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Unsuprised_Pika
04/28/23 7:25:38 PM
#1:


Still watching through. Binged like 20 episodes today. I'm on episode...~37 or so.

NGL its gotten the waterworks going a bit a few times.


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Irony
04/28/23 7:26:26 PM
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I guess

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Heartomaton
04/28/23 7:26:34 PM
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The Ninalexander episode made my friend cry. So did the Hughes episode.

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COVxy
04/28/23 7:42:17 PM
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Still like the OG series more, though I think the differences make them enjoyable in a different way.

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RetsuZaiZen
04/28/23 7:45:49 PM
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Start to finish it is probably the best manga story I've ever read.

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refmon
04/28/23 7:47:12 PM
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it's so anti climatic compared to the original anime

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pegusus123456
04/30/23 6:32:53 AM
#7:


refmon posted...
it's so anti climatic compared to the original anime
Really? I think the first one does a lot of things better, but the ending isn't one of them IMO. It honestly just kinda peters out from what I recall.

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averagejoel
04/30/23 7:04:44 AM
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03 is way better than brotherhood.

-tone more conducive to the story; fewer dumb shonen jokes
-more interesting origin for the homunculi
-first part isn't rushed to hell
-no bs redemption arc for scar

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Unsuprised_Pika
04/30/23 9:25:41 AM
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Ivany2008
04/30/23 9:28:04 AM
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The only thing it did worse than the original was Armstrong. I found Armstrong was presented as a far more capable alchemist in the first than in the second. They focused too much on him being weaker than his military sister in the second. While that may follow the manga, it just frustrates me as he is one of my favorite anime characters.
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COVxy
04/30/23 9:31:20 AM
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Seems tc has only seen 37 episodes in or so, try not to spoil too much.

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lilORANG
04/30/23 10:11:42 AM
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Weak ending but a hell of a journey to get there.

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cuttin_in_farm
04/30/23 11:05:27 AM
#13:


averagejoel posted...
03 is way better than brotherhood.

-tone more conducive to the story; fewer dumb shonen jokes


The tone is Brotherhoods greatest weakness, tbh.


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Vegy
04/30/23 11:16:35 AM
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03 fan fiction people in shambles

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saspa
05/03/23 7:08:24 AM
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Well they both have terrible endings. Brotherhood is way too happy-go-lucky with its saccharine ending to an already generic shounen, while the original's ending makes it needlessly unsatisfying and completely missing the point of what we loved about the show we'd been watching up until then. And 18 years later I'm still ambivalent about how they handled the gate and the whole "parallel world to ours" thing.

Still despite that I of course love the original show and I still consider it my favorite anime of all time not counting comedies. The world they created and the concept of alchemy and the relationship between the 2 Brothers and their journey just can't be beat. Not to mention that the anime had a way better thematically tied link to the homunculi origins.

After over 10 years I've soured much less on brotherhood and can appreciate the 1 or 2 good things it had. But watching it as it was airing was miserably disappointing, discovering how it was nothing more than a shounen with none of the character development of the original. And as someone mentioned the whole ridiculous redemption thing for scar was insulting.

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