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2009-09-22, 16:38 | Link #223 |
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Brotherhood is leaving some manga material out (for pacing/budget reasons, really), but the first anime literally did its own thing for the most part.
Let's put it this way: Nothing past ~chapter 30 (and not nearly everything from before chapter 30, and certainly not enough to be considered an adaptation trying to be faithful to the manga) of the manga was used in the first anime. A good deal of anime-original filler was created for FMA1 that has nothing to do with the manga canon, characters die in the show who aren't even dead yet in the manga (and vice versa), several of the homunculus (and other characters) were completely different, the main story is completely different, and many of the main characters in the first anime don't even exist at all in the manga (IE: Archer and Dante), and the majority of the characters that show up in the manga either have their roles greatly reduced or are omitted completely from the first anime. Chapter 99 is the most recent chapter that has been released. The manga should finish within a year or so, at somewhere between 103-106 chapters (we're chest deep in the final arc). |
2009-09-22, 19:43 | Link #224 |
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Chapter 39 was the last chapter published before Episode 51 of the first anime series. They covered about as much as possible of what had been written at the time. This is what happens when a weekly show tries to cover a monthly series. Only 14 new chapters were published while the series aired. The last chapter published before the start of the show was chapter 25, so it's not surprising that the show only covered about that much material.
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2009-09-22, 21:36 | Link #225 | |
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Even in the early episodes (that are more similar to the manga) you can see plot lines/characters not in the manga that would play a part in later parts of the first series. For example the appearance of Lyra in the coal mine episode. |
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2009-09-23, 11:09 | Link #229 | |
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2009-09-23, 12:37 | Link #231 |
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Well to be honest Roy was one of the few characters I liked in the first series (and I don't agree that he was only used for comic relief.) In fact my two favorite moments were between him and Ed.
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But that being said I was disappointed with what they did with the character in the movie. It's like he did a complete 180 in terms of character development that it made little sense. And I agree that they didn't seem to know what to do with Riza and the rest of the Roy crew. Last edited by Kirarakim; 2009-09-23 at 13:20. |
2009-09-23, 14:43 | Link #232 |
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Let's not forget that it was Roy who defeated Wrath in the first series (and Wrath was named Pride back then if I recall)(I'm talking about Bradley), so he was much more than a supporting character from that respect. And the fact that he declared all female personell ought to wear tiny miniskirts made him the best character in the first series.
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2009-10-02, 02:36 | Link #240 |
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Indeed. Right now, they're still around the same point as chapter 50 in the manga, so there's still ways to go as the manga's in chapter 99 and going on 100 now. If they have it planned for episode 63 being the end of it, that's another 38 episodes, meaning 38 weeks, meaning nine months and a half, meaning 9 more chapters in the manga. I think the manga will be over by then.
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