I just finished watching the original series (including the Shamballa movie). 6.5/10
Is there any point to watch the Brotherhood series? Looks like the same thing with slightly better animation, even with a bunch of the same voice cast.
Never read the manga fwiw
This is probably a bait thread but yes, Brotherhood is worth watching and so is the manga
If nothing else Roy Mustang is the best
Brotherhood > 03
Don't bother with the old anime.
both shit for having a garbage MC
He's better than 99% of shonen MCs.
Rewatching fmabh rn and I gotta say that the original had a stronger ending but the journey in brother hood had more content and ended up being more memorable in my opinion.
OP here. How redundant is the show going to feel?
Should I wait a year or so?
trick question. Watch neither, they're both shit
>noo dont call me small!1111
he is boring shit
That's for comedy.
It's only redundant for like the first three episodes. Everything after that should be fresh
>reddit humor
I tried to go through Brotherhood, but the pacing just felt
>really
weird, and they had to throw in some OC villain at the start even though IIRC Brotherhood is supposed to be a remake that actually adheres to the plot and doesn't need filler content. Read the manga half a dozen times through, everytime felt excited when they first reveal Edward's automail arm.
>In Brotherhood?
They botch it completely with the literal who villain at the start. Does it get any better past that?
>Does it get any better past that?
Yeah
The ice alchemist guy was a weird choice to kick off the reboot but he's never brought up again except a namedrop in passing
Retard
What's her next series now that Silver Spoon has ended?
>Silver Spoon has ended
This is news to me, I better go read it
If you're genuinely unaware; the story of Brotherhood is completely different after like the first third. The original series was picked up and produced so quickly that it eclipsed the manga. So everything past a certain point is anime-original.
Dante, for example, doesn't exist in the manga or Brotherhood. The central antagonist and primary conflict is completely different.
Brotherhood even sorta assumes you saw the original and goes really fast through those parts. You're the perfect audience for it.
Overall Brotherhood is better except for a couple music tracks and the neat idea of Homunculi being the results of failed human transmutation. The canon origin of them is completely different.
tl;dr watch it. Is good.
Why do they call him Full Metal if he's only half?
It's a pun. My understanding is that "fullmetal" is a Japanese idiom for being stubborn. Like "hardheaded" in English. So when Mustang gave him that title it was a joke about his personality and his prosthetics.
Nips can't into English.
This guy is right, though it was Bradley who gave him the name.
>He is decidedly stubborn and strong-willed, frequently letting his pettiness and vindictiveness get the better of him (it is this stubbornness that contributes to Führer Bradley's decision to codename him "Fullmetal," as "Hagane" (literally meaning "steel") is a term in Japanese that denotes someone of obstinate disposition.)
I thought King Bradley gave him the title.
My mistake. I just remembered Mustang joking about it afterwards and misremembered.
I agree with this user. A lot of the qualms with Brotherhood (which most consider a quintessential to watch) stem from the first 13-16 episodes which rush through the content that took the original about 25-30 episodes to go through.
This serves to the series' detriment in a couple of ways. The Yuswell arc with Yoki was completely shafted, so when he's introduced it's out of left field and they try to cover it up in a comedic flashback in one of the later episodes. They cut out the train episode too, but neither are really central to the plot. Most complain that Hughes' death had more build up in the OG and I would agree with them.
Has anyone ever laughed at any joke in FMA? At the time I just thought Japanese were never, ever funny and wrote it off. But it's actually a legit weakness it's so unfunny.
More like Fullretard Alchemist.
>Has anyone ever laughed at any joke in FMA?
I laughed at Crocodile meeting Winry and going full
>tfw no cute blond mechanic gf
The comedy is very jarring in Brotherhood, like they're almost intentionally trying to destroy the tension during any scene that might get a little too serious. That said I did almost tear up a couple of times and I really didn't feel much of anything when watching 2003, maybe I'm more of a little bitch these days.
At this point, just watch netflix series.
>for a couple music tracks
you mean all of them, right?