samurai_lord Posted January 26, 2011 Report Share Posted January 26, 2011 I prefer Brotherhood way more than the original Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koby Posted January 26, 2011 Report Share Posted January 26, 2011 This question is a little difficult because there is really not one pure answer. Neither is better in all categories of judgment. What do I mean?Fullmetal Alchemist has emotion, it draws you in, makes you feel for the characters almost like what is going on is real.Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood has a better story. The story is much more diverse and interesting and the animation is a lot higher quality. However it seems to lack the emotion of the original and to me falls a little flat at time. The beginning was horribly rushed to where I cannot really recommend watching the beginning. They assumed everyone had watched the original so they rushed everything. Even afterwards the pacing is too fast. The fast pacing may be why it lacks the emotion. It doesn't give the time needed to draw you in.Overall, I've only seen 39 episodes of Brotherhood and honestly I could only give it an 8.5/10 while the original on the other hand still holds true at a 10/10 for me. The emotion is where it counts the most. Without that it just falls flat. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasoivc Posted January 26, 2011 Report Share Posted January 26, 2011 I couldn't say. Not to the extent of Koby's explanation at least. I haven't really watched very many episodes of Brotherhood. To my knowledge, goes to show how animes can differ from their manga counterparts.I pretty much stopped after a few episodes of Brotherhood just because I felt the story was becoming stagnant. I had watched the original like, years before; I guess the it was like beating a dead horse - I just didn't want to go back and rewatch a re-do of the story. (It takes a lot for me to go back and re-read a book; and so far Halo: The Fall of Reach holds that title.) Many people say Brotherhood is superior to the original, but oftentimes I find they lack reasons as to why; other people I just want to punch in the face because they're so insistent about its superiority. I remember when people thought Brotherhood meant "Fullmetal Alchemist Season 3" not "Original Manga Re-do." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Anubis Posted January 26, 2011 Report Share Posted January 26, 2011 Cant say both seem quiet well .... but as a whole with the animation and all the nick-naks taken into account i would say brotherhood has a slightly better package.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toshido Posted January 26, 2011 Report Share Posted January 26, 2011 Yeah Brotherhood may be my choice, considering the storyline follows the manga, but I'd slightly say yes to the original because , to me, it started the series off better. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lady_kurai Posted January 26, 2011 Report Share Posted January 26, 2011 I like both but I would have to say Brotherhood because it follows the manga more! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
voktay10 Posted January 27, 2011 Report Share Posted January 27, 2011 Must make a re-remake with the best compilaton:) i prefer brotherhood now, cuz its HD:) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
realmzmaster Posted January 27, 2011 Report Share Posted January 27, 2011 I actually like Full Metal Alchemist a little more than Brotherhood. Brotherhood has the better visuals and story, but the original series drew me in and made me care about the characters. My family was particularly upset when Hughes got killed in the original. Hughes gushing over his daughter was funny. I think the characters were actually more developed in FMA than FMAB IMHO. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LegendaryGirlA Posted January 27, 2011 Report Share Posted January 27, 2011 I think they're both really good in different ways. FMA has more depth and to me, it's darker and more emotional. FMAB is funnier and it has a better story (probably because it follows the manga but I started reading afterwards so I didn't really know at the time). FMAB also has better animation and is available in HD which is way better. However, with that said, I still liked the the original adaptation slightly more than the second one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ask13 Posted January 28, 2011 Report Share Posted January 28, 2011 While I like the story of Brotherhood better, it doesn't have quite the emotional draw the original has. Also I like the music for the original a lot more than brotherhood. Brothers is still my favorite anime song to date. I feel like it was sort of smart for Brotherhood to quickly cover what happened in the original, but it did lose a lot of the emotional tension. Hughes's death was no where near as horrible in brotherhood, even when I watched the original a second time it still hit me pretty hard. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FullM3tal Posted January 29, 2011 Report Share Posted January 29, 2011 I like FMA Brotherhood better because I was able to accept understand and remember to the characters more than i did on the original FMA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rainingclover Posted January 29, 2011 Report Share Posted January 29, 2011 I have to say that I like Brotherhood way more because it has much better graphics and follows the story more. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lordofelemental Posted January 29, 2011 Report Share Posted January 29, 2011 this is kinda hard to tell.. both series are good but i would prefer fma brotherhood for that since it is completely tied up with the manga.i also love how the characters where being designed in fma brotherhood.the only thing that i love on the original full metal alchemist was how it ended. (i much more prefer sad endings anyway) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
idl12 Posted January 29, 2011 Report Share Posted January 29, 2011 this is kinda hard to tell.. both series are good but i would prefer fma brotherhood for that since it is completely tied up with the manga.i also love how the characters where being designed in fma brotherhood.the only thing that i love on the original full metal alchemist was how it ended. (i much more prefer sad endings anyway)^ what he said, though I prefer brotherhood over the original, the ending for the original was much more sad, which I like(though I have complained about it in the past, brotherhood ended really happy, but was still great. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kasoivc Posted January 29, 2011 Report Share Posted January 29, 2011 Eh? Did that many people really like the animation style of Brotherhood that much better than the original? I honestly thought it almost all looked the same to me. What was most irksome to me probably had to be the OP's and EDs. I was already used to the original's... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Legado Posted February 4, 2011 Report Share Posted February 4, 2011 yea at 1st i thought brotherhood was not much going to interest me because to i saw the "original" alrdy but after getting more up the episodes i say i prefer brotherhood Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
xJesterette Posted February 5, 2011 Report Share Posted February 5, 2011 The original.Couldn't sit through Brotherhood. It was like watching it all over again but not as good... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Koby Posted February 5, 2011 Report Share Posted February 5, 2011 The original.Couldn't sit through Brotherhood. It was like watching it all over again but not as good...Did you get past episode 13 before dropping Brotherhood?The story is completely different at that point.They fit the first series first 26 episodes into the first 13 of Brotherhood with some slight changes to make it accurately follow the manga. If you didn't get past the first 13 then obviously you'd think it was nothing more than a rehash, but you should really try to continue watching it. It may not be as good as the original, but it is a completely different story. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hkrishnan2007 Posted February 16, 2011 Report Share Posted February 16, 2011 fma ending was certainly better Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bindy Posted February 17, 2011 Report Share Posted February 17, 2011 I have to go with Fullmetal Alchemist Brotherhood as it follows the manga right to the end and is the actual story that has been made by the creator of it. Also brotherhood's story seem more stable and in tact than the original series did. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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