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Anime anyone?
Neko_Ali:
FMA is a weird egg.. I really wouldn't judge all anime by it. It's an awesome show, don't get me wrong... But those sudden shifts in tone. It can go from psychotic killers carving up people, to goofy courtship, to talking about sacrificing entire towns of people to power a blood ritual to Alphonse and Edward super deformed and arguing over milk in the space of a half hour episode... It gets strange, like it can't quite make up it's mind what tone or audience it is after. I know they need some break from the rather unrelenting darkness of the main storyline, but still...
pwhodges:
Even though Brotherhood follows the manga more closely, the original is still in my view the better anime.
Lines:
I've only seen Brotherhood and I quite liked it. The FA:B arc that Gareth talked about is imo the most fucked up one, but really, that whole show is dark. It may jump around from being comedic to being utterly depressing/horrifying, but if it didn't, it would be really hard to watch. Same with A Certain Scientific Railgun. Now that I've finished it, without the comedy scenes/episodes, that series would be ungodly depressing, but unlike FA:B I think it balanced the comedy with the drama/horror much better.
Thrillho:
Some things are ungodly depressing though. If that's the story you want to tell, tell it. I just feel like the screwball comedy in this is completely undermining the dark tone of the rest of it. It's absolutely wrenching tonal shifts. It's similar to the kind of issues I have with music - if you make an album that's too eclectic you end up diluting the band's personality.
It just makes me feel like it's a poorly made show, honestly.
Taekwondoin:
I think one thing to take into consideration is where these things get published, FMA as a manga was originally serialised in a shounen magazine, so it's aimed at mid-teens, mainly boys, and to get published on one of those there are certain things you have to adhere to, as a result FMA could never be that dark.
Anyone who wants to see exactly what this means should read Vinland Saga, where the first 4-5 volumes were published in a shounen magazine, and then got dropped and picked straight up by a seinen, the shift in tone (by which I mean violence and gore) is immediately apparent.
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