HagaRen/Full Metal Alchemist

FistOfFury · Conscript Joined: Aug 27, 2003 Posts: 141 Location: USA

WOOT, WOOT, i just finish watching ep. 26. dl it right after it was released on BT. Over all this is an ok eps. lots of funny stuff though. New op. and end. starting this ep. All i can say is the gang meet some peeps that they dont wanna c and the same peeps r lookin for the gang as well. Next ep. should b a funny one.

Fukui · Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2004 2:31 pm Post subject:

winry is starting to be my fav character Smile

but the thing about 26 is that i thought in ep 25's preview for 26, i heard something like "Ed: i never knew someone thought of me that way" .... i thought there was going to be some major romance element here..

atikiN · Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2004 2:50 pm Post subject:

Bleh, I wasn't a fan of the stunt Winry pulled in ep 26. That was apretty retarded thing to do IMO.

Yebyosh · Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2004 2:52 pm Post subject:

Specky · Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2004 4:42 pm Post subject: downward spiral?

Ok, so I have become a big fan of the manga (Especially after reading the 7th tank) but have had no real issues with the anime story going off on its own little trail. 　Until now. Maybe I am still pissed that there were a bunch of guys watching the TV and I couldn't catch my once a week TV show or something.

Maybe it was the fact that for some reason the OP animation seems to get better but the music seems to get worse as they go by. I fear for the 4th OP theme right now.

Though Yebyosh puts up some good statements about the episode I still feel that this turned into a budget cop out where you show some running as opposed to having a cool chase scene w/ the alchemy involved...

I guess this episode also turned me off a bit to Winry's character portrayal here in the anime. (Maybe the lame ED theme and blatant fan-service of the 3rd ED has something to do with that as well... No where near as cool as the emotion that the first two ED brought out.) for some reason I am just getting the feeling that she is a little to haughty and forceful for my tastes.

That and Al doesn't do a freakin' thing the whole ep. We need more Al action (Even if he is just sketching out some quick alchemy stuff or something) after his pity party days.

I am starting to feel that things that they were able to pull off earlier are starting to come back and haunt them now. (The whole baby delivery scene so early and nothing happening here as opposed to the visa-versa of the manga)

In the end the one highlight was Roy and Riza making their stand, which seems to be lending itself to more tension and excitement than I get from the manga. Looking forward to seeing how things develop here.

None the less should be interesting to see the way they handle the Sensei story.

haroT3k · Posted: Tue Apr 06, 2004 5:46 pm Post subject:

i like the new ed
w00t winry!

mmmmm winry......::dr000lzz::
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ZoXArkXoZ · Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2004 12:46 am Post subject:

The OP animation was coo, the song... not so coo. I prefered the second OP. Anyway the ep was ok. I didn't like Winry's stunt either, in fact it was retarded. She got angry because Ed used alchemy instead of the strength of her automail and so planned some pointlessness. GOODNESS.

Well the high note of the ep was Mustang's ambition. Interested to see how that turns out.

Question

Where do u guy's get your manga scans? I can only get up to chapter 16.
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Yebyosh · Posted: Wed Apr 07, 2004 1:30 am Post subject:

Well... Specky is in Japan and knows Japanese, so I expect he got the mangas and buys Gangan for the monthlys...

Me? I'm still waiting for the official licensed Chinese versions if and when they do come. But right now shoring me up are the Chinese scanlates (Chp 33 just released)

Yebyosh · Posted: Mon Apr 12, 2004 2:37 pm Post subject:

As Specky had said, it seemed that by adapting later manga material for the earlier anime sequences, the series seemed to have weakened now. There is now a spot of incongruity (at least in my opinion) introduced in regards to when Edward can perform his circleless alchemy. We shall see how they are going to resolve this.

But otherwise ep27 is a faithful adapation of the manga story at that point (besides an event which shifted in chronology & how and why sensei & disciples actually meet). Entertaining episode still.

And soon they shall show the Truth! Laughing

darkhunger · Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 9:55 am Post subject:

Looks like the anime is trying hard to force Winry down our throats though... First they introduced her way too early, included her story early as well, put her picture in just about everything... And they even included her in this arc (wasn't she supposed to get left behind?). (Heh but I'm not really complaining)

Funny that Riza Hawkeye still keeps beating her in popularity polls though... lol.

haroT3k · Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 10:22 am Post subject:

wat popularity polls?

winry pwnz hawkeye's sorry ass
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atikiN · Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 11:13 am Post subject:

Seems like Winry has a crappy memory.

Yebyosh · Posted: Tue Apr 13, 2004 3:06 pm Post subject:

Yebyosh · Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2004 7:43 pm Post subject:

This anime deserves a bump.

So here's a tidbit...

Looking at the manga & anime, what art style would you classify it as? Shounen?

Not a spoiler, just hiding a revelation Razz

Yes, the story so far has been shounen & a lot of the artwork seems to be in the shounen style. But Hiromu Arakawa is a woman...

You can see some of her renditions of Ed is reminiscent of the traditional shoujou styles.

At least she has not gone down the deep end of the typical shoujou stories.

Go go shounen style!

darkhunger · Posted: Fri Apr 23, 2004 8:58 pm Post subject:

Well, I agree that the art-style is pretty shounen.

Though I've always been aware of some feminine touches here, such as the SD faces which looks distinctively shoujo.

Of course, females have been designing shounen-style characters before, and vice-versa, so I guess it's no biggie... Smile