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Fullmetal Alchemist - Brotherhood Official Discussion Thread
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watervengeance
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GaimeGuy said:
The color page that said "IS THIS MAN IMMORTAL" was so fucking epic. It got me smiling for a long time.
grandjedi6
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I did. But then I went on a hiatus a while ago and decided to just wait for Brotherhood. The anime has only recently caught up to where I had stopped.Halycon said:
That would be a yes:B.K. said:
In other news, Aaron Dismuke isn't playing Ling. In fact, they don't know who to cast him as, as of yet.
Auron_Kale
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They should just cast him asgrandjedi6 said:
young Hohenheim
grandjedi6
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Small role, but appropriate I guess.Auron_Kale said:
Does anyone have an example of any of Aaron's recent roles? I don't think I've actually heard him since his voice changed.
No but the fandom's dream voice seems to have moved from Aaron to Todd Haberkorn. At least his voice seems to match Ling well and Todd is one of the few major Funimation VAs not to appear in FMA ever yet. Kinda fits his previous roles too.MetatronM said:
I believe that perhaps Funimation hasn't finalized his role (or at least hasn't finalized it with Aaron himself). But yeah, obviously they have some idea what they're going to do with him.duckroll said:
I also don't believe his joke answer that Ling was "too old" for him. He was probably just outperformed in the auditions.
Auron_Kale
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B.K. said:
Well, considering that they've taken some crazy stretches within the chapters to stretch out the tension, you can considerably shorten a lot of that.
ThatObviousUser
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Yeah. 13-19 are pretty nuts. Especially if you're coming from the first anime and didn't like the previous eps.
Precisely. I haven't watch anything past 20 or so (don't recall), but the first 12 were pretty mediocre and I was about to give up on it then BAM! Ep 13 came around and it became awesome just like thatBlader5489 said:
Hopefully it has kept the momentum up. I'll start watching again in a month or so once it gets close to wrapping up.
Odious Tea
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Should I watch the original anime adaptation or is this one superior? If this one is pretty unanimously regarded as the better of the two, I'll wait for the dvd/br.
Odious Tea said:
I suggest watching a mix of both. Episodes 1-28 of the original series, then start Brotherhood with episode 13.
I'm not sure if the timeline aligns perfectly like that (maybe someone can point out any glaring problems in my suggestion), I just don't think the first 12 episodes of Brotherhood do their stories justice at all.
Auron_Kale
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Blader5489 said:
The thing with the first fourteen episodes, it assumes that the viewer has either seen episodes 1-30 of the first anime or has read the manga, which is why they speed through everything. So, if you want to see a slower pace but more fleshed out story, eps. 1-30 of the first series is good but I like the fact that they condensed everything into the first fourteen episodes of Brotherhood. Made me realize just how slow the pacing in the first series was.
grandjedi6
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I find it humorous that Funimation's hype trailer for FMA:B's Part 1 DVD is filled with spoilers for Part 2. :lol
Auron_Kale
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grandjedi6 said:
Apparently they're just overflowing with hype that they have to show part 2 to get people to buy part one. :lol
Anyways...
FMA Brotherhood ep. 13
- I liked Greed's voice, seems better than before.
- I really missed the Devil's Nest crew. Voices were good too.
- Not crazy about Grumman's voice. Doesn't sound eccentric enough.
- And Roy shutting down Jean. Perfect.
- :lol at Yoki trying to claim the bounty on Scar
- Oh Al, you innocent soul you.
- Izumi! The ultimate housewife.
- Next ep.'s gonna be awesome.
FMA Brotherhood ep. 56
Pretty much an action-packed episode. Totally called that they'd show how Bradley survived the train attack. And how about Wrath? He's seriously one of the best villains in all of FMA - so awesome. And it was good that they started the part with Hohenheim being found by the Xingese caravan. Also was nice seeing Hohenheim's attack against Father but man, seeing the transformation of Father into his 'true' self...creepy as fuck. Finally...Buccaneer, Greed, Fuu and...Falman. Ahh, it's shaping up to be awesome. Person I feel sorriest for, Mrs. Bradley. Next ep's gonna suck, but it'll bring out the man tears for sure.
Just you wait until episode 19. Just you wait. It keeps getting constantly better and better until episode 19 where it blows everything from the first anime away. I really liked episode on from 13, but 19 completely won me over.Blader5489 said:
Auron_Kale said:
Ummm...
is 'this' (final sacrifice...) going to happen already? I thought it will be in ep 58, not 57....
Auron_Kale
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CassSept said:
Dude.
Both Buccaneer and Fuu dying together. Especially since it's Fuu's death that causes Greedling to go full force against Bradley. Buccaneer was straight up like a boss up to the end and Fuu - shit he was fucking awesome too!
the first anime used some events from the first 25-30 chapters of the manga and built a largely original story around them (Because that's all that had been released of the manga at the time).Odious Tea said:
Brotherhood is a pure adaptation of the manga, although the first season (first 12 or 13 episodes) really rush through the first 30 chapters of the manga, and there are content cuts all over the place for the sake of time, although they've stopped since they started doing a 1-1.5 chapters per episode pace since around episode 46 or 47.
I would honestly recommend reading the manga AND watching brotherhood, but if you want to see the alternate storyline, watch the first anime adaptation first (because it really becomes unwatchable once you've been exposed to the much better manga storyline).
Wow. Episode 56 was done very well. Very cool animation.
Oh, and in case y'all were wondering, some people translating the current chapter say it's 71 pages. Who knows how long the last one will be, but judging from the steady increase in page -count as we near the finale, I wouldn't be surprised if it was 100+ pages.
Oh, and in case y'all were wondering, some people translating the current chapter say it's 71 pages. Who knows how long the last one will be, but judging from the steady increase in page -count as we near the finale, I wouldn't be surprised if it was 100+ pages.
watervengeance
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pirata said:
Final chapter is 150 pages.
watervengeance said:Final chapter is 150 pages.
Until there is an actual source for this, I wish people stopped repeating this because it looks like it's simply not true at this point. Someone posted on livejournal that 107 was 80 pages and 108 would be 150 pages. But firstly, 107 is NOT 80 pages, and I don't see why anyone with the copy of Gangan would even know how long next month's chapter would be. It's not like they announce such stuff in advance or anything.
victreeb3l
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Did they add a lot of new material in episode 56? I don't remember most of those things happening, other than the basic idea of the fight with Bradley.
Yeah, there were some additions. I knew some of that felt wrong and out of place so I've reread the chapter.effingvic said:
1. The entire conversation between Fuery and Maria about putting blame on Olivier didn't happen. They went out of studio talking and immediately
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Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
Well at the very least, FMA- 107 is officially 71 pages, not 80.duckroll said:
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
I was just wondering where people were getting this magic 150 number and since the same sources that claimed "80" for 107 were saying "150" for 108, I'm just assuming those "sources" are just guessing.duckroll said:Yeah I already kinda said that!
I have my doubts Arakawa is even fully finished with 108, really
It's been all over the net that 108 is going to be some super triple length chapter and its driving me crazy since there's no way anyone would really know that.
Auron_Kale
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Angry Grimace said:
People were getting the '80' and '150' page numbers from the Japanese BBS forums, which amber1003 on devart got her info from too. Seems a lot of the bloggers ran with it. Before seeing the raw, all I knew was that there were still a lot of missing pages (despite having already seen like 60+ pages at that point).
And as for Arakawa, she's probably writing till the bitter end of her deadline.
Well, the story is already done, isn't it? The source linked before that confirmed it's ending next month also said they already have storyboards for the last episode so the ending is already known and probably not going to change.
Looking at the end of 107 final chapter will probably be around 70-80 pages, but I doubt it's going to be as long as 150 pages.
Looking at the end of 107 final chapter will probably be around 70-80 pages, but I doubt it's going to be as long as 150 pages.
DarknessTear
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So.. I haven't been reading the thread to avoid spoilers, but... do you guys think that the rest of the manga will be animated? Is it still accurate to the manga currently?
Angry Grimace
Two cannibals are eating a clown. One turns to the other and says "does something taste funny to you?"
The manga finishes next month (this is what we are talking about right now, actually), and the animators say they got the storyboards for the final chapter, so there won't be a gecko ending.DarknessTear said:
It's extremely faithful if you ask me; they've cut some stuff out for brevity, but nothing overly relevent to the plot. A lot of stuff that seems duplicative with FMA-1 has been drastically shortened (i.e. everything up to the point at which FMA-1 and Brotherhood split off story wise is extremely truncated, and so is Ishval, despite being different than FMA-1's version).
DarknessTear
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Good. Glad to hear it.
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