Any song by YUI is a win in my book. So I loved it. And I'll stick with Shinsen this time around if gSS is serious about changing it. They've already changed songs before.
I enjoyed the episode a lot. It helps that I only saw about 10 episodes of the first series before dropping it due to HDD issues (at that time I only had a 4GB HDD and no burner)
THEY FUCKED ROY MUSTANG VOICE UP !
That had to get out, still the animation is pretty good but Roy's voice is shit. Is that Lockon's voice ? Are you kidding me ?
The day got saved by Armstrong, clearly. Without it, that first ep would have been a gigantic let down.
I didn't have problems with Roy's voice. It has been so long since the old series that I only remembered Ed's voice, which is just as impressive as any Romi Paku's dude voices, of course. Roy's VA has some good roles like FMP's Kurz Weber and Samurai 7's Kyuzo. He suits me fine, especially if Roy appreciates ladies... (I haven't got a single recollection of whether he does.)
When does the storyline start? Do/should I watch the movie before starting fma2? Thanks
Just to get it out of the way: I didn't like Roys voice. But probably just because I thought the old one was brilliant. Newcomers probably won't notice anything and whining about it won't actually change anything so ah well.
Good ep, I've not read the manga, but I was entertained and I'm looking forwards to the rest of the series. It was kinda strange because it didn't feel like the other series (Not in a bad way), but it still is FMA...
Respect the joindate, not the postcount ;P
It seems we're on the same page. I agree the voices are kinda ruining this for me already. The majority of them just don't seem to fit and Mustang's especially just sounds terrible and so does Ed's, especially when he was screaming during that flashback. And yeah it really doesn't feel like FMA but it's just the first episode.
Other than that though the ep was pretty good, it's nice that we seem to be jumping straight into the story from the first episode. The only thing, other than the voices of course, that really bugged me about the episode was that they were really overplaying some characters and other characters were just acting out of character. They really overplayed Ed's character, especially the height thing, and Mustang was completely out of character.
-Because it has to be said, this episode was beautiful.
Last edited by Abdula; Sun, 04-05-2009 at 09:20 PM.
Dreaming impossible dreams.
Sapphire is awesome!
Al's VA is the same, btw. And Ed overplaying the height thing is actually much less than before.Originally Posted by Abdula
Its the first episode, they just reintroduced the major characters. No you don't need to watch the movie.
Really. Well now I don't feel so bad about never having watched the Japanese version of the original. Oh and I meant Ed's voice not Al's
Dreaming impossible dreams.
Sapphire is awesome!
Watched Eclipse's subs, good as usual.
I don't know where most of the voice hating is, I think it's fine. Mustang's voice does sound a little weird compared to the original series, but it isn't bad. Just have to get used to it.
This was an interesting and action packed first episode. They introduced a lot of the characters quickly, as well as their powers. Even the "bad guys" were shown.
I enjoyed the OP and ED.
Romi Paku as Ed is the same voice actress from last season as well.
To my knowledge the bulk of the posters in this thread don't speak Japanese so why are so many of your posts talking about voices? What does it matter if a particular character sounds a certain way or not as long as the noise their voice makes isn't patently offensive to ones ears? I don't understand Japanese so I generally just tune voices out unless I need to keep track of who is speaking lines when it's not obvious from lip flaps.
Anyway, I liked that they started this series with events that were fresh to anyone who'd seen the previous series. One the one hand it really drove home this series' independence from the other one but at the same time it managed to reveal a lot of the same background information that was given in the first ep of the previous series, I thought that was well done. Other than familiarity with the characters I had little idea what was going on in this ep in terms of plot and I think that's a pretty good for a first episode of a remake.
On the matter of subs though I'm somewhat up in the air as who to stick with. Eclipse's video quality seemed a touch clearer than gSS's to me but I didn't like them adding President into Bradley's title . For one I'm too used to seeing "Fuhrer King Bradley" but even if that wasn't the case Japan doesn't really use the title 'President' and the German (which it's pretty clear what country the country in FMA is based off of) title of President is largely ceremonial. That was the only issue I noticed with Eclipse's sub though and I suppose it's not such a big deal that I'd want to step down in visual appeal over it.
Last edited by Yukimura; Mon, 04-06-2009 at 02:28 AM.
i thought it was a very good first episode. we had lots of action, many characters introduced, fitting levels of humor, and created the setting.
i do think the voice acting is important, and even if people aren't able to understand the Japanese, different voice actors and actresses bring a different touch and delivery of the characters. but i didn't have much of a problem with the new voices at all. I particularly like what I heard from Kimblee and... the girl on the phone in Lior... Mustang's voice is going to take some getting used to, but I certainly didn't think it was bad.
I liked both the OP and ED songs, and the soundtrack so far seems very good so far. I am not a big fan of the choice for the ED animation...
Armstrong's comic relief effect is incredible. Loved the fluid animation for the fights. I got Shinsen's version first, and, as you probably imagine, it's not as good as Eclipse's, the whole "Fuhrer vs. President" thing aside)
severe amounts of bonus points for what Yuki mentioned, the "freshness" of this first episode. it looks like this thing isn't going to disappoint.
Humans are different from animals. We must die for a reason. Now is the time for us to regulate ourselves and reclaim our dignity. The one who holds endless potential and displays his strength and kindness to the world. Only mankind has God, a power that allows us to go above and beyond what we are now, a God that we call "possibility".
OMG!!! More FMA goodness!!!
It's been a damn looooong time since I was so excited about an anime series... heh can't wait for the download to complete! *jumps*
Hmm between Shinsen-Subs and Eclipse, can anyone advise which is a better version to get? I'm quite out of touch with the various fansub groups now.
Edit: Wow can't believe it's been 5 years since I first joined this forum! And my post counts are still as pathetic as ever lol
I don't get what you have against Rie as Al's voice - it sounds similar to original series.
Kimbley's voice is perfect now - badass, but Mustang new voice is just bad...
Overall good ep.
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Agreed about Mustang.
I actually like the OP, but that is partly because I am a fan of YUI. to be honest, I watched the episode just because I realized Yui sang the song the moment I heard the OP.
@Yallo - please contribute more then. After reading that post, it sure seems you have better grammar and can express youself better in general than some in this forum. More talk about this show is welcome.
Peace.
I guess aside from all the technical stuff, this new adaptation is going to do absolutely nothing about my main gripes: How inconsistent the alchemy powers are and how script driven is Ed's battle performance. Actually the homunculi were the biggest annoyance to me, but it's tied to Ed's erratic behavior. Furthermore, I didn't remember Ed is one of these "I won't kill the criminal even if that means the villain will butcher the whole town in the mean time"... Figures.
what's wrong with Mustang's VA? I havn't watched the first FMA but in my opinion his voice is fitting, just like the others.
He seems to be the cool loyal type who is good in analysing stuff and so on, but when he goes into action he is very hot-tempered. His VA is doing a good job, just like the others.
and if I read Kraco's comment then I must say, it must be a good thing I haven't watched the first FMA... because were exactly is Ed's battle preformance script driven and how and where are the alchemy powers inconsistent in this ep?
some examples?
Last edited by KrayZ33; Mon, 04-06-2009 at 11:18 AM.
Yeah that is why I said he was acting out of character, because he isn't.
Dreaming impossible dreams.
Sapphire is awesome!
well... and is it the VA's fault? he was screaming when he said "don't underestimate my flames"
and during their first encounter on the rooftops he was just talking to Isaac normally.
uhm... it took him like 5 seconds to defeat Isaac after it was revealed that Ed is the Fullmetal Alchemist.If I have understood correctly Ed's supposed to be some sort of a prodigy but all he did in this episode were cheap tricks and get his ass kicked, whereas this ice dude was levelling city blocks like nothing.
also, during the second fight Isaac was obviously empowered with this stone-thingy (red lightning instead of blue lightning when casting alchemy spells)
and is Ed really alot better than everyone else? from what I got in this first episode he is famous because he can control elements and cast alchemy without the circles , thus he is able to control not only fire or ice like the others, but many different things... from what I could see, every alchemist has a different "transmutation-circle" drawn on their hands or armor etc.
and to be honest.. isn't it a good thing that there are other strong alchemist out there? It would have been very boring if Ed's just going to solve every case in 3 seconds :/.
Last edited by KrayZ33; Mon, 04-06-2009 at 12:08 PM.
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