Reacting to the Fullmetal Alchemist (2003) - Opening 4 Rewrite - FINAL EPISODES REACTION TEASER!!!

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[@genyakozlov1316]

The man really looked at one of the best looking moments in the history of anime and said it doesn't look good.

[@PickyPaige]

I said the CGI doesn't look good, it is not at all well integrated with the hand-drawn stuff, otherwise it looks pretty! Also it's specifically when he is running and jumps of the cliff, where he looked obviously CGIed!

[@YungandRekless545]

@@PickyPaige That artist is literally famous for *NOT* using CG in his animations, and still creating realistic movement. That sequence was fully 2D and one of the heights of FMA's animation.

[@PickyPaige]

@@YungandRekless545 Cool, if true bu I don't get how is him running of the cliff not CGI? He looks 3D!

[@YungandRekless545]

@@PickyPaige It's a similar situation that happened in The Chainsaw Man anime recently. People complained that ending 11 went fully cg and that they animated the characters in 3D. In actuality, the characters were the only things in that ending that *weren't* animated in 3D. They were completely in 2D animation, yet some people thought otherwise.
Both that, and the shot of Edward running are examples of the amount of effort and skill that went into simulating fluid movement with 2D animation.

[@elismart13]

is this guy high on something.. THATS FLUID 24FPS 2d animation.. NOT CGI (ur brain just somehow jumped to that conclusion 😂)

[@carpalclient1639]

That was not cgi, that was completely hand-drawn at 24 FPS

[@furjaden8553]

I can see very high amounts of CGI phobia.
First off, CGI is not an inferior form of animation, just an equal alternative.
Second, I believe you though it was 3d, because it was animated in 24fps rather than the standard 12fps anime characters are usually done.

[@PickyPaige]

It's not a phobia, I just don't like how CGI looks.

[@furjaden8553]

@@PickyPaige It is, you see something that resembles the smoothness of CGI & immediately attribute negative feelings toward it, instead of making your own opinion on the plain, quaint animation as a whole.

[@covitooo]

that wasn't cgi buddy

[@PickyPaige]

There was a little bit as he was running off the cliff, I don't know if it's noticeable in the reaction but it definitely was on my TV, it's not a big deal but it was noticeable!

[@covitooo]

@@PickyPaige it's not. Yutaka Nakamura never uses CGI. And the key frames are available online to see. It's not CGI, it's just very fluid and consistent. You need to watch more anime and build up knowledge and an ability to distinguish hand-drawn from cg

[@PickyPaige]

@@covitooo If I'm wrong then fair enough! But the thing that makes it look like CGI to me is how much Ed looks like a 3D model as he runs off the cliff, and not the fluidity!

[@covitooo]

@@PickyPaige you ARE wrong, but there's nothing wrong in not liking a cut or two

[@mr.l3938]

U already finished it? If not it's okay but it's an amazing ending sure it's complex but if u see the thematic buildup it makes sense

[@PickyPaige]

Oh, I finished recording the reactions to it months ago, it's just taken me a long time to post them, since I have a lot of other shows and other content that I need to post too, and I need to balance it all,
Since we are so close to the end though, I've just decided to edit all remaining videos that are left and will be posting them, in the next couple of days! So I officially will be done with it, then at some point later this year I will be checking out Brotherhood!

[@mr.l3938]

@@PickyPaige okay good but lowkey I honestly love the twist and what Dante says too right before it cuz it does make sense
The plot twist was planned out throughout the series if you see it thematically it makes complete sense the main complaints is how early the twist was played out or foreshadowed in the show and they usually forget the virtues that the gate plot twist has 03 didn't only give hints right before the twist itself happened the audience sees images of our world's history in ed's memories of the gate all the way back in episode 29 which is just after the halfway point of the show now that tiny hints sure isnt enough but then u remember me sayin that if u few the whole series as a thematic character study then it all fits in placebecause what the gate twist lacks in dramatic buildup it more than makes up for it in thematic buildup theres a reason ed travels to our world and not to some metaphysical realm sealed within the gate or to some other fantasy sci-fi setting the writers could have conjured up for the finale 03 is about the conflict between fantasy and reality between childhood and adulthood between the ideal and the concrete between our personal dreams and the needs of the flesh and blood people around us huge examples of this are littered throughout the series but episode 16 is a big example heres a quote from that "A dream to get everything back the way it was but once you have it what will you do with your life?" the pleasure of a dream is that is a fantasy if it happens its not a dream "the anime explores these conflicts primarily ed's stubborn belief in equivalent exchange and through his refusal to accept its possible falsehoods when you keep all of this in mind it makes thematic sense that at the climax of ed and dante's argument about equivalent exchange in episode 49 which is really an argument about the fairness of the "real world" Ed through the gate to our world the actual real world not only is he stranded in the middle of ww1 often being the embodiment of bleak disillusionment but he's also literally stranded in reality itself this is the thematic justification for the suddenness of this twist its a sudden, brutal reality check ed is out of the dream world , his childhood and into the literal real world out of the realm of his dreams, ideals, beliefs, and his ambitions and in the realm of the ugly price of all of those things he discovers that the deaths that take place in our world fuel the transmutations of his world the dream world this is the dark foundational truth of all truths their is no fairness now i know its dark i love it but there is more than that I'm so sorry for the long paragraph again I mean no hate but yeah If u still confused I hope this helps a lil but still I hope u have some fun