Fullmetal Alchemist 2: Brotherhood

[Taera]

hughes dies

oh shit, spoiler

Envy kills Dumbledore.

[Zilong]

Would explain Snape's convenient position if he was a shapeshifting homunculus.

[TummieGaruda]

Edit: Also, can anyone tell me why in god's name did they make that piece of shit that was the first series of FMA.

The answer is simple:

The first FMA anime series was animated when the manga was around 25-30 chapters into the story which was about the time that Ed and Greed fought. The chapters for the manga are released on a monthly via Monthly Shōnen Gangan. Since the Anime was doing was going to be released in weekly episodes, it would have caught up to the manga rather quickly, and the episodes would have covered one chapter or so. Hiromu Arakawa (creator/artist/writer for FMA manga) knew this and let studio Bones do an adaptation of her work. She basically gave information about the world of FMA and sat in on meetings, but the anime was written by someone else. Arakawa requested that around the time Ed met up with Greed that the story break away from the similar storyline of the manga and for studio Bones come up with their own conclusion to the series.

Arakawa has said in interviews that she was really impressed by the way they came up with the creation of homonculi (Through failed human transformations) and the conclusion to the story.

This version of FMA is basically following the Manga, and since the manga seems to be coming to an end, they can follow it exactly without having to worry about stopping and waiting for more manga content since the manga is 96 chapters deep right now, and it would take almost 2 years of weekly episodes to get where they are now in the manga.

This kind of thing happens a lot of manga...in fact it happened with another manga from Monthly Shōnen Gangan. Soul Eater has an anime adaptation that just ended recently where the story somewhat followed the manga and branched off after episode 30 and had its own conclusion at episode 51, but the manga is still going strong at 60+ chapters.

[Hitoshura]

2 years? I don't think it would take that long, especially at this rate.

[Vaspinne]

2 years? I don't think it would take that long, especially at this rate.

They'll most likely slow down the pace quite a bit when they catch up to the point where they started going in another direction from the manga in the original anime.

[Tokitoki]

That part has already happened. The manga and original anime split at the Research Lab 5.

[TummieGaruda]

That part has already happened. The manga and original anime split at the Research Lab 5.

Actually the split happens right after the Greed fight. There are elements up until that point that remain the same in both the Anime and Manga. Greed still fights with Ed in that shop. The only difference is that after that point:

Spoiler: show

Greed and Bradley fight and then it is revealed who Bradley really is, and that is when the Anime v1 and manga seperated because at that point there was a totally new arc (Xing I believe) and Father boiling Greed for being disobedient.

Things are fast paced now because they are just going over what we already know to have happened due to the similarities of the v1 Anime, but once they get to that pivotal point described in the spoiler tag, the anime should begin to slow down because there is a lot of content to cover at that point.

[fishstix]

Good episode x.x

I know it's kinda cheesy, but I love how they go heavy on the cute anime style.

[Tokitoki]

Actually the split happens right after the Greed fight. There are elements up until that point that remain the same in both the Anime and Manga. Greed still fights with Ed in that shop. The only difference is that after that point:

Spoiler: show

Greed and Bradley fight and then it is revealed who Bradley really is, and that is when the Anime v1 and manga seperated because at that point there was a totally new arc (Xing I believe) and Father boiling Greed for being disobedient.

Things are fast paced now because they are just going over what we already know to have happened due to the similarities of the v1 Anime, but once they get to that pivotal point described in the spoiler tag, the anime should begin to slow down because there is a lot of content to cover at that point.

They didnt have the whole Rush Valley thing in the original anime, though it was in the manga (it was also longer in the manga).

[TummieGaruda]

Rush Valley was in the original Anime v1. It was Episode 26 if i remember correctly. There were differences between the manga and anime such as the Arm Wrestling contest between Ed and other Automailist, but Paninya the pickpocket and Dominic both existed and Paininya stole Ed's watch. By "splitting" we mean the point where the Anime and the Manga go on completely different paths. After the Greed fight in the Devils Nest is about the time this occurs. Anime v1 goes onto the whole (Spoilered just in case someone hasn't seen V1):

Spoiler: show

Edward killing Greed, the introduction of Dante + the creation of the Philosophers stone which is absorbed by Al and the whole thing about Dante being an old woman who uses the philosophers stone to jump bodies using Rose as her new "host"

The manga however:

Spoiler: show

Saw the death of Greed by Fathers hands right after the fight with Ed (Boiled), the introduction of new characters (May, Lin, Fu, and Lan) and a different form of Alchemy (Xing Alchemy). There is no Dante and the paths both the Anime and the manga took were completely different

[Odesseiron]

They also changed this last episode a bit. They didn't have Ed and Al threatened by the helper of the shop like they did in the manga. They seemed to cut QUITE a lot of the manga out in the past episode. They could have just as easily made it 2 enjoyable episodes. I understand they're trying to get to the newer stuff, but they'll catch up in no time at this rate!

[Souj]

They also changed this last episode a bit. They didn't have Ed and Al threatened by the helper of the shop like they did in the manga. They seemed to cut QUITE a lot of the manga out in the past episode. They could have just as easily made it 2 enjoyable episodes. I understand they're trying to get to the newer stuff, but they'll catch up in no time at this rate!

they didnt skip anything important. and catching up to the manga is a moot point if the manga's ending soon.
I preferred not having to see all that island stuff again. I did however, prefer everything else that happened between Mizune and ed/al in the 1st anime.

[Katlan]

What happened to eclipse productions web site? Went to DL the last 2 weeks of episodes to only realize the site no longer exists ><

[Akiyama]

Get em from Tokyo Toshokan :: #tokyotosho @ irc.rizon.net :: Torrent Listing.

Search Fullmetal Alchemist and you should see em.

[meeeeeep]

What happened to eclipse productions web site? Went to DL the last 2 weeks of episodes to only realize the site no longer exists ><

They changed their address.

It's at http://eclipse.speedsub.org/ Now.

[Katlan]

ahh ok, ty both

[Hitoshura]

Where in the flying fuck are my subs?

[aru]

[TMD-ASU]_Fullmetal_Alchemist_Brotherhood_-_13_[H264-720p][66EA73BC].mkv :: Tokyo Toshokan :: #tokyotosho @ irc.rizon.net

first ones out

[fishstix]

Thanks! been searching

[AoE]

Thanks! been searching

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