General Anime/Manga/Otaku Thread

[gamemaster1991]

I have the same feelings about that as I have with Trigun. Brotherhood, I think, was way better.

I can't even remotely agree with this because it was basically just the manga down to the word, and since I had already read the manga, I saw no point to brotherhood. For me too, the manga wasn't as good as the original FMA anime because it got so into this odd fantasy element with Greed switching bodies and Ed being inside the endless tunnel that it gluttony's stomach to the different forms some of the humonculi take. Then, how does it all end, Disney style. As if breaking the biggest taboo in the world doesn't matter. Hell, everyone's lives start improving because of Ed's selfish choice and convincing Al to go along with it. The ending for the original anime showed that are consequences for your actions, which is a theme of FMA itself, until the end of it. I am not a fan of that at all.

Isn't that the point of an anime? Being an adaptation of the manga? Isn't that what Dragon Ball and Bleach is? The "problem" (which is only a problem if you really like the source material) with the original FMA is that it out ran the manga and had to make up a new story, which is where all the weird stuff comes from. I really don't care for either shows, even though I do think they are both good. It could be Clannad, the boring anime that fell short in advertising the game (which I hear is also boring but I can't verify).