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So...
Here I am minding my own business, and a friend pops up on one of my messengers with this little Jpg.
https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.324.....5ca27c6.u5.jpg
[Which I have now learned was done by VGCats]
If you can't see this link it's of a little anime girl and her dog posing, in an adorable way, the last move of DragonBall Z's fusion dance in front of some kind of circular rune. I don't recognize them as DBZ characters so I get it's a parody of some kind, and I laugh and joke about the inevitable result of such a thing. To which he then responds with a YouTube clip.
Now, full disclosure, I have never seen an episode of Fullmetal Alchemist before, and never even read about the show to know what it's about. So, unprepared, I watch this clip. And it's such a sorrowful, sad scene that I'm all....GAAAhhhh. What the **** guy? Fun mood totally harshed. :P
**Spoiler** little Nina does get fused with her dog Alexander.
If you're curious just put 'Nina's death' into YouTube's search and it should be first on the list. But it's really darn sad.
So he goes about his day, and I'm starting to get ready to run, But that scene is kinda eating at me, so I feel that I need to exorcise it from my mind by fixing it, and spent the next few hours whipping up a better result from the parody picture.
So at least I got some much needed inking practice, and it totally broke my art bloc for the night. So I got that out of it.
Not sure who made the initial image, and I yanked the rune design from the Fullmetal Alchemist wiki. Best I can tell the characters and rune belong to Square Enix.
Here I am minding my own business, and a friend pops up on one of my messengers with this little Jpg.
https://ih1.redbubble.net/image.324.....5ca27c6.u5.jpg
[Which I have now learned was done by VGCats]
If you can't see this link it's of a little anime girl and her dog posing, in an adorable way, the last move of DragonBall Z's fusion dance in front of some kind of circular rune. I don't recognize them as DBZ characters so I get it's a parody of some kind, and I laugh and joke about the inevitable result of such a thing. To which he then responds with a YouTube clip.
Now, full disclosure, I have never seen an episode of Fullmetal Alchemist before, and never even read about the show to know what it's about. So, unprepared, I watch this clip. And it's such a sorrowful, sad scene that I'm all....GAAAhhhh. What the **** guy? Fun mood totally harshed. :P
**Spoiler** little Nina does get fused with her dog Alexander.
If you're curious just put 'Nina's death' into YouTube's search and it should be first on the list. But it's really darn sad.
So he goes about his day, and I'm starting to get ready to run, But that scene is kinda eating at me, so I feel that I need to exorcise it from my mind by fixing it, and spent the next few hours whipping up a better result from the parody picture.
So at least I got some much needed inking practice, and it totally broke my art bloc for the night. So I got that out of it.
Not sure who made the initial image, and I yanked the rune design from the Fullmetal Alchemist wiki. Best I can tell the characters and rune belong to Square Enix.
Category Artwork (Digital) / Transformation
Species Dog (Other)
Size 800 x 800px
File Size 518 kB
People have been sharing that image a LOT without attribution, but it's actually from VGCats. It's a design they made for one of their shirts months ago. http://sharkrobot.com/products/full-metal-fusion
Depictions of physical transformations can evoke many things. Mostly on FA we encounter sexy transformations or comical ones. Occasionally, light and uplifting ones. But there are dark and horrible transformations, too. Really, there is a whole subgenre of horror that can only be expressed through the medium of transformation. In my explorations of the transformation fandom, much of what I discovered early on was based in this horror.
Fullmetal Alchemist offers many demonstrations of horrific transformations, including the one referred to by this image. I have trouble sleeping after every time I watch that episode. Next time I do, I'll remember this image. Hopefully it will help. :)
Fullmetal Alchemist offers many demonstrations of horrific transformations, including the one referred to by this image. I have trouble sleeping after every time I watch that episode. Next time I do, I'll remember this image. Hopefully it will help. :)
Oh yeah. I've seen a lot of those dark types of transformations before too. I think my urge was that I was caught unaware in a very short span of time from what I thought was a kind of frivolous bit of fun. If I'd have watched the show, who knows, by that point I may have expected it, but then again it might have been a bigger sucker punch because I may have actually known the characters.
I only saw the five minute clip around the pertinent parts, and their resulting final form wasn't all that horrific. It was more the situation around how they came to be fused, who did it, the way he was acting, and then what happened afterwards when Scar arrived. Especially since if she was put in a better place she may have been fine. While thier chimera form was a little slow she was in there somewhere. So the show is clearly well done, it was just to many negative waves all at once out of nowhere.
I only saw the five minute clip around the pertinent parts, and their resulting final form wasn't all that horrific. It was more the situation around how they came to be fused, who did it, the way he was acting, and then what happened afterwards when Scar arrived. Especially since if she was put in a better place she may have been fine. While thier chimera form was a little slow she was in there somewhere. So the show is clearly well done, it was just to many negative waves all at once out of nowhere.
Good point. I feel really bad that you were exposed to such an emotionally charged scene without any of the relevant (and very important) context! Give your friend a poke to the kidneys and a stern rebuke from me!
Just in case you weren't aware, there are two animes by the name of Fullmetal Alchemist, the original FMA and FMA: Brotherhood, released in that order. Each tells a very similar story, but the first one was released prior to the completion of the manga (I'm guessing the network got impatient), so by necessity it diverges from the canon storyline somewhere in the middle. Brotherhood stays true to the manga from start to finish. They're both good in their own way, and I do recommend each, but I think Brotherhood tells a more coherent story. (And before you ask ... yes, Nina and Alexander suffer the same unfortunate fate in both.)
Just in case you weren't aware, there are two animes by the name of Fullmetal Alchemist, the original FMA and FMA: Brotherhood, released in that order. Each tells a very similar story, but the first one was released prior to the completion of the manga (I'm guessing the network got impatient), so by necessity it diverges from the canon storyline somewhere in the middle. Brotherhood stays true to the manga from start to finish. They're both good in their own way, and I do recommend each, but I think Brotherhood tells a more coherent story. (And before you ask ... yes, Nina and Alexander suffer the same unfortunate fate in both.)
I appreciate your concern, but I'm fine. Just an unexpected switch from cute/adorable to OMG this is so horrible. I always had a feeling from Cartoon Network's Adult Swim commercials back when it was on it was probably a pretty adult cartoon, but I didn't know it was so grim. Like I said it was more of a rebellion about how messed up that was.
I'm aware now. At the time my morbid curiosity for context had me do a little research, and a few wiki pages later I was caught up as much as I needed to be. I think there is some 2003 version of it that's the newer one, and with like most animes there is a manga that follows one of the versions very closely. Usually with the manga coming first. And yeah, I heard that in the newer one she has more of a part post transformation, but a more gruesome end too. Right now I'm in no hurry to find that.
I'm aware now. At the time my morbid curiosity for context had me do a little research, and a few wiki pages later I was caught up as much as I needed to be. I think there is some 2003 version of it that's the newer one, and with like most animes there is a manga that follows one of the versions very closely. Usually with the manga coming first. And yeah, I heard that in the newer one she has more of a part post transformation, but a more gruesome end too. Right now I'm in no hurry to find that.
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preferenccce is continued ignoranccce n glad mmm not letting mmmy ssssproutsss watch fma ... little too young to underssstand the dark ssstuff - even if mmm wanting to exxxplain it which mmm not wanting to do.
thisss little gurl-pup has power! nicccely done - n not dark! ;>>>>>>>
preferenccce is continued ignoranccce n glad mmm not letting mmmy ssssproutsss watch fma ... little too young to underssstand the dark ssstuff - even if mmm wanting to exxxplain it which mmm not wanting to do.
thisss little gurl-pup has power! nicccely done - n not dark! ;>>>>>>>
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