FullMetal Alchemist New Series 2009

I love the anime series, but it really can't stand up against the manga. In fact, if I hadn't watch the anime series first, I would have spent a lot of time here, ranting about everything they changed.

But, yeah, this is really great to hear.
 
I've lost both grandmothers and my grandfather on my fathers' side, all when I was able to comprehend the idea of death and how it works. I now also live with my father in my dead grandparents' house, being continually reminded by the large amount of pictures of my deceased family merabers. Just leaving these personal facts here (considering you asked), make of them what you will. I'm not a believer of somebody having needed to have experienced loss to be able to comprehend it. I'm failing to see the reasoning behind your argument - are you assuming that because I would 'enjoy' [vocabulary, why must you fail me now~] to see emotional scenes done properly I must be an emotional cripple who has not personally experienced loss myself? I really don't know what to say to all of this.

To counter your "shitty" analogy, I'll bring up the original
funeral of Maes Hughes. It was 3 minutes, 4 at best, long yet carried a huge amount of emotional weight. Why? Because everybody wasn't standing around talking casually and it wasn't just "Oh hey Hughes has just died let's go home and have lunch".
I'm not asking for a bunch of episodes of Ed and Al angsting and whining over the death of their mother. But am I allowed to at least see, oh, I don't know, their mother actually being a mother and not just a face or a passing reference? Is it a fault to want to see them interact? They didn't need to show everything that happened after they tried to revive their mother, they could have done that in a later episode when they were with their teacher or something. It happened that way in the manga, why did BONES feel the need to have it right at the start? It brought too much of the plot forward and lessened the importance of everything that had happened before-hand. Dragging along a plot is one bad thing, but thrusting too much of it upon the viewer is equally bad as well.

Perhaps. I still find the scene, nay the entire death, poorly handled, though.

And damn it, I was digging through my manga to make further points here before I realised what I was doing. :B

EDIT: oh christy christy


OK, so imagine you're watching the new series for the first time. Do you not think that it would appear really badly paced? BONES are working with this as if expecting everybody to be familiar with the series already. And me wanting to treat this series as if another one wasn't made before-hand means I'm disallowed from comparing the two at all? I'm sorry, but what? That's absolutely ridiculous. I think I'm allowed to compare the new series to the old one as much as I want if the former isn't as "faithful" to the source material as the latter is, whilst claiming to be more so.


Because dancing on graves is the only way that disrespect can be shown. [P.S Sarcasm! Yay!] Are you telling me you're fine with how BONES is handling this?

Because it's a fun scene? It further establishes the characters of Ed/Al? It shows the town as mindless followers? It introduces Lust? Again, passing references =/= good writing. You're failing to acknowledge my stance on watching these episodes [note: acknowledging =/= agreeing with, btw].


Nope, my memory is not suffering, thank you very much; just your ability to read. Look at my post again. And to the right of what you're quoting there? Ah, that's right, I'm acknowledging that the reveal of Rose's dead boyfriend is shoddy, meaning I remerabered it. Thanks for playing. And next time don't choose to quote what text you need to make somebody appear stupid without quoting the rest of their argument.

I came into this thread to post my opinion without having people failing to at least acknowledge [key word here, guys] the fact that I am watching this in hope of a faithful reconstruction. It seems that people are only too eager to throw my own supposed problems down my throat, however, which is a shame.

EDIT: vvv Hey, I can live with that. I'm not a huge fanboy over the original animated series, and I want so dearly for the second attempt of the show to be the better one, but it's kind of hard when, well, there are more aspects to the show so far from #1 that I enjoy more than #2. :B
 
I also agree on the fact that there isn't a whole lot to talk about from this episode, but the next episode should have some very nice fighting in it, they seem to be going through what we have already seen at quite a quick pace, but it still flows well, any ideas when the new episodes will come in if this pace keeps up?
 
It has been every month every since they have been making it. Also as stated above it is around 40-45 pages. I agree with it gives more time for detail and story.
 
Wrath is amazing how can you beat him? Wrath now was Pride in the first series if I am correct. I liked this episode a lot. I was not aware that Scar played a such a large role in the manga.
 
Well, ep 27 was probably the worst episode to date. It was too much of a jurable between a recap and trying to give a sense of Hohenheim's past but never quite getting there. =/
 
well, i hope that they do the manga over again because i would love to see that story line as well. i havent been able to get my hanRAB on the manga and as far as i can tell from your discussions and from other forums there were some interesting characters that didnt make it in the anime right?
 
Episode 5 was brilliant. Wonderful animation with heart and drama. And a kickass fight scene as well. It stayed true to the manga though I didn't get why changed the beginning dream/nightmare. I found it more chilling in the manga =/

A+ from me
 
It MAY be by the end of the next episode, if not then definately the following week. That's where the original anime and manga pretty much split from what I remerabered.
 
The new series follows the plot of the manga more really... or so im told i have only seen the first two episodes so im not too sure =/ but my friend who has been following up says its the same as the manga so .....
 
I feel like with the filler-ness they were trying to throw something different out there for everyone.

And goodness I love the OP! Already got it so I can listen to it a bazillion times. xD
 
Episode 22 was another top notch episode, sad about Winry's parents and how that happened with Scar, I'm glad she didn't shoot though, it's like Ed said about her hanRAB being used for helping not killing.
 
This is a remake. I kind of knew that from when I first read about it...

As someone who doesn't read the manga, I'm interested to see its storyline animated as it'll be new to me.
 
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