Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood is an anime that made my watchlist for Spring 2009 anime. I had watched most of the original Full Metal Alchemist series a few years ago but didn’t see it through to the end. I learned afterward that the story of the first anime had diverted away from the original manga and many fans were disappointed at this. That’s when I started to catch up on the manga online and follow every update.
The Fullmetal Alchemist himself – Edward Elric
Sticking to the Manga’s Story
FMA: Brotherhood is a re-adaptation of the series but this time it sticks strictly to the manga source material which tells the story of brothers Edward and Alphonse Elric who were basically abandoned by their father as young children. Their mother dies a few years later from an incurable disease andΒ they try to revive her using alchemy resulting failure and dire consequences for theΒ young brothers. They end up in the military and set out on a quest to find a mysterious and powerful object called a philosopher’s stone and run into all kinds of characters and adventure along the way.
Al and the ever annoying Winry
No Fillers Please
Fullmetal Alchemist is a well paced action anime with lots of comedy that is not too complicated and enjoyable by all. The entire cast is well thought out and is tied in well with the story. Being ahead with the anime is will be interesting to watch FMA: Brotherhood’s story animated (and hopefully without fillers!) although it might seem as a rehash by some.
Lust is one girl I wouldn’t advise you to take home to meet your parents
The Naruto and Claymore connection
FMA now joins Naruto Shippuden which is an example of another manga based anime that I have been following for years. I read ahead in the manga and then watch the episodes to see the action animated and explained a bit more. Claymore is also a good example, but of an an anime series that has an awesome manga that the anime followed initially, before diverting after a while, forging it’s own story and messing up everything. Hopefully Claymore can get a remake in the future that sticks to the still ongoing story of the manga.
I’ll be following the Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood closely as I find it interesting and worth watching.
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Wow, great review and awsome screen caps. I’ve been lately not watching naruto Shippuden eps, the last 15 or so I haven’t watched. Because in July our internet was gone for 1 month. I’ve been downloading all the eps in Aug, but haven’t start watching, haha… And it was so interesting with Sasuke last time… ah… I’ll be damned if I don’t watch tonight! Thanks for making me watch anime again, hehe.. [angel]
glad you like the screen caps. They are the highest resolution ones I have ever posted and I like ’em too. The latest Naruto episodes have been quite interesting!
I completely finished the Full Metal Alchemist series and it did start to get a bit weird by the end. Hope this one is going to be better!
it is much better, I hope you manage to check it out!
I didn’t watch the first series, though a friend in Japan was telling me I should. If it went all weird and didn’t follow the manga, I’m glad I didn’t now. Now I can watch Brotherhood with peace of mind, knowing I’m going to get the real deal, and like Jamaipanese said, hopefully there’ll be no fillers.
So far I’m liking the series. The only thing that’s starting to get on my nerves is the running gag’s about Edward’s height. It was funny the first two or three times but it’s getting seriously old now. I’m liking how gritty the series is too. A lot of anime series try to smooth things out so nothing seems to rough, but Brotherhood kicked off the series with the death of a very likable character. I’m also liking how well developed the characters are. None of them seem overly shallow.
As for Claymore, I thought the beginning of the series was really really good and I was left unsatisfied with the ending. I guess after hearing you say that it deviated from the manga, and the manga is better, I’ll have to find it online and give it a read.
I kinda like the jokes about Edward’s height, especially the ones the Chinese girl with the panda make ^^.
I had such great hopes for Claymore but around episode 17 everything went down hill.
[girl] omg i like love the jokes about edwards hight. But i totaly love how he is always yelling at al about the cates he keeps!It is like LOL!!! [love]