Mood.

Bomb

It’s definitely worth watching, at least.

No-one is saying it isn’t.

But of course the manga “set the standard”. The parts of 2003 that were adapted from the manga, follow its writing.

The writing past that point, even if it had nothing to “follow”, and is since original, was by someone else. And in my opinion, you can tell. I watched 2003 without even knowing about Brotherhood, or the manga. And while I like it, I did feel it went “off the rails” in terms of the writing, character development and worldbuilding.

And that’s without knowing at the time that those feelings coincided with the change in who was writing the story.

As a narrative, IMO, the original manga/brotherhood is a more internally consistent narrative, with character arcs that make more sense, and a world with greater implied detail.

That is simply down to the fact that when you pass the bat on writing the way the 2003 series did. People can tell.

Like two halves of a painting done by two artists, where one didn’t expressly try to mimic the other. And even when they do, it’s never the same.

The difference doesn’t make one or the other half worse, but unlike art where creators collaborate throughout, when you “draw the rest of the owl” the “new” artist will never be able to tie up every thread the original set up, and in ways that’ll make sense in the context of things only the original artist is aware of.

That said, there is nothing insulting about “non-canon”. “Canon” is just whatever the original creator says it is, ret-cons and all.

Doesn’t mean the extended Star Wars universe is suddenly worthless and bad.

And as far as transitions in writing, FA 2003 is one of the better example out there. They made something you can actually watch to the end, and not be pissed at it, because they leaned into what they did with and followed through.

When you do, join us over on !dungeonmeshi@ani.social. Probably the most active community around a single anime.

Once S2 airs, I bet the discussion threads will be even better than during S1.

I couldn’t help by notice the lack of Dungeon Meshi.

A note on Fullmetal Alchemist.

Brotherhood is the “canon” adaptation.

The original anime cought up with the manga, and then just made up its own story. It’s not bad, but IMO it doesn’t hold up to the standard set by the manga.

Bortherhood is a faithful adaptation, and with higher production quality to boot.

You can borrow any game in my steam library.

I have them all.

Fire

Ah yes. Drop down bars on your cyber-broom. For when you need to go fast.

“Don’t touch the stove”

The stove

Nuggetopolis?

HanaKana’s casting being excellent here is no news to me.

She is a GODDESS of range.

She can go from cute lil goober, to M.E.N.A.C.I.N.G like it’s nothing.

Akane Tsunemori is another one of her roles where she shows off how much “badass” she can pull off, and Sengoku Nadeko is one where she got to show off how she can go from cute to “haha, you’re in danger”.

The Nadeko Rant is legendary.

👌

!morphmoe@ani.social

I am so ready for more Studio Orange goodness.

Pronouns can be colored?

Dangerous and woman.

🫠😵

It’s cute slice of life with no action.

The MC just happens to be half-dragon and the series is about dealing with each of her over-the-top superpowers as they manifest, and also social stuff.

I’ve been really appreciating the much more mature and serious tone the series takes with social drama, and the dragon stuff is instead what is used to keep the series fun and light-hearted.

Aww yess.

I was certain it would get adapted, but I would have been unsatisfied with a boring 1:1 adaptation.

But KyoAni knows their moe.