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…but a darn good Anime taken on its own terms. However, talking about how it’s “better” or “worse” than Brotherhood (y’all know who you are) is pointless when… neither was intended to be like or outdo the other.

Say the Manga is… ingredients for a meal, said meal being Brotherhood or 03.

03 utilizes some plot beats and storylines from the Manga but modifies upon them in order to create set up for the largely original plot that’s of its own making.

It knows what to keep, what to tweak and what to excise from something that will inevitably be different in tone as well as character evolution.

By contrast, Brotherhood intends to be more true to the Manga but not all of it. Various plot beats are retooled like the investigation of Liore are made the second adventure we see of the Elrics.

Some like the Youswell Mine and Yoki are skipped over with a passing mention before later being adapted later in a truncated adaptation.

Some are outright changed such as the Elrics and Winry learning of Hughes dying before Maria Ross’s accusation of such hits the papers. That is, with a later scene of them meeting Grace and Elicia over the matter.

This list goes on…

Though some find they haven’t found their sea legs at first, this adaptation shakes out to be one of the 2010s big gateway Anime titles. Either way, it’s a technically better adaptation of the original Manga by default.

03 didn’t adapt the Manga but with filler ala the Big Three of Shonen Jump. Rather it built a new story around the parts of the Manga it had to work with a went off. Probably one of the few Anime Original Endings that have stood the test of time really.

Now HOW those elements were handled for each version 03 had focused on can make for a good discussion at the very least. But neither version of FMA should be judged by what it isn’t and never was going to be.

It just… makes it hard to humor a comparison when one is clearly preferred over the other. Especially when some mostly amount to petty memes and potshots.

Like, there are so many fanfics I've read where people just, show that they probably don't even like the certain show.

The one that has gotten the most of this behavior is the 2012 version. And it's.. honestly ridiculous. Completely and utterly ridiculous.

2012 isn't my favorite, and some of the characters annoy me and there are even some I despise, but, and excuse my language, this is complete and utter bullshit.

You guys need to get your shit together, because this is plain childish. You're writing a whole damn story just to praise how good and wonderful your fav is while leaving the other to rot.

And if you do genuinely like the content of 2012, and you have written one of the stories I'm mentioning, you also need to set yourself straight, because you should know better.

The 'Rise adopts 2012 Mikey', and '2012 goes to 2018' stories seem to be what usually holds the bashing. But there are so many I can't keep count for long.

Though that may be because of my bad memory.

Rise isn't better, and as much as I love it, doesn't deserve to be put on a pedestal built off of hate for their previous versions.

That doesn't mean '12 is better either, so don't get it twisted. '12 has it's own issues that people dislike for their own reasons, they aren't better than Rise and Rise isn't better than them.

And this bashing thing is absolutely insane.

A few, a light few, of the most popular stories are just, Rise being better than '12 because, 'they're a REAL family' and 'they don't @büs3 each other', and it pains me to see it.

You can like Rise without bashing another version on the TMNT. I personally HATED '12 for a while, and even THEN I wasn't writing shit like this.

And now? The story I'm writing doesn't even include any negative points until later. It's just, pure fluff that has like, no drama until the second chapter.

I don't like '12 April, and besides me making a few jokes at her, I still don't bash her. I don't like '12 Splinter all that much either, but what do you know, he's still a good father in the story.

I don't even like Karai because I find her annoying, but woop-de-fucking-doo, she's going to be herself in the story.

It's so easy to just write them as themselves that none of you have an excuse. If me, a previous '12 hater and now a person who watches it, can pull my shit together enough to write a crossover that tries it's best to put bias away to be fair to other characters and make a non bash fic, you can too.

Now please don't make me have to make a part two of this post, I'm tired and just want to see the Rise boys have fun with their counterparts, is that so much to ask?

Not the characters who accept this is the ideal for women, who go along with these rigid gender roles. 

In a world where domesticity is treated as every women’s dream, the non traditionally feminine character needs to learn that “Oh it’s ok to want to marriage and motherhood!” as though their hostile rejection of it is in any way threatening women who want to have families, whose dreams are held up by their world as right and honourable, and does not come from a place of actually having their options limited by attitudes towards women. Of being denied access to higher education, employment and politics, because of the “Stay in the kitchen” mentality. Which comes partially as a result of everyone else passively accepting that the best thing for women is marriage. 

Why is there so much emphasis on female characters needing to open their mind to gender roles that have been foisted on them since the day they were born? They know their virtues, they’ve had them shovelled down their throats their entire life. They’ve had these roles used against them as a weapon.

the use of ‘scotty’ here is just heartbreakingly deliberate. pls buy my book ‘what’s a nickname: a study of the one-eye/cyke/scotty/slim scale’

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