Episode 10. Ok so now Hughes dies ;_;. Halfway into the episode though which losses some of the out of the blue-ness in the original version but they included Mustang’s investigation afterwords which I don’t recall happening in the original anime. Manga chapters covered 15 pt 2 & 16 pt 1.
Episode 11. Some parts were skipped but not too bad (the biggest omission was the bridge scene). The chase however received an overhaul (it now takes place outside the city and covers the original chase and the climb to Domenic’s place), and a reminder of Scar, Greed, and Yogi (the nod to Yogi was also a nod to the nod made to just Yogi at this point in both the manga and the anime). Manga chapters covered 17, 18, & 19 pt 1.
Episode 12. Izumi still pwns. They also skipped some of the events like the kids and Mason i.e. the third guy on the island doesn’t even show up this episode (he still appeared in the trailer for the next episode). Manga chapters covered 19 pt 2, 20, 21, 22, 23 pt 1 (note: chapter 23 pt 2 was covered in the second episode).
Next episode. The first encounter with Greed and the end of the familiar territory.
Edit: Btw all of these were watched on Funi’s channel and even better is that they’ve increased the buffer size which was something they REALLY needed to do.
I’m waiting for the new stuff to really kick off… so far they’re 13 or so episodes ahead of the original anime, and it feels like it. The emotion just isn’t there the way it was before. Hopefully when the new stuff starts they can slow down and recapture that.
While I appreciate the speed of the last two episodes (since I always felt that those segments dragged out for way too long), either Hughes’s death or his funeral really should’ve been used to end the episode. I felt that it really took the energy out of the moment by showing it halfway through the episode.
I just felt that in general the original presentation was MUCH more emotional and shocking. I think they kind of assume that the viewers already know it’s going to happen and sort of get it over with. Even the scene in the funeral where Roy says “it’s raining” was done more sharply in the original; the extra dialogue dilutes it.
The original also had much more time to flesh out this character, the extra filler it had helped. We had extra time to get attached. So yeah, I think they were relying on the audience already knowing what was going to happen.
We’ll see how the upcoming stuff goes. We’re pretty much in unfamiliar territory now. If they keep this abridged pace, even of the new material, just because they want to fit it all in 52 episodes or so then that’ll be a bit of a disappointment.
BIG revelations in episode 14. The biggest divergence point from the original anime too.
Some small differences like King Bradley being Wrath now instead of Pride and Al being able to remember what happened during the transmutation. Sloth is different now too.
I wonder how they’re going to reveal Ed and Al’s mother?
I suggest you completely forget what you know about the homunculi and… pretty much everything else by this point if you only watched the first anime, otherwise you’ll get really confused. There’s nothing to reveal. She’s not a homunculus, and the homunculi aren’t copies of real people. They have absolutely nothing to do with the creations of human transmutation and there’s a whole chapter dedicated to Ed figuring out several holes in their understanding of the experiment.
Massive foreshadowing too. I’m pretty sure those who are keeping up with the manga know what I’m talking about.
Also Greed’s end was so much better in this version versus the original’s let’s keep on fighting in this transmutation circle in the off chance that you figure out how to beat my Ultimate Shield.
That said with the exception of one or two things that kinda incarnated itself into the original anime everything else is manga only territory.
I never even understood what the hell was supposed to be happening there. It was just one huge wallbanger scene. Were we supposed to believe that Ed abruptly developped a vindictive bloodlust over an apparently dead old hag he never knew, so strong that he couldn’t even be reasoned with and Greed was left with that tremendously retarded suicidal stunt in the off chance he figured the trick instead of… I dunno, TELLING HIM what had actually happened? Sure, he wouldn’t have believed him, but at worst he would have been imprisoned by potential new allies.
Yeah, what SE said. When we’ve been saying that there was a split in the story between the manga and the anime, we don’t just mean that the series of events change. The anime had entirely different explanations for the way things worked in the FMA universe entirely, from the Homunculi to Alchemy itself.
Things are going to be very different from this point on.
It’s been awhile since I last saw the original anime so I forget whether Ed learned of the battles in Liore before facing Greed. I think at that point he knew that the homunculi were plotting something big, but for the most part he was just trying to stay alive in that particular battle without realizing that homunculi were killable. Moreover from that point on in the original series I felt that I thought that the brothers changed their focus from getting their bodies back to saving the country.
No it won’t be dubbed just yet. Since don’t they usually wait for the show to finish airing in Japan (when it is something short) before they start to do and release the dubs?
But anyway from what I heard at an anime convention a few months ago now, it will be dubbed by the same people who did the dub for the first series. They even have most of the voice actors coming back to do their roles again, well except for Al. Heard that straight from Chris Patton (the voice of Greed).
The pace seems to have finally slowed a bit. I can’t say by how much since they still skimmed over stuff but it doesn’t seem as frantic. If you’re wondering, Episode 15 covers up to the stuff ending Volume 8 of the manga. Next week’s episode will start on Volume 9 (the episode even has the same title as that chapter of the manga).
For those not familiar with the manga’s story past this point, be sure and catch episodes 16 and 17, they’ll be… surprising. The stuff regarding Roy Mustang and Maria Ross…
I’m kinda bummed they didn’t show the entire interaction between Hawkeye and Barry though, it was pretty funny.
(Also, I didn’t catch this last week, but Yoki is apparently voiced by the same guy who does Franky in One Piece, it’s so uncanny I keep expecting him to pose and shout “SUPER!”)
Nevermind two episodes, the next five or so episodes are going to be action packed what with everybody and their brother converging upon Central for a massive free-for-all.
I really want to read the manga to fullmetal alchemist , because I loved the regular show. Ridiculously loved. Its my next series to start collecting, soon as I get the last two Fruits Baskets and a few more of the Dragon Ball ones…
I know the manga veered away at some point dramaticallly, my fiancee told be the author requested it. I wonder why?
