Full Metal Alchemist

I think he just payed a different toll for Al's body than for his mother's.

My opinion about homunculi in the Anime is that, while they were much less powerful and had less abilities compared with the counterparts, they seemed much more deadly and quite above your random alchemist -their opponents were weaker or their skills while limited were highly rated-. I can't see any Anime character holding a candle on Anime Gluttony physically, he was just a beast, in the Manga once Lin and his crew come around homunculi start to look subpar at battle.

Originally posted by Bentley
My opinion about homunculi in the Anime is that, while they were much less powerful and had less abilities compared with the counterparts, they seemed much more deadly and quite above your random alchemist -their opponents were weaker or their skills while limited were highly rated-. I can't see any Anime character holding a candle on Anime Gluttony physically, he was just a beast, in the Manga once Lin and his crew come around homunculi start to look subpar at battle.

Alchemists are certainly more powerful in the Manga, that may be the reason why homunculi in the Anime seemed more effective.

i wanna start the manga but i dnt wanna spoil the show it just started getting real good

Full Metal Alchemist Brotherhood follows the manga very closely, and thus is similar to the original anime at the beginning. However, the first anime diverged from the manga drastically during the second half. The entire backstory is different, some characters' personalities and names are different, and several characters (especially the ones from Xing) are omitted from the first series.

in Brotherhood, there is a greater emphasis on romance (roy x hawkeye, Ed x Winry, Lan Fan x Prince Ling), though it is still 80-90% implied

Just finished Brotherhood, makes the first anime look awful in comparison, brotherhood definitely made characters like hoenheim, mustang and even some of the homunculi more likable. And the first series didn't have anyone from Xing which was just stupid, because it doesn't get much cooler than ling and old man fu

Mmmmh... I should get around seen Brotherhood if its done already.

Originally posted by Bentley
Mmmmh... I should get around seen Brotherhood if its done already.

Originally posted by General_Iroh
Just finished Brotherhood, makes the first anime look awful in comparison, brotherhood definitely made characters like hoenheim, mustang and even some of the homunculi more likable. And the first series didn't have anyone from Xing which was just stupid, because it doesn't get much cooler than ling and old man fu

yeah, I mean the first one did have good themes to it, I liked that Maes got more screentime, but then it didn't really delve that deep into Mustang like Brotherhood did, and I really didn't like how they ended it all, I mean for one it kind of made me mad that I'd finished the series and found out like a month later that you had to watch a movie to understand the ending lol, and then like envy being ed's long lost brother and turning into a dragon and what they did with gluttony it was all just meh, not to mention wrath was awful in it