thought the best use of his time was to walk around a basement torturing a retard for however much time that entire sequence took.

>>279939714
He set civilians on fire in the civil war as well, made him unlikeable as a character

>>279935060
amazing show, but this and many other gonzo anime looked like trash. don't know what the fuck point you're trying to make

>>279939007
Inuyasha? You can easily guess.
School girl with her cat-boyfriend.

FMA? Not really, specially because some female characters are one-dimensional in there. (Winry)

>>279946476
Winry is a 2 dimensional character

>>279930849
People like this >>279930881 are just here for the ~atmosphere and dark aesthetics~ without caring about the writing. Rose is the worst written character, her trauma is literally done for plot device and she's treated like a retarded doll for the remainder. Not to mention how rape does not mean mature, Mirai Nikki had that shit and is labeled a shounen lol. Monster is also a completely different show ffs

>>279935571
Mental illness

Sex with envy.
Send tweet.

>>279952776
that's a man

>>279953299
out of 10!

>>279930899
Manga's better than both, as is often the case, so that's a solid rec.

>>279938331
I forgot how quickly Brotherhood improved

>>279918583 (OP)
I'm a contrarian so I prefer the less popular one

It's interesting how both FMA adaptations were done by the same animation studio only a few years apart, and they are distinct enough in tone and plot to be considered separate shows. Has that happened often?

>>279953934
Shaman King and Evangelion were both remade years later by the same studio, although the latter is anime original.

>>279930979
This isn't even a hot take but I feel like FMA did a better job at being Naruto than Naruto.
>>279918583 (OP)
I still find it funny how my brother got on my case for watching anime (including these two) on the computer unless it was Naruto. He didn't get like that until he got back into it.

>>279931024
This honestly seems like pretty conclusive evidence. I don't know how anyone could argue with this.

>>279930388
>my webm is being used for shitposting
Kinda based ngl

>>279946476
Winry is a good character, the males are generally 2d though.

>>279930388
>Even most of this thread agrees 2003 was better.
If I understand this correctly, is your motivation to just make the same retarded thread over and over until everyone realizes your nuts and doesn't want to talk to you any more, then you can feel like you won, or is this just "bait" or more accurately some humiliation fetish

>>279918583 (OP)
Manga > FMAB > 2003
Ultimately FMA 03's problem is that they follow a more formal way of storytelling. And they go into obvious real-world parallels. While Arakawa needs to improvise on the spot, especially in the third act. But at the same time she brings something unique to the series. She played up Greed and Wrath's rivalry and ended up with the best fight in the series. Everything else about the finale is disappointing. But '03 disappoints after it starts to be just its original material. When it hits, does it hit harder than FMAB? Yes, especially the lust and scar relationship. But is it as consistent as FMAB? No.

>>279918583 (OP)
Is funny schizo the saviour of /a/?

>>279918583 (OP)
03 was much cooler/had actual soul. The emo drama made everything more interesting

>>279918583 (OP)

Original FMA had, no doubt, the best pacing and atmosphere but it deviates rather early from the source. The original content does have some mildly interesting concepts that give both homunculus and the other side of the door an interesting flavor (You need to watch Shambala though) but all things considered i still prefer Brotherhood myself.

I just like how it accounts for all the characters involved in the plot and gives everyone a part to play. I like how they all have to fight back together and how Ed only arrives at his goal because all these people he meet along the journey.

>>279918583 (OP)
Manga/Brotherhood, 03 added too much fanfiction in the beginning and went full retard later.

Someone made a 5 and half long hour video painstakingly dissecting and comparing them.
https://youtu.be/yfkKvny7mGY
As a spoiler, the 2003 version is not good at all.