Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood - Episode 15 Discussion/Poll

[butz]

for those who haven't watch the new op and ending enjoy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vBM6Yh9Cbgo

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ynbu-ygahv0

the op is great but it is full of spoilers now the ending is not as good as the first one

[Ziziphus]

My opinion about the OP sequence:

Spoiler for not very important but can be considered spoiler:

the op is great but it is full of spoilers

Well, for those who have read the manga they've already known what's going to happen so they're not spoilers, just scenes to get you hyped up. Also, if you haven't read the manga you wouldn't know if those scenes are going to happen or not (unless someone tells them they're spoilers), so they're not spoilers either, but again scenes to get you hyped up! And as for me, I'm completely hyped up now!

[Arabesque]

Originally Posted by butz

the op is great but it is full of spoilers now

Spoiler for :

I dont think so. There wasnt anything that was shown that an anime-only viewer didn’t see already in the past episodes or the previous OP. The new scenes shown were at most foreshadowing for whats coming/possible fights pairing, and didn’t go further than that (unlike other shonen shows were they go into more detail about these sort of things).

[butz]

well I guess that going by that logic you both are right hehe and I've read the manga up to chapter 97 sooo good so faaaar man this monthly wait is killing me and yes those events on the op really hype me up

[Cyz]

The new OP was really cool. I love OPs that has action scenes in it

[ThoHell]

Hm, this is rather different. I was wondering when and if Al would be able to alchemy without a circle since he got his memories back. Not a bad episode.

[aohige]

Just the first few minutes fighting Comanche and the new OP was enough to give me fangasm.

BTW, the preview shows a scene like 130 pages ahead of where this episode ended.
They can't possibly cram that many chapters into the next one, I wonder if there's gonna be re-shuffling of event timeline.

[Madvil]

Originally Posted by aohige

Just the first few minutes fighting Comanche and the new OP was enough to give me fangasm.

Tell me about it!
I haven't seen the full episode yet but just from watching Scar fight and the new OP makes me drooling...

[duckroll]

Originally Posted by aohige

Just the first few minutes fighting Comanche and the new OP was enough to give me fangasm.

BTW, the preview shows a scene like 130 pages ahead of where this episode ended.
They can't possibly cram that many chapters into the next one, I wonder if there's gonna be re-shuffling of event timeline.

Join us in Spoilers & Speculation, lol.

[Kirvee]

Love the new opening and ending. Just waiting for a sub.

[Vicious108]

Pretty good episode. Mamoru Miyano made for a suprisingly awesome Ling and the other Xing characters all got fitting voices too.

Episode still had a few setbacks though, like the half-assing of May's introduction, shortening Barry's scenes (no jealous Mustang = fail) and revealing Ling to be a prince much too soon.

Also felt they didn't make a big enough deal of Al's first transmutation without a circle. Probably cause there was no music. In fact, music placement wasn't very good as a whole this episode.

But yeah, overall still a very decent effort. Fights were short but sweet.

[izmosmolnar]

Is the pace slowed down now compared to the manga?
(I was a bit disappointed we don't see Black Hayate's story though.)

[lazybum]

Is it me or is the sky (esp the clouds) for the ED badly animated 0.0

[Kirarakim]

Originally Posted by izmosmolnar

Is the pace slowed down now compared to the manga?
(I was a bit disappointed we don't see Black Hayate's story though.)

Unfortunately it's quicker than I would have liked (2 chapters per episode still) but a slower pace than episodes 11-13.

It would be nice to see Black Hayate's story but since they are obviously trying to fit the series into a certain number of episodes (not confirmed yet but its obvious from the pacing) it would waste time since that is just a side story that happened a few years before the current events of the series (it is in the manga though in case anyone is wondering).

[Kirvee]

@Lazy: In what way are they badly animated? I couldn't see anything wrong....

UGGGGGHHHHHH.....WHY is it taking so long for anyone, especially Eclipse to get any subs out?! It's never taken this long for a single episode to come out, most subs came out on the day of release for the previous episodes....

[Starlight]

Great episode --- 9/10

I loved Miyano's Ling. May has a cute voice, does anyone know her seiyuu?
There were some scenes I wish they kept in though..

[Slayerx]

Well, the parts with Ling was pretty fairly handled until the end... The reveal of hwo he really was came too soon; really spoils any sense of mystery about his character... and I felt that they really screwed up his explanation of why he is wants immortality, namely how immortality will help him obtain the throne...

Mei, her part felt screwed up since they basically just took out her introduction and just bumped up to when she meets Scar and Yoki, (something that happened a fair bit later on)... one thing that's missed by this is that we miss out on an important aspect of her alchemy, and miss out on how she heard of Ed which i though was kind of funny since you can see how she paints such a pretty picture of him... plus it seems kind of awkward for her to gush over Ed out loud and in front of his would-be murderer...


And one of the most disappointing things about this episode...
a certain panel from the manga was not shown in the episode

Spoiler for image:

... ah priceless



I think i should lower my expectations for this series and just except that it will not be as good as it could have been, imo... only recently did i realize they had a clear aim of about 50 episodes, which is painfully, and obviously too short to cover the manga well... yes it will still be an adaptation of the manga, but they will cut every single corner possible and squeeze as much into a single episode as they can... so the rushed pacing and scene cuts is inevitable (something i hoped would stop once they got to new material)... quite frankly, i was originally hoping that this would be one of series that would be allowed to break those normal conventions and run longer... Bones is trying to work in like 2 chapters per episode when it seems like quite a few chapters would be better off as one episode... to adapt the manga well, i would think something more like 70 episodes minimum... I can only assume that this was a stupid decision of the producers as opposed to the director... the sad relationship between "art" and "business"

[Vicious108]

Originally Posted by Starlight

I loved Miyano's Ling. May has a cute voice, does anyone know her seiyuu?

Mai Goto

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/ency...e.php?id=28774

[CuXe]

dammit I h8 it when subs r late ..... I am dying to see the new op/ed .... lolz

[JackRydden224]

Damn, Ran Fon has a surprisingly moe expression when Ed caught her...