i prefer the 2003 one since in teh movie it has hitler-sama ( ´ω`)Marked for deletion (Old)
first adaptation seemed darker to me. it's kinda like terra formars season 1 vs season 2. i dont hate season 2 but it lost a lot of grittiness and adds out of place stuff like uwu emoticons.
i just lost all of what i had just written ヽ(´Д`)ノ ah well. i will try and retype the gist of what i had.fma over fmab by far. it's been a while since i've seen fmab, but i've been meaning to do a rewatch of both of them so i can more properly convey my opinion of why i think this way instead of being so vague or making a fool of myself by misremembering things. i've started my rewatch on fma, so my view of it is a bit more clear (plus i've watched it more than fmab, which i've only seen once years ago and am going off what i remember feeling back then).fma handles heavy subjects with a lot more tact and depth than fmab does. it feels like fmab throws out going more into heavy subjects in favor of comedic relief or poorly done character writing. speaking of character writing, i'm really not a big fan of the character writing in fmab. the balance between characters and worldbuilding and how both of those things can influence each other is not done very well in fmab from what i remember. the characters take the focus, and there is not a lot of depth to them in the same way there is in fma. but in fma, there is a lot of care put into the world and side and background characters that really makes it feel alive. the world did not feel very alive in fmab. it felt very focused on one singular aspect of story rather than tying all these characters' worlds together in a meaningful way. what i mean by that is that the main focus was, once the homonculi were introduced, trying to defeat them. the homonculi were an obstacle in the way in fma, but they did not overshadow the other things that were happening and that had happened in the world. fmab felt very streamlined, is perhaps a better way to put it.and, in regards to the comedic relief, fma does it wonderfully. it has a good balance between knowing when to take itself seriously so that a moment feels more impactful and the gravity of a situation (or at least timing the humor or doing it in such a way that it doesn't take away the impact or gravity of a situation) and still having some comedic moments throughout. fmab does this not so well. not so well at all. there were moments i couldn't take seriously, particularly scenes with envy and greed off the top of my head, that had no impact or gravity at all because of poorly timed comedic relief or just treating the situation and characters so lightheartedly that they don't actually feel like they're a threat at all. which isn't inherently a problem, except they were supposed to feel like a threat in fmab.the emotions in fma feel so much more raw and powerful too. in fmab, some moments aren't that bad in that regard, but for others they feel cheap and forced.roy is an absolutely incredible character in fma, one of my favorite characters from anything, but in fmab his entire character just gets fucked after hughes dies. from the get-go he wasn't as good as the fma roy, but still passable. after hughes dies, he becomes hellbent on revenge and most of the rest of his character is pushed to the side for the rest of the show. a lot of the characters felt like their characterization was honed in on only a few character aspects rather than fleshing them out. there was some character development, but that doesn't negate my prior statement. i don't remember the characters feeling very deep at all in fmab.and the final thing, although i could talk way more extensively about this, is that the pacing in the last season of fmab gets fucked. not only the pacing, but the writing too. it feels more like a "mainstream" anime for lack of a better term, more than it had in the episodes prior. even more things that had been established or mentioned prior got shoved to the side in favor of putting all the focus on the big bad and his minions. which, now that i think about it, again isn't inherently a bad thing. but the way that the big bad and his minions are written, i don't know, there's something about it that i really don't like. it's lame.also fma had way better music.perhaps this is my bias, because i did watch fma first back when it was airing on adult swim so it has a special place in my heart. but i like to try and give things credit where credit is due. i didn't see the point in watching fmab since i had already seen the first one and thought it was so good that there's no way they could do it better, so i went in having no expectations for it which usually helps me form a clearer opinion in my experience. i only ended up watching it because i watched with the friends who had kept hounding me to watch it raving about how good it was. one of them had also grown up with the original fma and liked fmab more, so that helped to sell me a little bit on watching it. i definitely don't hate fmab, but again, not a favorite of mine by any means. there were bits and pieces of it i do remember enjoying, can't remember particularly what though.
>>128>also fma had way better music.true! https://up.heyuri.net/msrc/m099.mp3
I think Brotherhood is better cus it feels better