View Full Version : Some questions on the Fullmetal Alchemist anime
HellCat
08-11-2006, 06:42 PM
1. Is there anywhere I could order the 1st DVD with tin and CD still? Most places seem to be sold out. Please keep in mind I'm in the UK.
2. I've heard after a certain point the show kinda goes in it's own direction. Can anyone tell me, WITHOUT SPOILERS, roughly where in relation to the manga volumes it starts doing it's own thing? I've read up to volume 5 and really don't want to spoil anything since I'm really enjoying the series.
Maenos
08-11-2006, 06:46 PM
2. I've heard after a certain point the show kinda goes in it's own direction. Can anyone tell me, WITHOUT SPOILERS, roughly where in relation to the manga volumes it starts doing it's own thing? I've read up to volume 5 and really don't want to spoil anything since I'm really enjoying the series.
About volume 8.
HellCat
08-15-2006, 12:16 PM
About volume 8.
Thank you very much! To save space, I'll ask my next question here-
Is there any credible reason Viz tried to fleece people with the "figure+manga" gimmick on volume 4? Why not just include one figure with volume 4 and the next with volume 5?
To get you to buy more than 1 copy of Volume 4, I guess.
I always found both figures to be rather crappy-looking, so I just skipped them.
Karl Olson
08-15-2006, 02:21 PM
IIRC that matches a similar trick done with the Japanese release of the manga. I think.
HellCat
08-15-2006, 02:51 PM
To get you to buy more than 1 copy of Volume 4, I guess.
I always found both figures to be rather crappy-looking, so I just skipped them.
That's my point. Even if Japan did it too, it's a dirty merchandising tactic since most fans would obviously want both brothers. I have neither figure since I was unaware of them until I bought volume 4 by itself.
1. Is there anywhere I could order the 1st DVD with tin and CD still? Most places seem to be sold out. Please keep in mind I'm in the UK.
Its completely sold out. Sometimes the odd unopend copy pops up on eBay, but thats about it.
Anyway, FMAs currently getting a UK release (only a couple of vols behind the US) - i know you have a strange hatred of the UK anime market, but you could let let it slip once, surely? (unless your where planning on doing that, and just wanted to get the US vol 1 + tin so youd have somewhere to store it)
HellCat
08-15-2006, 02:57 PM
Its completely sold out. Sometimes the odd unopend copy pops up on eBay, but thats about it.
Anyway, FMAs currently getting a UK release (only a couple of vols behind the US) - i know you have a strange hatred of the UK anime market, but you could let let it slip once, surely? (unless your where planning on doing that, and just wanted to get the US vol 1 + tin so youd have somewhere to store it)
I don't hate the UK anime industry. As I've said before, I simply prefer to go with the release with the most included extras rather than just "There ya go, here's a disc that can sit on a shelf". Specifically for Bandai, I have personal reasons to import.
Timmay
08-15-2006, 03:39 PM
I'd like to point out that while the anime really starts to deviate from the manga around Volume 8.. there are many key changes in the anime before that.
HellCat
08-17-2006, 07:35 AM
Something else- is the manga still running in Japan? From what I've heard it was at least while the show aired and that's why it had to go a different route. Is that still the case?
Timmay
08-17-2006, 07:52 AM
Something else- is the manga still running in Japan? From what I've heard it was at least while the show aired and that's why it had to go a different route. Is that still the case?Yeah.. it comes out once a month around the 8th.. it's currently at 62 chapters.
Hordesman
08-17-2006, 11:05 AM
It's worth checking out a con or two- that's where I got my v1 tin.
Maenos
08-17-2006, 03:35 PM
From what I've heard it was at least while the show aired and that's why it had to go a different route.
heh, no, that's not why the anime went in a different direction.
It's because Arakawa, the mangaka, wanted the anime and manga to have different endings.
Conekiller
08-17-2006, 04:01 PM
That doesn't make sence. Sure you could say that, but the reality of the situation was that the FMA anime was not going to be a continuing story like Naruto or One Piece, but it would have a definite length. And since the manga had only reached a certain point and not finished yet that necessitates a "different direction" from the manga that the anime is based on.
Maenos
08-17-2006, 07:33 PM
Well, she did tell them that she wanted the anime to end differently.
Page 32 of the January issue of Newtype USA: "'She did however request that the series have a different ending from wha twas planned in her work. "Manga and anime are different modes of expression, and different artists are involved. There's little point in having a cross-media story if everything is exactly the same in all versions."'
That's not to say, however, that that was the only reason they did so. Like you said, it's quite likely that the length of the manga also helped make the desicion (butchered taht spellling). But they could've also just as easily have had Arakawa tell them how the manga would end, and they could try and condense it.
Beefy
09-15-2006, 11:01 PM
1. Is there anywhere I could order the 1st DVD with tin and CD still? Most places seem to be sold out. Please keep in mind I'm in the UK. Sorry for the bump, not sure if you still need this or not.
It looks like Amazon Canada still has some FMA vol. 1 starter sets.
http://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0006H324I/
Why didn't any of you Canadians mention this earlier?
HellCat
09-15-2006, 11:17 PM
Sorry for the bump, not sure if you still need this or not.
It looks like Amazon Canada still has some FMA vol. 1 starter sets.
http://www.amazon.ca/dp/B0006H324I/
Why didn't any of you Canadians mention this earlier?
Thank you, I just ordered one. Though the '2-4 weeks' thing makes me worried this is one of those cases of Amazon keeping up a listing of a product they no longer stock.
Pepperidge
09-16-2006, 12:06 AM
Yeah, I wouldn't trust anything that says "2-4 weeks". Especially on Amazon.ca.
HellCat
09-16-2006, 05:06 AM
Yeah, I wouldn't trust anything that says "2-4 weeks". Especially on Amazon.ca.
I guess we'll have to see what happens.
HellCat
09-21-2006, 07:17 AM
Now seems to have gone up to 2-5 weeks....eep.
HellCat
10-12-2006, 06:01 AM
Starting to get doubtful. Last day on their shipping estimate is tomorrow, yet no signs of movement.
rubberchicken
10-12-2006, 10:35 AM
Well, she did tell them that she wanted the anime to end differently.
Page 32 of the January issue of Newtype USA: "'She did however request that the series have a different ending from wha twas planned in her work. "Manga and anime are different modes of expression, and different artists are involved. There's little point in having a cross-media story if everything is exactly the same in all versions."'
That's not to say, however, that that was the only reason they did so. Like you said, it's quite likely that the length of the manga also helped make the desicion (butchered taht spellling). But they could've also just as easily have had Arakawa tell them how the manga would end, and they could try and condense it.
I just remember one of Arakawa's bonus comics at the end of volume 7 or 8, where she talks about looking at the plans for the anime storyline and saying "Oh, so that's how they're planning to end it..."
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