Week 12: Contemporary Manga
Funny Full Metal Alchemist? This is a Comparison List- With Pictures! I have to say, my initial reaction was just total delight that the character archetypes (both in visual design and personality) are identical to Full Metal Alchemist. The extreme change in setting makes it just so funny. Its almost as if the characters of Full Metal Alchemist were dropped into an agricultural college in our world and reading this as "Edward Elric just chased a dairy cow and got lost" is incredible. Silver Spoon was written in 2011- 2019. FMA 2001 - 2010 I had assumed that Silver spoon came first as its much more classically tropey with its character design where FMA flips tropes, uses them to trick you into assuming a character is less complicated than they really are, and generally only uses tropes for occasional comedy, and never as a support to lean on. Here is a list of my comparisons of the characters and how they're similar/different: