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fullmetal-scar-simping · 14 hours ago

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Truly wish mangahood fans would just tell first time Brotherhood watchers to read the manga first to get all the context they need to make Brotherhood suck 1% less, instead of suggesting the broke-ass, tired "watch 03 until it diverges" nonsense.

These continuities do not line up. They do not click into each other. The characters in 03 are fundamentally different from mangahood, the events of fma 03 from episode 1 are fundamentally different to !the manga! let alone to Brotherhood. The way alchemy itself works is fundamentally different and that's pretty obvious when you compare mangahood and 03! So how are you going to funnel newbies into mangahood by feeding them half of 03?

I know we're all hoping new fans are as incapable of engaging with what they're actually watching as most existing fma fans, but it would make far more sense to prepare them by having them actually read the source material that Brotherhood is actually adapting, not an anime that Brotherhood has nothing to do with.

#fma fans continue to ignore glaring details/differences in world building/entire changes to characterization all in order #to fully project what they want to see onto their preferred media #media literacy is not this fandom's strong suit and every day i have to be reminded of this fact #''the 03 debacle'' PLEASE lmfaooooo #the debacle. truly. the debacle of... not being the manga? which we can solve by having new ppl READ the MANGA? what a concept.#is this post kind? no. is this post helpful? if fma fans can pull their heads out of their asses and read sure. otherwise no.#is it cathartic for me though? only barely #i'm the sort who tends to be very ''do whatever you want with stories and media'' but the way fma fans cannot figure out how to square #a poorly paced adaptation with its source material so instead they veer into an anime adaptation that's doing its own thing & lambast it fo #INTENTIONALLY being a different beast; yet treating it as essential for the anime that's adapting the manga is mad annoying #JUST READ THE MANGA #actually engage with stories on a deeper level? No! Cognitive dissonance your way into a fanon-approved Platonic Ideal Fullmetal Alchemist!#fma #vent

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