FMA Questions and Answers

[Nosauz]

and more to list

Spoiler for more stuff:

ed transmutes a giant statue of leto that can be seen on the outside of the church
Rose was hiding in alphonse when the deacon shoots al (basically the deacon is revealed to envy who has been sheparding cornello
Envy is revealed to take the place of cornello after he;s eaten by gluttony
in the latest recent episode, shou tucker is played out to be less of villian which is definitely what the manga portrayed him as, this is emphasized by the clasping onto the watch.

[Vicious108]

Well about some of that stuff:

Spoiler for Future manga chapters not yet animated in Brotherhood:

Yeah Ed transmuting the giant statue of Leto will surely be missed, because when Lior shows up again much later in the story, Hohenheim comments on it, saying how the Alchemist who did that sure had bad taste. Nice funny moment that we probably won't get to see.
As for Envy though, they didn't show him as Cornello right away, but come episode 5, we'll definitely see him as Cornello and them turning back to normal. They can't very well skip his character's introduction.

[Kirarakim]

Ah yeah I can't believe I forgot the Roy & Ed conversation after the exam. That is one of the biggest omissions IMO.

[Vicious108]

Indeed. And while the one before the exam wasn't nearly as important, it still had the "I was promoted to Colonel while you were being slow" line by Roy, which was awesome.

[Haak]

This has propbably been asked before, but will there be dubs of Brotherhood. If so, do we know when?

[Vicious108]

It's been licensed by Funimation, so there's bound to be one eventually. As to when it will happen, only time will tell.

[Nosauz]

Spoiler for this shit is all spoilerific, don't read unless u have caught up with the manga:

hohenheim intro at lior was big since this is right after he had met with ed, confronted pride, and meets rose and actually starts helping in lior as he sets his "plans"

[SnowCrasher]

Heh, the biggest difference of the series is actually shown right from the opening sequence.

Spoiler for OP:

by showing young Hohenheim in the very first shot. I bet the new viewers thought it was grown-up Ed or something.

[Vicious108]

Originally Posted by SnowCrasher

Heh, the biggest difference of the series is actually shown right from the opening sequence.

Spoiler for OP:

by showing young Hohenheim in the very first shot. I bet the new viewers thought it was grown-up Ed or something.

Spoiler:

Yes, I've seen all kinds of complaints about that actually. Like "WTF is wrong with Ed in the first shot of the OP!? He's drawn completely wrong! He looks more like Kimblee or something!" It's pretty amusing.

[Sannom]

Originally Posted by SnowCrasher

Heh, the biggest difference of the series is actually shown right from the opening sequence.

Spoiler for Spoilers manga:

One of my friend, who never read the manga, surprised with this one She asked me "Why did they put grown-up Al in the opening?" . That wasn't something I was expecting people to think. I told her it was young Hohenheim, and she told me it was kind of incoherent, because he looked exactly like the brothers, and didn't Hohenheim switch bodies many times? She accepted to be spoiled and I told her it wasn't like that in the manga.

[Justice Knight]

i heard that this new FMA is the remake of the old 1,is it correct? And what difference do they have?

[BetoJR]

This very page and the last one actually list several differences between the two series and the manga. I suggest you start by reading it, JK.

[Kirarakim]

i heard that this new FMA is the remake of the old 1,is it correct? And what difference do they have?

Originally Posted by BetoJR

This very page and the last one actually list several differences between the two series and the manga. I suggest you start by reading it, JK.

It's actually mainly differences between Brotherhood & the manga. I think listing differences between the 1st anime and the manga would take forever that is how many there ultimately are to answer the original question.

But to put it simply characters that appear in the 1st anime do not appear in this. However there will be characters in this that don't appear in the 1st anime. There will be a different main villain. I also think some of the characters that are the same between the two series end up having different personalities.

The manga is less dark and is more plot centric I guess. There is less focus on characters' sins and more of a focus on characters moving forward. The world of the manga is also more fleshed out.

[ipernorris]

What happens if an alchemist tries to trasmute flesh? I don't mean taking a human back from the dead, I mean just trasmuting a part of the body into something else.

[kitten320]

Originally Posted by Endless Twilight

Spoiler:

Yes, I've seen all kinds of complaints about that actually. Like "WTF is wrong with Ed in the first shot of the OP!? He's drawn completely wrong! He looks more like Kimblee or something!" It's pretty amusing.

Even though I didn't read manga, his father was the first thing that came to my mind.
Never considered it to be Edward.

I can't believe that others didn't understand it

[SnowCrasher]

Originally Posted by ipernorris

What happens if an alchemist tries to trasmute flesh? I don't mean taking a human back from the dead, I mean just trasmuting a part of the body into something else.

I guess it depends on the extent of transmutation... prime example would be Father Cornello transmuting himself. In his case, it backfired horribly, but that was mostly due to faulty Philosopher's stone.

Spoiler for Greed:

I think Greed's ability is sorta like subconsciously transmutating his own body too when you think about it.

[Cyanide]

But in Greed's case, he's a homunculi, so different rules could apply..

[KitsukamiCanine]

I agree with snowcrasher... I thinkt he only thing that matters is the extent at which you're trying to transmute. You don't have to try to bring someone back from the dead in order for it to be human transmutation... human transmutation is mostly defined as transmutation done on a human... the stones probably have different rules. Like the fact that, in terms of father cornello, he brought a dead bird back to life... something that one couldn't accomplish with normal transmutation... but in the end, yes it did backfire on him. It's a very complicated question... Sorry, I seem to be rambling a bit.
x3 I think it is a good topic for discussion though.

[Vicious108]

The answer to "What happens if an alchemist tries to trasmute flesh?" is in chapter 53. Ed transmutes himself in order to open the Doors of Truth. But since he was doing it using Envy's Philosopher Stone he didn't have to lose anything as the fee.

So basically human transmutation always opens the Doors, whether it's to bring back a dead person or to transmute one's own body. Though of course, bringing back a dead person is impossible no matter what and transmuting one's own body should be ok if you have something to pay as the fee.

Healing type human transmutations would be the exception to this, like Mei's healing Rentanjutsu or whatever the hell Marcoh does to heal his patients, etc.

[DudeItsJeff]

Hello, can someone answer my question?
I remember watching FMA from adult swim.
Did they stop showing it?
I remember the dubbed episodes.
Can someone please tell me where I can watch the dubbed ones starting from episode 1?
I miss watching the ones I watched on adult swim =[