![]() It's not very often that a mistake can end up so well made, though. Even the end was daring, with most of the fighting being a backdrop to hard philosophical discussions, and the revelation of a world that used science instead of alchemy, with madmen operating the armies, that arrived at pretty much the same result. They made an anime that progressively went darker, with the horrors the characters faced shaping them and breaking them, and used the science to draw a parallel to the law of karma, ultimately asking very hard questions about equality of action and reward. It was made, above all, to be fun, with just enough somber moments to be considered smart as well.īONES, however, messed up. Hiromu Arakawa wanted a fun shounen story with a new type of twist in the kind of magic it used, so she made Fullmetal Alchemist the way it was. They looked at the first couple of chapters and concluded that it was about the benefits and horrors of science as told through the metaphor of alchemy, set against the backdrop of military conspiracy. You see, Studio BONES misunderstood the manga completely when they first set out to adapt it. I promise you, each and every sentence in this post is something I very sincerely mean.įullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood should have been everything the 2003 anime wasn't, because it was made with the original story of the original writer, and original equals best, right? Well, there's a slight problem. This is just meant to give a voice to the few, but sizable minority that intensely disagree with its adulation. This will be an opinion the vast majority of the world will not share with me, and that's okay. ![]() FMAB is the highest rated anime in MyAnimeList, which means that the majority of the world considers it to be the best anime they've ever seen. ![]() For non anime fans, this might be a "meh, whatever" kind of situation, and if you're one of them, what are you even doing reading this article? For the others, it's blasphemy.
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