But it seems like non-manga readers liked the episode, which means that it wasn't so bad. It's just us manga readers that are complaining like this - now that I think about it, cut scenes don't necessarily mean that the episode's bad. Probably we're all just really disappointed. Ishbal's such an amazing arc in the manga that this doesn't do it justice, but to people who haven't read it I suppose it wasn't as bad as we felt it was.
But yeah, I'm really sad about this episode. It wasn't terrible, though, if you just see it as a standalone thing and not compare it to the manga...
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