#fullmetal alchemist yoki

[whosyourfavevoicedby-polls]

[oifaaa]

No joke I honestly think Mei Chang is one of the best characters in fma like this girl at the age of 11 with nothing but a small panda and the clothes on her back crossed a deadly desert that's stated alot of grown adults find difficult to cross, found a serial killer and his weird weasly little sidekick and went yep these are the guys I want to travel with from now on I will also defend this serial killer like im his professional bodyguard despite me being a tenth of his size, finds a sentient suit of armour and proceeds to fall deeply in love with him and later when he asks her to help sacrifice him to get his brothers arm back she does not hesitate and all that's on top of her being an outstanding fighter, alkahester and a princess

[judecopeart]

Some more FMA shitposts

[fmamangacaps]

[the-shrimp-alchemist]

As soon as May got to Amestris she started hearing about this Edward Elric guy and she was sooo excited to meet the Tall Handsome Talented State Alchemist everyone was talking about and live her dream life drowning in his luscious golden locks. And then she proceeded to team up with two guys who wanted to kill Edward Elric personally

[areyousanta]

Q for the pallette game please!

Mr. YOKI BOI

[littleogreboii]

yoki truly is this corrupt rich asshole that was essentially dragged kicking and screaming around the country to help overthrow the government

[andnowanowl]

The sequence of events where a weaselly little man runs over a small child, boasts about it, and then another character throws the body of a genocidal maniac at said child will never not be the funniest thing I've ever seen in an anime.

[capripian]

the train fight from fmab ep 33 is so funny from yoki's pov. youre hanging around with a wanted murderer. he takes you to sneak onto a train. you get caught by a very creepy guy who thinks you're someone else, and the creepy guy starts battling your murderer buddy to the death. they have a whole past and a deep dramatic history. you are just some guy who hates unions now roped into third wheeling a rivalry

[emmikay]

Yoki: That’s blackmail, that is. You could get into a lot of trouble for that-

Ed: Blackmail’s such an ugly word. I prefer “extortion”. The “x” makes it sound cool.

[whosyourfavevoicedby-polls]

[silly-ehggy]

I made a visual representation of what's been happening in my head for the past hour

[sassydefendorflower]

Sometimes a family is a Xingese princess living her best shojo life, a war criminal doctor desperately trying to make up for his past sins, an Ishvalen warrior monk seeking vengeance, and a greedy corrupt little weasel of a disgraced officer.

[fmamangacaps]

[yoki-loves-stars]

just finished s1 of fullmetal alchemist

holy fucking shit

!!do not spoil btw!!

[oatmealaddiction]

Okay but the weirdest thing about the whole "Brotherhood is better you should skip 03" discourse that's become commonplace now, it sort of forgets the world Brotherhood came out in and why you should watch the original Fullmetal Alchemist. When Brotherhood came out, the original Fullmetal Alchemist was one of the most beloved and most watched animes of all time. Brotherhood assumes you the audience have already seen it because of course you have, everyone has seen it, so it skips important information and speeds the story up because it doesn't want to bore you with things you already know. Have you ever wondered "hey why does the first episode of Brotherhood kind of suck, and why am I being introduced to like 50 new characters, and why are they acting like I know what the hell an alchemist is?" It's because Brotherhood thinks you've seen 03.

The first 7 or so episodes of Brotherhood constitute dozens of chapters in the manga, and the first 25 or so episodes of the original Fullmetal Alchemist. The Nina Tucker episode in Brotherhood, in FMA 03 takes up nearly three episodes. Yoki gets a backstory in 03 and it's genuinely one of the best episodes and taken directly from the manga and Brotherhood glosses over it because: duh, you've already seen it. And so if you skip the original you miss out on dozens of really great character building episodes like Ed and Al meeting Hughes for the first time and getting to spend a whole episode helping him free a train from terrorists, or Ed and Roy having a duel that expands on the relationship they have, or episodes where the brothers just help out random people in towns before the major story gets going.

The original also paces itself quite a bit better than Brotherhood and is more in line with the mangas storytelling. In the manga we don't find out about The Gate until nearly two dozen chapters in, and the same goes for the original anime. Like, that's a twist reveal in those stories, and it's weird that the most watched series is the one where they tell you all about The Gate in the first two episodes because they assume you've already seen the original show.

What's more, people don't know that Hiromu Arakawa helped write for the anime while she was still in the middle of writing the manga, and as a result was inspired to write scenes in Brotherhood that the anime did first. That scene of Edward getting impaled by a falling beam? Directly inspired by a similar scene in the original anime. There's a lot of little instances of that and they're great when you can recognize parallels and things in Brotherhood that are direct references to the original anime, but people don't notice any of that anymore. Because the original anime is just an automatic skip these days, and it's a bummer because people don't realize what a giant it was back before Brotherhood was released. They treat it as *bad,* not realizing it was one of the most beloved anime of its time and the problems people take issue with have a lot more to do with personal taste than any kind of actual flaw in the writing. Brotherhood was never meant to dethrone it, and the original anime was always supposed to be part of the viewing experience which is why those first few episodes of Brotherhood are so fast paced. So like, please stop telling people Fullmetal Alchemist 2003 is a skip, or it's bad, or you don't need it because Brotherhood is better. Regardless if you think Brotherhood is better or not, the original wrote Brotherhood's check. It was huge, it was beloved, and Brotherhood is *banking* on the knowledge you've seen all of it and loved it. And trust me when I say there is so much to love about the original series. It's still my favorite branch of the FMA franchise, and it's worth your time, I promise you.