{"id":196,"date":"2009-05-12T15:53:33","date_gmt":"2009-05-12T20:53:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/?p=196"},"modified":"2011-04-23T22:53:08","modified_gmt":"2011-04-24T03:53:08","slug":"new-full-metal-alchemist-anime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/?p=196","title":{"rendered":"New Full Metal Alchemist Anime"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/content\/fma_2.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: right; padding: 2px;\" title=\"Guess which one is 'Full Metal'\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/content\/fma_2_tn.png\" alt=\"Ed and Al\" \/><\/a>I just <a title=\"Manga Punk Sai\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mangapunksai.com\/site\/fullmetal-alchemist-brotherhood\/\">learned today<\/a> that Japan is airing a new Full Metal Alchemist anime series. \u00a0Full Metal Alchemist is an on-going manga series that was adapted to a 51-episode anime with a subsequent movie. \u00a0Unfortunately, the original series and movie only had a few volumes of manga at the time to use for the storyline. \u00a0Instead of waiting for more volumes to be written, the production studio decided to write their own story, which angered many original fans of the manga.<\/p>\n<p>Personally, I did not read the manga until after I finished watching the series. \u00a0I wasn&#8217;t thrilled by the ending, but I did like the series. \u00a0However, once I started reading the manga (which <a title=\"MangaVolume.com\" href=\"http:\/\/www.mangavolume.com\/serie-archive\/mangas-fullmetal-alchemist\/\">you can do for free<\/a>, if you are so inclined) , I realized just how different (and inferior) the anime storyline was from the manga&#8217;s.<\/p>\n<p>So the new anime was created with the intent of following the manga more closely. \u00a0But it doesn&#8217;t follow the manga in lockstep (like the <a title=\"Hellsing\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Hellsing\">Hellsing Ultimate OVAs<\/a> are doing, another series that had a similar problem with its first anime run). \u00a0The first episode, for instance, never appears in the manga. \u00a0But it does a good job of introducing \u00a0a lot of the characters and sketching out the various relationships between them.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/content\/fma_1.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float: left; padding: 2px;\" title=\"Lust and Gluttony\" src=\"http:\/\/www.moridin.com\/posts\/content\/fma_1_tn.png\" alt=\"Lust and Gluttony\" \/><\/a>You might be wondering how I know what happens in the first episode. \u00a0It&#8217;s because I just watched it online through the US distributor! \u00a0Funimation announced that <a title=\"Free anime!\" href=\"http:\/\/www4.funimation.com\/video\/?page=video&amp;v=1832\">they will release subtitled versions of the episodes online<\/a> within four days of the original Japanese release. \u00a0There are currently five episodes online (I have only watched the first). \u00a0The fact that the episodes are subtitled may turn you off to watching the series online, but personally I am excited to get to see the series now that I have become more of a follower of the manga.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just learned today that Japan is airing a new Full Metal Alchemist anime series. \u00a0Full Metal Alchemist is an on-going manga series that was adapted to a 51-episode anime with a subsequent movie. \u00a0Unfortunately, the original series and movie only had a few volumes of manga at the time to use for the storyline. 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