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I watched Fullmetal Alchemist for the very first time this past August, and it instantly became one of my favorite anime of all time. I absolutely fell in love with how it blends classic shounen comedy gags with incredibly dark, heavy themes.
But because I watched the series chronologically, I started with the ‘03 first. and so to me I prefer its tone. The dark, gritty animation style perfectly matched the brutal themes of the story.

Brotherhood is amazing, but the brighter, "white-washed" lighting and the way it exaggerated comedic gimmicks during serious moments took me out of the experience a bit. But I prefer brotherhood.
That being said, going into Brotherhood right after the brutal ending of 2003 felt incredibly healing. The overall plot, the character arcs, and the the theme songs of Brotherhood are unmatched. Plus, getting so many amazing Royai moments made it all worth it, they are easily my favorite "non canon but canon" couple.
I feel like a lot of people hate on the 2003 version simply because they watched Brotherhood first, which is a shame because both offer something beautiful.
For first time watchers I would actually suggest watching ‘03 first. Bc it explains a lot of characters and the themes with more explanation whilst brotherhood assumed people had watched those important moments before so they just got over with it quickly.
For people who don’t know, Fullmetal Alchemist has two versions, one came out in 2003 and the other in 2009, the first anime caught up to the ongoing manga and had to create an entirely original ending, while the second anime was made later to faithfully adapt the complete manga story.
The anime was being produced much faster than the manga chapters were being published. The creators knew they would quickly run out of source material. With the manga author's permission, the anime writers split away from the manga's plot about halfway through the series. They invented an entirely original storyline, a different origin for the Homunculi, a different main villain (Dante), and a much darker, anime only ending.
While the 2009 version adapted the whole manga from start to finish faithfully. With only the first couple of arcs being rushed as it was already covered in ‘03. So starting with ‘03 is highly recommend, the story shifts during the 5th laboratory arc. Watching brotherhood after this was like eating mom’s yummy soup during a bad cold. It was healing.

Anyways, Fullmetal alchemist is a must watch for anyone who wants to watch a show where it has great plot, characters, well written female characters, a power system that makes sense etc.

I just finished watching it for the first time, so in episode 12, sagara brings a biochemical weapon to school which everyone assumed was lethal. There was one antidote but that got broken and wasted too. At the last scene sagara takes chidori to the nursing room and tells her to strip and chidori thought he was gonna crack her, now the twist comes after this scene where we found out it was a cloth destroyer type of weapon, which sagara also found out later, now my question is since he wasn’t still aware about the actual outcome and the antidote also got wasted, why did he asked chidori to take her cloths off? Knowing sagara he ain’t the type to do “that”, so what was he gonna do?

I just finished watching it for the first time, so in episode 12, sagara brings a biochemical weapon to school which everyone assumed was lethal. There was one antidote but that got broken and wasted too. At the last scene sagara takes chidori to the nursing room and tells her to strip and chidori thought he was gonna crack her, now the twist comes after this scene where we found out it was a cloth destroyer type of weapon, which sagara also found out later, now my question is since he wasn’t still aware about the actual outcome and the antidote also got wasted, why did he asked chidori to take her cloths off? Knowing sagara he ain’t the type to do “that”, so what was he gonna do?

Like the title said. I have watched almost everything anime movie there is so can someone recommend me some niche, absolutely underground movie names please??

I’m 17F, shifted to Italy from a non EU country. It’s been almost 9 months since I came, I was lucky and got enrolled into pretty good school in seconda superiore (AFM), but due to language barrier after months of failing subjects, I was announced fail and was told repeat the year again. Now before I was enrolled, I was promised that I would be taught italian in the school, so I didn’t go to CPIA, the school did provide me a class to learn Italian, but with other kids with me, it wasn’t enough. And as a result not only I didn’t learn Italian properly, I couldn’t do well in any subjects at all. 

This year has came to an end, and I was suggested to change the course(AFM) since technico, is mid tier hard for italian students, the hardest being liceo. I know that even if I repeat the yeat in this school, its gonna be the same, I would still fail. Will I keep failing forever?

I wanted to work in healthcare for a long time(not doctor or nursing) but it seems impossible now, with the language barrier and all. I need some clarifications and advises on what to do. I live in brescia so there aren’t much choices too. I’m lost and depressed, I got this wonderful opportunity to live in a first world country but I feel like I’m just wasting this chance, not to mention my family is pretty broke so private school is out of the question. Its very frustrating to not being able to do any better like the people my age. I still can’t speak the language and in order to do oral tests and understand textbook information, it would take me years. What should I do?