Has it been confirmed if its either a remake or a continuation? I hope a remake for I never had the chance to see the original.
Has it been confirmed if its either a remake or a continuation? I hope a remake for I never had the chance to see the original.
Cmon Zell it's already been told 1000 times that it's gonna follow the manga, so it has almost nothing to do with the original animeOriginally Posted by RyougaZell
Just go watch it since it's awesome, you'll probably become a lust fanboy
It's just that it can get confusing sometimes if they say "it will be following the manga". I think Zell (and I at one point) wondered if it'll continue from where the anime diverged from the manga, making it more of a continuation than a remake (a remake continuation?).
That's happened to Tsubasa Chronicles, where the OVAs went "This takes place after episode 42. Disregard the events from 43-50END)."
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
Yeah but that's unlikely with FMA since the story diverges from the manga so soon, like in the first 10 episodes i think
It wasn't that early. It diverged after the Greed arc.
Unlikely. I do know the characters for I followed the manga for a time, reason why I stopped the anime as soon as I saw the big differences (that and that time I didn't had more than 4gb of hdd to spend...)
Its not really about when it diverged , its that the concepts introduced in the anime are completely different from those in the manga so it is pretty much impossible to follow up what the anime introduced while staying true to the manga. It would just be too confusing.
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I'm definately going to watch it, but I'm still not sure that I like the idea of them remaking the series.
whats next... remake naruto to keep it true to the manga? no fillers?
FMA is one of my favorite series and I think they brought closure to the series w\ the movie.
The anime industry in general is in a terrible state (with the exception of Ghibli likely), so if they deem remaking a major title like FMA could bring a few coins to the treasury, they are going to do it.
Naruto follows the manga almost to the spot if you take out the fillers. Unlike FMA which is pretty far off. Fillers isn't that bad, just don't watch it.
Even if they remake it just to make some more money I don't mind. There are a lot of animes that I want to get remade. Just for the one big reason, the story. Manga > Anime. The big problem is that they only get a certain amount of episodes before they have to finish. And then I have to read the manga to keep up. A bit of a disappointment when you've seen how good it looks animated.
if it's a remake to follow the manga, unless the story is really way different, what's the point of watching when there's already a rather conclusive end to the story which is FMA the conqueror of shambala?
I doubt they would be making this unless the story is sufficiently different. It's not like they would be remaking it for the graphics or anything like that.
What's the point of watching it? What's the point of watching any anime? It's entertainment. You watch it to pass time, be inspired, and feel emotions. Surely by now you had realised that also by yourself...
From my understanding, the original FMA series followed the manga's story upto a certain point, which was a way into the series I gather. I think what confuses people, including myself, is that if this new FMA series is based on the manga story then wont the first part be near identical to what we've already seen? From the limited footage we've seen also, the animation style and quality doesn't seem all that different too. Either way I'm into this bigtime and can't wait!
That is precisely the point, the manga and anime storyline are completely different.
A lot of the character that get introduced later in the FMA anime are anime only character since the anime went down a different path at the start of the greed event.
They can probably get away with just doing like 1-2 recap episodes for those events and then head straight into the manga storyline.
Actually even the beginning of the anime is different from the manga, the time lines are kind of different. From the what i remember the first 20 - 25 episodes share relatively the same story, but are told differently. Then after that the anime splits completely. But it does make sense to start from the beginning, for even then the anime is different.
if the anime already share some similar parts with the manga, won't a remake be repetition then? i do enjoy FMA, but frankly speaking, the story is already relatively conclusive with the release of the movie a couple of years back.
i haven't read the manga yet, but does it offer a different ending from the anime?
If you consider the earlier parts of FMA anime loyal to the manga, then yes it would be repetition. However, the whole point of this remake is to make an entire series that's loyal to the manga. For integrity purposes, they have every reason to remake everything from scratch.
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
The manga is still ongoing, and all you guys worried about repetition should relax. Its not like FMA wasn't repetitive anyway, and its not like you'll be watching a scene for scene remake of the original anime. Like Carnage said, even the early parts of the story are presented differently in the manga.
Last edited by Abdula; Thu, 02-19-2009 at 11:05 AM.
Dreaming impossible dreams.
Sapphire is awesome!
I'll make it simple and do a basic break down
Anime:
1. Event with Rose in Lior
2. brothers past flashback > train battle
3. events with Tucker while they are studying for Ed's state alchemist exam
4. Mining town
5. fillers episodes, the most notable one being them meeting the fake Elric brothers
6. They go back to central and the event with scar happened, how it started though was quite different in the manga.
7. Heading back home to repair Ed's automail > meeting marcoh
8. Philosopher's stone research and abandoned lab event > aftermath and the event with hughes (they freed greed at this point)
9. The brothers went to rush valley > got caught by their teacher Izumi who was looking for them
10. Island training flashback
11. Events with wrath (anime only)
12. Events with greed
Manga:
1. Lior > mining town > train battle
2. Tucker event > attacked by scar > heading back for repair and meeting marcoh
3. Philosopher's stone research > abandoned lab (Greed was never here in the manga)
4. The brothers went to rush valley > They decided to go meet their teacher Izumi
5. All the flashback, from them as kids > alchemy training on island > fail transmutation on their mother > Eds meeting mustang > Eds taking the alchemy exam
6. Events with greed and his homunculus (the events played out a bit differently in the manga).
The anime went down a different path after the events with greed.
Please note that all of the manga event took about 8 volume while the manga is currently on volume 21.
A lot of important things like how homunculus are created, the origin of alchemy and Hoenheim roles in the grand scheme are completely different in the manga.
That's why even though the event in the FMA anime gave "closure", there's plenty of reason to watch this new one since it will follow the author original intent for the story.
Hmm so if the manga is still being released, how is this new series going to end? :/
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