According to Sankichi Hinodeya, who was one of the Arakawa's assistants on Fullmetal Alchemist , the mangaka tried to purchase a scale replica of the iconic Star Wars villain at one stage, but she was forced to give up on the idea when she discovered just how much the statue was going to cost.
The Mary Sue once described her as "quite the geek" and a "hardcore fan of Star Wars " in a profile piece, but this was apparently one piece of memorabilia too far. When Arakawa spoke to now defunct anime mag Newtype USA for its January edition, she revealed that she watches films from all over the world in her spare time, but she's become especially fond of the "heart-pounding fun and simpleminded energy of Hong Kong and Hollywood films. Arakawa created a couple of shorts before Fullmetal Alchemist sent her into the stratosphere, and one of those shorts is routinely referenced in her most famous work — in fact, parts of 's Stray Dog are straight up recycled in Fullmetal Alchemist , including some terminology and several big plot devices.
Perhaps most notably, Stray Dog features chimaeras, human-dog hybrids created by the military. Similar creatures feature in Fullmetal Alchemist. There are plenty of smaller nods and Easter eggs for keen-eyed Arakawa fans to chuckle over, too. Stray Dog is a brand of liquor in the Fullmetal Alchemist universe it's on sale in shady pub the Devil's Nest and the term "dog of military" is often thrown at Edward Elric, being a State Alchemist and all. Edward has the same braid as a Stray Dog character, and the same golden eyes, too.
It's hard not to look at Stray Dog as a forerunner to Fullmetal Alchemist , but in truth most of Arakawa's early work contains traces of it somewhere. Four-chapter short Demons of Shanghai features character designs that are so similar to Fullmetal Alchemist that pranksters have been able to pull them off as spoilers , tricking manga readers. Those getting into Fullmetal Alchemist for the first time usually ask this question before they do anything else.
Is 's Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood a sequel to 's Fullmetal Alchemist , or is it a remake? It's actually neither of those things. When Fullmetal Alchemist was first adapted into an anime in , the manga was still relatively young. Because there was only so much story they could adapt, the producers created their own, with Arakawa's full blessing.
The anime was considered a success, but by , Arakawa's manga was nearing its conclusion and there were calls for a new, more faithful adaptation. That adaptation was Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood Hagane no Renkinjutsushi: Fullmetal Alchemist in Japan , which follows the source material from beginning to end.
According to The Mary Sue , Arakawa let Brotherhood 's director in on the ending she had in store for the manga so they could remain in sync. The final episode aired just a few weeks after the last chapter of the manga dropped in July It's no secret that Hollywood rarely gets it right when it comes to adapting anime for the big screen, but it might surprise you to learn that Japanese filmmakers are also pretty terrible at it.
The live-action adaptation of Attack on Titan and its sequel, subtitled End of the World , both failed to impress critics, as did the Fullmetal Alchemist movie. Released in , the film was subject to some controversy. American producers have been accused of whitewashing anime adaptations on several occasions , and the same thing happened in reverse when Fullmetal Alchemist was made — the fact that the setting and the characters are European by design led a number of fans to argue that white actors should have been cast over Japanese ones.
Parts of the movie were shot on location in Europe , and that was apparently enough authenticity for Arakawa, who very much enjoyed this latest take on her magnum opus. The creator was particularly happy with the performance of Ryosuke Yamada in the role of Ed. When they dubbed the live action Fullmetal Alchemist movie in English, they brought in veteran voice actor Vic Mignogna , the man who voiced Edward Elric in both of the anime adaptations.
The Brotherhood, on the other hand, sticks with the storyline of the manga, which ends up with Edward sacrificing his ability to use alchemy in exchange for the body of Alphonse. While both the anime series are a great watch, considering they are derived from one of the greatest manga anime series of all time, they have their fair share of differences.
With 64 episodes, the Brotherhood is longer than the original and more life-like, considering Brotherhood features more advanced animation than the original FMA. But there are still some aspects of the original FMA that make it better than the Brotherhood. Difference Between Fullmetal Alchemist and Brotherhood. Difference Between Similar Terms and Objects.
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Notify me of followup comments via e-mail. Written by : Sagar Khillar. Print [3]Egan, James. Morrisville, North Carolina: Lulu Press, Print Articles on DifferenceBetween. Oh wow. Nicely explained. I was still in elementary when my bro lent me his series for the FMA I loved it. 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! Retrieved April 4, Categories Real World Franchise Anime. Universal Conquest Wiki. Romi Park. Vic Mignogna. Maxey Whitehead. Aaron Dismuke , the original voice actor who voiced Alphonse in the English adaptation of the first series, was unable to reprise his role due to his voice deepening through puberty. However, he voices a young Van Hohenheim later in the series.
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