>why isn't there a jrpg based on defeating heckin racism!!
Because the westoids have that one covered.

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>>745841532
>ignore the manga

>>745841532
looks like nobody cares about her new series huh it came and went and people still talking about this lol

>>745841532
Based. 2003>Brotherhood

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>>745841532
Because most people are told "the manga is better"
So they think the manga is always better.

FMA has a godlike start but the woman writing it is actually not good at storytelling and she fumbled it hard. For her FMA was a fluke. You can't tell by the interviews and how she sees her own characters and stories. She is very shallow and has no idea what she is doing.

The 2003 anime is a much better story and uses the established characters and world much better. But people will never look past the fact that "it's not like the manga"

The manga/brotherhood is shit. It abandons everything that the beginning establishes, turns it into generic shounen shit and all the retards eat it up.

but the good thing about 2003 FMA is that it has the hardest normie repel, so it's gatekept for the rest of eternity, and retards can't ruin it. Only people with actual free will, and humanity can appreciate it for what it is.

the games are honestly fine
yeah they're linear and the alchemy is very simple, but they found a fun angle with environment interactions

>>745843373
Arakawa is good at telling stand alone short stories. It's why FMA beginning was so good. The second she does any sort of plotting she shits the bed.

Arakawa has admitted in interviews that she improved on the world building after the FMA 03 staff asked questions about the FMA world.

>but the good thing about 2003 FMA is that it has the hardest normie repel, so it's gatekept for the rest of eternity,

Fma 03 was one of the most popular animes when it aired. Manga purist and Brotherhood anime fandom overtook the fanbase and shat on 03. It's less 03 is normie repellent and more so Brotherhood fans try to gatekeep.

I love 03 and brotherhood for different reasons but the way 03 explained Homonculi was so fucking cool. I really prefer that. Pottery in action.

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based thread. real '03 niggas knew about this hidden gem

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Thoughts on the recently translated Sophie's game?

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>>745843373
Japanese women are much better than western women I think but I still can't seem to get into manga made by women. I like a story that takes itself seriously and it feels like they are incapable of that.

>>745849017
7/10

>>745842368
Maybe it's just that "god stole your brother, are you a bad enough dude to get him back?" is a better premise than "feudal japan still exists the modern world and there are demon n shit lmao"

>>745843373
Trigun anime is also better than the manga, don't let mangafags tell you otherwise

>>745850012
Back in the day I feel like they used to treat adaptations of manga as actual adaptations meant to be a separate work that is designed from the ground up to take advantage of the different medium. Then at some point it switched to being turbo faithful (but only a small section of the story, so in effect an ad for the manga itself).

>>745841532
Fma 03 is one of the best anime ever made, brotherhood had none of the soul and passion behind it that 03 did. The manga is a great read though.

>>745850173
Pretty sure both just outpaced the manga. Trigun is pretty faithful minus a couple early filler episodes right up until like after he fights the first gung ho gun guy

I like both 03 and manga/brotherhood
>inb4 NOOOOO YOU CAN'T LIKE BOTH YOU HAVE TO CHOOSE A SIDE REEEEE
fuck off, you are not special because you like one and shit on the other

>>745841532
>Manga sucks
>Best manlet joke of all
>Olivier Mira Armstrong no fucks given wild ride
>Edward is more competent as MC
>Bradley having full spotlight in his chad moment
>Final fight is ends up with Edward going "fuck it we brawl now" and becomes a street brawl disposing manga's magic entirely like MANga should
>Sucks
The only bad thing in manga was killing Hughes too early, homoculi being more foddery than serious threat as in 03 and not having the emotional weight 03 had but it's very solid

>>745841816
Nobody loves you.

>>745851580
Well if you are tasteless faggot who likes battle manga then why not

>>745852228
HnK shadow slander will not be tolerated.

>>745841532
>Dante

OH HELL NAW!

>>745843373
I wonder when people will given the same level of appreciation towards 2003 like many do with adaptations like Rurouni Kenshin Trust and Betrayal and Ghost in the Shell 1995.

>>745843373
It really is. Brotherhood is fine, but 03 is more mature, bittersweet ending and all. Despite a few kino scenes we don't talk about conqueror of shamballa

2003 is babies first anime.

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>>745841532
I heard the sequel is actually better than the first one which is the one I played.

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>>745851580
The worst part really is Hughes death. I was doing a rewatch with some coworkers during downtime and it really is sudden. Like by the 5th episode he's fucking gone.

>>745843373
I liked both. I thought the first half of FMA was better than Brotherhood, but preferred how Brotherhood wrapped up.

>>745852952
that's naruto.

>>745842368
>>745849941
Its because FMA has existed as an anime for 23 years and DotSR has existed as an anime for about five months.

>>745843373
>>745850012
>>745852482
The issue is that 2003 shits the bed for the entire last quarter and the ending is a legendarily bad cliffhanger that only gets wrapped up by one of the worst anime film sequels ever made.

>>745841532
the anime sucked so fucking much that they remade it, you are objectively wrong.

>>745843373
>but the good thing about 2003 FMA is that it has the hardest normie repel
what the FUCK are you talking about dude it was on adult swim in the mid 00s and extremely popular then and still popular now.
Retards on this sight will just say anything

>>745841532
Because 03 FMA was a fucking mess and it sucked.

>>745842368
Once you create your magnum opus the rest of your life is basically irrelevant. You think anyone remembers or cares about Dr. Slump or Sand Land?

>>745843373
>Seething 03tard still mad all these years later
03 shat the bed and sucked by the end. Also
>normie repellant
I’ve always seen people who normally hate anime eat it up lol

>>745856206
>GitS
>HxH
>Trigun
>Legend of the fucking Galactic Heroes
Anything that gets more than one adaptation is just automatically an indictment of the original?

>>745856385
No, you're bringing up completely different scenarios to prove the original point right? this isn't grade 3
The POINT, the ENTIRE POINT of Brotherhood was to actually fucking faithfully adapt the series, which the original anime didn't do.

>>745856373
Toriyama made two magnum opuses though. Dragon Ball and Dragon Quest were both enormously successful. Although the latter is only partially to his credit, I guess.

>>745856490
>Dragon Ball and Dragon Quest were both enormously successful.
Dragon Quest is basically dead in Japan and was never a thing anywhere else at any point in time.

>>745856373
I like both dr slump and sand land more than dragon ball

>>745856385
Yes.
>BUT-
No. You have shit taste, shut the fuck up.

>>745849017
Fun gameplay but boring story. Didn’t like the new girl as much as the first game’s. 7/10

>>745854042
Before Naruto it was 03.

>>745856624
Nobody on the planet holds this opinino

Brotherhood is the confirmed insane trannys favorite but the first anime is better to hetero people

>>745856634
>Before Naruto it was 03.
Dragon Ball

>>745856592
30 years of successful games is an incredible track record.

>>745856385
>>GitS
"Remade" because there's never been a manga adaptation.
>>HxH
Remade because the original was worse.
>>Trigun
Not a remake.
>>Legend of the fucking Galactic Heroes
Remade mostly to cashout.
>>745856729
DB and FMA got popular in the west at pretty close to the same time. Z-Day was like 1998 I guess, so five years, but a lot of the big DBZ push was around 2003 from what I recall, I swear Cell got dubbed pretty close to then.

>>745856592
Imagine stating something like this on a videogame board

>>745856795
>successful games
...in Japan and nowhere else, which means Dragon Quest is not comparable to Dragon Ball in terms of success.
>>745856839
I'm on an American video game board and Dragon Quest isn't popular in America.
Unless your DQ thread is about how it's woke, it'll die in about 30 posts because nobody cares about these game and nobody plays them.

>>745841532
There was 3 but they sucked.

>>745842368
It’s highly received in Japan but it doesn’t look like the west cares as much (not that it matters to a jap series) from what I see.

>>745843373
Or maybe it’s just that they liked one over the other? You sound like a retarded zoomie, 03 was plagued by normies and touted as a seinen by insecure fans which is why people mocked it.

>>745856828
>DB and FMA got popular in the west at pretty close to the same time.
No, only in the USA. USA is irrelevant as for anime when it was a good thing, by when the states knew of dragon ball there were among the last in their own continent

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>>745856908
>I'm on an American video game board and Dragon Quest isn't popular in America.
And that board is on a Japanese media/culture site.

>>745856828
>HxH
>Remade because the original was worse.
Today, I'll remind them:

>>745856963
>No, only in the USA. USA is irrelevant as for anime when it was a good thing,
I DON'T FUCKING CARE STUPID ASS SPIC
The implicit idea behind describing baby's first anime here is that it's the west (and not the fucking southwest, the west everyone actually cares about, North America), so America is the MOST relevant aspect of this discussion.
>>745857032
>Today, I'll remind them:
By reposting an ancient image that highlights one episode of 1999, and ignores the fact that 90% of the show is offmodel slideshows

>>745857032
You forgot to read the rest of my post where I pointed out how DQ isn't discussed here.

>>745843373
>Cardcaptor sakura
>Writen by women
>FMA
>Writen by women
Both have better anime (filler) than the original manga, very interesting

>>745854042
Naruto isn't even an anime

>>745857032
How did anime animators forget how to do dark?

>>745857092
>The implicit idea behind describing baby's first anime here is that it's the west (and not the fucking southwest, the west everyone actually cares about, North America), so America is the MOST relevant aspect of this discussion.
>coping this hard about geography
No, you were dead last to join the party; you're not relevant, you're the weird kid in the corner barely speaking in the bash.

>>745857139
>amount of discussion in a basquet weaving corner of internet equates to success
Stop talking, you're making yourself dumber as you go on

>Amestris (european-like country) is run by a deep state
>the deep state guys running the country from the shadows come from the desert
>even so, they can blend in with the people of Amestris just fine
>they hang out deep down in tunnels
>they engage in weird rituals (even for alchemists standards) like sacrifices, drinking blood and such
>ultimately the deep state wants to kill all the people of Amestris
>the higher ups that know about the deep state still collaborate with them, either willingly believing in their promises/lies, or blackmailed
>those that find out too much get killed in never solved cases
what did SHE mean by all of this?!?!
and why 2003 babies shy away from this kind of plot?!?!

>>745857225
>you're not relevant
He's says on the American website, speaking to Americans about American conceptualizations of popularity while inserting his retarded actually irrelevant shit into it.
When people call FMA03 "baby's first anime", the only people that could possibly be saying that are American. Your countries didn't have internet and computers in great enough numbers during the time FMA03 was that consistently recommended, so it wouldn't be that for you, it'd be some fucking robot show like Voltes V.

>>745857092
>By reposting an ancient image that highlights one episode of 1999, and ignores the fact that 90% of the show is offmodel slideshows
>ancient
If you call 2010 ancient, I guess. But I wouldn't call HxH remake ancient myself

>>745857182
Digital tools. The bane of lighting shades

>>745848371
>a fan game that uses stuff from the manga
lol

>>745856717
Tbh I’ve only encountered female trannies who’re 03 fans. There’s even a crazy one who’s rumoured to have cut her leg off, foid 03 fans are mentally ill beyond belief.

>>745857092
USA are braindead cattle and everything made from them is absolute dogshit, they can't event copy paste shit even

>>745841532
Greenling solos everything the 2003 fanfiction ever did

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>>745857345
>He's says on the American website
about Japanese culture, sanpaitachi.

>>745843373
>but the good thing about 2003 FMA is that it has the hardest normie repel,
Are we really going to pretend 2003 FMA wasn't extremely popular with normies at the time? I remember many people who otherwise hated anime that liked it.

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>>745857345
>speaking to Americans

>>745857298
>[Dragon Quest] was never a thing anywhere else at any point in time.
>"Imagine stating something like that on a video game board."

>I'm on an American video game board and Dragon Quest isn't popular in America.
>"And that board is on a Japanese media/culture site."

>You forgot to read the rest of my post where I pointed out how DQ isn't discussed here.
>">amount of discussion in a basquet weaving corner of internet equates to success"
>"Stop talking, you're making yourself dumber as you go on"
I think you're confused, as this entire discussion was about how DQ isn't popular outside Japan and you brought up how we're on 4chan, where DQ also isn't popular. Again, there are no DQ threads here.

>>745857378
>>745857414
>>745857442
It's sad that you're like this.

>>745857439
normie are retarded and 2003 was 23 year ago anon kun, stop pretending any single one of them care or will ever care about fma 2003

>>745857593
>instant conced
at least you are aware

>>745857354
>If you call 2010 ancient, I guess. But I wouldn't call HxH remake ancient myself
I called the image ancient because it showed you had no other argument beyond reguritating some shit someone else said over 15 years ago.
I know the guy who said that, and you probably don't even know where that image is taken from.

>>745857525
>think you're confused, as this entire discussion was about how DQ isn't popular outside Japan and you brought up how we're on 4chan
And you're the confused one since DQ have seen success and constant released outside Japan, how do you think they kept doing that if isn't popular to some degree?

>Again, there are no DQ threads here.
And again; not having threads here, a tiny corner of the massive web, doesn't make it a flop. That logic Half life 3 and Star Citizen are among the most successful games ever made

>>745857660
>lying on the internet
Evidence of your connection to said guy.

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>>745857182
This is what happens when you decide to be "faithful to muh manga." Most manga are chock full of blank white background panels just because of how the medium works. Obviously some mangaka pay strict attention to the backgrounds and make really nice ones but in this case this is accurate to the source material.

>>745857439
This dumbass >>745843373 clearly wasn’t there at the time, it’s just a larping zoomie pretending to be sophisticated over liking what was actually a popular basic bitch anime of the early 00’s kek

>>745857695
>And you're the confused one since DQ have seen success and constant released outside Japan,
About three times total across nearly 40 years of releases.
>how do you think they kept doing that if isn't popular to some degree?
Because it makes enough money in Japan that the costs to localize are negligible.
Obviously it's not super successful since the MMO didn't get localized and Square Enix just stopped releasing the games for a full five years until Horii forced them to start releasing them again.
>And again; not having threads here, a tiny corner of the massive web, doesn't make it a flop.
You're the one who brought up the fact that we're on 4chan, and I had to point out that nobody talks about DQ on 4chan.

>>745857596
>normies from 23 years ago don't exist anymore

>>745857742
>Evidence of your connection to said guy.
He's a former anime blogger. If you talked anime in the 00s and 2010s you knew every blogger that had any overlap with you.
His original 99 vs 2011 post is still up even.

>>745857840
>About three times total across nearly 40 years of releases.
I count

>releases on 3DS
>releases on PS2 including a remake
>releases on NDS
>More than one game per system.
Your math doesn't add up.

>Because it makes enough money in Japan that the costs to localize are negligible.
That's cope. The real answer is they sell well enough outside Japan proving they have an audience.

>You're the one who brought up the fact that we're on 4chan, and I had to point out that nobody talks about DQ on 4chan.
Stop looking for excuses, you won't find any empathy after the level of retarded shit you spouted

>>745853023
The second and third games have much much better gameplay with the latter being the best.

>>745857859
He probably means the ones who only watched it once and never again. A lot are like that.

>>745857898
Hearsay. Waiting for evidence.

Funny, Brotherhood used to be considered the definitive way to experience FMA. What caused the turnaround?

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>>745858074
>Funny

>>745858012
I was referring to mainly just the success part and it seems you meant "consistent releases" or something, which is odd since you chose two platforms that skipped a majority of the games released on them.
Like 3DS only released two of the what, seven or eight that came out?
I don't even know what you mean by "on PS2 including a remake", the remake never left Japan and only one DQ released on PS2.
>That's cope. The real answer is they sell well enough outside Japan proving they have an audience.
No they really don't. The DQM subseries persisting outside of Japan is proof enough of what I'm saying.
>Stop looking for excuses, you won't find any empathy after the level of retarded shit you spouted
That isn't an excuse, that's literally what happened dumbass.

>>745850012
The original Trigun anime is easily one of the best of its time, if not all time. The manga is fine but has some serious pacing issues that the anime handily fixes. Stampede is dogshit through and through.

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>>745858063
Evidence of what, that I knew a guy 15 fucking years ago? I'm not a schizo, I don't keep receipts on every single person I meet.

>>745858074
Tribalism is nothing new in the FMA fandom desu

>>745858114
lol I wonder if the schizo’s here

>>745858171
>I was referring to mainly just the success part and it seems you meant "consistent releases" or something
Yeah, constant releases are what happens when something IS, in fact, popular at some level. What else did you think?

>which is odd since you chose two platforms that skipped a majority of the games released on them.
Like 3DS only released two of the what, seven or eight that came out?

You have no way out; DS/3DS saw even the release of spin-offs. So clearly DQ was popular outside Japan

>>745858212
>Evidence of what, that I knew a guy 15 fucking years ago? I'm not a schizo
Then don't dare such claims if you don't have something to back them up

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Can anyone tell me the ps2 gaems of FMA me andy bro got hard filtered by one 20 years ago i think it was a truth boss or a black homunculi with multiple eyes

>>745858314
>Yeah, constant releases are what happens when something IS, in fact, popular at some level. What else did you think?
That proves DQ isn't popular then.
It went on multiple hiatuses and the only thing that changed was that Horii got more involved and pushed for more western releases.
And the "multiple releases" are largely things that SE barely talks about outside Japan and doesn't really advertise. Like, the last two "major" DQ titles got shown off a grand total of ONE TIME EACH before release outside Japan. They literally didn't want to pay for the Nintendo Direct ad space for 1&2 outside Japan.
>You have no way out; DS/3DS saw even the release of spin-offs.
3DS literally didn't though lol.
You contradicted your own point.

>>745858379
Yeah man, let me pull up skype chats from 2012 to sate your worries over whether or not I'm telling the truth, in an attempt to dodge my original point that you're just regurgitating canned arguments you don't even know the origin point of.

You know what? I don't think you've even seen the original Hunter x Hunter anime.

>>745858512
>That proves DQ isn't popular then.
Having constant releases overseas proved some game is not popular?

>3DS literally didn't though lol.
I think one of the spin off released on europe. Not sure on that tho. You can replace it with Dragon Quest builders on Switch/PC if you want

>>745858593
>You know what? I don't think you've even seen the original Hunter x Hunter anime.
You only can't bring evidence of your own claim and coping in the most retarded way possible. I haven't seen the new one. 98 is way too good on its own

>>745858685
>Having constant releases overseas proved some game is not popular?
If you kept reading you'd see that I pointed out how it didn't.
>I think one of the spin off released on europe.
It did not.
>You can replace it with Dragon Quest builders on Switch/PC if you want
A game released several years later, wow.
They skipped every spin-off and even a mainline title on 3DS.

>>745858763
Because "evidence" is irrelevant to the discussion. Even if I did have "proof", I wouldn't fucking post it for some retarded ESL on 4chan because only an asshole would be leaking skype accounts so some sped can go bug people, and you prove that you're just here to be a contrarian faggot who hasn't seen either anime.

>>745858767
>If you kept reading you'd see that I pointed out how it didn't.
A simple google search can give you the timeline release of DQ games along the way. Your hiatus cope has little weight when the series has seen consistent entries along the systems and years despite inner issues leading to low or extended time for a new main entry.

>They skipped every spin-off and even a mainline title on 3DS.
They released a remake of it.

I just like how 03 handled the homunculi. Lust, Envy, Wrath, and Sloth were handled a 100x better better with their direct links to the main cast.

And I liked the argument between Dante and Ed, was cool to see a sort of final battle and denouement just be a philosophical debate.

Shame Shamballa is dumb, I love the concept of it, but damn was it retarded.

>>745858839
>Because "evidence" is irrelevant to the discussion
That's a new cope. And no; evidence is everything is any given discussion, you simply don't have it or refuse to. No skin off my back since you were the one trying to get a high ground with it. Godspeed

>>745858970
>A simple google search can give you the timeline release of DQ games along the way.
Yeah the series died after Dragon Warrior IV and four games shit the bed in a row, then it died again after they tried to revive Dragon Warrior on PSX and GBC, it lived BRIEFLY from 2005~2010, and then died again from 2011~2016, and since then Horii has been pushing for western releases because that was his entire goal way way back in 2005 with the merger.
>They released a remake of it.
DQXI on PS4 isn't a remake. It and the 3DS version released at the same time.

>>745859056
To return to the actual discussion, you haven't seen either anime.

>>745859040
Ed being told the world/ee was unfair and breaking down even after he witnessed what happened to the sand land and the girl that got raped was funny in retrospect

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So any good FMA games? Preferably undubbed.

>>745841816
atlus did it twice with persona and metaphor, chud

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>>745843373
My boy Ling alone makes Brotherhood better

Isn't FMA owned by Sqaure Enix? why don't they just make a good game

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>>745860193
>Square Enix
>good game

Where my silver spoon bros at?

>>745857442
Lay off Bob you asshole

Even as a kid I thought something was off with FMA after like halfway through. It all made sense when I found out they ran out of source material and made shit up

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Hmm

>>745849017
tomboy schoolgirl sexo

03chads rise up

>>745843373
TRUVKE

>>745849017
I got bored

>>745856180
Yeah, there's a sharp decline when Ed goes to WW2 world.

>>745849224
after god is pretty good

>>745856457
By that metric it failed immediately since it starts with an original episode.

>>745856294
Normies weren't watching anime in 2003 lmao, did you grow up sheltered or something?

>>745841532
I generally like 2003 FMA, but the ending is still as bad as I remember it. and the movie after is even worse.

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>>745862659
>Normies weren't watching anime in 2003 lmao
bait or zoomer

>>745862647
It's also funny seeing some comparisons between Brotherhood and the manga and seeing that some stuff Brotherhood cut out was actually covered by '03, like the train scene and the masked attacker during Ed and Al's training, and even maintains some of the changes that '03 made like not having Rose hiding inside Al while confronting Cornello. It's legitimately a shame that Brotherhood isn't the definitive absolutely faithful adaptation it gets touted as, and that '03 isn't perfect in the execution of its own original ideas. They both could have done much more than what they did.
Oh, Conqueror of Shamballa. It's too bad you came out during a time when 4-hour anime movies were considered inappropriate.

>>745841532
You can't capture that soul anymore. FMA 2003 and Hunter x Hunter 1999 are on another level

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>>745862885
>No argument

Why don't muricans like 2003's ending? Do they always need to have happy conclusion or where the protagonist punches the problem away. Is this why you like battle garbage so much?

>>745863563
So it's bait.

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>Chimera Tucker
>Cyborg Archer
>Alchemy is powered by the dead souls of "our" world.
You will not make me care for 03

>>745864902
I'm not murican

>>745864902
if you think the manga's ending is a happy ending its not, its bitter-sweet and a hint of nostalgia, not a "happy-go-lucky" ending: they lost family to them, they have to live with consequences that were caused by their stupidity in the first place and they go into self-forced exile to compensate for it. maybe you retards can't read between the lines into why that's a huge motif in it the theme of the manga is dark and emotional gloom throughout that does not translate to the anime at all because they dumbed it down to a bunch of shounen tropes rather than socio-political commentary that mirrors the second world war and church/science argumentations.

>>745841532
2003 is only good up until Lab 5. The whole deal with Lust being their mothers revived corpse is fucking dumb, and so is alchemy being derived from war and death and shit in the real world. Truth and the dwarf in the flask are way more kino than that weak shit.

>>745864902
Ed lost his fucking leg, his mother, and his number 1 talent. How is that happy?

>>745864902
it's not just the ending. The whole 2nd half is garbage. You can almost pinpoint when they ran out of material since the writing and developments have such jarring changes from the beginning. It's a shame because it's a great adaption up until then

>>745864902
Maybe it’s because the isekai shit was retarded compounded with an awful movie that has a terrible send off to everyone else but the bros?

>>745862659
>Normies weren't watching anime in 2003 lmao
I remember SPECIFICALLY there were dragon ball toys at burger king post 9/11. Right around the time they had those fries you could coat with the cheese dust. And pokemon was also the biggest franchise in the world at the time. If dragon ball, pokemon, and sailor moon because that was big as shit too, don't count as anime then what the fuck does?

>>745843373
Brotherhood just turns way too generic after the Father confrontation. That and there's lots of obvious issues that pile up like how Greeling hard counters Wrath but conveniently never fully armors up when they fight so he gets raped every time. Also stupid shit like
>well you blinded this eye...but how about THIS one *reveals identity*
>*Ling casually jumps through window and runs away

>>745865592
>almost pinpoint
Its Lab 5. It's directly at Lab 5. From then on the quality TANKS.

>>745865634
I think that’s bait because surely nobody is that retarded.

>>745865674
You'd be absolutely fucking surprised. You can't forget we live in a world full of children who had the misfortune of not knowing who Tom is and why evenings on cartoon network were the absolute height of kino.

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>bamham combat
>alchemy abilities
>takedowns with your bro
>switch to play as the other characters too
>removing limiters with greedling
>becoming the ice queen's sex slave

>>745843373
FMA is #1 on MAL, the normalfag anime rating website.

>>745865654
That greenling part was a mental issue he overcame by the end iirc and the other I don’t really see a problem with lol

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>>745865775

>>745865895
Re:Zero doesn't deserve to be that high. All isekai is slop.

>>745865930
Except Yu Yu Hakusho. Not sure if it counts but I'm making the exception anyway. Homie still got hit by a car and went to another world.

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>>745865930
Mushoku is good.

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>>745843373
True. It's just ruined by the cliffhanger and bad movie. Well not ruined. But certainly hampered. I still prefer fma 2003 overall. I'll never re watch brotherhood but 2003 absolutely.

Anyway how is the daemons of the shadow realm?

>>745865870
It was not a mental issue, he literally uses it against Ed before getting raped by Wrath. He fully turns it on to clown on the random soldiers because the writer is a hack. There's also stuff like Heinkel carrying a philosopher's stone without telling anyone for literal months or him and Marco conveniently being written out of the final battle when a doctor with a stone would've been actually useful

>>745866123
As the first Greed before his memories were wiped and gets tormented by it as Greedling. Marcoh is not a fighter and having a stone on the battle field where the big bad wants more lives isn’t a good idea.

>>745865731
What was that thing they said on toonami when dbz was at it's height in America?
>60 million people can't be wrong
I might have the number wrong but I remember thinking damn those are high numbers.

>>745865895

Weebs have the shittiest fucking taste in anime, holy fuck.

>>745866112
It starts out really strong for the first few chapters but Arakawa's writing takes the wheel, quickly. There's a lot of cool shit in both the anime and manga, but the stakes basically evaporate and the manga is only just getting to a point where they introduce the actual antagonists. It was way too early for it to get an adaptation. It wouldn't shock me if they pulled a FMA2003/Soul Eater, where they just make shit up and call it a day

>>745841532
FMA ‘03 JRPG would need to have the original season 2 plan instead of the movie to be cool.

>>745866282
He still doesn't armor up despite using it on Ed moments before and he has his memories as Greeling, and Marco was directly heading for the final battle despite never ending up there. Your comments all seem fucking retarded

>>745866336
I couldn't tell you. Probably because it's been over 20 years since then. Closer to 25 by now I'd imagine.

>>745866423
Yeah that'd be cool if it got the 03 treatment. I might wait for it to build then. Thanks.

>>745866550
Oh no worries. I found it though if anyone's interested.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7BoUyznFmBs

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>>745865895
2009 list before FMA:B aired

>>745866598
>Peter Cullen VO with DnB backing
God I miss this shit. 00s toonami and adult swim with the nujabes bumps were the absolute shit. We have yet to reach such heights again.

>>745866489
>He still doesn't armor up despite using it on Ed
Remind me of which moment you mean. When he appears as Greedling his memories were suppressed and he introduced himself as the new Greed. After his memories start to fuck with him, he crashes out with Wrath (and Pride in the background) and later runs off because of it. Marco was also outside the fortress when Al was forced to appear underground by Father. Perhaps (You) may be retarded anon.

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>>745866723
>nujabes bumps
WHAT? I found nujabes later in life. I didn't know he did music for it. No wonder I liked it so much.

>>745866669
I’ve seen 03fags say it was dethroned by BHfags on mal but it was ousted long before that huh

>>745866423
I doubt it, I think the manga does actually have enough chapters for a S2.

>>745865634
>>745865731
remember there are indian retards who think they are western/european/american etc on 4chan that are not older than 25 and you are having to deal with their stupid remarks. Pokémon was the hottest shit in the schools in 90s and 00s, Sailor Moon was for women and girls, Dragon Ball for boys and men. Neon Genesis Evangelion was so normalfaggot tier shit back then that even a regular old boomer nerd might have watched it on paid cable channel for Sci-Fi shows before the internet piracy got huge or seen it on channels like Toonami etc whatever was going to air that. Harumi Suzumiya was the most normalfaggot anime regarding that scene's "slice of life"/"school life" anime. Studio Ghibli was basically treated like Japanese Disney in terms of importance and quality offerings and was watched a lot.

>>745865498
Lust wasn't their mother. The 03 version of Sloth was.

>>745866669
>2009
Good year. Although I think 2006 might have been the end of the good times.

>>745867456
I miss goofball sincerity

>>745867456
2007 was the last of the peak times, 2008 was the end of the regular world/matrix hyper reality. never forget the kikes were the ones keeping everyone silent on the reasons why the things got shit to progress their global domination through mass migration. Israel is the modern world's main root of the rot.

>>745867213
Oh man you have no clue. Nujabes did a lot of the soundtrack for Samurai Champloo.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HkZ8BitJhvc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eq6EYcpWB_c
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LC7-opq4Gik
obligatory rip nujabes

>>745867448
>Sailor Moon was for women and girls
You're outta line but you're not wrong. Not like there were a whole lot of anime that made it to the west in the early 90s. I'd say Sailor Moon was pretty well received across the board.

>>745865530
And his arm too.

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I watched 2003 when I was 10 and loved it, but never tried Brotherhood. I watched the first episode of Brotherhood recently and couldn't do it, ended up re-watching 2003 instead.

>>745868738
Nah he got that one back.

>>745865979
>Homie still got hit by a car and went to another world.
And he managed to get home. Modern anime series with Isekai, main character never bothers to find a way to get back home.

Did Subaru find a way to go home yet in Re: Zero? Nope.

Did Kazuma find a way home yet in Konosuba? Shit no.

Did Saito find a way home in Familiar of Zero yet? Fuck no!

Meanwhile at the end of Conqueror of Shambala, Ed and Al decide to stay in the real world(despite WW2 going to happen in 1939 since the movie takes place in the 1920s) instead of going back to their home world and avoid WW2 later in the future.

>>745868418
it was quite literally mainly targeted/marketed to women and girls and had that audience. magical girls do not have a huge male audience appeal in the west especially it didn't in the 90s and 00s, it was seen mostly as "gay", "perverted" or "too girly" to enjoy non-ironically.

>>745869106
go back already to your socialist shithole sub-reddit subhuman jew. reincarnation stories aren't portal fantasies. they appeal to different audiences, you are mentally raped and gaped by your deontology. reincarnation stories aren't about going back but progression towards a better outcome in life. portal fantasies are generally about traversing lands in a quest-like narrative. stranger in a strange land story (isekai generally) is about discovering how one fits within a strange culture and world that's different from their own. instead of narrative forging go learn about script writing and genre fiction.

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>>745841532
Brotherhood is so fucking soulless
Compare Ed confronting that bald priest guy at the start of both it's like night and day
>>745843373
TRVKE
foid can't write

>>745869337
I won't, you won't beat me in literature/theatre kid cred.

>>745869153
it's been 30 years. We can all admit that we watched it in secret. Venus is best girl

>>745869376
I didn't bother with it. even tried to watch some Card Captor Sakura but nah, couldn't get into the whole genre. it lacks any depth.

>>745869106
>Did Saito find a way home in Familiar of Zero yet?
Didn't he though? I thought that was the point of the world gate spell.

>>745869153
And the funny thing, it had plenty of a male audience watching it too. SM was the first anime I watched when I was a kid in the 90s and then started watching more anime after that such as DB and DBZ, Cowboy Bebop, Outlaw Star, Big O, Gundam, Fist of the North Star, Berserk, Jojo, Madoka Magica, Cardcaptor Sakura, FMA 2003, and list keeps going.

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03
>Better soundtrack
>grittier art style but cuter character designs
>Fillers in the first half ranges from ok to really bad
>second half is a trainwreck but still watchable compared to other anime
>overall better OPs/EDs
>movie is dumbkino

Brotherhood
>Only one bad filler
>too much comedy
>OP1/ED1 fucks
>the complete, better story

>>745869431
Assuming you're telling the truth, fag. We've all seen it. Bits and pieces at least because it was on and nothing else was. That shit was mainstream. You expect me to believe you would rather watch the color bar channel or Nick@Nite?
But you totally watched it. Literally everyone did.

>>745869548
>Big O
GOOD GUYS STILL WEAR BLACK

>>745869816
I'd rather watch old movies, play vidya, listen to music and do anything else than that back then. (all things were so much better.)

>>745869985
Fag

>>745865114
You forgot Dragon Envy. Also the big bad being a literal who and having one of the least cathartic deaths in all of fiction.