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I mean I like the show overall but I just felt they went a bit too far with so many characters dying. Pretty much everyone has someone who has lost their loved ones. Black sister lost their brother, Yoko lives alone since she already lost Kamina and so on. I mean the only one that gets a happy ending probably might be Rousseau and even he suffers from depression. And the person who got the worst deal from the entire show was none other then the main character Simon . I believed he was the most deserving person for a happy ending but ends up having the worst situation out of them all.

First his parents die when he is a kid, then his brother Kamina whom he looks up to dies early in the show and now his wife vanishes literally in front of him.

I think Nia's death was something that should not have happened. I think the show overdid a lot of sad stuff . It was done beautifully but still.

Also was Nia a real human being at all or Was Simon in Love with a Artificial Intelligence computer program ?(which makes it even more depressing considering the woman he loved was not even real)

I really wished Simon got a Happy ending after so many sacrifices and I thought they were gonna go for it with Nia but then they just pulled this stunt. I understand its a coming of age story but Its just too much I cannot get over it. I generally do not like romance anime but man this was something I was rooting for. They were probably the most wholesome couples I had seen in any show live action or anime.

Also with Nia being some kind of antispiral does not make sense since she was a biological woman born to spiral king and even if she was her vanishing does not make sense since she still was a hybrid technically at least canonically. Seriously this is a ending I never understood can someone please explain it to me?

I absolutely love both series and consider them (i think they compliment each other and I consider them part of one anime experience and not as separate ) one of my top 5 favourite anime ( though i prefer brotherhood slightly). But seriously if I had not watched 2003 version first I probably would have never watch brotherhood anyways because how underdeveloped and boring the first few episodes are compared to original 2003. Its like they do not take themselves seriously at all.(And i am not talking about the humor both shows have humor) Brotherhood only starts getting interesting after episode 17(with introduction of ling)

I will give you a few examples

Episode 1 of the original is just too good as an introduction when I watched it I was immediately hooked(reminded me of my favourite anime code geass ep 1) .You do not get the same feeling from episode 1 of brotherhood. When I watched brotherhood episode I of broho I felt insulted how atrocious it was as an intro to the world compared to 2003 fma ( do NOT get me wrong it is good for a generic anime but for something like fma it was bad as an intro )

And there is more, the humor in early episodes is extremely juvenile and plastic while in fma 2003 the humor is very organic and good throughout the show including the shamballa movie. I mean there are moments in broho where there is a serious and tense movement and suddenly they will crack a joke while this never happened in 2003 version. For Eg Izumi vomiting blood in 2003 Fma are considered a serious scenes while in brotherhood they nothing more then comedy gags (which i disliked very much) brotherhood becomes a masterpiece that people claim it to be only after the first 15- 16 episodes

However If I watched that show without watching the original I would have probably ended not watching it at all and considered it an overrated anime.

What is your opinion?

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I really wish I should not have saved that women but it is just impossible how could my horse die without a shot fired and no chance to revive as well. Is it a glitch or it happens for that specific period. I really wanted to complete chapter 6 with my long time horse but I have such a bad luck.