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NEWS: Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Premieres on U.S. TV

The first anime series made no sense half the time

Dante's goal was spoiler[to gain another philosopher's stone which is easy as hell. In the manga, they pratically mass produce philosopher's stones. You rip out a guy's soul and condense it into a stone. In the first anime I guess your rip out a guy's soul and put into red water.

The reason Lab 5 was next to a prison was because when a bunch of prisoners where to be executed they would actually take them to Lab 5 and turn them into Philosopher's Stones.

Her whole plan was that she would cause discord and tragedy which would presumably cause one person to make a philosopher's stone. How the fudge where they supposed to know how to make one I have no idea. In the manga Father told Marcoh, and Marcoh tells Ed.

Hell since she should know how to make one she could order someone to make one like Father did with Marcoh. In fact if Marcoh didn't make Philosopher's stones how the hell did he get his hands on two. How did he know how to make Philosopher's stones?

Also if she destroyed Ishval so that an ishvalan would make one why the did she use Philosopher's stones in the war?

Also for an artifact she needs she sure as hell is giving Philosopher's stones out regulary.

Do I even need to mention how the way the Gate works changes?

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The first Fullmetal Alchemist series is only considered a masterpiece because people haven't read the manga yet

With no Lyra in this series, I wonder if there's a role for Monica Rial. Now there's a VA I'd want to hear again.

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With no Lyra in this series, I wonder if there's a role for Monica Rial. Now there's a VA I'd want to hear again.

How about General Armstrong?

I've read the manga extensively, collected every volume, read the new chapters as they become available, and so do a lot of fans of the first series.

We've been through this before. You didn't seem to be paying that close attention to the show.

spoiler[In the first series there are lesser Philosopher Stones, the small ones that feed the homunculi, which Dante had no interest in. She wanted a huge one that would last a lot longer, and she used the homunculi to manipulate alchemists who were capable of it to make them while pushing away any who weren't determined. Any real determined alchemists would have eventually stumbled on the truth. Dante targeted the Elric brothers specifically because she thought Hohenheim's sons would be more capable than others.

Yes, there were the other little stones, but this was a case of spending money to make money.]

There's plenty of nonsense in the manga/second series, like spoiler[Father making a new Greed and Arakawa bringing back Envy to wrap up a loose end that really didn't need tying up. Oh, and Roy being inconsistently powerful. Not to mention all this "eating god" stuff from the most recent chapter.]

Every time we argue about this, it's to a standstill. Let's not plague this thread with that.

Personally, I love all the incarnations of FMA.

On a different note, it's not that I absolutely loathe the FMA dub. It's a tolerable one. But I was expecting amazing and didn't feel I got it. The Japanese cast all shined brilliantly in their roles.

I disliked Chris Patton's Greed even more than Vic Mignogna's Edward. He sucks all the personality out of the character, and that annoyed me, because Greed's my favorite character, and both Japanese VAs have brought such life to him. At least with Vic, it sounds like he's trying. Patton totally phoned it in.

With no Lyra/spoiler[Dante] in this series, I wonder if there's a role for Monica Rial. Now there's a VA I'd want to hear again.

LordPrometheus wrote:

Quote: With no Lyra in this series, I wonder if there's a role for Monica Rial. Now there's a VA I'd want to hear again. How about General Armstrong?

Monica Rial as Olivier Mira Armstrong? Hmmm.

Yes. Yes, that would work, I think.

With no Lyra/spoiler[Dante] in this series, I wonder if there's a role for Monica Rial. Now there's a VA I'd want to hear again.

penguintruth wrote:

With no Lyra/spoiler[Dante] in this series, I wonder if there's a role for Monica Rial. Now there's a VA I'd want to hear again.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kk9HxFLhIec

Charred Knight, the first series was an alternate continuity where the characters don't necessarily have the same background. You're trying too hard to apply material in the manga that came after the first series ended to the first series.

As for Robo-Archer, it was a creative flourish that was executed poorly, but hardly a damning element. I prefer that to random chimeras I couldn't care less about or most of the Xingese characters. At least they don't pretend Archer-bot's that important.

I respect all your opinions, but if you're up-to-date with the Brotherhood and still think that the first series is better, then I LOL in your direction