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fullmetal-scar-simping · 2 months ago

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Average fma fan talking about 03 positively: Man, it's such a miracle that the 2003 anime is written even halfway decently! After all, the writers who, as we know, have never written anything in their lives before [citation needed], they had to work while locked in individual underground cells [citation needed], only fed scraps of fma lore by Arakawa herself [citation needed] while her story was actually fully formed by the first printing of her manga in Monthly Shonen Gangan [citation needed] but they were adapting the initial first volume of manga and oopsy-daisy shot past it [citation needed], so they made up every plot beat, character arc, storyboard, and lore change completely on the fly and very randomly [citation needed]. Even though they tried to 1:1 adapt her story [citation needed, contradicted by existing sources], they fumbled the job and butchered her story, characters, and lore. Arakawa sagely forgave them [citation needed]. But somehow it's a cohesive story?! Wow! Even though the story is sad, dark, scares me, makes me cry, violent, gorey, and my fave ships aren't endgame, so -50 demerits. Still, good job team! A treat! A treat for the monkeys working the typewriters at Studio Bones circa 2002-2004! #fullmetal alchemist brotherhood

#something about the way fma fans talk about the writers and animators for the show... I don't like it one bit #it's... perhaps patronizing isn't the perfect word for it but something akin to it #like they're talking down to a gaggle of untrained school children who made their first animated short ever #instead of skilled professionals who actually put time and thought to the story #and weren't just making shit up on the fly per episode #all while acting like 1) the manga was even remotely complete by that point (there was only one tankoban when 03 was given the green light)#2) as if we don't have direct statements from Arakawa and Studio Bones that she provided some materials to them while requesting they creat #their own unique adaptation rather than following the manga #and 3) as if the team didn't plot out their own story & themes that they wanted to explore long before the first batch of episodes aired #(a lot of it is ignorance regarding the production process of animated media)#vent #fma 03

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