Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

[Darkstar_Zero]

FUNimation has closed out "Fullmetal Alchemist Week" ("don't forget" October 3rd) with announcement of the English dub cast for their upcoming release of the Fullmetal Alchemist: The Sacred Star of Milos movie.

English dub cast will include

ED - Vic Mignogna

AL - Maxey Whitehead

ROY - Travis Willingham

WINRY - Caitlin Glass

HAWKEYE - Colleen Clinkenbeard

ARMSTRONG - Christopher R. Sabat

BREDA - Jeremy Inman

JULIA - Alexis Tipton

MELVIN VOYAGER - Matt Mercer

MIRANDA - Shelley Calene-Black

COLONEL HERSCHEL - Patrick Seitz 

SOYUZ - Christopher Smith

VATANEN - Elias Taylorson

GONZALES - Bruce DuBose

PEDRO - Jonathan Brooks

SIZZLER - Brian Mathis

RAUL - Andrew Chandler

GRAZ - Jim Johnson

KARINA - Tia Ballard

TONY - Christopher Bevins

Singer/voice actress Maaya Sakamoto (Soul Eater's Crona, Vision of Escaflowne's Hitomi, and Lunamaria Hawke in Gundam Seed Destiny) played Julia Crichton in the Japanese original. Hidenobu Kiuchi (Darker Than Black's Hei) played Colonel Hershel.

FUNi also the announced plans to release the Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood OVAs and Fullmetal Four-Panel Comic Theater. These four OVAs were originally released with the individual Japanese volumes of Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood.

• The Blind Alchemist
• Simple People
• The Tale of Teacher
• Yet Another Man’s Battlefield
• “Fullmetal Four-Panel Comic Theater”.

[hawkflame]

No surprises here really, but I am glad to see that they've officially picked up the OVAs.

[ben0119]

It's very good news.  You think Adult Swim would show them?  They showed the Bleach and InuYasha movies.  FMA:B is perhaps popular enough to show these OVAs and the movie?  It would be great to see what everyone else is raving about!

By the way, that acronym, "OVA" really bugs me.  Original Video Animation is such an unnatural phrase.  I suppose it sounds better than calling something "Direct-to-Video", since that has a connotation for a lesser work (not all the time, though) in the U.S.?  OVA must be a very literal translation of whatever the Japanese call it.

[hawkflame]

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ben0119 wrote:

It's very good news.  You think Adult Swim would show them?  They showed the Bleach and InuYasha movies.  FMA:B is perhaps popular enough to show these OVAs and the movie?  It would be great to see what everyone else is raving about!

By the way, that acronym, "OVA" really bugs me.  Original Video Animation is such an unnatural phrase.  I suppose it sounds better than calling something "Direct-to-Video", since that has a connotation for a lesser work (not all the time, though) in the U.S.?  OVA must be a very literal translation of whatever the Japanese call it.

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Yes, it is a very literal translation, because the Japanese in fact call it "OVA" or "Originaru Bideo Animeeshon".  

[ben0119]

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hawkflame wrote:

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ben0119 wrote:

It's very good news.  You think Adult Swim would show them?  They showed the Bleach and InuYasha movies.  FMA:B is perhaps popular enough to show these OVAs and the movie?  It would be great to see what everyone else is raving about!

By the way, that acronym, "OVA" really bugs me.  Original Video Animation is such an unnatural phrase.  I suppose it sounds better than calling something "Direct-to-Video", since that has a connotation for a lesser work (not all the time, though) in the U.S.?  OVA must be a very literal translation of whatever the Japanese call it.

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Yes, it is a very literal translation, because the Japanese in fact call it "OVA" or "Originaru Bideo Animeeshon".  

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I see.  Well, most of those words look English-borrowed anyway.  OVA is still a very awkward term, though.  Without getting into spoilers, what are these things about, anyway?  Also, I take it y'all are finished discussing the show proper?  I'm surprised and saddened at the lack of activity in the finale ep threads... 

[mgangel1124]

They're just little side stories. Here's a very basic summary of them.

Blind Alchemist--Ed and Al meet with a blind alchemist and the family that he works for.
Simple People--Why Winry pierced her ears and Riza grew her hair.
Tales of the Master--Izumi's training when she was a young alchemist.
Yet Another Man's Battlefield--Roy's time in military academy.

[WREQU1EM]

Thanks I was going to ask this myself. Can't wait for these.

[ben0119]

Thanks.  Sounds interesting, actually.  I'm debating whether or not I should read the manga.  I don't think they'll ever make OVAs of all the stuff they apparently cut out in Brotherhood...

[hawkflame]

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ben0119 wrote:

Thanks.  Sounds interesting, actually.  I'm debating whether or not I should read the manga.  I don't think they'll ever make OVAs of all the stuff they apparently cut out in Brotherhood...

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There is no debate.  Read the manga.

[ben0119]

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hawkflame wrote:

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ben0119 wrote:

Thanks.  Sounds interesting, actually.  I'm debating whether or not I should read the manga.  I don't think they'll ever make OVAs of all the stuff they apparently cut out in Brotherhood...

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There is no debate.  Read the manga.

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Yeah, I probably should.  I've still got other stuff to catch up on, though.  I've got a pretty big backlog of games to beat and other things to watch and read, etc... I plan on getting to it eventually, though.  It's officially penciled in on the list in my head, now.

Anyway, I didn't realize there was a re-discussion for FMA: B.  Looks like I missed out.  I just assumed the folder went dead because no one was using the old episode threads.  The only problem is, though, is aren't those re-discussion threads typically non-spoiler?  What I'm saying is, we try to be nice and not let any first time viewers see spoilers, if we can help it.  So, I can't talk about things in the context of what we find out later.  Which definitely puts things in perspective, by the way.  I've also missed a few of the re-ran episodes... Hmmm...