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Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) opening 4: “Rewrite” by ASIAN KUNG-FU GENERATION. Personally my favorite opening in the series and the most thematically powerful. The animation is also at the top of it’s class here.

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Rewatching FMA also reminds me like, what a failure it is that My Hero Academia had that episode where Deku realized the huge emotional strain that him hurting himself and not including her in his decisions has put on his Mom and resolves to do better, but as far as I can tell the narrative completely,,, fuckin’ forgets that?

When the same basic thing happens in FMA, as far as Ed and Winry go, Ed NEVER FORGETS IT. “I will not do things that hurt Winry, and when I don’t value myself or communicate it hurts her” never stops being a thing in Ed’s mind. He still sometimes acts recklessly but then literally thinks “I fucked up better fix this I promised not to make my girlfriend cry” She is genuinely always in his thoughts.

like other shonen action manga try to replicate this but don’t do the followthrough. It’s just a one episode thing and then it’s like BYE CIVILIAN FEMALE CHARACTER BACK TO THE SHELF WE’LL NEVER THINK ABOUT YOUR NEEDS OR THE EMOTIONAL LABOR YOU DO AGAIN but Winry’s needs and the moral of valuing her emotional labor and getting her up to date on what’s happening are present throughout the whole narrative. She’s not an action hero yet she has an arc?? She’s important? this STILL is never present in all the shonen I’ve seen that have come out since, like somehow arakawa still stands out for grasping this simple concept, we haven’t gotten past this yet.

Can other shonen action manga learn about follow through please.

Edit: Did an entire article about this! Here it is!

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12 year old ed verbally assaulting the librarian

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if i think about it for more than 2 seconds it starts to get funnier and funnier

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3rd October memento

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ed barely grew at all in 03-shamballa im laughing my head off

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__〆(・∀・)

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You’ll never know what it’s like spending your whole life in a dream.

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i find ed and al’s sins in 03 to be very interesting, because they don’t embody them in obvious ways. how could ed be sloth when he’s defined by his action and determination? how could al be wrath when he’s defined by his patience and empathy?

because sloth isn’t just laziness, it’s apathy and avoidance—ed runs away from the consequences his actions and goals have on the world and other people. and wrath isn’t just violence and anger with others, it’s self blame and self destruction—anger and violence toward oneself. and at the end of the day, al blames himself for every death he was unable to prevent, hates himself for still being alive, and ultimately acts out and sacrifices himself to bring ed back, and his dialogue indicates it’s not just out of brotherly love, but out of his survivors guilt and self-loathing.

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the opening cutscene to the fma mobile game!

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M E R R Y C H R I S T M A S

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there’s an agenda at play

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from her autobio comics:

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#on a darker level #being from Hokkaido means she has reason to be personally invested in the Ishbal annihilation #because Hokkaido is stolen land #like a lot of other places colonized in the last few hundred years #if you’re sensitive to this kind of thing #it gives you a personal stake #in genocide stories #that most Japanese people don’t have #>> #idk i felt the way she handles the genocide #speaks to having been aware of that #from a formative age (via whetstonefire)