yea i prefer watching on funimation - better quality and good subs, plus it saves time for weekend studying

anyway -> @Tombow Episode 4 basically covered all of chapter 5
(chapter 4 was the train, they skipped that)

apparently (or not?) excluding the train in the show explains why they had hughes meet the elrics in episode 1, rather than as he does in chapter 6, which is what episode 5 should cover (?) but i'm glad, i am a hughes fan after all

@Elemental/Alchemist - Thank you!! And, since you're very good at this, could you (or anyone) double check for the first three episodes also?

Ep1: ?
Ep2: ?
Ep3: ?
Ep4: Chapter 5 (skipped chapter 4, the train scene)

Thank you!! ^^

Cornello/Lior episode was chapter 1 and 2 in the manga. The Two Alchemists and the Price of a Life.

No idea about the origin story episode (I think their story was spread over multiple chapters in the manga) and episode 1 was original.
And Chapter 3 was the Youswell coal mine town which was skipped over in this anime.

Bwah! I didn't even THINK of that! I apologize for my arrogance. T_T
I have'ta say... this episode pwned episode 5. The animation for this episode was beautiful. Everything was done well, the music, voice acting, timing, everything was just right. Don't get me wrong, episode 5 was just fine, the animation for some of the scenes just left much to be desired. (I'm sorry, Bones, I know you probably worked very hard on it! T_T)

@Vagrant - Thank you!! Yeah, there are some parts that weren't very clear, and the second opinion helps!! Appreciated!! ^^

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@Hagaren_4ever - No problem!! ^^ And, yes, I agree... after watching episode 5 I can really see better quality animation in this episode compare to the next episode.
I really liked episode 4. ^^

I'm really anticipating this episode as its one of the few episodes in the series I haven't watched at least 3 times. Most of the repeat episodes are, now that I think about it. But this particular episode I have only watched since the original airing.

I guess I didn't really like it. The pace just felt too slow and I wasn't all into Tucker and Nina. Hopefully the English voices tonight will change that for me.

(It's okay to bump this, right? )

I think that so far the english dub is good for this episode. But I keep on warning Nina and thelling her to run away.

I miss that Aaron does not do the voiceover introduction. The whole, "Humankind cannot gain anything without first giving something in return..."

I'm not really into this new guy's Scar, but I can get used to it I guess. Nina's voice was better this time around, I think.

The whole episode was too fast I think. We didn't get much time to get to know Nina and Shou like before, so it makes their deaths a little less sad.

I thought it was pretty good. Al's voice is definetly improving.

Vic never failed.

Roy and Armstrong's voices, I notice a huge change now. They sound more improved and polished.

Tucker and Nina sounded better than the original, definetly Nina. The 1st Nina was just annoying. If anything the Chimera voice was definetly improved.

Scar.......uuuuuughhh.........

I actually like the new Scar, there's something of a darker quality to his voice that seems to be fitting what's shown on screen.

Nina and Alexander... ;_;

I like how Edward and Alphonse are shocked that the guy who has all sorts of horrible abominations in cages throughout his house could do such a horrible thing. They're such fine judges of character, those boys.

I'll go on abou the dub in the other thread, but it wasn't too bad. Vic is still a bad Ed, though.

this episode was pretty good! Shou's voice was better I thought, cuz the VA didin't have the Accent like in Anime1. It was a nice change of pace. And Nina's voice was a little annoying, but MUCH better! No baby talk (yay!)!!. Scar's new VA....I didn't really like it at first. But at the end, it seemed better. Maxey....oh, she's doing sooo much better!

Now, the only voice I didn't like was the voice of the Nina!Chimera. it seemed more twisted and morphed in the frst anime and the Japanese version of this anime. I got used to it, but it wasn't very creepy. Still, this episode had it's sad factor.
No preview?? hmmm...

I hate Tucker, had a nasty inside rage every time he appeared. His VA does a good job of making you hate him. And I see the Tucker toward the end of FMA1 every time, so I was really glad and surprised when he died this early.

The scene where Ed beats up Tucker seemed less emotional to me. I don't remember, but I have a feeling that Romi probably did a better job.

Don't really care for this episode. The shock isn't as big as the first anime's for obvious reasons, which is okay. It's slow and basically Ed sitting around reading books and being a kid. They could have cut this out with Youswell and Battle on the Train, and I would not care. I would prefer some of the cut material, like Greed or Ishval.

I like this episode. Although, I feel like it was kinda rushed in the end. I don't know if it's just me. :\
Everytime I watch the first series episode about Nina and Alexander I cry my eyes out ;_;
but for this brotherhod episode, it didn't affect me that much.

The scene where Ed beats up Tucker was well done though.
Vic always does a very good job. <3
Same with Al too, I miss Aaron though. ):
I liked Nina's voice too, her voice was kinda annoying in the first series.
and I don't mind Scar's new voice.

grr.. Tucker >_>

I'm not able to watch the dub but you know when I see people complaining about a change in Scar's va...I wonder...would you really have wanted the original voice actor to return?

First FMA Scar is a VERY different character. He even has a slight "bishie" look which the manga/Brotherhood character doesn't have at all.

From what I heard of the original FMA's Scar voice, I don't think it would fit the Scar in this series at all. They're different characters.

Maxey improved a bit this episode, I think her best line was when Al was playing with Nina and he said "Uh Nina looked like she wanted to play" that was the best because she sounded like a boy, even a little bit like Aaron
Vic was awesome Everyone else was good. Scar's new voice actor isn't very good. I prefer his old one, maybe its just because I'm used to him.

nice episode!! hate tucker =__=. poor ninaa!!
hmmm.. nina is better than the fma1 dub. tucker is.. hmm. scar's dub, don;t like it. heards weird to me

I always thought this episode was rushed. It didn't make me feel sad when Nina died. I mean, it's sad and all, but this episode didn't execute it very well. I think the first anime did better at that. I would have liked to see more development with Nina.
Though I am very pleased with her new VA; less annoying baby-talk.

And Scar reminds me so much of Batman!
Sorry, just had to point that out.

I nicknamed him "The X-Man", after what my brother used to think Wolverine's name was. But when I first saw this episode, his entrance to the Tucker estate reminded me of Li'l Slugger from Paranoia Agent.

Hey, I know I'm a little late on this, but I finally found a change in the visuals that I couldn't blame on the difference in brightness levels.

The writing on the report on the murder of Brigadier General Grand was completely replaced. The new handwriting is much less legible; I could only make out what I believe are the words "Central" at the end of the first line and "Brigadier Basque Grand" underneath the photograph. There is no longer any "Basque Grand for murder" headline.


I think they might not have been very careful in picking random text to fill in the page the first time, and later they realized that sharp-eyed viewers could read a sentence like "East End was the poorest areas in London" and wonder where London was in the world of Fullmetal Alchemist. Strangely, there's still an underline connected to a circle in the same places, even though the words around them look completely different.

And now here's something I only noticed because I was checking fansubs. It seems that the original broadcast of episode 4 was a little strapped for time, because the preview for episode 5 was only 15 seconds long, cut down from the 30-second version available on official online streams. Here are screencaps from the clips that were skipped entirely:





This also meant that some of the narration was cut. In the English dub, the cut lines were translated as "The rain pours down in East City," "In a moment of crisis, Ed must make a desperate decision while the life of his brother hangs in the balance," and "What will Edward decide, and will he be able to live with the consequences?" Additionally, the final shots of Ed and Al sitting in the rain were moved to before the title card in the 15-second cut, so that the reading of the title would match up with its display on-screen.

I love these interesting finds
Thank you so much for these.

I'm glad you enjoy them! To be honest, I started watching "dub & sub" side-by-side just to pick up on any differences in the translation, in the acting style, or when the dubbers saw fit to insert lines that didn't originally exist. But then I started to notice the animation changes in episode 2. I've been doing this for the first series too, but unfortunately most of the dubbed videos I've found online just placed the English audio onto the Japanese picture rather than showing the Adult Swim broadcast as-is, so I wouldn't see any of the changes to later releases that way. (I guess it's an easy way to remove the station bug or get the full credits sequences reinstated.) Episode 14 was an exception, though, as I noticed that the close-ups of Dr. Marcoh at the very end were redrawn. Don't know if I should bother posting that stuff in the first anime forums now, since it must be old news.