My favourite thing about the Elric boys is like their relationship with women outside their home and their relationship with men outside their home is always like their relationship with their mom and dad. That’s why they respect women and are nicer to them while Ed is completely rude to men and Al is sorta nice but not THAT nice. Club of Women Respectors
The face Roy makes in the manga when he sees Riza in Ishval is so :((( and then he makes a face again later in the manga when she says she likes guns and he’s just :((((((((( even more and it makes me wonder about how he saw her pre-Ishval. Every time he sees her in volume 15 he just has this sad/disappointed look on his face and there’s even one point where he’s like, “Even she has the eyes of a killer.” “””EVEN SHE””” 100% implies that he never thought Riza could look like that/fall that low. He must have thought the world of her. He probably thought she was so sweet and kind hearted and gentle and then she follows him into war and tells him she likes guns and he’s just ?????? basically devastated by it bc how does this girl kill people??????????? How did she /get/ to this point?
Like imagine if Winry had killed Scar, and then imagine how Ed would have reacted. I mean he’s more emotional than Roy so he’d probably have cried or something instead of just made a face but do you see my point?????????? Roy saw Riza as this pretty, younger girl pre-Ishval and then his whole perception of her (and probably himself too since I’m sure he feels somewhat responsible for her joining the military) changed when she became a killer and I’m not saying that he thought less of her as a person but that her taking lives probably made him so so sad. Like “you weren’t meant to kill” was never a thing he got to say to her like Ed did to Winry. He didn’t ever have the chance to stop her (and I’m 100% certain he. would. have.) and so to us (and to most people around her in canon) Riza seemed ruthless and emotionless and robotic until we saw little snippets of who she really was when she cried for Roy, or put her jacket over Ed’s shoulders, or told Winry she looked pretty, or blushed when Roy teased her for crying over him. Like that is the Riza Roy knew pre-Ishval!!!!!!!! That’s all he knew! Then she showed up! in Ishval! w a weapon! and murdered a bunch of people and he was just ?????????????
Bottom line is that Riza’s hands weren’t meant to kill either and Roy knew/knows that and Winry coulda easily fallen down a path similar to Riza’s had Ed not been there to stop her.
Yes and I can’t help but compare the resembool trio to the war vet trio. Alphonse, despite the odds, lived where Maes died. Ed got to leave the military and go home, he was able to achieve his goal without killing. Roy couldn’t. And Winry didn’t shoot, she could put the gun down. Riza couldn’t. I think it plays well into the theme of “doing better for the next generation.”
I’ve been really busy with work and personal stuff and I’m tired af x__x I’ve missed most of the things everyone has been working hard and im so sorry ;__;
ow they burned their house down because they didnt want to turn back and they were afraid of what theyd done and they were just little kids and they watched it burn fuck this shit man they were just scared but they were pretending to be strong im emotionally compromised they were so fucking young i
Their boobs move. Like…realistically move. As in, the way actual breasts would motion if a woman made that movement without an over the top exaggeration and the camera is framed in a way so that it’s clearly not supposed to be sexual the way most anime would stage it. The scenes in question are meant to be taken seriously so the animators and direction is take things seriously. Either it’s just a character walking down a hall or clapping her hands.
If this were any other action/adventure anime, the camera angle would’ve been something like this for Winry’s introduction:
This is weird, but what I find so sexy about Riza is, well… How she isn’t sexualized. Like, she isn’t a pure sex object in nonstop sexy outfits. She’s a beautiful military woman, and she dresses appropriately for the role. Along with that she’s NEVER used as the ‘sexy distraction’ trope that women often are used for. She has a good role, she’s a fighter, but also has a kind heart for her friends.
That and more are reasons Riza is my favorite female anime character, and FMAB is my favorite anime.
Well said my friend.
I think there was only one instance of jiggle physics and that was with lust but that was when they were trying to make a joke about havoc having a thing for boobs and the joke was more about havoc than lust having big breasts.
“You fell into my booby trap” (proceeds to paralyze Havoc afterwards)
What I also love is that their boobs are in equal proportion to every other body part. Like, yeah, a character might have bigger boobs, but she also had a big waist/hips/legs/etc to go with it, so the largeness doesn’t feel fake. Plus, they never draw attention to the sexual stuff, and the only exception was the joke with Havoc. And it was posed in a way that made it feel like less of a raunchy boob joke and more of a joke on Havoc and how his attraction to boobs is what led him to be deceived, which doesn’t leave female viewers uncomfortable, or feeling like their body is constantly the butt of a joke, like some other animes do
That’s a good point that I didn’t realize. All of characters in the show have equally proportioned bodies.
Ed’s muscles get larger as he gets older but never reaches John Cena level of jacked since he’s still under 6 feet tall. He’s always presented as ripped and not ‘bulky’ like Sig or Alex.
Riza is about the same height as adult Ed, but they have different body styles thus the word for her would be toned. She’s still lean but her muscles and body shape are the same aren’t ‘compact’.
Fmab follows the basic body designs for males and female characters and doesn’t exaggerate a specific feature to the point where it’s comedic. It makes it’s bed, and lies in it.
Every time I see a girl in just about any other action/adventure (shonen) anime I just think:
“is your back okay? You need a doctor? Hey Thomas! Call Lucy a chiropractor!”
or better yet:
“Good Lord! Get this man a sandwich!”
The only real exception to the whole body proportion thing is ALEX LOUIS ARMSTRONG
But his ridiculously bulky muscles are used largely as a comedic element, in which the overly toned nature of his body is commented on as the “freak of nature” kind of idea and definitely not presented as if that’s some kind of expectation for anyone else in the show.
#fma#whispers: its bc a woman made it
don’t fucking whisper it scream it from the rooftops: IT’S BC A WOMAN MADE IT.
“What’s wrong? Did something happened?”
“No, sir. It’s nothing?”
redraw of this scene from brotherhood because is one of my favorite royai scenes
the way he calls her on the exact right time and feels something is wrong even without her saying anything is simply amazing, it really shows how in sync they are :’)
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