i know this has probably been said a billion times but honestly?? i really prefer the beginning of fullmetal alchemist in the 2003 version because it takes its time to actually explain a lot of major things in the plot.
don’t get me wrong; brotherhood does a great job at mirroring the manga’s overall plot–and especially the ending– but it just throws you in and you either stumble to understand or just get completely confused at first. with the way that fmab introduces alchemy, you don’t really get to understand what ed’s automail really is. a lion chimera biting into that shit really helps you understand how strong it is more than some weird ice alchemy(especially when it isn’t explained how strong it is).
i remember when i first started watching i honestly got upset at how fast paced it was and that it barely gave time for the viewer to understand alchemy and the elric brothers. granted a lot of the people who’ve watched brotherhood have seen 2003 prior to it, but with all the circumstances i’ve seen of people saying to new fans to “watch fmab first and only fmab,” it really puts me down that those people won’t be able to understand the feeling of watching an old, iconic, and classic anime that 2003 is!!
edward cries! you get to realize that ed is still a child and he’s 12-15 years old for christ’s sake!!!!! ed and al depend on each other so much, you get to see how close they are and that they’re all they have!!! there’s so much more comedic relief(see: episode 13: fullmetal vs flame), yet it reminds you that these boys commited alchemy’s greatest taboo and have to pay the price for their mistake.
tldr; 2003 is worth your time, trust me.
The 2003 anime have 2 chapters based on extra chapters from the manga: “Fullmetal vs Flame” and “The Flame Alchemist, The Bachelor Lieutenant, and the Mystery of Warehouse 13“
Fullmetal vs Flame even tell you how Riza got Black Hayate.
So yep, watch the 2 versions, both are good
yes!!!!! i love how they took the extras and actually inserted them into the overall plot without them seeming like filler episodes!!!!!!!
2003 did such a great job at giving shallow characters deeper backstories (like sheska, rosé, lust, shou and nina tucker, hughes to an extent, etc) by using those extra episodes and i give all my kudos to them for it!!
THIS IS SO LEGIT. I absolutely adore FMA:B, don’t get me wrong, but FMA03 was a gem in a completely different way. I could probably write a dissertation about why FMA03 is important (especially for Team Mustang and NINA!!!!!) but instead, I will leave you with this: my husband and I kind of compiled a list of “how to watch FMA03 and FMAB and get the full-ish story.” Now granted, it’s not perfect - you get some shots of Archer, and you kind of meet Hughes twice, and two different babies are born that the brothers see/help with, but overall, it works rather well. I didn’t do the whole we’re-going-to-tell-Rosé-this-story-in-a-flashback thing, so the beginning is actually chronological, starting with the boys and Trisha in Risembool.
Here’s the list if you’re interested:
FMA:03 - episodes 03, 04, 05, 06, 07, 08, 09
FMAB - [OPTIONAL: episode 01 - husband says it fits, I disagree, you can decide] episode 03
Watching it this way helps with character development (especially in character episodes that revolve around Roy Mustang and Nina), slows down the pacing of everything (interludes with Psiren and the Tringhams help with Ed and Al’s character development, too), plus you get to see some stuff that was only alluded to in Brotherhold (the Youswell story and the story of Barry the Chopper). Like I said, it is in no way, shape, or form completely perfect, but it does help give a more complete and better-paced story than just only choosing to watch one of them.
“Zero is a difficult concept to understand and a mathematical skill that doesn’t come easily – it takes children a few years to learn,” Dyer said.
“We’ve long believed only humans had the intelligence to get the concept, but recent research has shown monkeys and birds have the brains for it as well.
“What we haven’t known – until now – is whether insects can also understand zero.”
it makes sense. bees have the ability to search for food sources and communicate whether they found them. ‘nothing here’ is a reasonable thing for them to need to understand and communicate.
smart little fuzzies, i love them so.
Of course they can understand 0, how else would they communicate in beenary
things that make me feel happy & give me hope when my mood is down: the refurbished furby community. specifically @plushieshrine‘s hodgepodge (i tried to draw hodgepodge. this is not hodgepodge. who is she? idk but she calmed me down. blitzed my chakras. enlightened my spheres)
a moment of silence for the guy in my lit class who responded to my professor saying “trigger warning” by shouting “TRIGGERED! I’M TRIGGERED!” and then said it 2 more times after nobody acknowledged him, each time a little quieter. he walked out of the class okay but there’s no telling what a self-own like that does to a man’s spirit
I saw some people in the notes asking why a professor would say trigger warning and all I can think about is how people think “Tumblr” just makes up words and phrases for fun.
I’ve been back to my university for only one week and all my professors have already used to phrases “trigger/ed/ing/warning” “discourse”, etc in serious academic settings. These are the phrases that people LOVE to call Tumblr terms, but they are actually academic terms (which btw are being used correctly on this website) that have existed for MANY MANY years.
My friends take turns renting a vacation house for a month. I rented a large farm house with pool and housekeeper up the hill from a lovely beach town. Six months out all the rooms are filled for the entire stay. My husband gets an email from his sister (my sister-in-law/ SIL) saying that she and her mother (MIL) will be coming for a visit. I tell my husband all the rooms are taken and send email to SIL saying the same and give her the contact for a hotel in Beach Town. I come home to the farm house late one afternoon to find my SIL and MIL sitting in the living room. Great I think, two more for dinner and no advance warning. I say that I am going up to my room to change. Two steps up the stairs my husband says there is a change in rooms. Yeap. I get to my room to find their luggage and things all over my room. I sleep on the floor? Nah. A side note on MIL. No one ever tells her no. Our house heated to 80F day/night when she visits in winter and 60F in summer. All lights turned on all the time. Her food in frig, yours on counter, etc. Whatever. But after 15 years, I had enough. My vacation house (I paid for everything), my rules. I packed up their things, took luggage downstairs and put in their car. Saying nothing. Went in kitchen. The stove top is filled with pots madly bubbling. MIL cooking is the worst.
Housekeeper has been unable to cook meal we had planned. I got the largest pot, poured all the ‘food’ in and had the housekeeper help me take pot out, through living room, to edge of forest. Dumped it. Went back in kitchen, packed up their food, took it to their car. Went and stood in front of SIL and told her there was no room in the house and they would have to get a room in Beach Town. Turned to my husband and asked him to please escort his mother to their car. I went to the pool where all my friends were and waited. They took the next plane home. No means No.
