Fullmetal Alchemist 2003 Appreciation

This is a blog dedicated to the appreciation of the 2003 Fullmetal Alchemist series, which seems to be quite overlooked/dismissed these days. This blog is mostly on queue nowadays, since I'm busy and have other interests. If you want me to see a post of yours, please tag "FMA 2003" because that's the tag I check every several weeks or so. (I mostly reblog nice gifs and analysis posts.)

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Sorry by bothering you by sending you that article. I wasn't looking for analysis or anything, I just thought it was interesting and relevant to this blog :(

Mod Reply: Oh, don’t worry, it wasn’t a bother! I’m completely fine with posting any links/analysis written by other people! So everyone, please still feel free to send me links to things you find interesting, and I might post it!

(Btw, I just meant that I don’t personally have the time/investment to add to the discussion anymore. But I felt that I kind of owed an explanation as to why this blog has evidently not been updating frequently, and I probably should have explained that in a separate post rather than while posting your link. It has nothing to do with what you sent, don’t worry!)

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What do you think of this article?

Mod Reply: Tbh, I’m not super active in the FMA fandom/don’t really actively think about FMA anymore. So currently, I don’t hold enough of an opinion on anything (other than what I’ve already said/reblogged) to really delve into critique/analysis, personally, but I will post this link for others to see.

[waldangerous]

[voca-lee]

@to-ka-ro

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FMA 2003: the world is imperfect; you can work for years and suffer all sorts of hardship for nothing in return. but you can also get beautiful things and not have to worry about the pain you'll need to endure to "earn" them. no matter what you should strive toward your goals because there is nobility in the certain choice to strive forward in the face of uncertainty

FMA Brotherhood: WHAT DOESN'T KILL YOU MAKES YOU STRONGER STAND A LITTLE TALLER DOESN'T MEAN I'M LONELY WHEN I'M ALONE

[aanau]

god i love brotherhood hate so much tbh fuck brotherhood (sorry if you like brotherhood but fuck brotherhood)

listen basically that long post i just reblogged brought up my biggest beef with brotherhood and manga (tho ive never read manga and have heard its better with characters) is that it ignores its characters

i like good plots and i get bored when something doesnt have a plot and is ONLY characters. but whats even worse to me is when its ONLY plot. the characters and plot should drive each other and the characters should be affected by the plot

FUCKING BROTHERHOOD doesnt let its characters recover from trauma and shit

i remember reading ed didnt cry until the last episode and i was like “wtf i remember him having some awesome crying scenes” and then i realized i was remembering 2003, which has BEAUTIFUL and realistic character development and thats when i got super pissed

AND FUCKING AL you know when marta is killed in his armor in 2003 its so fucking horrific and then you have the same thing in brotherhood and youre like “oh no how is al going to feel after this poor thing” and he JUST BRUSHES IT OFF? and later he goes on this rant of “im sick of watching people die” and it just pisses me off like im sorry, al, i didnt even realize those deaths affected you but if you wanna bring them up to motivate yourself to become stronger then sure do that even though its total bullshit

AND NINA! i know nina IS brought up a few times in brotherhood, but every time im loterally like “oh yeah that happened.” And i dont feel anything. When ed says at the end how he couldnt even save a little girl, despite how epic the scene is, i was kinda pissed because it felt like such a cheap thing to mention since i didnt see ed or al actually affected by nina. just feeling sad for her every once in while isnt being affected by it. Being affected by it is when the experience permanently leaves an impact

you get that in 2003. every thing that happens to the brothers permanently affects their growth, rather than it all being episodic events that add to their male protag angst (“what doesnt kill me makes me stronger lol what emotions? What trauma? I use it to fuel my righteous fury hiyah!”), every thing pushes them slightly further to who they end up at the end of the series

i can and have gone on and on on how much brotherhood characters piss me off because they all came out of the series almost the same as they went in, learning concrete lessons but not actually changing psychologically/realistically nor GROWING, and how every character got what they originally wanted in the way they wanted it. and imo, thats BAD character writing. It works sometimes based on the story, but with something like fma with these goal-driven characters who face challenges and trauma im order to get what they want, they SHOULDNT ultimately get what they want. And if they do get what they want, it should be either that they dont need it, they dont want it anymore, or they get it in a more bittersweet/twisted way (like roy couldve gotten what he wanted without getting his eyesight back and becoming fuhrer. He would lose the more surface goal, but he could still achieve the more abstract underlying motive of fixing the country.)

[greedyroy]

[zachattack334]

Get To Know Me: [5/5] Favorite Anime

Fullmetal Alchemist (2003)

[cardassiangoodreads]

Never forget how the first Fullmetal Alchemist anime introduces Hughes: he calls Roy Mustang to brag about how pregnancy is making his wife really horny

[paigemist]

[sincerestpumpkins]

Goodbye Fullmetal Goodbye General

[paigemist]

i’d just like to point out that in the art book from the ‘03 bluray collector’s edition, Hughes’ page has a little tear-stained(?) note in the corner which reads: “I’m sorry, I never meant for any of this to happen”

[darkvaatu]

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So I’ve been watching some Silent Hill Let’s Plays (I’m currently on the “Born from a Wish” scenario in Silent Hill 2), and I think that the function of the Homunculi in FMA 2003 is quite similar to the function of the “Maria” character, as they are both manifestations of the sin/guilt of their creators, who have tragically gained sentience, only to be inevitably destroyed in the end.

A FMA/Silent Hill crossover would be interesting, haha. Wonder what monsters Ed or any of the FMA characters would encounter in Silent Hill.

[frankarcher]

OTP

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OTP 2

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The Crimson alchemist <ЗЗ

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TV Animation Fullmetal Alchemist Art Book