"Any card—so long as it exists—has a power that is needed."

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Like think about it: we don’t see Goku grow from a young martial arts to an adult powerhouse or how he defeated his enemies over the years. Yet Piccolo is supposedly his one-time enemy and Dr. Gero was part of this Red Ribbon whatnow?

Raditz reveals his secret heritage as an Alien Warrior yet… we never got to know Goku as an Earth Warrior or as a character with a weird tail and were-monkey form.

That’s supposed to be a game changing twist for the series… yet in the context of how Dragon Ball started for many, it’s like foundational not unlike a protagonist being a normal guy before he learns he’s special.

You know, a normal guy who can blast energy from his lifeforce and is shredded like all get out.

Also the other characters. Who are they to Goku? Why do they rally around him? Who’s the weird bald geezer hitting on the blue-haired chick?

This sort of thing was blessed to have been a hit with us skipping over most of the story overall.

It’s like how the Yu-Gi-Oh dub completely skips the (admittedly very weird and kinda bad) first season, so when it starts the show is just like “Here is Yugi and all of his friends who you definitely know, and also here is Seto Kaiba. What history does he have with Yugi that they sort of allude to in their dialogue? Fuck you.”

No, Season 0 was a split Anime adaptation by Toei before NAS picked it up and decided to compress in the Death T arc into episode one before going onto Duelist Kingdom and rewriting things to make it seem like we’re meant to be starting in media res via flashbacks and filler arcs like Noah as well as Doma.

So… not the dub’s fault but not entirely unrelated.

pokemonpowergirl:

Bro got betrayed again.

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Th… This is how not to fansub your anime 😐

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c3rvida3:

Doctor said I only have to do four hours of therapy a week instead of seven. I am the pina colada of mental health.

I meant to say “pinnacle”, not “pina colada”. The telephone is a cruel mistress. I am so healthy, still.

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Wanna highlight that Taiki Matsuno, Manjoume’s Seiyuu…

…just cameo’d in the newest Digimon Ghost Game episode as MoriShellmon lol

scribbleymewzaque:

This hit me like a truck

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Rockman Corner has an article about it if you’d like more info, but the tl;dr is that ShoPro, the company that produced Rockman.EXE, is considering distributing the original Japanese show outside of Japan with official subtitles. So if Rockman.EXE with official subs is something you’d like to see, please politely reply to this Tweet: https://twitter.com/AnimeLogTokyo/status/1419288727151550464

Something along the lines of “I’d really like to be able to watch Rockman.EXE in ___ region with ___ language subtitles!” should do the trick!

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phantomrose96:

These are just some 8am Monday morning rambling thoughts, but I think I’ve hit on an explanation for something that’s bugged me for years.

My only major complaint about the Brotherhood adaption of the FMA manga has always been the unusual gutting and cutting of Riza’s recount of Ishval. It’s stripped bare. For perspective, the retelling spans the entirety of volume 15 of the manga. Most manga volumes after Ling’s introduction are given about 2.5-3 episodes for adaption. The recount of Ishval was given 1 episode–episode 30.

And they did some clever shuffling to at least make this slightly more reasonable. Roy’s declaration to Maes that he intends to overthrow Bradley and fix Amestris is given as the cold open to episode 10, even though this is part of volume 15. Scar’s backstory was presented in episode 22. Riza burying the nameless Ishvalan child and then asking Roy to burn off her back is in episode 54. All of these were relocated in the telling, but not cut.

Yet that doesn’t explain the sheer volume of stuff that DID get cut. Or changed even. Episode 30 seems to be missing the aspect of humanness that comes across in volume 15. It’s almost 2-dimensional since it seems to cut most things that display an element of human fallibility and moral ambiguity. It’s like “Yes the Amestrians are Evil except not our Heroes they are Different”. I always chalked that up to an unfortunate consequence of the cutting choices.

I finally realized though–I think that’s the intent.

I think Brotherhood modifies the story to make the named, known characters less morally implacable for their actions. All the cuts seem to get rid of the morally-gray–or even downright evil–things that Mustang, Hawkeye, Armstrong, and Hughes do, and amp up the evil in the actions of the unnamed Amestrian soldiers

Here’s a list of things cut or modified in episode 30:

• In the manga, Roy and Riza reunite when Riza snipes and kills an Ishvalan man about to stab Roy. The man was hiding in the Amestrians’ base camp, jumped Roy after he’d removed his gloves to wash his hands, and right before the man sinks his blade into Roy’s neck, Riza shoots him through the head. In the anime, she just walks up to Roy and Maes, having killed no one on screen.
  
• In the manga, Roy burns to death the last Ishvalan survivor–an old injured man gently petting his dog. Roy asks if the man has any last words, and the old man calmly curses Mustang right before he’s incinerated. 
  
• In the manga, Armstrong attempts to let two Ishvalan women escape by busting a hole in the wall he’d transmuted to trap them in. Kimbley steps in and annihilates them. He then goes to offer Armstrong a hand up, and (as a friendly favor) promises not to let the higher-ups know what Armstrong did, lest he get court martialed. 
• In the manga, we see dead Ishvalans left on the ground. Mustang and Hughes walk by bodies as they talk. Ishvalans with speaking roles are murdered. Faces can be put to people who were killed by Armstrong, Mustang, and Hawkeye.
• In the manga, a captain in charge of Hughes’ squad is ordering unnecessarily risky missions in a thinly-veiled attempt to earn some recognition from the higher-up. Bass Grahn takes issue with this, and murders the captain. Hughes and some men are present to witness this. They calmly remark how unfortunate it is that a “stray bullet” from the other side has killed the captain.
  
• The Amestrians’ celebration at the end of the war is cut. Some of Mustang’s men flag him down for a drink with him to thank him for protecting them. Mustang is disgusted with himself for the recognition. considering that indiscriminately killing people is what earned him it. (In fact, when Bradley spies Mustang in the crowd and realizes Mustang is vying for his spot, he remarks something along the lines of “There’s one man not enjoying the drunken celebration.”)
• And, as far as things included in the anime but not the manga, Scar’s anime flashback to the war involves Amestrian soldiers gleefully, maliciously, happily killing Ishvalans. The soldiers all look identical. They don’t blink. And they march in perfect unison. This does make sense since it’s from Scar’s perspective. It very well could have looked that way to him. But that’s the ONLY perspective we’re given on the general Amestrian soldier–as if they’re all one generic, depthless, monster faction. 

On the whole, the cut pieces paint a far more brutal picture

When Riza talks to Ed about Mustang’s plan to bring the Amestrian genociders to justice (himself and Riza included) it makes a lot more sense to the reader. Because we saw Roy and Hughes step over rotting bodies, and saw Riza snipe the gore and brains clear from a man’s head, and saw Mustang incinerate a harmless dog, and his injured, elderly owner. There is no dancing around what these people have done.

Yet in the anime, all these cuts modify the perspective we’re given. We don’t see Riza shoot and kill anyone (at least, not up close, not with a face). We don’t see Mustang incinerate the dog and the injured old man who gently cursed him to hell. We don’t see the people Armstrong attempted to aid getting wiped out. We don’t see Hughes’ quiet complicity with mutiny. Nor his stoic disaffection when the Ishvalan high priest’s offer is shot down by Bradley. We don’t get Mustang’s named subordinate soldiers who thank him for protecting them in war so they can go home to their families. 

We lose the truly awful things our known characters were a part of. And we lose the humanity expressed by the background soldiers working beneath Mustang and the others. 

What we get instead is divide. We know Mustang and Hawkeye killed people in Ishval, but they refuse to show us. We just see them acting remorseful, or planning self-immolating ways to fix everything wrong with Amestris. Opposite them, we get Generic Amestrian Soldier™ who gleefully commits genocide and has one, singular character design, when in the manga several of these people are named and are presented as honest, kind people. 

The whole thing, to me, comes across as censorship. Like it’s maybe an attempt to separate Mustang, Hawkeye, Armstrong, and Hughes from their awful deeds. To make them more likable, to destroy the moral ambiguity that is otherwise clear in the manga. It makes them safer to present as good guys. And instead lumps the evil on this flanderized, straw-man Amestrian soldier.

For whatever political or cultural reasons, I think the anime studio was afraid of implicating Mustang and the others for their involvement in the Ishvalan genocide.

This is why the chapters on Ishval in the manga are one of my favorites.

This is exactly why Volume 15 is my favorite in the manga series. In the Viz Collector’s Edition, the English translation of the last Ishvalan, the man with his dog, his final words are even more haunting than simply “I curse you.”

I really think that Volume 15 deserved multiple episodes in the anime and I’m actually more than a little disappointed in the way it was handled in BH. The only thing about the changes I liked significantly better than the manga was the placement of the scene where Riza asks Roy to deface her tattoo, and that’s purely for the fact that Edward is also the audience to the events in V15 and explaining her tattoo and her history with Roy in this Volume, whether intentionally or not, also implies that she is telling this to Edward as well as the readers. I simply do not believe she would have divulged such a sensitive and intimate secret to him. For that reason alone, I think Brotherhood did the right thing by placing that scene in such a way that the viewers were the only implied audience.

PLEASE READ THE MANGA

I always thought that I didin’t like very much the way they have changed Ishval’s chapter in episode 30, but hell this dude hade made me change my mind in almost EVERYTHING about it.
Also I think that the OAV “Yet Another’s man battlefield” is a sort of ‘compensation’ for that fact:
In that OAV we see Hughes kill an Ishvalan shotting him in the head; and the man was Roy and Maes’ old friend.
Even the last dialogue, where Roy tells Maes *“How can you hold your woman with your blood-stained hands?”* gives a more cruel image of the war and what the two men had done in it.

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