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Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood -[adult swim] (w/index).

1. Welcome to the forums.
   
2. You echo my sentiments exactly!!!
   
3. This is just hearsay, but it's my understanding that Cartoon Network shows anime in spite of the fact that they would get significantly higher ratings with reruns of American shows.
   Furthermore (again, this is hearsay) they like to repeatedly broadcast a cycle of early episodes of a series if they think that it will generate more interest.
   Also, (again, more hearsay) they never broadcast more than two new episodes a night.

I don't know just how much of point #3 is true or false.

When I wrote that FMA:B fails to deliver the plot from the very beginning I meant the storytelling in general. The methods used to tell the story are, as you noticed, not my cup of tea. In my book, the comedy is too noisy and the drama is too melodramatic. To be frank, I had the same problem with the first series, albeit to a lesser extent. What ruined FMA:Brootherhood for me is the rough transition between the comedy and the drama. Obviously, there are people, who find it to be an acceptable way of making the story more intense, but this method, used frequently, simply puts me off.

Even if it is as you wrote, that these episodes build the characters & the universe, I’m not interested; these episodes I have seen didn’t make me care enough about anything or anyone to continue. The pros are outweighed by the cons. Did I lose something? Perhaps, but there must be plenty of stories in this world, stories done in a way that appeals to me, that’s why I’m not going to waste my time on something that I don’t enjoy in the slightest.

I don’t say it’s a bad series, I just try to explain why I don’t like it, and why I will not finish it.

According to their schedule, new episodes start tonight on AdultSwim.

It says it's EP27, though, which is mostly a recap episode.

Worth watching though if you haven't seen the show since they last aired it. Next week though... EP28 - do not miss!

She obviously was a normal sized person in her young days. It seems she has shrunk by at least 70% since then.

Unicorn_Blade wrote:

She obviously was a normal sized person in her young days. It seems she has shrunk by at least 70% since then.

Age. Just ask your grandma (depending on how old she is) you lose inches with age. I know that MY mother has lost 2 inches in the last few years.

What I meant was how can someone get THIS much shorter. From reaching Hohenheims chin to barely reaching his waist if you count the pointy ponytail- thats more than just a few inches Smile

Interesting way to do a recap, it sacrificed coherence for just putting up some of the best scenes. Why it does make it so that you have to watch the series, the recap itself is really entertaining, especially the part where they do Let it Out.

One thing which I find disappointing is they aren't showing any of the scenes after the credits. Most of these are the "next episode" bits, but in several upcoming episodes they show actual material after the credits in the sub versions. I guess they were pressed for time or something. Either way, if they don't include those bits there may be a few times you go "why are they doing this now?", because you missed 30-60 seconds where they made a decision or a character came in or something. I know that's not bad compared to other shows, but I wish they could show them completely un-butchered.

DragonFire212 wrote:

One thing which I find disappointing is they aren't showing any of the scenes after the credits. Most of these are the "next episode" bits, but in several upcoming episodes they show actual material after the credits in the sub versions. I guess they were pressed for time or something. Either way, if they don't include those bits there may be a few times you go "why are they doing this now?", because you missed 30-60 seconds where they made a decision or a character came in or something. I know that's not bad compared to other shows, but I wish they could show them completely un-butchered.

What you're talking about here is included in the DVD/BR set for these episodes. I am going to be curious to see how the AS broadcast handles that, since those bits are rather important in some cases.

I think this last episode showed how they are going to handle it. Instead of the regular credits, they overlapped the credits with the extra scene. Rather clever and alleviates the problem of losing important information for the next episode(s).