Thread:Jester of chaos/@comment-32141455-20190403154804/@comment-39213635-20190423202335

The point of Brotherhood is translating the manga to the screen. And "creative" is not an excuse for differs from the source material. If they want to be different, do the 2003 show. Think about this: A character named General Halcrow, during the train incident he has more screentime than Bill Cipher in Dipper and Mabel vs. the Future (at least as himself). And yet the anime's train incident cut off him entirely, so imagine if because Bill's scene in that episode was too short, the comic adaptation decided to cut it off. So, that's why I pick the manga as my favourite "show". Better than the adaptations, and being the original source material, and all. Instead of adding Halcrow's scenes to be accurate, they instead cut him off and added a few fillers. That's one of the things I dislike about Brotherhood. Halcrow is by no means my favourite character, but he's still a manga character, that was actually given a name and some scenes, and cut him off is still guilty. You could do that to a completely background character, like "the guy standing in the stadium with the family afar away that Edward saw among other people when passed by", but Halcrow, despite isn't a significant character, still appears enough to warrant translated to the anime. And that's only a minor character. Imagine if the show producers decided to cut off almost all of Father's scenes prior to the final battle. That is not something I would want to see.