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New Fullmetal Alchemist movie announced - The Sacred Star of Milos

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Second official key visual for the movie. The new female heroine in the movie is Julia Crichton, voiced by Maaya Sakamoto. She's a 16 year old orphan who was born in the place known as Milos, which has since been destroyed. She is a part of an organization called the Black Bat which works towards rebuilding their lost nation. Her parents were killed by alchemists when she was young. She is wanted by the Amestris military.

Another new character revealed in the magazines this month is Melvin Voyager. He's a 26 year old alchemist who was imprisoned in the Central prison for burglary. Just before he was due to be released on parole, he read a certain article in the papers which drove him to break out instead. His escape from prison is the start of the movie. He uses an unknown form of alchemy.

The movie mostly takes place in Table City - located at the border between the west of Amestris and Creta.
 
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FunkyMunkey

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duckroll said:
I really like the look of the movie though. The line work and the animation style is very distinct, and looks a lot more liberated than the usual anime adaptations or mainstream cash-in animation work. There's a lot less focus on making the image look clean and overly "polished" like most anime tend to look, but instead it has a rough but smooth look. I would say it's comparable to stuff in Black Rock Shooter and some of Yuasa's work. It looks like a drawing come to life, instead of something which looks like it has been corrected and refined over and over by an animation director until it looks overly sharp and clean.
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Exactly what I was thinking. I absolutely love the look of the trailer and art, and FMA is one of my most favorite shows I've seen.

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Drkirby said:
Any clue where in the series does it takes place? Can't be after the end.
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Based on the jacket design, it should take place chronologically in the late middle part of the manga. I don't think it's really going to matter though, since it's not going to have any impact on the main storyline, but instead be a stand alone story on it's own.

mello said:
Maaya Sakamoto!!! :D Her part actually sounds pretty cool. I can't wait to see her character design.
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She's the character in the background of the key visual. With the gun.
 
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duckroll said:
She's the character in the background of the key visual. With the gun.
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Oh really? I assumed that to begin with, then I figured she looks awfully similar to Winry who may have been wearing Ed's jacket. I know Winry has her hair tied at the back, but the front of her fringe looks quite similar. Well, at least that explains why shes holding that gun.
 
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Hopefully we'll be getting a full trailer at the end of this month at the Anime Contents Expo. Getting a little hyped...
 
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Hmmm... not really sure if Julia wearing a skirt fits the profile of someone who is 'wanted' by the military. But she does look cool. Really feeling Melvin's design more however. Hype reaching intensity mode!
 
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Pai Pai Master

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Cool. This'll be more encouragement for me to finish Brotherhood on Hulu.

About halfway through at this point, is there anything in the rest of the series as cool as
Mustang taking out Lust?
Because that was pretty damn awesome.

Edit: Wrong character name.
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Yes. Wait until
Alphonse uses a Philosopher's Stone to fight Pride.
Best action scene in the series if you ask me.
 
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This is a photo of a portion of a promotional flier for the movie. It contains additionally staff details not previously released, including the composer and the theme song artist. Hopefully there'll be a full scan of the flier available soon with the rest of the details.

Unit Director: Shingo Natsume
Animation Director: Kiyotaka Oshiyama
Art Director: Tomoaki Okada, Kazuo Ogura
Director of Photography: Yoshiyuki Takei

Music: Taro Iwashiro
Theme Song: L'Arc~en~Ciel
 
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Mortrialus

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After Brotherhood I'm done with Fullmetal Alchemist. Brotherhood was an absolutely awful bit of fanwank and this will likely be no different.
 
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daffy

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Mortrialus said:
After Brotherhood I'm done with Fullmetal Alchemist. Brotherhood was an absolutely awful bit of fanwank and this will likely be no different.
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Oh, really? I was gonna start on Brotherhood soon... I've missed quite a few original series episodes however, so I may just rewatch that one...

Should I just watch the original instead?
 
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FTH said:
Oh, really? I was gonna start on Brotherhood soon... I've missed quite a few original series episodes however, so I may just rewatch that one...
Should I just watch the original instead?
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Brotherhood contains the original, superior story.
 
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InfiniteNine

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FTH said:
Oh, really? I was gonna start on Brotherhood soon... I've missed quite a few original series episodes however, so I may just rewatch that one...

Should I just watch the original instead?
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It is just the manga animated, so watch if you want to. The original series starts the same pretty much and veers of course into whatever Bones made up to account for the parts of the manga that weren't done yet. They're both fine.
 
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FTH said:
Oh, really? I was gonna start on Brotherhood soon... I've missed quite a few original series episodes however, so I may just rewatch that one...

Should I just watch the original instead?
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Tough question. Brotherhood is better, overall, but the orginal series is good as well.

The first series is awesome, at first, but towards the end (after it diverges from the comic) it becomes a bit nonsensical. Never mind the movie following it...

Brotherhood follows the comic all the way and is much more coherent. The ending has a ton of cool stuff.

Just watch both, you won't be bored.
 
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Zerokku

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Would definitely go with Brotherhood. I read the manga first which may play a part, but I absolutely loathed the original anime. It went completely off the deep-end, not to mention changing a ton of the characters. And the ending? God that was so idiotic.
 
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FTH said:
Oh, really? I was gonna start on Brotherhood soon... I've missed quite a few original series episodes however, so I may just rewatch that one...

Should I just watch the original instead?
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I think everything comes together better in Brotherhood, and the scale of it feels much, much wider. I didn't like the original series, but I couldn't stop watching Brotherhood, just amazing stuff.
 
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Mortrialus

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FlightOfHeaven said:
Brotherhood contains the original, superior story.
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Oh boy, where do I begin?

Brotherhood is nothing but fan wank. It wouldn't be anywhere near as popular as it is if it wasn't relying on the original series' and the manga's already established popularity.

I suppose I can start with the positives. FMA:B has fantastic art and animation, great fight scenes, good voice acting in both languages and a soundtrack that works. However, it absolutely falls apart when it comes to scripting and screenplay. I like the FMA manga, but they essentially used the panels as the story board and the dialog as the script. This might have worked for a manga, but remember that the FMA manga was extremely compressed for time's sake and that doesn't translate well into an animated series unless they adjust the dialog to sound more natural and human.

They didn't. None of the characters are given a chance to breath like they were in the original series. No one acts or talks naturally. It has this extremely awkward and rushed feeling. Rather than characters acting out their lives, it literally feels like characters are just carted into the scenes, rattle off their dialog in a hurry and are quickly carted into the next scene. Its awful.

Speaking of rushed, I know they're covering well tread grounds, but I expected them to at least TRY and make the start of the series interesting. Rather than adapt and retell the origins of the characters in an interesting way, their response is simply to have the plot move at absolutely stupid speeds up until episode 15, where it does slow down but still moves absurdly fast for a series. This literally destroys FMA:B's ability to be its own standalone work. The first fifteen episodes are so absolutely awful that it it wasn't for the original series and the manga, FMA:B wouldn't be nearly as loved as it is. Its fan wank. Rather than being able to surpass the original series and manga as its own standalone, faithful animated adaption of the manga, it is crushed under the weight of pandering to fans. I like the original manga, but there was room to improve and man did FMA:B fail at that. Speaking of improving on the original manga...

I know the original series at its share of humor, but it was used appropriately. I absolutely hate the humor they peppered into Ever.Single.Dramatic.Scene in FMA:B. That bothers me about the original manga as well and any sane director would have cut that shit immediately. It literally kills the drama.
Envy revealing his true form for the first time is a good example
. That scene should be dreadful and horrifying, but is ruined by Ed and Ling popping one liners almost the entire time.

TL:DR FMA:B sucks.
 
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duckroll

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Hey, there's a FMA:B thread for people who want to discuss that. This thread is about the new movie which has nothing to do with FMA:B. :p
 
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CrunchyB said:
Just watch both, you won't be bored.
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Ok I will I will, just Brotherhood first ;)

Yay, I'm loving the impressions here! Looks like I'm in for a great watch! Gonna watch as much as possible before the movie is available in my continent
 
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I've only watched Brotherhood all the way through. I started watching the original series right after finishing Brotherhood, but it was feeling too redundant, and after about 19 episodes I accidentally spoiled the ending and hated the sound of it so I never finished.

Brotherhood is maybe my favorite anime ever though, and I look forward to this movie.
 
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BlueMagic said:
Wikipedia does say this movie is from the universe of FMA:B though.
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It's a FMA movie. You can see it as being based on the FMA manga universe, or the FMA:B universe. Both are the same thing. There is nothing which sets them apart since they have the exact same story. It's not based on the first FMA anime. At the same time, it is a completely stand alone side story, not based on any existing material, with original characters. It is also being produced by an entirely different creative team at BONES, most of which have had nothing to do with either FMA TV series adaptations. The director, character designer, composer, writer, etc are all brand new.
 
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duckroll said:
It's a FMA movie. You can see it as being based on the FMA manga universe, or the FMA:B universe. Both are the same thing. There is nothing which sets them apart since they have the exact same story. It's not based on the first FMA anime. At the same time, it is a completely stand alone side story, not based on any existing material, with original characters. It is also being produced by an entirely different creative team at BONES, most of which have had nothing to do with either FMA TV series adaptations. The director, character designer, composer, writer, etc are all brand new.
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Yeah, I incorrectly assumed that you were talking about the anime.
 
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mello

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Wow just realised duckroll updated the OP with the additional staff details released the other day. Good job on maintaining this thread. :p
 
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Cwarrior

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Hope this one better then the last one which was terrible.

FMA handles the brothers past,Nina story and Hughes death way better but once brotherhood gets past the first 12 mediocre episodes it’s a way better show.
 
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Feep said:
I was praying this wouldn't be a filler movie, but it's a filler movie.

/don'tcare
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Uhh, you realize FMA is based on a manga, right? Brotherhood covered the story in its entirety, anything aside from it is filler
 
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Technosteve

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i wonder if it will be better then the other movie, where he finds his brother in an alternative universe. Was that movie cannon to the manga?
 
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Technosteve said:
i wonder if it will be better then the other movie, where he finds his brother in an alternative universe. Was that movie cannon to the manga?
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No. Very little of what happened in the first series is from the manga. NOTHING that happens after Hughes' death happened in the manga and there are only six or seven episodes before that that were actually adapted from the manga.
 
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Cautiously optimistic for this one, though I'm still not 100% sold on the artwork so far - I'm too used to Brotherhood's style and Anime1's style looks foreign to me now.

But, since I haven't really been following anything as much as when I was following FMA (Bakuman & Hero Tales are probably the only things I read consistently), I am glad for an original story being told.
 
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duckroll said:
http://www.hagaren-movie.net/

The site's been updated! It's loading... I wonder what's new?! *excited*
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It's a badass new trailer. I'm actually surprised you're just watching it now. I didn't even bother posting it because I was expecting you to have posted it right after it came out a few hours ago...
 
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7Th said:
It's a badass new trailer. I'm actually surprised you're just watching it now. I didn't even bother posting it because I was expecting you to have posted it right after it came out a few hours ago...
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I was finishing up The Fifth Head of Cerberus before and after dinner!
 
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