10 Worst Anime Adaptations

Being a bad adaptation does not immediately designate you as being bad period per se. Case in point, the original Full Metal Alchemist anime from 2003, one of the best anime ever made. And also one of the absolute worst adaptations anime fans will have ever laid eyes on.

While the first season sticks to the story pretty closely, once they were approaching the 5th laboratory arc, the team at Bones realized they were never gonna be able to adapt the manga perfectly without straying into filler territory. Hiromu Arakawa then gave her express permission for the team to just make something completely different, all the way down to its ending, even going so far as to say that the two properties SHOULD be different from each other.

While this has resulted in a lot of good for the franchise - you can thank this version for making Maes Hughes as popular as he is instead of the one-off character destined to die that he was in the manga - and again it paid off because this show is REALLY damn good (if unrelentingly sad, I mean my god).

But that doesn't save FMA 03 from being a flat out awful adaptation of the source material.