fma was the one manga series that I always spent days in Borders reading all of it without spending any money because I was poor and young.

Amazed when I finally got around to watching Brotherhood and actually seeing the Briggs arc.

anyways, will never stop praising how one of the universally best manga/anime ever was written by a woman.

Anyways, forgot about how the villian in episode 1 was 100% not a villain. Fuck.

also that black and white scene (with red only)

v good. v v good.

i would die for you armstrong.

skipping the past episode and liore.

because I actually watched a zillion clips from the origin story episode this morning

and because liore is trapped in my brain from the OG series and managa and this one and nfjdfjdsakfmsd

ilu scar

i love roy's team. love them so much

wish they included the corrupt gold mine dude's scam

that shit was funny as hell in the manga.

but he comes back later. so i guess that's fine.

FUCK SHOU TUCKER TIME

GET AWAY FROM NINA YOU FUCK

god. they got the just unsettling enough voice for tucker.

might also watch the OG FMA episode of Shou Tucker, because it was done MUCH better.

Can't even deny that.

Ed being a good guy and deciding he needs to stretch right after Nina tells him her sob story.

Hughes having family photos on his desk is so fucking wholesome.

do LOVE that they edited Al's voice to have a metallic tin. Which is v good.

"Daddy says he's going to play with Alex and me tomorrow!" - NIna.

FUCKI NO

NO NO NO

BIG BROTHER ED.

Watched all the versions of shou tucker being an abomination.

now to continue the show.

but the beauty of this show not just having realistic villains and multifaceted heros.

but also to not ignore the severe depravity of a world like this. and to show how that shit actively effects the children main characters and how they're allowed to cry but warned that this is only the tip of depravity

ed's actually pain in hearing that nina is dead.

and Hawkeye being the best and putting her foot down and refusing to allow the children to see nina's dead body

and them focusing on the trauma done to the children during the uprising in liore is v good.

i love envy

envy is canon nonbinary.

he/him pronouns, female voice actor.

I know Scar is actually good.

but that doesn't mean that I'm not always on fucking edge during their initial fight when Scar almost kills Ed like 5 times.

Ed legitimately looks like a child when Scar destroys his arm.

the moment of humor for Mustang failing to use his alchemy in rain is very very needed for Ed laying down and agreeing to die.

Armstrong is needed to remove the actual pain of literally watching Ed look like a child and roll over to die.

oh yeah, FMA also tried its best to have a longterm conversation about war crimes, how war leads to racism, and the pain to the refugees that were destroyed in the middle of it all. and how the hate that they have to their oppressors is understandable

Hughes: this is why he wouldn't fucking eat. Why the fuck didn't you tell me Roy?

Roy: whooooooops

"oooh great, and now my arm's come off because my brother's a big, fat idiot!"

and then back to serious about how genocide is traumatic as fuck.

and a moment of Ed's immaturity in how he can't understand the pain of the colonized.

Luckily, he changes right after being on friendly terms with Scar.

but ooooooof

love that in the manga, it is confimred that Shou Tucker is the only person who went to hell.

literally even the homonculi went to heaven

something that's great about this anime starting after the full manga was done are the MOTHERFUCKING ALLUSIONS that they are able to do.

ed is so tiny next to armstrong.

Al with the sheep. :)))))