Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

[SilentBark]

Picked up vol 7 yesterday and you're right, venus, it does only take 20 minutes to read!  I couldn't put it down...very good.

I'm glad to finally see some real differences between the manga and the anime.  It seems that up until this point, they really have been pretty similar in storyline, with some changes here and there.  Finding out that the Fuhrer is a homunculus at this point in the manga is much earlier than when we found out in the anime.  But, do we know what "sin" he is yet?  Is he Pride like he is in the anime?  Maybe it said it and I missed it.  I'll need to read through this volume again since I did read it through so fast.

And I love the housewife line.  Ha ha...it's great.

*Istari - I'm a bad influence?  I saw what you wrote.  I'm not sure I agree with you.

Message Edited by SilentBark on 05-05-2006 10:09 PM

[IstariErangua]

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SilentBark wrote:

Picked up vol 7 yesterday and you're right, venus, it does only take 20 minutes to read!  I couldn't put it down...very good.

I'm glad to finally see some real differences between the manga and the anime.  It seems that up until this point, they really have been pretty similar in storyline, with some changes here and there.  Finding out that the Fuhrer is a homunculus at this point in the manga is much earlier than when we found out in the anime.  But, do we know what "sin" he is yet?  Is he Pride like he is in the anime?  Maybe it said it and I missed it.  I'll need to read through this volume again since I did read it through so fast.

And I love the housewife line.  Ha ha...it's great.

*Istari - I'm a bad influence?  I saw what you wrote.  I'm not sure I agree with you.

Message Edited by SilentBark on 05-05-2006 10:09 PM

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Silent! You're back on! You're so a bad influence on me, you and Ghost make me spend money on stuff...stuff that I wanted anyway...and...yeah

Anyway, this volume was pretty cool, but it did make me feel like I dislike the Fuhrer even more than I did in the anime. Greed has been my favorite homunculus for a while now, seeing him get killed by Ed was tough, but seeing him getting pwned by Pride (if that's who he is) is enough to make my blood boil. Same with watching the Fuhrer kill Dorchet, who I also liked. Watching Sig kick ass was cool though.

[venus_df]

silent, i don't think they have said yet which homunculus the fuhrer is.  so far, we have yet to meet pride, sloth and wrath.  in this volume, greed did say something about "that lazy-a.ss sloth."  so that means he has already met sloth in the manga.  but it didn't look like he knew about the fuhrer being a homunculus.  so i guess bradley is either pride or he could be wrath.

boy, and you thought ducky pajamas was bad... i'm not sure i like the fuhrer in the tropical gear.    he just looks so... unprofessional.  but he does look good in his black combat clothes.  i especially liked arakawa's sketch of bradley on the black background. 

[CombatC]

I noticed he also mentioned the "old hag" Lust, which I'm guessing is either a tongue in cheek reference to the current Lust or less likely, maybe an older version of Lust that actually was an old lady.  In any case, if it is that first one like I'm going to assume, it means he knows her too.  Greed definitely did not know Lust in the anime, especially since she was created during the Ishbal War by Scar's brother long after he was locked away in Lab 5 for over 100 years.  If Lust is old enough for Greed to know her in the manga, she can't have been created by Scar's brother during the war.

[venus_df]

ooh, good call, combat!  i wonder which one is the truth... if lust wasn't created by david, i can't wait to see who did create her.  do you think it's possible that she could turn out to be ed and al's mom?

[CombatC]

I don't think she's Ed and Al's mom.  She looks the same as she did in the anime, which is to say not like Trisha at all, and besides, Greed wouldn't have known her if that was the case either.  For some reason, I'm starting to get an impression that homunculi could even come from a different place in the manga than they do in the anime, or at least that there's more than one way to create them aside from failed human transmutations.

[SilentBark]

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CombatC wrote:
I don't think she's Ed and Al's mom.  She looks the same as she did in the anime, which is to say not like Trisha at all, and besides, Greed wouldn't have known her if that was the case either.  For some reason, I'm starting to get an impression that homunculi could even come from a different place in the manga than they do in the anime, or at least that there's more than one way to create them aside from failed human transmutations.

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That's what I was thinking, too.  And that preview for the next volume...just kind of weird.  For once on these previews, I really have no idea where this story is going to go since it seems like the similarities between manga and anime are fast ending.

Istari - I'm kind of back.  I don't have internet in my apt yet, so I have to use the wireless at the clubhouse of our apt complex.  I have another anime to suggest to you since you like spending money so much. I'll catch you on AIM when I'm finally set up with internet again.

[IstariErangua]

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SilentBark wrote:

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CombatC wrote:
I don't think she's Ed and Al's mom.  She looks the same as she did in the anime, which is to say not like Trisha at all, and besides, Greed wouldn't have known her if that was the case either.  For some reason, I'm starting to get an impression that homunculi could even come from a different place in the manga than they do in the anime, or at least that there's more than one way to create them aside from failed human transmutations.

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That's what I was thinking, too.  And that preview for the next volume...just kind of weird.  For once on these previews, I really have no idea where this story is going to go since it seems like the similarities between manga and anime are fast ending.

Istari - I'm kind of back.  I don't have internet in my apt yet, so I have to use the wireless at the clubhouse of our apt complex.  I have another anime to suggest to you since you like spending money so much. I'll catch you on AIM when I'm finally set up with internet again.

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Given how much the anime blew my mind with all the complex ideas and theories it had, if the manga is different I can only begin to imagine what they'll come up with there for the homunculi. I'm dying to see the differences though, if only to see how much more creative these people can be.

Silent: I just meant you were back on the boards, I figured it would be a while before you had everything all set up with internet and whatnot again. I should be around, just let me know. Given how accurately you've judged my tastes in anime, I would probably be willing to at least check out your suggestion, though I'm running woefully short of money right now *sigh*. I have tons to talk to you about with FB, not to mention just life in general.

[SilentBark]

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IstariErangua wrote:

Given how much the anime blew my mind with all the complex ideas and theories it had, if the manga is different I can only begin to imagine what they'll come up with there for the homunculi. I'm dying to see the differences though, if only to see how much more creative these people can be.

Silent: I just meant you were back on the boards, I figured it would be a while before you had everything all set up with internet and whatnot again. I should be around, just let me know. Given how accurately you've judged my tastes in anime, I would probably be willing to at least check out your suggestion, though I'm running woefully short of money right now *sigh*. I have tons to talk to you about with FB, not to mention just life in general.

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I think it might be different (how homunculi come about).  That preview for the next volume was weird, and I wonder if it has any connection to the creation of homunculi.

Istari: Ah, I see what you mean.  I really didn't consider myself back yet since up until now I've had only limited access to get online, and then only enough time to read through only the threads with just a couple of new posts.  Now I consider myself to be "back" though.

[S_]

I'm starting to think how the homunculi are created is different in the Manga.  Ever since Isumi went to see a regular doctor for her medicine instead of Dante.  Maybe Dante doesn't even exist.

I'll be happy if that's true since I won't be able to anticipate what's going to happen in the story.

[Agi]

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S_ wrote:

I'm starting to think how the homunculi are created is different in the Manga.  Ever since Isumi went to see a regular doctor for her medicine instead of Dante.  Maybe Dante doesn't even exist.

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i was just thinking that the other day!  maybe dante doesn't exist in the manga, or perhaps she exists in another form. 

[S_]

Yeah, in the last volumne Pinako said she buried what was left of thier human transformation.  I took that to mean it was sitting around for a while.  Looks like the homunculi are maybe something different.

[SilentBark]

Not really part of the current discussion, but I like to follow the charts on the manga titles I read (hoping that for some, like Furuba, that are on longer interval releases such as 4 months might be bumped up to every other month releases to keep with the competition...but, it's probably wishful thinking).  Anyway, here's a little article from ivc2.com that mentions that vol 7 of FMA is doing well and made it onto the top 100 of USA Today's list in addition to the BookScan list, so I guess that's good?  Anyway, here's that little article in case anyone's interested: FMA Vol.7 Tops Bookstore Graphic Novels

[HailthePlatypus]

Has the japanese run of FMA ended? if so how many chapters were there and how many volumes in the US release?

[Maenos]

It hasn't.  Latest chapter is 59, out on May 11th.

Message Edited by Maenos on 05-17-2006 06:26 PM

[Agi]

thanks for the link, silent.  looks like FMA is rocking the charts. 

something else i've noticed about the manga, is that scar doesn't talk very much.  to me, this makes him seem a bit more villainous.

[hagane_no_chibichan]

Scar is one character who has a distinctly different characterization between the anime and manga. The others are a little more subtle in their differences, if any.

(Hughes got a lot more "screen time" in the anime than the manga too; they wanted to make his death that much worse for the anime viewers. ^^)

[IstariErangua]

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hagane_no_chibichan wrote:
Scar is one character who has a distinctly different characterization between the anime and manga. The others are a little more subtle in their differences, if any.

(Hughes got a lot more "screen time" in the anime than the manga too; they wanted to make his death that much worse for the anime viewers. ^^)

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*sigh* Poor Hughes. Probably because I'd seen the anime first and was already attached to him, his death in the manga was just as difficult to stomach. I remember one of my friends watching for the first time and asking, "Is he really dead?!" She couldn't believe it either.

I'm loving the feeling the manga is giving me with all the unfamiliar starting to happen, especially since the anime ended. Knowing that things might turn out better, or worse, but at least completely different if nothing else, is comforting now that the anime is over, the manga sort of steps in to fill the void. It was such a weird feeling when the anime ended and we had most of our answers. At least the manga is giving us an alternate and increasingly unfamiliar view on the story and the characters.

Scar definitely feels darker to me, and I like that, cuz I feel like in the anime they treated him almost too much like a martyr, someone to be admired for his noble intentions, though he did some pretty despicable things along the way. I don't necessarily want to see him as a villain, but I don't wand them to treat him too gently either. I'm also curious to see whether Dante shows up, or if they choose to go a different route with the Homunculi. I'd be so amused, at least for the sake of the bet, if it ended up being Hohenheim's doing.

[Agi]

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IstariErangua wrote:

I'm also curious to see whether Dante shows up, or if they choose to go a different route with the Homunculi. I'd be so amused, at least for the sake of the bet, if it ended up being Hohenheim's doing.

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that would be a laugh, wouldn't it?

[IstariErangua]

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Agi wrote:

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IstariErangua wrote:

I'm also curious to see whether Dante shows up, or if they choose to go a different route with the Homunculi. I'd be so amused, at least for the sake of the bet, if it ended up being Hohenheim's doing.

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that would be a laugh, wouldn't it?

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Bherm would never let us hear the end of it...though to be fair I felt that the terms for the bet were a bit more vague than they could have been. We never defined to what extremes we were taking good and evil, so that's how Bherm got most of his ammunition against us. I almost wonder if starting a manga bet as a continuation of the bet thread would be worth it, since the manga would take so long to completely release.

[Agi]

remembering how difficult it was to keep hoho bet on topic, i think i will not be the one to start a new bet.  what a spamfest!  it will be interesting, though, to see whose side hoho ends up on this time. 

[IstariErangua]

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Agi wrote:
remembering how difficult it was to keep hoho bet on topic, i think i will not be the one to start a new bet.  what a spamfest!  it will be interesting, though, to see whose side hoho ends up on this time. 

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I know what you mean, that did get pretty ridiculous after a while, though it was a lot of fun. I don't want to be the one to start it either, but it would be entertaining to participate in. The other day there were actually a few posts in the bet thread, mostly fmainsomniac catching up and people answering her questions, but it surprised me, I figured that thread was done.

Oh, and congrats on ranking up! Is this an alt, or did you somehow lose your account as venus_df?

[Agi]

whoa, i did rank!  thanks for noticing.  i still have my venus_df account, i created this one because i was pouting, because every single post i made in trunks' thread containing any pimpage of fantastic children was deleted.  i'm almost through pouting, then i'll return to using venus_df

[IstariErangua]

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Agi wrote:
whoa, i did rank!  thanks for noticing.  i still have my venus_df account, i created this one because i was pouting, because every single post i made in trunks' thread containing any pimpage of fantastic children was deleted.  i'm almost through pouting, then i'll return to using venus_df

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Fair enough, I was just curious. I seem to be one of the few who never bothered to participate in the surge of alts that started appearing everywhere, so it always catches me by surprise that a seemingly new participant in the boards ends up just being the alt of a friend. I also never got into Trunks' thread, though I'm told I probably should, mostly by him. We'll see now that summer's here and I've got a bit more time.

So yeah, to at least try to keep this on topic...manga...hmmm...umm...oh, wait, I think I've got something. I did notice that I'm having a kind of hard time following the timeline of the manga. The anime was kinda tough, but as far as the manga goes I'm utterly lost. Stuff is occurring that I recognize from the anime, but it feels like things are happening in totally different orders and it's hard for me to figure out sometimes whether I'm reading a flashback or if it's happening now, or what. Any chance of a timeline for what we have of the manga so far anywhere?

[SilentBark]

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IstariErangua wrote:

So yeah, to at least try to keep this on topic...manga...hmmm...umm...oh, wait, I think I've got something. I did notice that I'm having a kind of hard time following the timeline of the manga. The anime was kinda tough, but as far as the manga goes I'm utterly lost. Stuff is occurring that I recognize from the anime, but it feels like things are happening in totally different orders and it's hard for me to figure out sometimes whether I'm reading a flashback or if it's happening now, or what. Any chance of a timeline for what we have of the manga so far anywhere?

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Manga timeline confuses me because a lot of the same things happen in the anime, but they're in a different order.  So, I'm lost with you.

You're hard on Scar, aren't you?  I really liked his character in the anime (I'm not saying you don't), but that includes how he was portrayed.  I mean, the dude had no arms in the end and he just kept going and going...

I know a little bit about manga Hohenheim, so I wouldn't be able to participate in your bet.  I don't know a whole lot, but when reading through the walk-throughs on Blue Bird's Illusion, there were some references to his character in the manga (not the anime, so I was on equal ground on that bet) and what he's like.

As for Dante - I don't think we'll see a Dante in the manga.  I'm probably wrong because Dante is too good a name to pass up with the seven deadly sins and all those parallels, but right now it just doesn't look like she'll have a part in this story.

Message Edited by SilentBark on 05-18-2006 01:29 PM