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Which do you prefer FMA or FMA Brotherhood?


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TBH each one lacks key elements of the FMA Universe, but my favorite is a combination of both so you get the full scoop on what's going on, so I think that Funimation should release a combo pack that has the flasback episodes of each, which will eliminate the need of some episodes of Brotherhood & the other episodes appear as they occur in the timeline, if this makes sense.

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Brotherhood, blatenly because of the fact that...

In FMA its stated that Alchemy comes from the Tectonic Plate Movement, which is retarded and is not at all what it is in the manga. Brotherhood, on the other hand, has it correct. Sorry, but at least make the anime make sense with the manga *coughcoughsouleatercoughcough*. I hate it when anime strays too far away from the manga. Also, they didn't even have two of the homuncluses in FMA, and they even made up a character as the main antagonist. It was just all around stupid, in my opinion.

FMA Brotherhood FTW!!!!♥

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I like both tbh, FMA Brotherhood makes more sense and easier to understand, and brings the storyline to a more natural conclusion. But the original FMA is more harder hitting storyline. 'The Conqueror of Shamballa' was a good carry on.

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Ok now I'm starting to get a bit confused, is there any difference between Full Metal Alchemist and Brotherhood.

And if so is Brotherhood a continuation from the first series.

Cause I keep going around seeing people saying Brotherhood was better than the first one and so fourth, it's just starting to rattle me.

Am at episode 47 of the first series now and I already started downing Brotherhood. An if possible could someone give me in what order must I watch both series including movies and OVA's.

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People who say Brotherhood is better are brainless idiots who only care about being faithful to the manga and ignore the actual part that matters: Character Development and Emotion.

The difference between the two? FMA cared enough about the characters to flesh them out and made you enjoy the world of FMA. Although it caught up to the manga and thus the second half was all anime-original.

FMAB on the other hand was made later and was suppose to be a faithful adaption, however it wasn't. It had better artwork, but decided to say FUCK YOU to newcomers and totally rush through the beginning, skipping a lot, and making some important stuff be forgotten. It also shit on the death of a certain character by putting absolutely no meaning or emphasis on it since it was rushed through. The actual story that came after was nothing more than generic shounen and the ending felt like it belonged in an episode of Dragon Ball Z instead of what we came to love about FMA.

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I would reccomend watching FMA first since you then understand the characters and then watch Brotherhood since its plot is superior.

Yes, I fully agree.

I know my post may have sounded a bit overly harsh... but the way they handled FMAB.. you ABSOLUTELY MUST WATCH FMA FIRST. :/ Then watch Broterhood. Trust me you will not be able to enjoy Brotherhood without seeing the original to fill in the missing pieces and understand and feel for the characters.

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Yes, I fully agree.

I know my post may have sounded a bit overly harsh... but the way they handled FMAB.. you ABSOLUTELY MUST WATCH FMA FIRST. :/ Then watch Brotherhood. Trust me you will not be able to enjoy Brotherhood without seeing the original to fill in the missing pieces and understand and feel for the characters.

Thanks Koby and Lemming and yeah from what I've seen so far in FMA they take the time and care in developing the characters.

So in what order should I watch everything?

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http://forums.kametsu.com/showthread.php?t=18297

This is about as good as you'll get to an ordered timeline of events:

Original series:

Full Metal Alchemist

Movie: The Conquerer of Shamballa

OVA: Chibi Party

OVA: Kids

OVA: Live Action

Alchemists vs Homunculi

Brotherhood series:

OVA: Tales of the Master

OVA: The Blind Alchemist

Full Metal Alchemist: Brotherhood

OVA: Yet another Man's Battlefield (around Hughes Death in Brotherhood)

OVA: Simple People (somewhere before episode 14 of Brotherhood)

Alright thanks for the help Koby.

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