I'm going to have to ask what would make you consider it "worth it".
I say "brotherhood" because it a clear indication of which storyline I mean, but what I really am a fan of is the manga. To be honest I haven't even watched every episode of the brotherhood anime. I began reading FMA when it was far, far from finished. Then, craving more, I watched the anime because I thought it was the same story. Then there was a severe break in the storyline and I was all WTF?
So I watched the entirety of the 2003 anime. I enjoyed it... I guess. It was never worth a rewatching to me. Though yes, excellently dubbed. (I'm pretty sure Brotherhood has a lot of the same voice actors?) But since I read the manga first, that has always been the 'original' to me, and I am forever biased in any series and almost exclusively prefer the original to any adaption.
I prefer the manga/Brotherhood storyline. The 2003 was... uh, not bad, I guess, but a lot of things made me "wtf" about it. I think it had some good heart-ouchies-- Sloth and Envy's true identity, for instance. But there were some loopholes that even a young me felt we're sort of stupid. Maybe I'm looking back on it now with unclear eyes, but back then I thought Dante turning Ed and Al's creature into Sloth was kind of. Uhm. Fucking stupid.
And anyway, I just like the themes of Brotherhood better. I like the ending-- it's a lot happier than the ending of 2003. Which I also found to be wtf worthy, so you know. Like, I think "the gate" has a much more understandable role in Brotherhood. 2003: Commit a sin, go to a different dimension! Brotherhood: Commit a sin, god will punish you! ...like, I don't dislike the 2003 ending because it's open-- far from, I love open endings --but because it's effing weird and I don't like historical settings. Bah.
And there's a lot of cool characters only seen in Brotherhood. And I like the theme of all these different people all coming together against a common foe. I like the stronger themes of loyalty and the massive clusterfucky fight scene at the end because I like clusterfucky fight scenes. Uhm... I don't know.
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Re: Hikaru no... Go? Is that a pun or something?
Date: 2012-04-02 08:54 pm (UTC)I say "brotherhood" because it a clear indication of which storyline I mean, but what I really am a fan of is the manga. To be honest I haven't even watched every episode of the brotherhood anime. I began reading FMA when it was far, far from finished. Then, craving more, I watched the anime because I thought it was the same story. Then there was a severe break in the storyline and I was all WTF?
So I watched the entirety of the 2003 anime. I enjoyed it... I guess. It was never worth a rewatching to me. Though yes, excellently dubbed. (I'm pretty sure Brotherhood has a lot of the same voice actors?) But since I read the manga first, that has always been the 'original' to me, and I am forever biased in any series and almost exclusively prefer the original to any adaption.
I prefer the manga/Brotherhood storyline. The 2003 was... uh, not bad, I guess, but a lot of things made me "wtf" about it. I think it had some good heart-ouchies-- Sloth and Envy's true identity, for instance. But there were some loopholes that even a young me felt we're sort of stupid. Maybe I'm looking back on it now with unclear eyes, but back then I thought Dante turning Ed and Al's creature into Sloth was kind of. Uhm. Fucking stupid.
And anyway, I just like the themes of Brotherhood better. I like the ending-- it's a lot happier than the ending of 2003. Which I also found to be wtf worthy, so you know. Like, I think "the gate" has a much more understandable role in Brotherhood. 2003: Commit a sin, go to a different dimension! Brotherhood: Commit a sin, god will punish you! ...like, I don't dislike the 2003 ending because it's open-- far from, I love open endings --but because it's effing weird and I don't like historical settings. Bah.
And there's a lot of cool characters only seen in Brotherhood. And I like the theme of all these different people all coming together against a common foe. I like the stronger themes of loyalty and the massive clusterfucky fight scene at the end because I like clusterfucky fight scenes. Uhm... I don't know.
2003 is what isn't worth it to me.
Brotherhood represent.
...any specific questions?