Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

[ghostrek]

wow fma is better thane orignal  but in my opinon fmab and fma both ended on a sad note  that my opinon

but i can be wrong about stuff i never like ending  in real life heck on my high school garduration  day looked depressed  so never like ending

[Swiftblade--]

What pissed me off about the first series is how much of the actual story they cryptically spoiled (some of it not happening in the manga yet). Try and remember, or if you dare, go back and watch it, and you'll be like... FFFFFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU

[mgangel1124]

I do have a special place in my heart for the first series, what with it pretty much getting me into anime, but I definitely prefer Brotherhood in general. I think the story is better overall and the ending is more satisfactory, and I think it really benefited from those extra years the manga had to develop.

[alchemygirl]

I like the ending to the 2nd better than the 1st.  I can't say which series I liked better b/c they were the same and different but both with a good story line

[Shounen_Legend]

I like both a lot, but for me personally, Brotherhood (manga) edges itself out a bit better due to my own preferances. Considering what BONES had to work with for the first series, they did an immaculate job, and its easy for us jaded fans of Brotherhood and the manga to scrutinize and overlook its certain aspects that are frankly quite brilliant. As for what sells to me better regarding Brotherhood, I've always been a big fan of fleshed-out, fully-realized worlds, and I get a grander sense of what's going on; there's more at stake here, though that doesn't inherently make it better than the original anime's more tight-knight, personal story of obsession and despair. As far as villians go, I don't really regard Father or Dante as being that great; it's the secondary ones, the homunculi, which stole the show for me in both instances, most of them having fully-realized characterizations and aspirations which made them unique and emotionally resonant; the original series made a bigger point of making them objects of empathy, while Brotherhood's rendition de-humanized them in certain regards, though it still shines through for me better in this case, as while Envy, Lust, and Sloth lost  a bit of depth, Wrath, Greed, and Pride got a huge boost to their own characterizations (Wrath ended up being my favorite overall character in Brotherhood).

I could go on, but to me, they're both great. I haven't revisited the original series years, but I feel It's about time I gave it another viewing -- short of the moive, that is.

[ghostrek]

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Shounen_Legend wrote:

I like both a lot, but for me personally, Brotherhood (manga) edges itself out a bit better due to my own preferances. Considering what BONES had to work with for the first series, they did an immaculate job, and its easy for us jaded fans of Brotherhood and the manga to scrutinize and overlook its certain aspects that are frankly quite brilliant. As for what sells to me better regarding Brotherhood, I've always been a big fan of fleshed-out, fully-realized worlds, and I get a grander sense of what's going on; there's more at stake here, though that doesn't inherently make it better than the original anime's more tight-knight, personal story of obsession and despair. As far as villians go, I don't really regard Father or Dante as being that great; it's the secondary ones, the homunculi, which stole the show for me in both instances, most of them having fully-realized characterizations and aspirations which made them unique and emotionally resonant; the original series made a bigger point of making them objects of empathy, while Brotherhood's rendition de-humanized them in certain regards, though it still shines through for me better in this case, as while Envy, Lust, and Sloth lost  a bit of depth, Wrath, Greed, and Pride got a huge boost to their own characterizations (Wrath ended up being my favorite overall character in Brotherhood).

I could go on, but to me, they're both great. I haven't revisited the original series years, but I feel It's about time I gave it another viewing -- short of the moive, that is.

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moive is great ed and al kicking nazi but yeah

what don't like about boatherhood Sheska she my favorit female character plus she is pretty sexy in  a geeky way

[SonjaJade]

There is no comparison for me.  1st series portrayed the FMA franchise as a story about a little boy and a drunk veteran.  Brotherhood took the franchise back to its awesome manga roots and gave us a complete and well rounded cast of believable characters in a realistic (considering the non existant science of alchemy) setting.  Brotherhood is a 10 out of 10, first series is like a 5 out of 10.  The only thing 1st series had that I enjoyed was Aaron Dismuke.  Do I hate people who like the first series? No.  I might never understand them, but I don't hate them.

[XenopusTex]

I might have preferred BH, if it didn't have all those stupid "emotion" scenes, and if the artwork and animation had been better.  In seeing Ep 1 again, I've notice all the things that bothered me about the series.  Buildings that have windows/doors that aren't straight, grass that's the color of fluorescent highlighters, etc., etc.

Plus, I preferred the ending of the original series to this one.  

[nerdigirl]

At first, the crazy "emotion" scenes bothered me because I wasn't used to them. But over time I grew to find them hilarious. Plus, I think they were being more true to the manga that way.
I found the art and animation of Brotherhood to be leaps and bounds better than the original. As far as things that aren't "straight," I like the way they made the surroundings better because it gives me more of an impressionist art feel. I find it really beautiful... but that may just be me as an artist.

[fool_on_the_hill]

Are you really insinuating the artwork and animation for Brotherhood wasn't good? It's leagues above the quality of the 2003 series (BONES created a totally new in-house animation studio BECAUSE of Brotherhood).

[WinryTheAlchemist]

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mgangel1124 wrote:
I do have a special place in my heart for the first series, what with it pretty much getting me into anime, but I definitely prefer Brotherhood in general. I think the story is better overall and the ending is more satisfactory, and I think it really benefited from those extra years the manga had to develop.

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Agreed. My friend recently got me into the franchise. Whilst the first series was likeable because it was exactly that - the first series- I prefer the second because it resolves everything; at least, that's what I've gathered from the minimal amount that I've seen of it.  Yeah.... I really need to watch it fully...   But so far, I think it's amazing.

[mmmagus1]

FMA was good, but FMA B was way better when it came to the homunculus. The original FMA anime adaptation had a much more satisfying ending in some ways. For example, it ended with a movie(FMA Conquerer of Shamballa) and in the end they both got their bodies back to normal completely and got to keep their powers. In FMA B, Ed had to give up his gate of truth to get his brother's body back and even then when he got it back for him, it was frail and still was afterwards, which can be shown when he's walking with a stick. And Ed only got his arm back, but he had to stick with the automail leg. But at the same time, FMA B had Father who was much much cooler than what's her name who was the leader of the homunculus. And in FMA B Envy's demise was so much cooler. IDK how Envy died in the first one cause I dont remember, but I challenge anyone to prove that it's better than the one in FMA B. So to sum it all up, it's not as simple as which is better, but it's a matter of "in what way is this one better than the other?" 

[Swiftblade--]

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mmmagus1 wrote:

And in FMA B Envy's demise was so much cooler. IDK how Envy died in the first one cause I dont remember, but I challenge anyone to prove that it's better than the one in FMA B.

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He jumped through the gate chasing after him daddy, Hohenheim, and became a Chinese dragon...

Spoiler

and made himself home in a German castle. Then he got alch'd after making Hohenheim go all explodey and the gate opened and a bunch of armor Al zombies rampaged all over Central.

[against_the_tides]

Brotherhood turned the beginning of the story into a joke, because "Hey, it's already been done well enough, don't need to belabor the point." But after it got through that mess, it turned out good. There was more epic in the end for Brotherhood than the original, I think.

[mmmagus1]

Huh. IDK that. I still think his demise was more dramatic in Brotherhood cause he took his own life and was crying in the end. We get to see his character unravel.

[gatotsu911]

You mean to say that the first series was a focused and character-driven drama while the second series is a more run-of-the-mill DEFEAT THE EVIL BAD MAN AND SAVE THE WORLD kiddie anime? Because that is most certainly the case.

[RubberLuffy]

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gatotsu911 wrote:

You mean to say that the first series was a focused and character-driven drama while the second series is a more run-of-the-mill DEFEAT THE EVIL BAD MAN AND SAVE THE WORLD kiddie anime? Because that is most certainly the case.

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Been a while since I've read something so stupid.

In my opinion, there is no comparing, because one series is completely ignorable bad fanfiction, and one is actually by the person who CREATED THE WHOLE THING.

[hawkflame]

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gatotsu911 wrote:

You mean to say that the first series was a focused and character-driven drama while the second series is a more run-of-the-mill DEFEAT THE EVIL BAD MAN AND SAVE THE WORLD kiddie anime? Because that is most certainly the case.

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You know, I used to think that deeper, more drama and character driven shows were automatically better than more plot and action based shows.

Then I grew up.  I judged shows less on how "deep" they were and more on how effective they were at what they were trying to accomplish. 

[HardcoreHunter]

Brotherhood was a happy ending. The only sad thing was that Ed couldn't use Alchmey, but that's not too bad.

[InuFan05]

Definitely, in that respect, I prefer Brotherhood. Ultimately, though, just for the sake of going through the entire story without any "inconsistencies"- for lack of a better expression- I much prefer the manga.