It would be redundant, therefore, to say that Fullmetal Alchemist after episode 26 and Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood after episode 10 are entirely different stories. The original series, however, makes decisions that expand events and characters further. We spend extra time with characters like Barry the Chopper and Shou Tucker, so we get to know them better; Brotherhood , meanwhile, introduces these supporting antagonists at the moment they are relevant.
Of all the minor characters to have their roles altered, Rose's changes are the most drastic. She goes from a minor character introduced near the start to a linchpin in the villain Dante's entire plan, being essentially brutalized and used as a vessel for Dante once she obtains the Philosopher's Stone. Even in the early episodes, however, a lot of content is added that isn't present in the manga, such as Russell and Fletcher Tringham, original characters taken from the light novel The Land of Sand instead of the manga.
However, some manga characters, like Olivier Armstrong, don't appear in the original anime. And a common complaint is that the women in the original series are not given the same level of development or importance to the plot as they are in Brotherhood , like Winry or Riza.
The Homunculi in both Fullmetal Alchemist series serve as primary antagonists, though their creators and even identities shift from series to series. Each Homunculus is named after one of the Seven Deadly Sins. In both anime, Lust, Gluttony and Envy remain essentially the same, though Lust in the original plays the role of primary antagonist with a massively expanded role, while Lust in Brotherhood is the first to die.
However, Pride, Wrath, Sloth and Envy are entirely different. However, in the original anime, Bradley is Pride. Wrath is a failed transmutation of Ed and Al's mentor, Izumi, in the original anime, while Greed is created by Izumi's mentor.
Arguably, most startling of all is Sloth, who in the original is actually Ed and Al's mother. This leads of course to how Homunculi are created in both series.
The difference between Fullmetal Alchemist and Brotherhood is that Fullmetal Alchemist is the original series based on the Japanese manga art form that came out in whereas Brotherhood also is known as Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood is the adaptation of the original series that came out is The original Fullmetal Alchemist is 50 episode anime series with little connection with the Japanese art form manga whereas Brotherhood is the adaptation that sticks to the storyline of the manga and portrays all the original events of the manga.
The original FMA version of the series lacks visuals with less intuitive background whereas the FMAB adaption consists of advanced visuals and better animation. Fullmetal Alchemist FMA is the Japanese animation series based on the manga art form that was first premiered in Written by Hiromu Arakawa, the story revolves around the lives of two brothers named Edward and Alphonse who have gifted powers of alchemy.
Another interesting character in the story is that of the antagonist named Dante. She is a furious woman who controls seven homunculi that are named after the seven deadly sins.
The pioneer series has an extensive cast where the very character is extensive in its way. The characters of the series make it an interesting watch. Even though the animations, color choice, and the backgrounds are not of high quality still the series is one of its kinds. Brotherhood also known as Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood is the adaptation series that came out in after the original series Fullmetal Alchemist.
It is believed to be closer to the manga and follows the original events of the manga. And then there was all the hype about Brotherhood and I got confused. Really nicely explained. Love both anyway. I think Brotherhood is better although it seems to show a little bit more about Mustang and the politics of Central a lot more than in FMA, but FMA is a little better than Brotherhood in length wise with explaining the story.
Also forgot to add watched Brotherhood first! And i agreed with your point of view on it. The main difference, FMA Brotherhoods stuck in its shounen genre, where things are black and white.
Good and evil. You know which side is bad and there is little empathy toward they enemy nor toward the death. FMA however skirted toward the seinen genre, where everything were all grey in between. Every character story is a tragic in itself, where both alchemy and ultimately the seven sins were just the corruption of all good. I agree with you totally. Which brought the brothers relationship centrally and loyal.
How can one easily accept a long gone father where you missed his love from the childhood, the misery of losing mom, and the suffering of the journey to pay off the karma? So Ed was kinda douchy towards his dad even in the first movie makes sense. On the other hand, the little bitter end without those cheesy love relationship of Ed and Winry was actually made pretty to the story, so to the pure brotherhood.
It might not be what everyone wants, but that made me the urge to see the movie as well. Cliff hanger til the end. Regarding the brothers in both series all went through pain, loss of blood and sweat, but the lost in FMA appeared to be greater. The very real concept of making something potent out of almost nothing is fascinating.
Alchemy in the show is of course very fantasy based, but the core concept is still there. Years ago I watched a handful of episodes of the original series as they aired on tv and found it interesting but a bit cartoonish and overly dramatic.
This is why I preferred Brotherhood which I finished last year. Like some previous posts mentioned, Brotherhood focuses more on action elements and the overall story was very easy to follow with a clear and concise ending.
I will be giving the entire original series another go soon to see how it stacks up. In existence of alchemy that using logic, newbie should watch Brotherhood because it shows more logic. In , there is Cornello who can alchemy weapon, and i think it was no logic in equivalent exchange, even after that we know he can do that because of Philosopher Stone.
But in brotherhood, they skip it to make it more logic, they make the first epispde with ice alchemy and other basic alchemy. And make the existence of homonculus more reaaonable. I enjoying logic in Brotherhood than series in many aspect. Fun read, thanks. Brotherhood indeed is a near exact match on the manga in animated form.
The argument begins at, which is the better story, the one laid out in the manga, or the one FMA 03 came up with. The success of the original and the manga meant that the makers of brotherhood had a far easier time geting far more money for production than FMA 03, and it showed. This clearly showed as well…. Although that may just be to me being overly sensitive due to having pretty extensive experience with the software used, and often being bothered by the same artifacts appearing in what I did.
The vast majority of VA from the original FMA 03 dub came back to reprise their roles, this means that from the very first recording session, these actors were already familiar and comfortable with their roles, foregoing that awkward phase pretty much ALL shows go through where the actors learn to settle in to the characters.
Brotherhood is a direct adaption of the manga, and thus triggers the halo effect. Anyone worth explaining this too is already googling halo effect, so…. Moving on. This particular halo effect has to do with the common observance of source material so often being soooooo much better than derivitives.
The book is often vastly superior to the movie, the manga is often vastly better than the anime, etc. I was expecting the manga to be a better written version of the anime, well, this is at least true for brotherhood smoothing out the rough spots and going more in depth on all the themes brought up in the anime. It did the polar opposite. But when it can! It just kept going, new characters new places zero introspection, turn and burn.
The new characters were fun, but depthless, compared to FMA03, there was zero character development in the manga and even less in brotherhood some of the characters were super cool like the ishvalan in the military, what want his name… Read the manga or watch the show! The worst is they were oozing potential, but just never went anywhere beyond their gimmick.
I call it The Chrono cross effect, where you go from having a small cast of well done and explored characters, to a huge cast of cardboard cutouts. This is how Al stays throughout thenseries, up to the happy ending. Ed FMA Starts out the same as in the manga, but develops and changes his worldview throughout the series.
Some of the ones that left an impression on me:. By the time Ed is rescued in the nick of time, he is severely traumatized. Things die and the world keeps moving on, even without him. However being taught a lesson, even out in the field, and experiencing the brutal reality first hand, are two very, very different things, which this Ed found out first hand, he carried that weight.
Ed is in a life or death battle with greed, and ends it with a brutally lethal strike in the heat of the moment…. And takes it pretty hard. He wanted to stop greed, he had the means to stop him… Maybe up to that moment he thought he could pull it off without killing greed, perhaps he thought that faced with the possibility of death greed would become reasonable… Ed learned the hard lesson that day as well. Ed understands, truly understands what it means to die, and what it means to kill.
Brotherhood Ed is a child in comparison even at the end of the series. Something brotherhood skipped over. FMA 03 likely only did this because they ran out of material when they caught up to the manga, so they decided to explore the ramifications of what they had available to them. Turned out for the best. A far greater consequence than what he had to deal with in brotherhood. You know energy can neither be created nor destroyed, but transferred transmuted to different forms.
That energy they use comes from human souls from a paralell dimension ours The philosopher stone is a corruption of that process, actually killing people for their soul energy and storing it in a capacitor instead of letting it go back through to the other dimension to continue the cycle. Brotherhood Traditional alchemy also talks about equipment exchange, but comes from the earth power. Kind of cool, but the fantasy take on real grounded science is just much better.
Homunculi: FMA03 Tortured artificial sentient existence the result of an alchemist that has the immediate knowledge to do something, usually acquired at the behest of burning driving motivation such as the death of a loved one , but not the knowledge or experience to know what it really means to do such a thing. Or they would have never done it.
This results in two sets of complex characters, the homunculi, and the ones that made them. Character development is literally the driving force of the series. Evil beings split off from an evil artificial dust ball, with a groovy grin. Turn into really cool monsters. Brotherhood has almost no character development, the vast majority of characters are exactly the same at the end, as they were when they were introduced.
No lessons learned, bad guys gone and now everyone has a happy ending. On top of that, 03 has blatantly better scene composition, foreshadowing, and pacing, most notably with the characters who died, as they were given the time to be actual characters the viewer just expected to be a part of the series from then on, as opposed to being introduced and killed off in the same episode.
Brotherhood also skimps out on the extremely important beginning, which establishes ssoooooo much, assuming people were already familiar with it… Which many who saw the show, were not. So, yeah, FMA is literally the only anime I have come across I feel is superior to its manga, and thus, superior to the anime that directly follows it. Thank you so much for this! But, this comment. A thousand times this. And am I the only one missing the truly silly moments of the 03 series, because they kind of softened the blow of tragic events later on?
Thank you for this! I decided to give Brotherhood a go today after having written it off as a reboot when it first came out, but three episodes in and I was like…this is somehow…bad? I just watched up to the ep with Rose at Liore and obviously recognized the story, but remembered it being way better.
So I went back to the 03 to see if I was just crazy, and the way 03 sets up the story and the characters is…strikingly superior. So anyway, I googled a comparison to see what other people thought, to see if it was worth delving into Brotherhood, just to revisit the characters with that fresher animation look, and your review pinpointed everything I was feeling just in the span of those three episodes.
I watched the version first on TV years ago and then watched Brotherhood more recently. I actually like Brotherhood much more. There are some things I like better in the version. I also feel the episodes that cross over before the story lines deviate are very rushed in Brotherhood. I found that the version did a better job at the first 15 episodes than Brotherhood did, I think also did the Tucker Arc better emotionally. FMA original all day. Brother hood was great but FMA original is just too classic to me.
Also, they try to ease the dramatic moments with gags way too much and too soon. The is incredible nostalgic to me but brotherhood is definitely the better version. But if your gonna start a series watch the one. Especially the end. Any suggestions on what else we could watch that carries itself like these?
Thanks everyone! Great explaining. FMAB aired on our local stations first. I asked one of my friends about it and he said there was also a FMA. Thank you for explaining. Did you know this trick? Newton will be so jealous or envious? Two reasons why I want to watch the original fma is because my brothers who are way older than me watched it along with other great animes that aired in the philippines in early and late s and wanted to know what it felt like watching the shows they used to love.
The second reason is the rewrite op. That opening is way too nostalgic. I just came across the op video yesterday on youtube and then I remembered listening to this when I was a kid playing with blocks and my brothers watching the show… Thanks for this article, I should watch brotherhood first then.
Still though, even with this huge disadvantage the original had, it still was legendary, especially how iconic characters died in the beginning and middle of the story unlike most other animes which keep the iconic characters alive throughout or kill them off in the very end.
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