Summary for those who don’t get the references:
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In Futurama (a show about a young man who gets accidentally cryogenically frozen until the year 3000), Fry finds the fossilized remains of his pet dog from the year 2000. Ultimately he assumes his dog had a good and full life after his disapperance, but in the epilogue we see that his dog waited for him in front of his workplace (Panucci’s Pizza) throughout the seasons, regardless of the weather, until he aged and died.
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In Full Metal Alchimist: Brotherhood, the Elric brothers visit an alchemist (Shou Tucker) who is known for having created a chimera capable of understanding human speech. While they study under him, they also spent time playing with his 4 year old daughter Nina and her dog Alexander. Upon returning one day they find Shou has created a new chimera capable of understanding human speech in order to satisfy his yearly alchemist assessment requirements; when the chimera indicates it knows who the Elric brothers are and wants to go out and play it becomes obvious that the chimera was made by combining Shou’s own daughter with the family dog. The resulting being is very sad and confused and doesn’t really understand what has happened to it, and just wants to be back to normal, but there is no way to undo . This chimera is the creature pictured here.
Ultimately, these are two of the most heart-wrenching scenes in animation.
(PS: Fuck Shou Tucker!)
Fuck Tucker
Tuck Fucker
One thing you forgot to mention about the chimera was one of the few things she says is that it hurts.
Fucking broke me the first time I saw FMAB
I know Brotherhood tells a better overall story as it aligns more closely with the manga. BUT, the music and pacing of that scene in the original anime production of FMA hits a little harder, in my opinion.
They fucking broke that show because they needed to pump up the numbers and keep up delivering anime episodes while the plot was still being written. FMA is perfectly done till around ep 25, then it’s totally ruined. FMAB rushed the first arcs of the anime because it was already seen by 9/10 of japan and resumed the first 25 episodes in like 11… it’s the only show I know characters start flanderized and deflandreizeid slowly through the show.
Now I dont know how to recommend that show. It’s like you have to be a hard fan of it in the first place to watch it correctly…
FMA’s music and characters where excellently done…
There is still a better way of recommending it, which is recommending the manga
So I only caught a few episodes of the original(including the one in the post) and then watched brotherhood, it’s definitely rushed to that point but I loved everything after that, it wouldn’t be that hard to cut together a playlist of the first 25 of FMA and then let FMAB take over around 11 like you said.
Couldn’t agree more
The Hughs chunk in the original hits way harder IMO
For me it was the other way around. FMA had the better story with a drift at the end into the twilight zone, while FMAB drifted into a generic action show. I never understood the hype.
FMAB
fssigned male at birth
Watched the first few episodes on shrooms when I was younger and I bawled my eyes out to every line chimera Nina said
tl;Dr 😒😒
A picture of Lu Ten in the background would make it even more heart-wrenching.
(Son of Iroh - Avatar the last Airbender - tales from ba sing se)
“Accidentally” frozen.
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I Will Wait For You playing on a day where rain wasn’t predicted.
Thanks, I hate it.
Fuck.
Big… brother…
Go to c/memes they said, it’ll be fun they said…
Who hurt you
I feel like the fucked-uppedness of these two cancel out
Nah, the fuckedness actually gets multiplied.
that’s just basic math
Okay but what if I don’t get it
Then be happy and don’t wonder why
hu?
full metal alchemist reference + Futurama reference
It’s much better if you just watch both shows though, they are very good
Oh man, I KNEW I was going to regret looking up that FMA context…
Haha! Joke’s on you, as I don’t know this dog. I only get 50% 😁
I don’t get any of this. Day unaffected. But I was already miserable.
The scene is from futurama. And it was a pretty sad one.
The half-dog one is from Full Metal Alchemist.
It’s only half dog. Alchemically speaking.
Awesome. Now I know exactly as much as before 😁
I still think about this in FMA brotherhood. And im unfortunately familiar with this scene in futurama.
Why you gotta hurt me man?
How do I only know people who have only watched fma or Futurama. Am I the only person I know who has seen both?
This is cursed
how to delete someone else’s lemmy post
Be his instance owner
