#I'm rewatching fmab and it's still as great as ever!!!

[tyamuffins]

Fma doodles because I'm currently having fmab brainrot :D

[ruinsofxerxes]

nikki my dear id love to hear your thoughts on 03 vs brohood! i just finished rewatching BH & rereading the manga & am starved for more fma content so i started rewatching 03 & its like... so SAD omg i like that ed looks more like a kid & gets to cry like one too (the barry scene! when he has to jam his arm back in & its still mismatched when he claps!!!) & i also appreciate the fluidity of the animation (though i do prefer BH's way of drawing faces & hair) but DANG its sad (& gets weirrrd!)

OOOHOHHOHOHOO YES I'M ALWAYS READY TO GUSH ABOUT FMA AND FMAB VS. 03!! I totally agree with everything you said!! I love both series, but yeaH 03 is sO SAD and so gritty at points. I loved seeing Ed younger and that he was acting more like a kid, he cried more, things like that. That Barry scene--you're killing me over here just making me think about it again!! That was a GOOD episode that really showed that Ed is just a kid and is really in over his head. And I think that theme runs throughout 03 and I really like it (sorry Ed) like when he almost sacrificed all those prisoners for al, and he just looks SO TIRED and SO YOUNG it hurts!! Plus, the homunculi origins!! Ed having to kill his own mom (kinda)!!! Fuck!!!

I've always said how I find it interesting that fmab and 03 have such similar endings that are also vastly different. Al always gets his body back in, and Ed keeps at least one prosthetic in each but loses his alchemy either way. But they're still SUCH different endings!! It's crazy! I prefer brotherhood's ending because I'm a sucker for the happily ever after, the "the journey was hard but everything turned out better than we hoped" sort of ending, but CoS really does hurt so good haha One thing that saddens me about 03 tho was how Ed and Al felt like they couldn't depend on Roy and his team (rightly so tbh) but it was like...these were the only adults they could really rely on and they couldn't even rely on them in the end. It fit with 03's themes well (how the military sucks, how Ed and Al really only had each other), but I'm just a sucker for found family, so the brohood climax where everyone kinda teams up together is GOLD to me lol

But I agree!!! 03 has such beautiful, fluid animation. I prefer brotherhood's hair (like you said! lol) and the colors/style of brotherhood, but I think 03's animation is better. CoS tho......CoS got everything right when it came to animation lol Ed's hair and clothes looked great...the way our world had dimmer colors than Ed's.....SO GOOD

ANYWAY. I'M RAMBLING!! I actually watched brotherhood first! I saw someone here on tumblr talking about it and thought it sounded good! I actually hated it at first but continued to watch it out of spite and by the end, well, I was obsessed. I watched 03 and cos after that and that ending had me sobbing on the floor gripping my giraffe pillow pet for dear life. After that I read the manga and gOSH (I love the animes...but the manga will FOREVER BE SUPREME!!!) This all happened over one summer so when I went back to school in the fall, I was a Different Person lmao

Thank you for this ask!! It's been a while since I've gushed about fma and this was fun!! :D Plus I LOVE to hear about other people's fma stories