I saw the beginning to that, and it most certainly caught my eye, but I'll wait until it changes itself from the old series. Wont be tough to figure out, my sister is addicted and never shuts up about it XD. In terms of songs, I prefer Lost Heaven in the original series. It's done by a Japanese band with a french name that occasionally sings in English XD. As an opinion tho, would you say it looks like it will be better then the old series? I realize one episode can be hard to tell, so I won't hold you to your opinion XD.

It's in HD now so yeah it looks a hell of a lot better from that perspective. In general, I say it's at the level of the original series or just a little above.

Arg, this means my sister will want my HD monitor when she realizes it -.- Thanks for the opinion dude, I might end up watching it sooner then I thought I would XD.

I love too!
-gets groove on-

I'm not really an FMA fan, but I did watch it years ago on Adult Swim, it was good. Hopefully I'll get into this new series, I just wish I knew where to watch it!

 ten had a journal about and I think several people comment on places to watch it/download it. Might want to look there.

Thanks!

I cannot listen to this, It confuses me ;-;.

However the voice is very pretty, and Im sure fo the genre this is tight :d

You know, I'd actually almost completely and totally fallen off of the Japanese music bandwagon after I moved from Japan to the U.S. seven years ago, so I haven't heard a lot of Japanese music lately.

I do really dig the patter and cadence of this song, though, and the lyrics are pretty catchy, too. Thanks for sharing!

Yesh INDEED!! \(^o^)/

This song is QUITE a ride! x3

How did you find a full version of it??!! (o.o)

....can you download it from the sight you provided without having to join or anything? =O

Not that I'm aware of. If you do a google search for "Again Yui" the first link is to a place that says you can download the full song, but I cannot attest to it's legitimacy as I didn't trust them enough to download it.

Agreed! =P

I suppose I'll just have to wait for GENDOU to get it, but thanks for replying! =D

o.o

Wow.. A sequel? That's interesting... Love Yui though... I'm gonna look into this... mm.. thanks...

More a retelling than a sequel. I get the impression it's supposed to fill it a lot of the gaps in the story that didn't make quite as much sense first time round.

It's following the mango, that's all it is. The boy who raises his hand with the jewel encrust Transmutation circle in the backround, is a VERY important character who you find out later on, and the logistics of a lot of the story make a lot more sense in the mango.

The first ep in all intent and purposes is a filler. I will give it the benefit of the doubt and say that it was to bring in new views, but it just alienated long time readers of the mango. I don't see how they got away with that though. It's a contradiction and a shame to start something off that's supposed to be canon with a filler.

A: It's "manga" not "mongo".
B: it's not following the manga. The manga and anime are identical until Greed shows up like half way through. The anime goes one way the manga goes another. This new series follows neither exactly. Which isn't surprising since it's a retelling.

It's called creative license and they seem to enjoy taking it whenever possible with this. The State Alchemist's test is completely different in the new series. The sequence at the gate is completely different. It's all very different and so far I'm enjoying the changes. As for the first episode being filler I have to disagree. It establishes many things in a much better way than the first series did and it establishes several things much sooner. You learn enough about the Ishbal war to know terrible things happened there. You're introduced to several different ways alchemy can be used and the rules that bind them. You learn of the philosopher's stone, that it can let you break the rules and the reason why Ed and Al are looking for it. How can something that establishes like half the things that are basic to series be filler?

A) Very aware that it's manga. I say mango only to make the word itself sound stupid, because if I already call anime, (btw that word is a misnomer, because anime is just an abbreviation of the word animation and if that's the case you mine as well call it a cartoon) animu, I should follow some level of consistency and call manga, mango.

B)because at the same time while they reintroduce all of these things they do it in a way that makes the episode completely unnecessary and anachronistic. Part of what's really irritating about the first ep was because it was so easily disregarded. It added nothing to the overall plot other than to establish facts that most of us already knew. What it is, is it'll end up a plotline that will never again be touched.

The state alchemist test is following what happened in the mango. What's weird is that they could have done this in the beginning. What's jading is that their going to Lior again, and if that were they case, then they should have just started from there.

The original animu and mango are just really close, but their not exactly the same either, which again was something I could deal with only because it was still following the canon. There are some stuff that are different, the state alchemist test being what happened in ep 2, the fact that they didn't meet hughes until after lior, the events during the greed arc in general, and the sequences in which events too place.

Yeah, Hugh's daughter wasn't born yet either in the original series, but she's like 3 already in the new series. Mustang was already at Central by the time he was introduced in the original and various other things are all different in new series. It's really not that uncommon for story tellers to do something at the beginning of their stories that establishes things before the "real story" really gets rolling. Bond loves to do it. Is it really so bad that they used it here?

Besides even if it was filler as you say it was still freaking awesome. Have you watched Bleach? When they do a filler episode (or in this most recent case an entire arc) they do this stupid Kurakura Riser thing with a lot of the side characters which is an over the top, ridiculous parody of the Power Ranger's genre. They're stupid, annoying, add nothing to the series and are obviously there to fill up time while they wait for the manga to get farther ahead again. Which is pretty pathetic since they didn't do a filler arc all the long ago. More over the one they did wasn't even at a dividing spot. One episode they're in the enemy base, for the next 11 episodes they're off on an adventure that has no bearing on the plot and as soon as that's over they're back at the enemy base again, picking up where they left off, making it incredibly obvious it was only there to fill time and nothing else. They've done that 3 times now in this same story arc. So you'll have to forgive me if I don't complain when the "filler episode" involves Ooo! Ice alchemist! Yay ice! Ooo flashy speacial effects! Ooo awesome fight scenes!Go Ed! Oooo look at Hughes! He's so funny! Oooo, look at Ed! He's so short! *doges spear*

The first episode had awesome action, good humor and established enough things for new viewers to be significant to the plot. So while it may be just a throw away story, it has it's purpose and was entertaining to watch. I'm glad they had it. It was nice to see something new. I don't want an entire series filled with things I saw last time round shown to me in a slightly different way. I want them do new things. I want them to show different things. I want them to expand the FMA universe, not show the exact same portion of it from a different angle. If all it does is show the same things and adds nothing new, different or interesting on a regular basis then the show is nothing but an attempt to cash in FMA's popularity and isn't worth watching in the first place.

Agreed, but the thing with Bleach is that it's boring nao. It was interesting back then, now it's pretty boring. I can't help but feel that it's being more like YYH the more it progresses on :x

Kind of have to agree. The newer stuff is alright and Vizard are cool, but that's about it anymore.

first episode was shit. If you watched FMA before, watch from ep 2. Ignore Ep 1's existance

EP 1 of [s/]NEW[/s] CANON FMA IS A LIE!

Dude, you need to chill out. It's a show. For entertainment. Sit back, relax, and enjoy it. If you can't. Don't watch it. I watched the first series. I watched the movie. I'm reading the manga. I enjoy the new series just as much. So take a deep breath and mellow out.

the first ep was just really irritation. I was really happy with ep 2 which made me question why they did ep 1 in the first place.

Naruto > FMA