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REVIEW: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Blu-Ray Box Set 2

Cause that's really what this post and other people who suggest this path feel to me. It's a way to make Brotherhood appear as better and just further place the original adaptation into complete irrelevancy. Sorry that you feel FMAB's beginning wasn't up to par, that really doesn't give you the right to use another adaptation to better another one. FMAB is more if an adaptation of the manga than FMA ever was. The orignal's beginning is like it is because the staff of that show had the sense to greatly expand on the manga. Hughes was considered a throwaway character in the manga. Arawaka literally said she didn't expect Hughes to be loved so much and she had to add more Hughes stuff because the original adaptation did so much with him. Nina was nowhere near as important in the manga or FMAB and served a completely different purpose in the original and her death was better because the original greatly expanded on her character.

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I really have no problem with people who prefer Brotherhood. I do have a problem with people who try to shoehorn in original adaptation content because they want to make Brotherhood look better. That's what so disrespectful. The original adaptation deserves to be watched as a standalone. It's not supposed to be used as some weird chimera hybrid. The manga/FMAB has zero right to its content.

Let people decide what they want to like more instead of trying to glorify what is already now considered to be the best anime of all time these days.That's pretty pathetic if FMAB needs another show to make it better. The last thing the original needs is for it to be just considered as just supplementary material for FMAB. It's already been disparaged enough. An anime that was ranked 1 on MAL, viewed as a classic, ranked 1 in Japan in the two years it wasn't even airing, and considered to be the best anime of its time being treated like this is beyond disrespectful imo. I'd actually prefer people just outright skipping the original adaptation than doing this hamfisted method of shoehorning content.