#when i first watched fma

[jays-doodle-spool]

currently rewatching fmab

one of the first anime I ever watched and still probably my favorite ngl

[midnightwerewoolf]

Kinda funny how out of the two of them Edward is the one who looks the most like Hohenheim when he was younger.

[stillmadaboutpetra]

the greatest gift ive ever been given is...my wife has never seen FMA of any variation and...her best friend who is my fellow weeb ALSO somehow never watched FMA of any variation which means i get to have a sleepover and make them BOTH watch FMA?????? (also im taking away his weeb card idk seems valid of me to do this) DO YOU KNOW HOW SATISFYING THIS WILL BE? DO YOU UNDERSTAND?

[lady-harrowhark]

Top 5 anime/mangas, fma doesn't count. go

I love that we all know FMA is in a league of its own.

Anyway, top five non-FMA anime in no particular order:

Neon Genesis Evangelion

Ouran High School Host Club

Anohana (full title is Ano Hi Mita Hana no Namae o Bokutachi wa Mada Shiranai if we want to get fancy)

Eureka Seven

This is cheating but I love them equally so I'm putting two into one slot in part because they are similar in some sort of Quality that I can't describe so I often think of them as a pair despite their differences: Toradora! and Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun

[devilsskettle]

i think i'm finally gonna read house of leaves wish me luck

[waitineedaname]

favorite member of the mustang gang not counting roy or riza

probably falman!! initially it was havoc, but I ended up appreciating falman more after all the briggs stuff. the poor guy keeps ending up in situations he was NOT prepared for. I love the stuff with him and barry because it's just so silly and weird, imagine having to babysit a serial killer suit of armor. what even. and then I love him becoming part of the trusted circle in briggs, and I especially love the moment on the promised day where he's absolutely fucking terrified and crying because he thinks he's gonna die, but he holds a gun up to bradley anyway. and then taking charge to keep holding off the central troops while everyone else is dealing with bradley!!! I'm realizing as I type this that I love him way more than I thought. my funny guy who has read every page on wikipedia <3

[thousand-winters]

Rewatching something you watched initially in your teenage years is wild because oh my god, Ed is so small, leave him alone, he looks so tiny in front of an adult wanting to hurt him, leave him alone????

[dont-open-dead-inside-25]

WAIT YOU LIKE FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST I DIDNT KNOW RHAT 😭

I LOVE FULLMETAL ALCHEMIST YOU HAVE NO IDEA

my children:

the love of my life

[guardianspirits13]

I am absolutely FASCINATED by how simultaneously detail oriented and completely disordered the 2nd Fullmetal Alchemist movie is. Like there are minor scenes that are panel-to-panel accurate to the manga. For an exclusively Japanese cast, the care and attention that went into the wigs/makeup/costume design are incredibly impressive, like the entirety of Mustang’s squad is picture perfect. On the other hand, Ling popping up for the first time during the train takeover? Mei having the introduction he was supposed to? It’s absolutely wild but as campy as some of it is you can tell real care was put into this. Also Ed was cast perfectly and even though he is decidedly not played by a teenager, that 15yo rebellious asshole energy is captured PERFECTLY. Say what you want but I consider this a masterpiece tbh

[iris-nonsense]

Sometimes i forget that the greatest pice of shit of fma is this cute little child

[koipalm]

edward elric i miss you. sooo so so fucking bad. my guyest ever....

[thecoffeetragedy]

There’s Trigun on my dash I feel like I’m in high school again!

[rheeses-pieces]

Born in the US (Oklahoma specifically) and my introduction to anime was Studio Ghibli films. I was watching those from the moment I could walk basically. My first anime series though was Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood, and I started in the middle because I saw it from my stepfather watching it in the living room. Years later I watched 03, then went back and fully watched Brotherhood. Fullmetal Alchemist is still one of my favorites to this day.

I didn't even watch Death Note until I was well into high school, and it's because my aunt had the full manga set and gifted it to me one Christmas because she knew I liked anime. As I was reading the manga, I figured I'd watch the anime too, see how closely they followed.

I didn't really like DN that much, if I'm being honest. Love the concept of the book itself, though maybe with a different result aside from death, I don't like the idea of killing, and Light was always so extra to me, too dramatic, even for my dramatic self.

Long story short, no, Death Note wasn't my first anime. I'd attribute "baby's first anime" to something like Naruto or Sword Art Online before Death Note.

That post about death note being "everyone's first anime" (untrue statement) made me curious and now I want to gather data for science

Can you reblog this and tell me where are you from and what was your starter anime?

[weirdbabs]

idk if toonami was airing while i wasnt watching tv or what but somehow i never saw anything from it. the only anime i watched as a kid was pokemon which i didnt know was an anime, dragon ball (z?) which i never saw in order and i would just stay up real late and catch it on adult swim, and one piece which me and my sister looked up on the internet and found watchop.com after our new neighbor recommended it

[katetcake]

"One more episode," I say like the utter fool that I am. "I have time for one more episode before bed."

fma '03 ep 25

[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.