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First, disclaimer: I first watched the 2003 anime, but then I skipped Conqueror of Shamballa to watch Brotherhood. But I know CoS is the true ending of the 2003 anime, not Brotherhood.

I'll be honest: I've almost cried at the end of Brotherhood. I'm a sucker for happy endings and having all the major characters having a good ending almost broke me in tears. I've felt that Brotherhood rushed the start to avoid showing a lot of what was already shown in 2003, but when it's the new animated parts... WOW.

I've enjoyed the characters from Xing a lot: Ling Yao at first I've felt it was quite abhorrent, but he grew on me alongside with his two protectors. I was surprised with how he handled hosting Greed, but how he managed to turn his impulses into a constructive force was honestly surprising. Great writing.

Another difference from 2003 that I loved was the Briggs Fort: Olivier Mira is a badass, a character that almost makes me say "THAT'S HOW THEY SHOULD ACT!!!" with her... direct methods, but her contrast with her brother was very interesting. Another point of contrast that I've enjoyed was with Miles and Scar, both Ishvalians having very different ways of dealing with the consequences of the massacre.

But, since not everything is flowers, I'll admit that I thought Hughes didn't appear as much as he should've before his death to make it impact as much as it was in 2003. Since I've watched 2003 first, I know how good of a person Hughes was, how he was basically a causality of the Father plan because he found out what he wasn't supposed to and the weight of his death on Roy Mustang, but if I don't consider my previous knowledge, I don't think it was as meaningful, even with the flashbacks from Roy later in the series.

Talking about the Flame Alchemist... I didn't know he could be even bigger of a badass, but I liked him even more after this series. Even though I thought it was unfair for him to lose his eyesight because he was forced to do a human transmutation and, at the time, I thought they should've let him kill Envy, at the end his story ends magnificently, with everything falling in place.

Even though, at the end, I thought the story of the Elrics ended up with them achieving their goals, I thought the time they spent apart was better developed in the story with both of them developing.

One point that I should mention: I ended up in a little habbitrole of videos analysing points of the series and I need to say that both stories are really, really well written, with the symbolism clear but not "talked down to your face", making it one of those stories that actually makes you grow if you want to learn something from it.

The CoS is very interesting considering Edward has to deal with not having alchemy in a really... delicate time. Despite not liking both of them ending up in "our" world, I appreciate that they ended up together. A good story to end the classic.

TL;DR: It's beautiful, both of them.

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Hi!

Before the update with the four Grand Slam licencing and arenas, I was using custom arenas I downloaded from the community tab.

With the new official arenas, how do I unbind those custom arenas from appearing in career mode?

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First of all: WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO, AMAZING!

Seriously, I loved it from start to finish. Loved the writing, I've considered very well written from start to finish, specially with how well they worked the themes within but without making it overexplained. The balance between the dramatic and comedic moments was also really good.

Loved also how most of the characters had a moment to be developed (poor General Havoc, couldn't catch a break with Roy around). The dynamic between Edward and Alphonse hit close to home with me, but I really enjoyed how the characters were developed.

Rn, I'm considering going watch Brotherhood, because they said it was a closer adaptation from manga. Should I go or watch the OVA Conqueror of Shamballa before?