
Ishbalan wrote:I've never been so disappointed in my entire life. Everything was all wrong. I don't know where to begin. The pacing was completely off. It felt like I was watching an OVA special of the show where everyone had to get their 2 minutes of screentime. In the shit tier opening, they showed glimpes of characters that aren't supposed to be introduced until late in the show (I think I saw Hohenheim three times in the first ten seconds). It's like they are completely banking on the fact that everyone who watched it has already seen the original show, knows all the characters, and isn't going to enjoy any of the plot points that are similar. I was literally screaming, "No no no no, that's not the way it went! They shouldn't be meeting Hughes for the first time. They delivered his baby! They don't meet Armstrong until much later! He saves them from Scar! No no NO NO NO. Fuhrer Bradley's badassery was one of the greatest what-a-twist moments of the show, and they brought it out in the FIRST FUCKING EPISODE. GODDAMN IT, I SHOULDN'T HAVE GOTTEN MY HOPES UP."
Fuck spoiler tags. I'm on a ragedump.
This was, without a doubt, the worst pilot episode to an anime I have ever seen. I'm confident that, if the original show hadn't happened, this pilot episode would have bombed. The Ice Alchemist, a new-to-show character, got almost as much screentime as the brothers did. The newer, crisper animation has none of the charm that the original did. I felt like I was watching a fucking kids show. They did the short joke like six times in succession. It was kind of funny in the original show, because it would happen every few episodes and we would see it coming and wait for Ed's reaction, but talk about beating a joke to death. How could they fuck up this much? The original show began EXACTLY how it should have. The opening scene of Ed failing the transmutation and witnessing his creation before going black.... I was sold. They showed only glimpses of that in this version, and it wasn't given its own scene. More like a momentary flashback. This show was exactly what I had feared all these years, ever since someone brought up the possibility of more FMA. I said that I would rather them just leave it where it stands and not risk staining the already beautiful canvas by trying to enhance it further. This makes me sick.
For those of you who don't know me, Fullmetal Alchemist was the anime that got me into anime. I obsessed over it for a year. I named myself on the internet after Scar, my favorite character. Having no name, his people simply called him "Ishbalan." I thought that was so cool. In my mind, it was the greatest show ever created and I wanted the whole world to know. I even made my parents watch the damn show. That was about 3 years ago. Since then, diving into the world of anime, I've discovered many greater titles, and Fullmetal Alchemist slowly inched its way off of my top ten. But I always kept it in a special place in my heart that would ensure I never forget it.
I feel like I've been raped. I want to cry but can't. I'm going to bed.
guardiansoulblade wrote:Ishbalan is one of the few FMA fans I've seen who doesn't worship the manga story and complain about how the first anime deviated, they actually like the first series, I love it, but i'm not that picky about that kind of stuff, just not big on filler, that's how I am, I think I'm one of the few people in the world who's still waiting for the legal stream of FMA in America, everyone else is like, "I saw it through bittorrent but I watched a fansub."
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