The pacing's kind of weird throughout the first half, up until the point where the first anime branched off from the manga and became its own thing. After that it gets a lot easier to deal with. They cut out little things here and there from the manga, too-I remember someone on SomethingAwful being really adamant about that stuff-but from what I've heard of the manga it still sticks really closely to the source material once it gets going.
Rose rocks, this is fact. I'm glad she doesn't have the bird monster to deal with either.
Oh, that's good. I thought it was just me. The pacing felt...so off and way too quick for anything to really stick with you. Maybe they were just doing that because they already went through everything with the first anime. It's really hard for me not to notice what they left out of the anime from its source material, but thankfully they're little things.
I was never huge on Rose, but yeah, I'm glad she doesn't have to deal with the bird monster and the trauma of it all. Poor girl didn't need that.
I admit I don't like the dub because I think none of the voices fit the characters with the exception of Roy and Riza, everybody else sounds horribly miscast to me. I felt this when I tried to watch the first anime all those years ago and didn't because it just didn't jive with me at all. The one besides Ed that gets me is Winry who I think sounds too old in the English version to me
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I pretty much feel the complete opposite of you. I think their voices sound fine, and it's probably one of the only English dubs that I'm happy with. The only one in the English dub that bothers me right now is Ling. The little I've heard on Adult Swim episodes didn't really impress me. I expected his voice to be deeper? I only heard his voice while he was being generally goofy, though, so I haven't listened to him when he had to get down to serious business. I definitely dread hearing him as Greed, though
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Yeah, it's fit to match the manga more closely this time around. I will it felt like the first eps feel stuffed. As if to say "You've seen or read this by now, so let's gloss over it."
It annoys me when people say "WHY ISN'T "X" THERE?" It's an adaption, some things can't make the cut.
I have no idea why it took me so long to answer your comment, but here I am!
Yeah, I really didn't enjoy the rush. I am familiar with the whole story, since I read the entire manga and I watched the first anime, but it's not going to sit well with newer fans who've never seen or heard anything about FMA before.
Hahah, yeah, I try not to complain about little things like that because I do understand it's a whole lot of material to include. Thankfully it isn't anything too major that they're cutting out, and they're still hitting home with the fanbase in the episodes.
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Rose rocks, this is fact. I'm glad she doesn't have the bird monster to deal with either.
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I was never huge on Rose, but yeah, I'm glad she doesn't have to deal with the bird monster and the trauma of it all. Poor girl didn't need that.
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It annoys me when people say "WHY ISN'T "X" THERE?" It's an adaption, some things can't make the cut.
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Yeah, I really didn't enjoy the rush. I am familiar with the whole story, since I read the entire manga and I watched the first anime, but it's not going to sit well with newer fans who've never seen or heard anything about FMA before.
Hahah, yeah, I try not to complain about little things like that because I do understand it's a whole lot of material to include. Thankfully it isn't anything too major that they're cutting out, and they're still hitting home with the fanbase in the episodes.
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