FMA or FMA: Brotherhood?

I prefer the first one over brotherhood, the originals ending movie was godly.

Is it possible to be intelligent and not have any tastes in anime?

Ringleader wrote:Is it possible to be intelligent and not have any tastes in anime?

You can be intelligent and have taste in anime. What, you telling me you didn't grow up watching Pokemon? Or Digimon? Or Dragonball? Seriously...you can't say you don't have taste in anime

I "gave the first episode a shot" a week ago and then I finished the series 2 days ago XD


as a rule I dislike Anime... but I really enjoyed FMA.... trying brotherhood now, not enjoying it as much

KrAzY wrote:I "gave the first episode a shot" a week ago and then I finished the series 2 days ago XD


as a rule I dislike Anime... but I really enjoyed FMA.... trying brotherhood now, not enjoying it as much

well, your self control is slightly better than mine.
I finished the whole first series in a weekend.
Haven't started brotherhood, so I can't give an honest vote for the poll yet.

I also on a rule dislike anime, it always seems to be too 'camp' for my likings. However i think the first episode has intrigued me somewhat and i am currently downloading the first season to give it a chance and from a comment on it.

Yah... I was like KrAzY and Bilco. I don't care much for most animes... but Maeve convinced me to watch an episode of FMA about a year ago and I loved it. I kinda wish they made more... but then I kinda don't. The biggest problem with most animes is that they don't understand that you can have too much of a good thing... well, that and if they want to make relateable characters, they can't give everyone hair from hell.

what I lied most about the show was the fact that it seemed more about the morality of the characters and alchemy than it did about combat.....

as much as I like watching people fight, I dont like watching shows that are just about people fighting, because theres nothing really deep about that... this show however I really cared for the characters, and it was believeable, especially watching Ed struggle with his morality not only about killing, but also struggling with his guilt and wanting to get Al back in his body.

Ive NEVER reccommended an anime to somebody before... but I just reccommended this to somebody XD

Oh yeah you hit the nail on that one.

This was also the way I felt when watching Death Note. Never before have I been more interested in the characters sence that show and this.

As for FMA characters, I have much more interest in the Homunculi and their creator, Father. Episodes that show more of them I enjoy the most. This is probably why I enjoy Brotherhood a little but more then the 2003 anime. It actually has the original Homunculi and sticks more to the source material, if only by a little.

Don't me get wrong though, how they interpreted the story and the changes they did make in the first anime is nothing short of amazing and very well done.

Who are the jerks that voted neither? >.<

lol

If you want another anime dealing with morality I recommend Rurouni Kenshin.

KrAzY wrote:
as much as I like watching people fight, I dont like watching shows that are just about people fighting, because theres nothing really deep about that

Yeah, the original series is pretty measured, and the fights themselves are relatively subtle. They do really incredible things, but it's not just an explosion-fest of loud noises and flips.

The climax of a fight scene usually involves Ed doing something with alchemy, and then explaining it in a calm, melancholy sort of tone.