no one is more shocked than me about the fact that I’m back into fma a decade later

Character ask bingo - why not Belos/ and or Philip or Scar (FMA:B)

Here we go

Belos

With Philip it's pretty much the same (to no ones surprise they're the same person), unless we're talking about baby Philip. Baby Philip can have a kiss on the cheek

And look, two bingos!

Scar

While I'm pretty satisfied with the manga canon, FMA 2003 decided to have him dying in the dirt. I'm chosing ignore that.

No bingo, but many of the options are so mean I just couldn't pick them

hey!

i've seen more of fmab and i can affirm that i love it!! i watch the sub version and i didn't even notice it for hanji's va but i love her too she's SO talented and like, 70% the reason why i love hanji lmao. so far i like most of the characters (they're all so interesting) but i was sad when lust died she was one of my favs.

honestly the chapter hurt in a good way, at least annie can't keep everything for herself anymore. i'm happy you like my "review" because i'm always scared to be irrelevant when i comment on your fics or maybe just annoying but there was so much to talk about in this chapter! and i can't wait for the fluff to come (and more hurt) but also the smut is a very good idea!! smut on a farm sounds hot 👀

also i've seen that you saw the squid game (very good very sad very bitter about ali and sae byeok) and as we've been talking about yelena and annie, in a squid game aot au, do you think they would survive it?

-j

she really is!!! i love romi park she's definitely one of the most iconic anime VAs of all time. i'm glad you're enjoying fma! it's characters are really interesting, i was super into the fandom for a good couple of years when i was 14/15. i 100% agree, i love her and it's upsetting that she's gone so quick. i really like envy too, even though they're a little shit. there's a character that i think you're really going to like that comes in around season 3 i believe? she's the major general in charge of the military fortress in the north & she's an ice queen and a girlboss. my WIFE!!

going off about my baby lust some more because she's a favorite of mine too. in the other version made in 2003, the plotline is different than it is in the manga and she's a major character throughout the anime. in my opinion she's also has the best character arc and her character is even better. fma 03 is super different & a lot darker, a lot of people say really don't like it compared to brotherhood but i personally do. it plays up the horror of the human transmutations a lot more and really really escalates the theme of war.

exactly! now annie will be forced to confront her inner demons. she can't run from her problems forever and it's quickly coming time for her to deal with all the trauma that she's pushed down her whole life. right now she's starting to feel comfortable and at home living in the cottage, but she's never had anything like that before. poor baby doesn't even realize how jarring the transition was from: training fighting war murder genocide hiding lying spying killing more war more murder c r y s t a l p r i s o n even more goddamn war to... reading books and taking care of farm animals? she's pretended like she's okay her whole life because she had to but now she finally has the space to process what happened to her.

your reviews are never annoying! 🥺 please never think that. i very very rarely get people giving me any feedback about how they feel about my fics and it's something that i genuinely crave. as much interaction as i get i so rarely have people tell me they like it beyond "oh that was so sweet!" so the way you add details and tell me the feelings you had during certain scenes, is so wonderful and close to my heart. the only other consistant reviewer i have is @marsbutterfly who is bound by law and our marriage vows to go into the google doc of every single fic i've ever written and leave comments on literally everything thank you baby i love you

SQUID GAME, GOD. (so incredibly good but also so unfair). decided to make another post about this mostly because i already rambled so much in this post and the ask is getting long but i'm putting in in your tag of course

Do you just not life fma or do you not like brotherhood specifically?? Sorry you can ignore!! I'm just curious

Anon, you have no idea how hard this ask made me laugh, I’m sorry. 

Brotherhood was a disappointment, overall. And this is all opinion because objectively it’s a very good show, it just falls very flat for me and that’s in part because the first series (’03) was just so much more into the characters and their motivations. It had a far more nuanced take on the racial issues in the narrative and just felt thematically better overall. 

Of course that’s because the original anime had the very bare bones framework to start with, and their own ending very separate from the manga, given that there were, what, 20 chapters of the manga out in 2003? With that in mind, the story took its time to get you to major story beats and allowed you to grow with the characters. Alexander & Nina, and Hughes had massive impacts because of the time you spent with the characters beforehand. 

All that comes into play against FMA:B, which while a paragon of shonen series, completely falls flat because it is so basically, typically, shonen. It blasts through the first ten episodes recapping everything it assumed you watched in FMA’03 before continuing on with the manga storyline which made a lot of things seem shallow and stupid, considering their reverberating impact throughout the narrative.

(We’re not going to talk about the sheer volume of proper alchemical imagery used in the first series and its mechanics versus what happened in FMA:B.)

Then the series ends in a typical shonen slugfest (Catie, what did you expect?) and it just left a sour taste in my mouth, especially, especially with the oh-so-trend-typical postscript of ‘everyone happy with babies.*’ 

Anyway, a lot of my complaints and comparisons are retreads of far more nuanced topics that better, more eloquent posts have laid out so I’ll leave it at that. Which, all this being said I don’t hate it. I generally dislike it/am disappointed in it, but I’d still rate it a 6-7/10 and recommend it to people who enjoy that sort of thing.