In mangahood i think it’s largely an act of conceit and pride - kids playing at God and thinking they could succeed at a long forbidden art, flying too close to the sun and getting burned for it. Thinking sbt the way sloth rather than pride is eds sin in fma 03 and its interesting how even the act of trying to resurrect trisha kindve gets recontextualised in this light too. and that’s also not to say you can’t prefer one to the other (or that there’s no argument to be made like w lion king that one is a classic work of English literature and the other is a disney film), bc thats exactly what I’m doing here, but it’s more than just 'arakawa didn’t do her own story justice’ The manga shouldn’t be a competitor or rival to 03, but an inspiration in the same way idk the snow queen is to frozen or hamlet to shakesepare.
03 may be more interesting and go a lot deeper and into its own territory, imo, but it’s built on a basis arakawa provided. When I say I prefer 03 to the manga it can seem a bit sad like im implying ‘arakawa wrote the inferior version of her own story’ :( but despite the temptation to compare I think of it more as like, arakawas work is the inspiration and 03 is its own work, in the same way that like, there are a lot of modern day retellings of myths and fairytales but that doesnt mean the original stories suck.
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