>Introduces a little girl only for her to be subjected to human experimentation for a "sad scene".
Why does FMA:B get so much praise for scenes like this? This just seems like shock value without any purpose.
Introduces a little girl only for her to be subjected to human experimentation for a "sad scene"
Blake Jackson
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Joshua Harris
Can't even fuse properly... Pathetic
Anthony Foster
Idk I dropped this in ep 1
Aaron Gomez
if I remember correctly the guy is evil, he loves turning human and animal into one being and Edward was there to investigate or something
James Nelson
Baby's first Anime
Jack Hall
The Shou Tucker arc is by far the biggest botch in Brotherhood. The 03 version did it all far, far better.
FMA:B doesn't get good UNTIL it and 03 split off.
Owen Clark
No, from the way I remember it Ed is suppose to be there because he doesn't have anywhere to live and partly to find out more about philosopher stones. Which is why it's suppose to be "shocking" that he does what he does to his kid.
Dylan Gray
Forced drama, angst, cringe,... I never understood how FMA:B is considered one of the best anime of all time. It's a 7/10 at most, for solid storytelling (at times) and animation.
Jaxon Barnes
>for solid storytelling
Nicholas Powell
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Seriously, every single aspect of the scene is better here. The lighting. The music (and lack thereof in most of the scene). The pacing. The dialogue. The voicework.
I can't imagine how much of a pussy you'd have to be for the Brotherhood version to be "traumatizing" like normalfags claim it to be. This original version was genuinely heartbreaking, especially since you got a good 2 episodes to get to know and bond with both Shou and Nina. Little touches like Ed figuring things out by misplaced details and piecing things together do a better job showcasing him as being a smart kid, too. Alphonse is excited and awestruck because he doesn't know, but Ed is miserable and quiet because he's figured things out already.
Meanwhile, in the Brotherhood version, Ed's dumb ass is the one smiling and petting Nina before she calls him "Big brother" and that magically sets him off.
William Jones
>wow, I can't believe they Introduced [character] to do [thing I don't like]
>wow, this bad and unnecessary
ResetEra and MAL was a mistake
William Rivera
Still coping that FMA got dethroned on MAL?
Sebastian Cooper
Oh, it did? Lemme check to see what finally did it.
>FOTM Spring 2022 anime
Oh.
That'll last.
Ayden Hernandez
They were trying to rush through content covered by the other anime adaptation so that arc is shit in Brotherhood.
Dominic Cook
So you are angry then? Just checking.
Tyler Price
Not even that user (I'm the one talking about the 03 version of the Nina scene, actually). I think it's high time something replaces FMAB, actually. It just gets tiring to read "SOMETHING TOPPLED FMAB! IT'S HAPPENING! IT'S OVER!" so many times only for the list to be back to normal once the anime that "beat" it isn't new anymore.
Grayson Ross
>so many times only for the list to be back to normal once the anime that "beat" it isn't new anymore.
MAL added a new feature to prevent people from review bombing series with 1/10s so that's not happening
Owen Garcia
Flavor of the month is such a cancerous, newfag term that originated on Any Forums when people were talking about whatever game of the month streamers were playing (like fall guys or among us. It doesn't belong on Any Forums, and anyone using as an insult is probably a fucking shounentard (i.e. FMA).
Carter Lee
This is why I prefer 03 keeping Tucker alive as a monster. It gives meaning to what would have otherwise been a pointless shock value segment only used to introduce you to Chimeras.
Zachary Watson
It's ironic that he would even use it considering FMA was flavor of the month stuff under his definition that's only kept afloat by its rabid fanbase
Kevin Johnson
Cool. Maybe this one will stick, then. Is it good? I'll give it a watch.
>Shounentard
So when SNK beat it a few months back, you were cartwheeling, right?
>Flavor of the Month
>Came out in 2009
>Manga began publication in 2001
Oh, I get it. Nobody in this reply chain knows what that term actually means. I understand now.
Lincoln Nguyen
As someone who isn't autistic about FMA, both 03 and B ruined it in their own ways.
03 by wasting time. That "oh it's more tragic because we got 2 more episodes to know the kid!" is bullshit because anyone with a brain can see the death flags from the very first second you meet them so it drags like hell.
B ruins it by the over exaggeration of the acting in the characters and them stating the obvious in the most shitty battle shonen way.
The theme and point is "traumatizing" in itself, so I don't blame anyone for getting a shock out of any of these versions, after all, if people genuinely like this scene in 03 or B, it's because of the innocent characters becoming an abomination and not because of the way it was presented.
Joshua Brooks
I think there was a subtle indication Mustang was suspicious of him and that was why he introduced the brothers, but they were there to study organic alchemy.
That might have been only in 2003.
Jonathan Watson
>Why does FMA:B get so much praise for scenes like this? This just seems like shock value without any purpose.
Its ok when MiA does it.
Austin Lee
Are you talking about Mitty? If they show you the result first and then explain why the fucked up thing happened, that's the opposite of shock value.
Luke Ross
Nah, nobody would have cared about some arby's looking meat thing without the backstory.
Ian Lee
I have no idea what you're talking about, but the mere fact that you thought FMA not being popular on a forum was some kind of a gotcha pretty much illustrates my point. Why would anyone care? You let a forum believe for you, and you think your opinion matters?
Connor Martinez
>I'm not autistic about FMA
I think your way of experiencing stories is a little disconnected, then - especially if you're implying that the visual techniques in a visual medium aren't important to the delivery of a story moment. It's easy to see what's gonna happen to Nina, sure. But that doesn't mean the rest doesn't matter. It's a Shonen. You're supposed to figure shit out at the same pace as the characters and maybe even a little faster. Going with this approach does well to add anticipation, dread to the foregone conclusion. Tension and release. It becomes less about the shock of the reveal, and more about the unease going into it - which is reflected by the way the scene itself is played out.
Elijah Sanchez
You sound deranged
Luis Evans
Now, all that to say that I UNDERSTAND why Brotherhood rushed it and I acknowledge that many of its pacing problems vanish as soon as we hit new territory. I just think the original is definitely worth experiencing, especially in a sea of modern anime fans who meme on it and pretend it's all bad.
Adrian Sanchez
Nice deflection