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Squall28
12/19/20 11:55:58 AM
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Better tone, better art.

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Mystery_Mission
12/19/20 12:25:23 PM
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Wrong.
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Gobstoppers12
12/19/20 12:26:36 PM
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It's not.

Brotherhood Mustang >>>>>> 2003 Mustang

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DepreceV2
12/19/20 12:26:42 PM
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Oh. You are trying to be different huh TC?

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saspa
12/19/20 12:26:50 PM
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The better art is the point that I feel doesn't get mentioned enough. What is it about brotherhood that makes the art so much worse than the original? Can't quite put my finger on it.

It's kind of like how db super looks worse than dbz. The art is somehow... cheaper?
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Gobstoppers12
12/19/20 12:28:16 PM
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saspa posted...
What is it about brotherhood that makes the art so much worse than the original?
I don't understand the question.

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Anteaterking
12/19/20 12:28:44 PM
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Raikuro
12/19/20 12:29:06 PM
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saspa posted...
The better art is the point that I feel doesn't get mentioned enough. What is it about brotherhood that makes the art so much worse than the original? Can't quite put my finger on it.
Brotherhood follows the manga art closer, while FMA 03 used a more generic anime style that's probably easier on the animators. Made Scar much younger looking.
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Squall28
12/19/20 12:32:45 PM
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saspa posted...
The better art is the point that I feel doesn't get mentioned enough. What is it about brotherhood that makes the art so much worse than the original? Can't quite put my finger on it.

It's kind of like how db super looks worse than dbz. The art is somehow... cheaper?

Brotherhood characters have a chibi/Calart tint to it.

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Gobstoppers12
12/19/20 12:33:08 PM
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Squall28 posted...
Brotherhood characters have a chibi/Calart tint
you what mate

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Gwynevere
12/19/20 12:34:35 PM
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False

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Mistere Man
12/19/20 12:35:23 PM
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saspa
12/19/20 12:35:43 PM
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Squall28 posted...


Brotherhood characters have a chibi/Calart tint to it.

I normally like chibi but it has to be in the right context. Eg something out of azumanga daioh, or maybe school rumble.

Which brings me to my next point, the humor in brotherhood is... yeah :/ . Was that also in the manga? Cause it was very oddly placed and tonally off.
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Irony
12/19/20 12:38:20 PM
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Lmao no

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Evening_Dragon
12/19/20 12:40:07 PM
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Brotherhood's way too shonen for me. Which would've been fine, had the writing in FMA03 not been so much tighter that the manga looks cheap in comparison.

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saspa
12/19/20 12:40:13 PM
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Don't get me wrong tc, fma is not infallible. The ending still makes me super upset, and there are things I'd definitely change.

In a perfect world we'd have an ending that's neither overly saccharine like brotherhood nor depressingly bleak and spitting in the face of everything we've seen up to that point like fma
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refmon
12/19/20 12:45:14 PM
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The ending is ehh in FMA but way too happily ever after in brotherhood. The characters are also all so much better in FMA. The villains are basically non existent in brotherhood and I hate what they did with Scar.

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Squall28
12/19/20 12:49:07 PM
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Gobstoppers12 posted...
you what mate

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_dw1Rzaing&ab_channel=SevyPeyote

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Gobstoppers12
12/19/20 12:50:47 PM
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Squall28 posted...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_dw1Rzaing&ab_channel=SevyPeyote
I'm gonna need you to elaborate. They both look good.

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saspa
12/19/20 12:59:16 PM
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I don't know if what fma did with Scar was the best thing, buuut...

refmon posted...
The ending is ehh in FMA but way too happily ever after in brotherhood. The characters are also all so much better in FMA. The villains are basically non existent in brotherhood and I hate what they did with Scar.

Literally the ridiculous anime thing of a "badass" type anti-villain traveling with the cute little innocent kid, and a weird guy tagging along. Gee I wonder where we've seen that before

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/cd/fb/ea/cdfbeafead49ac3a4d14bc55e3bcbf50.jpg

https://64.media.tumblr.com/21f1e094799752b16adb7b27cee8724e/tumblr_mipsepvFFb1s41jw7o1_1280.png

When you're copying freaking inuyasha, you know you have a problem
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Bloodmoon77
12/19/20 1:06:28 PM
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Agreed. Also better voice for Al and better ending movie.

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IShall_Run_Amok
12/19/20 1:07:10 PM
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saspa posted...
Literally the ridiculous anime thing of a "badass" type anti-villain traveling with the cute little innocent kid, and a weird guy tagging along. Gee I wonder where we've seen that before
That uhhh probably predates Inu Yasha. By a lot. At least the badass-and-kid thing. The weirdos are different characters who serve very different functions in the story and dynamic, and I don't think that's really a trope.

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JoeDangIt
12/19/20 1:17:03 PM
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Hopefully there will be a third version that combines the best aspects of both and adds in some stuff from the games.
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KeeperOfShadows
12/19/20 1:36:50 PM
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Opinions

Both were great. I prefer Brotherhood's humor, though.

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Dingydang166
12/19/20 1:39:25 PM
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Brotherhood's fights were so much better. Roy and Bradley barely had like literally 0 fights in 2003, meanwhile in Brotherhood they had the best fights in the whole show.
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ZeroX91
12/19/20 1:41:45 PM
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I agree. It was horror instead of a generic battle anime.

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Squall28
12/19/20 2:58:36 PM
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ZeroX91 posted...
I agree. It was horror instead of a generic battle anime.

Well I wouldn't say horror, but it felt like there was a lot more weight with everything.

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MorganTJ
12/19/20 3:15:59 PM
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Original OST was definitely better than Brotherhoods.
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apocalyptic_4
12/19/20 3:16:44 PM
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Squall28 posted...
Better tone, better art.

Absolute Facts.

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g0ldie
12/19/20 3:17:47 PM
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I agree with the topic title...until about the last 9 or 10 episodes of the original, which took a big hit in quality.

Brotherhood is consistently good throughout, IMO.

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harley2280
12/19/20 3:26:26 PM
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saspa posted...
The better art is the point that I feel doesn't get mentioned enough. What is it about brotherhood that makes the art so much worse than the original? Can't quite put my finger on it.

It's kind of like how db super looks worse than dbz. The art is somehow... cheaper?

That's probably because of hand drawn vs CGI. Also because they have a different artist.
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gamer167
12/19/20 3:29:04 PM
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I prefer the darker tone of FMA
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pegusus123456
12/19/20 11:46:02 PM
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I don't know that I'd say it's better, but it's definitely close. It definitely has more weight than Brotherhood which is indeed a more typical shonen. There's a lot of talk about the horrors of war and the like, but that shit definitely hits home a lot more in the original.

And it's just a fact that the villains in the original are better. Nothing Father does outshines the speech Dante gives about equivalent exchange being bullshit.

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Proto_Spark
12/19/20 11:47:42 PM
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I also liked original FMA better, but I don't really like Shonen anime in general, so FMA going in such a different direction at the end probably helped it.
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Green-Danger
12/20/20 12:24:48 AM
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Yeah the story made more sense and came together better in the end
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