“FMA is bad because it portrays war criminals as sympathetic, likable people” bro that’s the point. That’s the whole point. That is THE point. Did you think Ethnic Cleanser is some kind of special category of person that gets separated away from all the Good People at birth? Did you think there’s some kind of barn full of Genocide Doers that only gets deployed into the general public during world wars? Did you think assholes who do terrible shit in real life are never charming or likable or capable of doing good things and helping people? One of the best parts of FMA is how we the audience realize that some of our core protags have made irredeemable choices, and we have to reckon with the fact that they’re still people, with the unalienable rights and qualities thereof. Sorry if the Problematics aren’t constantly wearing a dunce cap and a list of all their crimes and this makes the media incomprehensible to you
“Mr. District Attorney” makes absolutely clear the differences between the 1940s comics and the 1950s comics. In the late 40s, it started off as an ordinary detective/crime solving comic, an adaptation of a radio drama. However, as the years went on, due to the nature of the culture of the 1950s, strange, surreal, and at times, silly situations began to creep in little by little.
Eventually, we got Shep the Wonder Dog as a case’s star witness….
Before we ended with the Masked Secret Seven and an alien witness.
