Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood

[Munsu]

New Fullmetal Alchemist TV Anime Series Confirmed

The wraparound jacket band on the 20th volume of Hiromu Arakawa's Fullmetal Alchemist manga will confirm on Friday that a new television anime series is in the works. A new anime series was a topic of much fan discussion for several months, but it was thrust into a more public spotlight last month when a management document was purportedly leaked from the BONES anime studio. The document listed Fullmetal Alchemist animator Yasuhiro Irie as "Hagane 2 kantoku" (Iron/Fullmetal 2 director).

After the purported leak, BONES President Masahiko Minami posted an official statement that said that no file with this same formatted information existed within the company. When asked about the possibility of a sequel to Fullmetal Alchemist or Darker than BLACK (another BONES anime), Minami told ANN, "It hasn't been decided yet. We are interested in doing them. As original science-fiction works, they were extremely fascinating. With these kinds of dramatic story lines, I feel that there's a lot we could do potentially."

Viz Media will publish the 17th volume of the manga version in North America this October, while FUNimation Entertainment released both the first television series and its theatrical movie finale.

http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news...ries-confirmed

This should be good news for the Darker than Black people, as we were speculating a couple of months ago about a possible sequel being made in a leaked documents that also included FMA2.

[KoKo37]

I wonder if they are going to be doing a sequel from where the movie left off, or a re-telling with a more accurate adaption from the manga. I thought the anime ended fairly well and felt finished myself, but if it is a sequel and they manage to keep the standards of quality as the first season then I certainly won't be complaining.


And awesome news about Darker than Black, that was one of my favorite series of 2007.

[Carnage]

From what I hear it's a re-telling.

[NM]

Freaking awesome news! Didn't mind the anime's ending too much but if its a re-telling then they'll be going along with the manga this time. Seriously can't wait for this one! Thanks for the heads up Munsu!

[masamuneehs]

i look upon this news with great skepticism (that means doubt, you dumb bastards)

FMA manga isn't even past 4/5 finished yet, to make another anime out of it now is just to rape the cash cow a bit further. Sure, they'll use some manga storlyine, but just to sucker in dumb fans, and then it'll go back to stupid town.

I couldn't get past the second episode of Darker than Black, so, personally, I don't care at all about it.

[Carnage]

Well do we know when it airs? By then, the series might be 4/5 finished.

[Assassin]

hmm, interesting news...the first one didn't follow the manga storyline rite...or atleast it differed from it in certain ways. i wonder if this one will also be semi-original.

[Junior]

Hurray! FMA!

I hope it's not based on the manga. I hope it's completely different. Like the anime was.

It seems strange when people just turn a manga into an anime. It's the same story...just animated. o_O Reading isn't THAT bad. But sometimes it's nice to see things animated.

[masamuneehs]

if sources (the studio) are to be trusted, it will be based on the manga

"To be officially announced on the cover of the 20th volume released tomorrow, If the information leaked from BONES is correct, it will be directed by irie yasuhiro; if the prior information is correct, it will be an anime adaptation true to the original, running for 1 year starting april of next year at 5 pm on mbs/tbs."

[Harima Kenji]

Both good news and bad news.. The story of the anime version isn't complete yet, and I love to see it completed. Doing a retelling would make it confusing if a new movie comes out.
If they give the new series a good subtitle, that could be solved..
I'm curious about the other storyline, since they deviated at about episode 20, I believe..

Good: More FMA
Bad: storyline of the first series might never be completed, and that is a waste.

Edit: and naturally, the same seiyuu are required.

[lelouch]

Good: More FMA
Bad: storyline of the first series might never be completed, and that is a waste.

Edit: and naturally, the same seiyuu are required.

I thought the storyline was completed by the shambala movie?


Personally, I'm against this re-telling. FMA is my favorite series by far with the storyline that they made for the anime. Now, I can't say that the manga one isn't better as I've never read the manga. However, making a re-telling will make things sort of confusing and ruin the original anime as there will be two different storylines. Other people might disagree, but personally I'd rather not have a retelling.

I'd enjoy it better if they made a completely new anime very SIMILAR to the manga and do that instead of a retelling. Maybe change around the character names and designs, and maybe a little bit of the story and places.

[Carnage]

So you would like a retelling of the Anime, with minor differences? Even though the manga storyline is better.....

[lelouch]

No, I said that if they are going to do a retelling of an anime following the manga storyline when the storylines diverged less than half way through the series, I'd prefer it better that they just make a new anime altogether slightly based off the manga.

Of course many may disagree, it is just that FMA is my favorite anime just the way it was, so I won't like to see any parts of it changed.

For many other viewers it may be similar to retelling naruto from the middle of the chuunin exam, and have naruto/sasuke defeat orochimaru right there and then in the forest, and then change the storyline to something else.

Again, many may disagree, it is just my opinion.

[Carnage]

No, I said that if they are going to do a retelling of an anime following the manga storyline when the storylines diverged less than half way through the series, I'd prefer it better that they just make a new anime altogether slightly based off the manga.

Of course many may disagree, it is just that FMA is my favorite anime just the way it was, so I won't like to see any parts of it changed.

For many other viewers it may be similar to retelling naruto from the middle of the chuunin exam, and have naruto/sasuke defeat orochimaru right there and then in the forest, and then change the storyline to something else.

Again, many may disagree, it is just my opinion.

Oh I see what you mean. No I think that's what they intend, it wouldn't make sense to start from some point in the previous anime since even the beginning of the FMA wasn't completely true to the manga.

[lelouch]

Hopefully they change the names and designs a bit, otherwise it would be like naruto V2, same characters just diff storyline =/

[Board of Command]

i look upon this news with great skepticism (that means doubt, you dumb bastards)

Hmm...I'm a bit skeptical about this one...

Anyway, if I had to pick between FMA sequal or Darker Than Black sequel, I'd rather take Darker Than Black. If they make both, then that's super. I felt that FMA ended fairly well, and a mere retelling of the story doesn't entice me very much. Darker Than Black, on the other hand, would be pure win since the first season and an open ending.

[masamuneehs]

i loved the anime. didn't read the manga for a very long time. then i did, started at the beginning, and I power housed it. It's freaking awesome. I can only think of two aspects of the anime that I like better than the manga, and one of those was just 'dramatic delivery' that you simply can't get in still pictures.

lelouch: your Naruto analogy would be okay, except that that's what they did for the original FMA anime, so you have it reversed. they followed the manga up to a point, were forced to make their own ending/storyline (Full Metal Alchemist Version 2), and are now animating the original story.

Think of it this way: the characters, story, setting and everything else are made by the mangaka. But the industry is greedy, and wants to capitalize on popular manga NOW, even if they're not finished (see: Claymore, Naruto, Berserk, and others), so they say: "man, people like those characters, that setting, and the story you have so far. We're going to animate them!"

and the writer does something like: "um... okay... but the story isn't done yet..."

Industry: "that's fine! we'll animate what you have, cut off the plot line where we need to, and then use the same characters, setting and plot basis to make another version of it all!" (in your words: same character, different story)

Also, people are getting confused by this thread title. If these rumors hold true, then they are NOT making a sequel to the FMA anime. They're re-making the entire series. Sizeable difference. That means you can only get confused if you think of this upcoming series as a 'sequel', which, if they have the brains to re-do the whole thing from the start again, you'd have to be lead thick to do.

[lelouch]

@masa:

If they remake the whole series, wouldn't they have to start from ep 20? Since the first 20 eps have already been created..

[Carnage]

No. The first 20 episodes themselves aren't truly solid interpretations of the manga. They would start from square one and probably stick to the actual manga.

[Death13a]

I would prefer FMA OVA that way they can pause if needed and production value should be higher (something of Hellsing ova value).