Too much fiction can be bad for people and warp their expectations. This is a joke.
I didn't get very far in the manga, it's even more rapey than I thought. As was mentioned though, kinda makes sense, that would happen a lot to women in these situations. Might just be an excuse though.
It's an unpopular opinion, but Brotherhood sucks, the original is better. It's worth trying that one, but tbh, FMA is pretty overrated in general. It's like 7.5/10.
Rape is done in a way where it's upsetting in Berserk rather than fetishistic. I believe evil literal satanic monsters would rape people in a dark fantasy setting, Berserk does sexual violence well. The Count's wife gave in to evil and had a baphomet orgy ritual take place, it tore his family apart as a result and he was never the same. Additionally, the mentally ill are more likely to be taken advantage of.
7.5 is still far above average you asbolute fucking retard. It isn't overrated if you even agree it's above average (5/10) just because a lot of people like it. Contrarians and misanthropes are weird.
I suspect they are using the Game Journalist Absolute Bullshit rating system where average is 7 because you need 1-6 for people who didn't pay you to say nice things about them.
Kinda agree, FMA has a positive reputation and after reading and watching the show I was not impressed. So overrated is fitting to a certain degree. But I am not crazy about Shonen in general, so whatever.
I may be retarded but you're a drooling retard, there's no contradiction in saying something is above average but also overrated. Yeah, I think it's above 5/10 but many others think it's 10/10. That means I still find it overrated. It's good but not great, and certainly far from from perfect. I can't believe I need to explain this in detail
I'm not sure why I don't like it more than I do, I like the genre, I can't say it does anything too wrong. It just isn't that interesting, probably because I didn't feel invested in the characters.
Slightly different take: I think the first 3rd of the Original is better, however I think the latter 2/3rds is pretty unwatchable, where as the first 1/3rd of Brotherhood assumes you watched the original and thus speeds through content, but the second two thirds are pretty excellent.
This is true. I never gave a shit about the little girl in FMA. On a scale of all the terrible shit that could possibly happen to you in FMA, what happened to the little girl is like, maybe a 5 or 6 out of 10. I think the people trapped for seemingly eternity grafted to Hoinheim's soul had it significantly worse, or like anyone involved with Envy's true form.
It's like you read what I wrote but didn't understand it. Also, I could give a fuck about commies like Moore.
I didn't finish FMAB so I can't comment on how well it handled its back half. Is there a point to jump to where it gets good?
It's not so much that what happened to her wasn't so bad, it's more that, I mean, I don't even remember her name so they just didn't build it up well. It could've been very effective but usually writers are too lazy or scared to actually invest readers into a character and then casually kill them midway through, that usually only happens towards the end of a series.
It isn't Alan Moore just looks like him. A meme. Anyways I understood clearly, you're just autistic and/or sensitive where topics like rape in fiction bother you since your mind can't separate it from reality. Then you imply it's the author's fetish like its Made In Abyss or some shit.
Yes, but I don't remember where because its been at least a decade lol. I'll look into it this weekend.
Her name is Nina. To your point though I couldn't remember it yesterday when I replied, her name just popped into my head as I was reading your reply lol.
AoT is the most overhyped anime of all time. "Anyone can die at anytime" doesn't matter if I don't know any of the character's names. Also the Titan's don't look intimidating, they look retarded.
I feel like this is a terrible way to look at stories and I feel like its a direct result of Game of Thrones in the cultural zeitgeist telling everyone for a decade no one was safe. A story doesn't function if at least some of the characters are safe. It is so hard to pull of protagonist switch ups mid story beat in a way that works and keeps the emotional weight of the story in tact.
