[Anime] New Fullmetal Alchemist anime series

Watched this a few times yesterday. Pretty good start, I think. Obvious filler and ridiculously fast-paced story to introduce non-veterans to the story.

The thing that pissed me off the most was the amount of foreshadowing they threw in, even in the OP, just to satisfy the manga readers—kind of like "HEY GUYS, JUST IN CASE YOU DIDNT KNOW, THIS IS THE MANGA STORYLINE!" Totally unnecessary.

It also worries me to think about how much of the beginning they're going to gloss over just to get to the good stuff. Even at 2 chapters an episode (which is pretty standard), it'll be a tight fit to finish up the series, which should end anywhere from chapter 100-110. I'd like it much more if they took two years and made a good 102 episode series that really does the manga thorough justice.

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Originally Posted by hikarub

Man, I don't know if this a good thing or not, showing events in a slightly different way... but the battle between Ed and Greed wasn't how I remember it from the manga.

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....and Izumi showed up afterwards. Ed's evaluation was skipped entirely, as was Major Armstrong and King Fuhrer Bradley's stalking of Ed back to Dublith.

I know they're trying to get to the new bits for the manga, but this is getting weird.

It looks as if they skipped two whole chapters, which in FMA terms is a lot.

I can't really say I know what they're thinking. A lot of it is unimportant now, but they're breaking ties that become relevant later in the series.

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Such as Armstrong meeting Sig for the first time, and why does Izumi come AFTER Ed beats the shit out of Greed? This is really making no sense.

edit// And it seems like they kinda fucked up 15 too. At least the new OP and ED sequences are neato.

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Not including Youswell is really gonna shit on everything when Yoki owns shit out of nowhere later on in the series. It already kind of fucked up Mei's introduction in 15, according to the Raw.

Also the fact that the whole series is more of an action comedy than an action drama with comedic elements is kind of pissing me off. The jokes are fine in the manga, but it gets annoying in the anime every five seconds.

Let me be the first to say that besides the pretty OP and ED sequences, Brotherhood really isn't impressing me. Maybe it's because I want a scene-by-scene manga->anime adaptation a la One Piece and because I know exactly what happens, but they're making some terrible decisions here in my opinion.

There's nowhere I can't reach.