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I didn't cry for Nina nor Hughes. At all.

Don't agree with you on Hughes, bur definitely do on Nina.

Hughes, a little. But Nina was pretty obnoxious. Like, generic sweet little girl who meets a grotesque fate, just didn't feel authentic to me.

I also like the original FMA more than Brotherhood. :D

I also like the original FMA more than Brotherhood.

While heretical amongst manga stans, that point of view is shared by just about everyone I've ever met (including myself) who hasn't read the manga. This leads me to wonder if, as a standalone work of art, the original wasn't objectively better.

I was briefly in the FMA fandom while the original anime was still airing, and I do remember the manga stans bemoaning the atrocities the anime was committing. I can't say I've been in the fandom since Brotherhood came out so I don't know the current opinions.

But, I don't know. I just loved how the homunculi were portrayed in the anime (especially Lust), I loved the themes of attaining humanity, and I loved how the series wrapped up and ended at around 50 episodes. I tried the manga, and it just didn't have the same charm to me (though it certainly had some amazing points, too).

I saw the first anime before reading the manga or watching Brotherhood, and I still prefer the Brotherhood storyline. But I absolutely agree with you that the homunculi were way more interesting in the 2003 version, and I consider them the best part of that canon.

Me too. I watched the first anime and then read the manga as I was watching Brotherhood and yet I still prefer Brotherhood. And agreed on the homunculi bit for the most part.

The thing I loved the manga for was its worldbuilding, which was the most consistent and believable I'd ever seen in an action manga (typically a genre that runs on Rule of Cool.) I wasn't really that into the characters, and the plot dragged on way too long. The first anime kept the worldbuilding consistent when it stayed with the manga, but relied heavily on Rule of Cool when diverging from it, so it felt like a mess to me on that grounds. Pretty much everything else about it seemed better, though.

Like, generic sweet little girl who meets a grotesque fate, just didn't feel authentic to me.

That's it exactly for me. It was the show slapping you upside the head and going, "FEEL SAD NOW, DAMMIT!" And the amount of guilt the boys carried about it was absurd. It's like, of all the crap that has gone down in their lives before and since, why is that the thing they continue to call on all the way to the end of the series?

What happened to Nina was a special kind of horrible fucked up and the Elrics don't have the meta knowledge to go "but she was just a generic sweet little girl so we don't have to dwell on it too much." See how it still affects so much of the fandom and new viewers/readers; I doubt it has anything to do with them having deeply loved Nina as a character.

I get their horror at it. It's the guilt, and the using her as a symbol of all that is wrong with the world that bothers me.

I cried for the other characters who were affected by Hughes' death, but I didn't cry for him. He annoyed me.

I didn't cry for Hughes, I knew what was coming.

But Nina...god, that fucked me up for a long time. And yet I always kind of regret that the rest of the show (well at least until episode 23) wasn't more body horror ish like that.

Nina definitely affected me. Hughes, even though I liked him, not so much.

You are a heartless person, anon.

I cried a lot for Hughes and then got really creeped out by Nina and decided that my daughter can't watch that show for quite a while. LOL

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